Reddit Was Fun

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One thing I don't miss about Reddit is how dependence on automod made it literally unusable for new accounts (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/redditwasfun

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On Reddit if you have a new account that wasn't five years old and had over 9,000 upvotes you'd be de-facto banned from 90% of all subreddits by AutoModerator removing everything you posted. Even then if you didn't use proper bracketing or whatever you'd get removed as well.

Part of me thinks this was intentional to get people attached to their accounts that conveniently had their life stories, writing styles, beliefs, likes and dislikes all in one place.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Full disclosure: I do still use Reddit, simply because of how much content there is on that site. But I'm tapering off to spend more time on Lemmy. I hope to see this platform grow.

If I had to boil down my description of Reddit into one thing, it would be "passive aggressive."

I've been banned from subs I've never even previously commented/posted to. But then I'll make a comment and it's been shadowbanned. It's so prevalent that I got in the habit of logging out to check that it actually appeared. I mostly stuck to commenting and made new posts rather infrequently, but it seems like some subs no matter what I posted it would get removed for very dubious reasons. One of the worst offenders was the sub for unpopular opinions, where they would just remove anything and say "must be an unpopular opinion."