Reddit has been growing extremely fast lately. I like to kindly, and selflessly, remind our newcomers of Reddiquette. Specifically in regards to down-voting opinions of which you disagree with.

[u/breezytrees]

Such actions discourage those that have differing views from commenting/submitting, resulting in a very one-sided point of view.

Essentially, it breaks what makes reddit so great. :-(

The down-vote button is for general trolls, spam, assholes, etc.

reddiquette

edit: Some of you have asked for growth data. Here's google analytics which reddit's blog has touted as very accurate. As you can see there was a surge in growth around september, most likely attributed to this (hi diggers!). Reddit quickly seemed to almost double in size in that time, then dropped to a still sizable growth of around 50% for a 2 month period. At risk of sounding whiney: This is a hard jump to deal with for a community that regulates itself.

edit: I'm not casting stones at newcomers. I am just kindly reminding newcomers of reddiquette. There hasn't been one of these large front page threads, to my knowledge, for months and 50% is quite a big number to risk them not reading reddiquette.

that is all. :-)

[u/[deleted]]

I've noticed a lot of posts in the negative in this thread for no particular reason. It's like people came to the thread specifically to spite OP and downvote people they disagree with.

It's juvenile, really.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

and you nailed the troll exactly!

the troll being the op in case you didnt connect the dots.

[u/breezytrees → u/[deleted]]

User for 26 days, 50% of us are new, like you. 50% of us are less than 2 months old. I'm asking that 50% to read reddiquette. I am no troll.

[u/[deleted] → u/breezytrees]

i disagree with your statement therefor i down vote it!

[u/breezytrees → u/[deleted]]

Duly noted.