Overly restricting and subjective deletions and bans for low quality. (Eg: /r/casualuk)
Hear me out - restricting based on low quality sounds great, right? Until it’s your post that’s blocked. And you know it isn’t low quality, is unique and offers a new perspective. Some mods have genuinely forgotten that it’s (mostly) humans at the other end of their actions, or haven’t forgotten and enjoy being dicks.
People
Bots
Really? I think there are a lot of bots here, maybe more than Reddit.
You can’t be serious
Corporate control
Redditors- I mean AI, Ads, gold, archived posts, and probably more I don’t want to remember
And my axe!
Don’t forget deleted or spoiled comments
Search something innocent and the first post you see is porn.
ID verification
Repost bots and hidden post histories
That time they made the up/down-vote arrows slightly smaller in the mobile UI, without notice or changing anything else, so we all spent a solid week confused about why we were suddenly misclicking it on every post.
Thankfully, I don’t think it could happen here since there’s like a million different equally popular mobile clients, and they all release changelogs.
In reply to a comment:
This.
“Came here to say this.”
“This is the answer.”
“Beat me to it.”
… Followed by nothing else.
I do this a lot, but I atleast follow or with a paragraph of context.
Thanks for 1000 updoots!
“This is the way”
I also choose this guys wife.
It was i also choose this guy’s dead wife iirc
In fairness, that one does get a giggle from me. Every time. Even this one. Especially this one.
Giggity. (Please forgive me.)
Are they still as bad about assuming everyone’s a white cis het man, too?
I forgot about these kinds of comments ace I really don’t miss these kinds of comments.
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Oh damn that’s a shame to hear. I hope we can get better without compromising on being anti-corporate
This 👆
Underrated comment.
(Under the very top comment or something incredibly basic and lame.)
Unsolicited bot comments.
One to correct a minor grammar mistake, a second to call the first pedantic, and a bunch of good bot/bad bot replies to both, and now half the comment section is noise.
They’re rarely funny or interesting past the first time you encounter them, and their creators never willing to acknowledge that they’ve unleashed a pest.
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Banning you from communities x and y as soon as you post in community z. Such petty BS
Astroturfing
Perhaps its too late for the largest instances, but the idea of a site like this being a spectator activity, about consumption, rather than creating communities. Some smaller instances, and even some larger ones, have an actual unique atmosphere and have larger projects across the instance. When we suddenly got a flood of reddit users escaping from the third-party API fiasco and the Luigi bans, that was huge enough to dilute some of the communities with large amounts of people used to simply voting and commenting, or having a website premade for them.
Subreddits that do not represent the title and instead hate it.
I’m looking at you /r/china.
