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I guess there's a bit of a negative filter for early comments on any given post: the people who respond quickly typically won't be the people who take their tim

• jancsika 3y ago
  > and the people who see the post first will be people who spend too much of their lives on Reddit Except that every OP by default gets their inbox lit up by responses, typically unmoderated, in the order they were received. So a person lurking casually on Reddit gets the false sense that threads are typically fun and light-hearted, enticing them to post. But the moment they do they become part of the Reddit ingroup, and their inbox gets bombarded with first-post asshat comments. Later, moderators and users downvote the asshats and the backend shuttles them away from all consequent casual lurkers. It's like pre-digital hazing, except somehow even worse because there's no community bonding (or even community, really). Just unfortunate souls similar the poster below who said their mental health "takes a nose dive" when exposed to the nastier abusive comments/threads. Or even the unlucky lurker who wins the race against the moderators/downvoters of the abusive content. (None of whom are paid, btw. Yay!)