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I'm a big user of reddit, but the platform has definitively suffered a bunch of things that could be tied up to their use of free moderation: - Some subreddits

I'm a big user of reddit, but the platform has definitively suffered a bunch of things that could be tied up to their use of free moderation: - Some subreddits are so politically biased, that you really need to know the political leaning prior to using them. Getting locked out of huge subreddits like r/worldnews is easy as pie, if you just write the wrong things on certain topics. - A bunch of subreddits automatically get closed/locked due to lack of moderators. - There are so many different rules to follow. Just posting something in a random sub comes with a 50/50 chance of your post getting removed or shadow-banned. And let's not even start on the straight up enshittification of the platform features. I fully expect reddit to become a completely close-off / walled garden app that follows the worst TikTok practices. As long as I can use old.reddit, I'm happy, but I think we all know that it will disappear one day. As for the compensation...yeah, outrageous comp when the site is feeding off free work. And the usual corporate response from the CEO "The board decides my compensation, and if the website does well then so do I"

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> There are so many different rules to follow. Just posting something in a random sub comes with a 50/50 chance of your post getting removed or shadow-banned. Reddit has god awful UX/I and makes moderation very difficult. They could help themselves with very simple features like post templates and flows, but instead, every semi-popular subreddit faces a daily onslaught of low effort users posting repetitious garbage. Users will feel frustrated by seeing the garbage, but also launch into righteous complaints about mods if they're moderated. They also make it clear that a post is being held for moderation and then encourage the user to message the moderators directly, so now you have low effort, high volume, and a guaranteed sense of immediate opposition. The real takeaway for me is that at this point, Reddit is popular because it's popular, not because it deserves anything.

o_____________o 3y ago

> There are so many different rules to follow. Just posting something in a random sub comes with a 50/50 chance of your post getting removed or shadow-banned. Reddit has god awful UX/I and makes moderation very difficult. They could help themselves with very simple features like post templates and flows, but instead, every semi-popular subreddit faces a daily onslaught of low effort users posting repetitious garbage. Users will feel frustrated by seeing the garbage, but also launch into righteous complaints about mods if they're moderated. They also make it clear that a post is being held for moderation and then encourage the user to message the moderators directly, so now you have low effort, high volume, and a guaranteed sense of immediate opposition. The real takeaway for me is that at this point, Reddit is popular because it's popular, not because it deserves anything.