I was a prolific reader of /r/programming, and even submitted good links that were quickly upvoted. Then the spam filer got me, and kept getting me, so I left.

I was a prolific reader of /r/programming, and even submitted good links that were quickly upvoted. Then the spam filer got me, and kept getting me, so I left. Except there was no spam,... just a mod that decided to remove some submits that he thought were off-topic (they were not), and me making more than 1 or 2 submits every week. Before posting to reddit, make sure that 1) you've upvoted/downvoted something, and 2) made some comments on other threads.