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Reddit becoming horrible is a function of how it's set up, with "community" moderators being able to ban anyone for any reason and the admins putting pressure o
by trompetenaccoun 5y ago
Reddit becoming horrible is a function of how it's set up, with "community" moderators being able to ban anyone for any reason and the admins putting pressure on the mods or outright removing/replacing them where they see fit in order to only allow correct speech. If HN can be described as an autocracy with benevolent dictators at the top, reddit is a crazed totalitarian system with Red Guards on the loose all around the communities looking for wrong opinions to report. The voting and some other mechanisms they've set up makes the echo chambers complete. It progressively gets worse and worse, the main subs are already unusable and while there are niche communities that might still be worth visiting, their number keeps shrinking. Not that they literally disappear in most cases, they just get infected with reddit thought.
- samhw 5y agoOK, if you're wondering why you get downvoted, my advice is thus. When any normal, healthy human being reads a sentence like this: > reddit is a crazed totalitarian system with Red Guards on the loose all around the communities looking for wrong opinions to report ..they immediately think to themselves "right, there's another loon", and move on. At worst they get annoyed at their once-mature community getting infested with loons, and they downvote it. If you want to have an interesting conversation, I would start with not moaning about 'totalitarianism' because you got downvoted on a social media site. You can just say that you're frustrated that the site is moderated by people who don't share your political views. That's all.