Top 10 Worst Things About How Reddit Works
The Top Ten
Automod removes content more often due to false flags and spam than successful uses, and it doesn't notify users when their content is removed.
Once a subreddit is created, its name cannot be changed or deleted unless it gets banned. However, banned accounts have all their content removed.
For trolls with technological expertise, evading a ban is as simple as creating another account, enabling them to target innocent individuals against whom they hold a grudge.
Users cannot see or report replies or posts by individuals who have blocked them, even if those posts are weaponized. This grants the blocker immunity unless the blocked user seeks help from someone else.
Reddit admins intentionally keep the specifics of what qualifies as rule-breaking to themselves, justifying this as a way to prevent users from circumventing the rules.
Accounts, regardless of how new they are, can downvote any content, including content from subreddits from which they're banned. This allows entire subreddits to be downvoted out of revenge.
Users cannot reply to a comment or post by someone who has blocked them, nor to any replies to that comment/post. They also cannot link to that comment/post without breaking the rules.
If a user has a negative number of comment karma or post karma, half of the subreddits on Reddit will be useless to them as all their content will be removed.
The subreddits dedicated to providing technical support on Reddit are often too uninformed or vacant to help. If an issue involves conflict, they may succumb to a harasser's peer pressure.
Similar to YouTube, it's impossible for people and their subreddits on Reddit to become popular merely by appealing to the masses. External stimuli are needed to gain popularity.
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