OK, 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 totalit

OK, 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.