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Funny to see how people give the best rating as a form of sarcasm. You can say this is the best social platform in the world! But really Reddit is a poorly moderated bunch of idi0ts who spend their entire time on reposting the same years-old content over and over. Racism/sexism/homophobia/pedophilia are part of the normal daily activity. The graphical user interface is actually purposely designed to irritate unknowing newbies. Never let your innocent children visit Reddit, seriously.

I joined Reddit in Jan 2019 anticipating lots of interesting discussions on subreddits (forums) that took my fancy, contributing as well as reading other people’s content. Unfortunately this place has such an utterly shambolic set-up, it’s a complete mystery to me how a site so badly organized that DOESN'T fulfil its purpose of a DISCUSSION FORUM still manages to get such a high ranking on Alexa. I’m no longer prepared to give this place the benefit of the doubt so let me list ALL of the annoying problems that have plagued me since joining up in Jan 2019: (1) GHOSTING: For no apparent reason, your posts get ghosted about 50% of the time. When logged into your account, it will look like whatever you've posted has been accepted, but once you log out, it will show [posting deleted]. I repeat: my posts NEVER broke any rules. No racism, no sexism, no -ism of any kind. And yet, ghosting was still a MASSIVE headache for me. Remember my last review when I said all my threads had inexplicably been deleted? Well, Reddit did get in contact to tell me my posts had inadvertently got caught up in some filters. All well and good and I was willing to give them a second chance. But very soon the same nonsense started up again with me attempting to post something 5 TIMES on one particular subreddit, yet I kept getting ghosted every single time. My suspicion is that the filter got triggered once again as I’d deleted and reposted the same thread within a short space of time. But why did I have to do that? COS YOU CAN’T BLOODY WELL EDIT YOUR TITLE ON REDDIT -  YOU HAVE TO DELETE AND REPOST FROM SCRATCH !!! (2) ITS IMPOSSIBLE TO NAVIGATE PAGES: One stupid idea Reddit has is to set the default homepage view to ‘card’ instead of ‘compact.’ This means instead of seeing lots of thread titles, you get large chunky previews for each. As you can imagine it takes ages to scroll down the front page and the site loads extremely slowly as a result. According to Alexa 82% of sites are faster! You can change the homepage view to ‘compact’ at a click, but having to do this each time you visit a new page or return to the same one again is a pain in the ar$e !!! The second issue I have with navigation is that the subreddit homepage you're on will keep refreshing each time you scroll down. So the thread you were trying to find gets lost easily. In general, this site behaves very erratically and you constantly have to be on guard in case the page unexpectedly yanks too far down or back up or even back to the previous page. Its an absolute nightmare! (3) UTTERLY RIDICULOUS KARMA SYSTEM: I have seen many experienced Reddit fanboys and fangirls attempt to justify this feature by claiming “its easy to get karma you just know where to look” or “you're going about it the wrong way.” But allow me to return to my opening statement: “I joined up anticipating lots of interesting discussions on what I imagined would be a DISCUSSION FORUM..." Thus I find the karma points system is a complete and utter distraction. It turns this site into some kind of puerile computer game with participants competing with each other to gain some sort of Karma Crown. Believe it or not there’s even a subreddit called ‘Get Free Karma Points.’ But I don't have the time to go on some wild goose chase to boost my karma – I joined up to because I wanted to partake in a EFFIN DISCUSSION  on a DISCUSSION FORUM - is that so bloody hard to understand ?!! The Karma points system is totally FLAWED anyway. As I’ve said my previous review it ends up penalizing those who simply have a controversial opinion while benefiting those who a$$-lick or are happy to play the silly ‘Karma Points’ game. The Karma feature proves how immature this place is, and stunts any proper discussion developing and defeats the whole purpose of having such a forum in the first place! (4) CONSTANT AND EXCESSIVE CENSORSHIP: Sometimes this really gets OTT. I've seen too many subreddits where an interesting discussion has ensued but the majority of posts have since disappeared due to deletion. You'll be left with an opening post and one or two replies dotted here and there. (5) MODS NEVER REPLY TO MESSAGES: After getting ghosted, I sent around 5 messages to mods on a particular subreddit I was having trouble posting to. Very soon I gave up having any hope of getting a reply. Its strange as there were around 6 mods manning the place, so the likelihood is that they were simply ignoring my messages. Which leads me on to the next point… (6) THE MODS ARE TOTALLY UNACCOUNTABLE: Each subreddit (or topic forum) has its own mods, one or two who may have originally set up the subreddit. However, any mod is free to act like a total d*ck and get away with it, there’s ZERO accountability in that regard. He/she could be racist, sexist, prejudiced, or simply not like the sight of you, ban you, and that’s that. You have no say in the final decision and you can’t approach another mod for a second opinion. (7) SUBREDDIT POSTING RULES VARY TOO MUCH AND ARE NEVER EXPLAINED PROPERLY: Its quite easy to get banned on many subreddits as there’s no obligation on the mods or creators to list all the rules you have to adhere to. Its all very haphazard. On some subreddits you in fact need a certain level of Karma points to even post a new thread. However, most subreddits never bother to offer anything more than a few sentences for rules. So on more than one occasion I’ve spent up to an hour writing the best post possible post only for it to get ghosted once I’ve pressed ‘send.' (8) TERRIBLY ORGANISED COMMENTS SECTION: Its impossible to follow discussions on posts. If someone replies to you, and then another person replies to the second person, a 'branch' of replies gets formed. But if you get lots of people in the same conversation,  the right-aligned paragraphs eventually get so squeezed that it becomes difficult to even read them. Nor is it easy to figure out who's replying to what. (9) RUBBISH ACCOUNT HOMEPAGE: in your account's homepage it will list all the threads and posts you've ever made. But these are so jumbled up that its difficult to make any sense of it. Is it really that difficult to have a simple format where comments and threads are clearly listed next to date of posting? I've given up on this place to be honest, and the more people realize just how shiyte it is the better. Reddit is only popular because no-ones ever bothered to create a viable alternative in almost 14 years. Other than that there's nothing to justify the ‘number 17’ ranking it holds on Alexa.

Verglichen mit anderen Netzwerken fällt auf, dass politische Aussagen sofort und rigoros zensiert werden. Nach der Löschung einiger Postings folgte am gleichen Tag der "Bann" auf Dauer. Auf die höfliche Nachfrage, welches Posting zur Sperrung geführt habe und welche Gründe vorlägen, kam eine sehr barsch und beleidigend formulierte Antwort. Das beanstandete Posting wurde nicht genannt, ein Grund ebenso wenig. Ich bin eine solche Abfertigung aus anderen Netzwerken nicht gewohnt. Ich empfinde das Vorgehen als eine Zensur pointiert formulierter, aber faktengestützter Meinungen, die den Moderatoren unliebsam sind. Ein Stern ist zu viel.

Site owner Spez ruined the once great site

I really hope this review gets published because people need to know about how pathetic this site is… As I’ve said previously my last user account was defunct thanks to the terribly organized karma points system. A points total of -6 meant I could not longer post anywhere. Like I said before the karma system is completely subjective: you could be of the opinion that ‘the earth is round’ but 10 flat-earthers could potentially come along to downvote you thus leaving you with -10 karma (you can see where I’m going with this)… So the only option left to me was to create another account with a fresh email, which I did. It was going fine. I made a new post on one nsfw (not safe for work) subreddit called r/ukpunting (this particular subreddit has zero posts so I was in fact helping to get off the ground). Few days later I made another post on r/sexworkers. My contribution proved to be popular, remaining near the top. Same day I made a third post, once again on r/ukpunting but after this I was banned for absolutely no reason whatsoever. I found that my 3 threads had been completely erased, including any replies I got from other people. Its as if I’d never existed. Why was Reddit so anxious to wipe all memory of me? I really don’t get it. Nothing about my posts broke any rules nor was I trolling. There was absolutely zero racist content, zero sexist content, nothing that would insult anyone. In contrast to people who post pictures with no text or post nonsense like ‘Omg I think I fancy my daughter-in-law…’ my contributions were original and informative. I spent a good few hours writing those posts so I’m extremely angry that these c*nts can treat you like with all your efforts going to waste. Reddit claims to be the front page of the internet, but it’s the front page of ludicrous censorship and it shares this with other discussion sites such as Mumsnet and Youtube. This strange censorship has nothing to do with enforcing any rules, its simply mods doing whatever the f/ck they want.

most things esp the trolled hatred blogs make it bad to trust anything blogged here and it's moderated in favour for trollers not the trustworthy people

It could be great if they lessen the rules in subreddits. You can't almost post anything because of too much prohibitions.

Reddit, good concept, but horrible actually. So many sub Reddits and most have specific rules. Especially the ones that are most needed like the ones for mental health and disabilities and what not they have so many rules like what are you actually allowed to post? What CAN you post? Don't do this, don't do that, none of this, and you'll get banned if you do that. Absolutely ridiculous. The subreddit for almost homeless is the only one that I've seen that is actually decent. Most people on Reddit in general are just not helpful. Not that they're bad people but they just contribute nothing that benefits the subreedit they're in. The people in almost homeless actually help and care. You post something in a depression, anxiety, or whatever subreddit and you either get criticized, banned, or a load of useless comments like "it's ok! It'll all get better soon!" Like bs mofo. Not helpful.