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Reddit is complete garbage , filled with heavy moderation from all sides , your mods , your admins , your mod bots , and the community of reddit , and finally the shadow bans designed to waste your time for a LOL.

It's the absolute worst place to post anything you want to say. I don't know why people keep using it.

Reddit also likes to spam top youtube videos with solicitation attempts to get people to go to reddit.

Re:Slashdot alternative in the works on Monday February 10, 2014 @02:04PM (#7212946)
Reddit is a shit hole of shadow bans and fake accounts. I myself have many fake accounts on reddit that I use to upvote and downvote. I have successfully taken posts off the front page of a sub-reddit all by myself , I have successfully fought shadow bans with multiple accounts , I have successfully downvoted , all by myself , downvoted people I don't like into the hidden section.

And I'm just one guy doing this , there are corporations who manipulate reddit all the time , there is even a sub-reddit dedicated to talking about it.

There are also people who have created businesses on selling accounts and votes on reddit. That's how corrupted that place is.

Is it something to do ? Yes. Do I see it in the same league as facebook and twitter ? NO Way.

And because of the shadow bans you are never really free to say what you want , which is another reason reddit sucks. Plus the very concept of the shadow ban deserves that they should get abused.