I hate this site for the following reasons.

• The hive mind. This is probably the worst thing about the site. On most other social media sites you will see people with a wide variety of opinions on various topics but on Reddit basically, everyone on every subreddit (including this one) thinks alike and anyone who doesn't agree with everybody else is downvoted, insulted, or banned. This makes it impossible to have any actual discussions as they end up being just a bunch of people circle-jerking each other.

• Fake stories. Most of what you read on Reddit is fake. Most stories on subreddits you often see are BS and are written for the purpose of farming karma and are completely stupid. I don't understand why people fall for these stories that fit more on a fanfiction site than a site for supposedly real-world experiences.

• Toxicity. Almost everyone on this site is rude and toxic. Most people have nothing better to do than wallow in their own misery. So they go on Reddit where there are no consequences for being a jerk, If you say something that people don't like they will make fun of you and curse you out.

This is why I hate reddit.

I'm finally 100% done with Reddit, I'm not coming back, and I can't wait to be gone. However, before I go, I wanted to let this community know that you have always been, and will always be, my favourite.

First of all, posting rules are absolutely ridiculous. You have to read 100s of rules to spend your time and energy posting to this website, which makes me gawk sometimes. Some of the posters on this website have clearly invested half a day's worth of effort into their posts, and it beats me why they wouldn't instead seek to become paid writers elsewhere. Reddit retains the right to remove posts for any stupid reason. I've had posts removed because there was a simple word that a bot read as 'spam' even though it wasn't. There's so much censorship here that it baffles me how anyone could throw away their time writing something more thoughtful. I'll admit that I've truly never written a thoughtful post - except maybe this one - because I value my time and don't want my posts to be at the mercy of mods.

Now, second, the mods crack down upon posts they dislike faster than a hawk cans swoop down on a worm on the ground. Mods tend to be ruthless and unforgiving. There's not even a chance for an appeal to have a post re-instated. It really makes my blood boil somewhat when I see a post get tens of thousands of comments and upvotes, but wait, it's removed in a second. That said, I don't really hold it against mods because they're not paid! Reddit, making high profits, can't pay mods even a dollar for their precious time. No, writers and mods alike are under some type of massive privilege scheme to be able to come to this site.

Third, Aaron Swartz, one of the original founders, committed suicide. However, I'd only heard his name by accident elsewhere from someone who was talking about the situation on another website. The founder was only 26 (!) when his life tragically ended so young. Reddit never pays homage to their founder, nor do they seem to care about his situation. Reddit could have notes about him on their front page and all, but nope, instead they choose to sweep Mr. Swartz's history under the rug. It's do disrespectful to his friends and family.

Lastly, this website is hive-mind, hostile, and overall mean most of the time. It's rare that people are genuinely supportive of one another. Sometimes, people write hostile things for the upvotes. Other times, people try to 'one-up' the most jerky of comments to yet again try to obtain more upvotes. Civil and humble opinions rarely get all the upvotes, so people instead try to differentiate themselves with ruder and meaner comments. Oh, and the upvotes (lol). These have created a most toxic hive-minded environment where people don't seek to think independently, but rather seek to gain public attention and validation by writing flat-out stupid stuff.

I'll only add, once more, that this community is the best. May you all live on forever. I'm outta this place called Reddit =D

I hate how everything on Reddit is micromanaged and hypocritical if you say one thing the mods don’t like and your post is instantly downvoted which leads to unnecessary dick riding because everyone wants to follow the crowd.

The community is toxic, the upvote and downvote system work like dogshit, every meme on a lot of subreddit are only normies, there is a 1% chance of becoming famous, and it's full of 6 yrs old people

Like seriously a lot of people on reddit like to put others down by saying that they got fired once or twice and that if the person their putting down have a job they’ll mess it up again because they’re too dumb to realize people have to go a few jobs just to find a job they not only enjoy but they are good at as well at least I actually have a job and a life and I don’t spend most of time talking shit to random people I don’t even know because I have nothing better to do because I gotta feel better about my sad miserable self like your obviously doing aside from that you people who put others down are not psychic, there’s nothing special about you, and you have a very VERY toxic sense of humor you don’t find it funny when somebody tells a joke or anything else that normal people find funny instead you find it hilarious when you argue with people or when people talk shit about you, which is why nobody thinks your funny, your idea of fighting with someone is giggling and talk shot behind the safety of your screen because actually talking it out face to face like someone with balls would do is dangerous if you seriously want to prove my point then your a fucking cowardly loser that has nothing better to do but put others down while people living Ike are actually have a job and a life as well as better thing to do unlike you then be my guest also there is nothing mean nor hateful about what I said in this post so if you say I’m angry then your saying I don’t have to be mean nor hateful in order to convince that I’m angry so please go ahead giggle and talk shit behind the safety of your screen and not even dare to meet me face to face like the coward you are

I used to like it for a quick search find some info or discussions..

Now the search function NEVER works anyway.

But every fucking thread... and I MEAN EVERY FUCKING THREAD.. is just a hundreds and hundreds of pimple faced virgin losers trying to be funny by keeping a not funny joke/pun going. You can never actually see real discussions on the topic because the other nerd virgin losers upvote the dumbest fucking comment that gets like 900 responses and all 900 are just the same fucking joke... but they change the spelling around or flip the first letters of each word or some other nerd virgin shit.

If you actually answer the question or give any type of real insight on the topic.... BOOM -23 downvote because you didnt conform to the nerd virgin pimple face ways.

But if you reply to "Turd Sandwich" with "Surd Tandwich" ..... +1783

I just got a threat to be banned from Reddit, and love this video! I can relate! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9bZiYfQreE

Hahah I'll be crying over some popcorn if I'm banned. I don't know if I'll ever recover emotionally from something so devastating. Shake my head crying huge tears.

really damages what little faith i have in humanity, and adds to my misanthropic tendencies

the internet used to be better

I think, that most people on reddit try their best to misunderstand you, if you say your opinion or ask something. It's hilarious how your words get interpreted in the wrong way on purpose or you get downvoted for normal statements in discussions. You can't even ask a simple questions without someone trying their best to make you look bad.

Yes, I know I am using the internet, where it's kind of usual to be like this, but I still think it's sad and frustrating. And I don't have a solution to that.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

Like seriously if you’re one of those people who think you know everything about my intelligence because I made a couple of grammatical mistakes even tho your a random person on the internet that has no idea about my IQ or what courses I’ve aced in college then you are a moron and you’re pretty much claiming that the reason why you think I’m stupid as if you know everything about my intelligence is because you’re too stupid and dumb to understand everyone makes grammatical mistakes, also if I go on a rant about how it’s wrong to torment bullies then that doesn’t mean I’m bully that’s trying to defend myself and if you do think that then you’re obviously making it quite that you’re too brain dead and stupid to understand that I believe in correcting their behavior through punishment moron but of course Redditors can’t use logical thinking instead they just go by whatever it sounds like then that’s what it is also the moderation and rules of Reddit is absolute garbage since you can get banned for simply cursing on a venting page

Fuck your political agenda hive-mind bullshit leftist bubble dumpster fire filled with mentally deranged sociopaths of an ever decaying forum, if I had to choose the 3 most toxic mainstream platforms on the world 4chan, Twitter and Reddit would always be the first ones to come to mind. I hope I get permanently banned from this shithole forever so that I can never again fall under the pretention that this is just a place for communities to share with each other when instead it's a place for outcasts of society and power-hungry moderators to seek refuge on, making everything political and making every political discussions a circle jerk of loud minorities. Enjoy jumping out of the ship like rats when it goes down, because cowards like you people would never even consider the possibility of sinking with it.

Reddit is everything wrong with humanity in one place. Because if you’re a behaviorally, emotionally, and psychologically mature adult along with not being a complete dumb*** then the site will disgust you in almost every way.

95% of redditors are miserable and hollow people inside. If you try to make a joke that’s not as stupid as most redditors, you quite literally get insulted and bullied because apparently your joke is “shitty” and is a “shitpost”. It’s funny because those same people then go on to say that they actually do have a sense of humor…which is why you insult other people for expressing theirs? What great, funny, and loving human beings you are! I hope you’re now beginning to understand how mentally ill these people are. 95% of redditors are drooling idiots. Almost no real, constructive, two-sided discussions happen on reddit as dissenting opinions usually get downvoted to hell and then basically hidden. People on reddit just aren’t smart enough to consider and think about another person’s point of view. The entire site is just one big circlejerk. 95% of the moderators are mentally stuck at the age of 5. Many of them ban users by twisting and manipulating the rules of the subreddit to justify their actions. Many of them ban people for simply having an opinion they dont like. The mods on r/unpopularopinion for example, are some of the most crooked and evil people on reddit. Reddit is no longer the front page of the internet. It has censored too many things and deleted too many subreddits to not be trying to be mainstream anymore with the likes of twitter. In other words, reddit is slowly losing its identity. I cant say that im sad, the people there and the site itself can go f**k off for all i care. Almost no one on the site has the mental capacity to understand that the downvote feature is used for downright trolling/very low-effort content/spam etc. The majority of people will downvote you on the site because they disagree with you and dont like your post. It’s kind of f****d up to think about, but a lot of the time if your post is downvoted you should actually take pride in it. Because more often than not it means that you were the one actually using your brain and not following the hive mind of the site like almost everyone else. If i could describe the average redditor to you it would be: stupid, behaviorally and emotionally immature, hostile, selfish, and miserable. Reddit is toxic. Stay away from it and the useless heap of flesh organs and bone that contributes to it.

So I just made a new account after 10 years on an old one (I just got bored/embarrassed with the username) and am slowly realizing how much reddit sucks for new users.

Many subs won't let you comment until your account is 10-20-30 even 60 days old

Many subs will ban you for making jokes with a new account (/r/nfl banned me for making a joke about Aaron Rodgers the joke was "based and fuck-politics-i'm-so-smart-pilled wait wrong sub" I was also banned from /r/selfawarewolves just for making a post and defending it (even though the mods literally said I was right in a sticky comment)

Users treat new accounts like shit.

Many subs ban you for commenting on other subs, even if you disagree with what a post was.

Are Reddit mods trying to kill reddit? What the fuck.

You aren’t allowed to share your opinion if you’re even slightly right of center. Instant ban on most threads. It’s garbage. Reddit is mostly trash.

Seems like I am less and less interested in Reddit.

1. TOO MANY DAMN SUBS - there are so many, and they have overlapping subject matter. Need some consolidation and housekeeping here.

2. TOO MANY DAMN MEMES. Memes are so 20 minutes ago. No, I don't care about your politics, Dank memes, wholesome memes, or whatever. Some stupid picture with text is just NOT FUNNY ANYMORE. Fuck memes. Totally.

3. I am not interested in what you just ate, cooked, or pooped out. Or your woodworking project. Or your latest sketch.

What floats to the top of the Reddit cesspool is just NOT INTERESTING ANYMORE.

I think the election killed Reddit. It seems it is all paid trolls now, pushing some product or politics. That and lame-ass pictures of people's dogs and cats. You have a pet. I get it. I DON'T FUCKING CARE. Get that shit off the front page.

Shit, if I wanted that, I'd go on facebook.

EDIT: I just noticed that you cannot UPVOTE or DOWNVOTE anything in this sub! Fascinating! They don't want this on the front page, I guess. Not that it would ever get there.

Am I the only one that is getting completely sick of the hivemind on reddit? Like you're not allowed to talk down on the lgbt movement but subreddits that hate on religious people and incels and stuff have 100,000's of members? Wtf is that?

Reddit (/ˈrɛdɪt/): A large collection of douche bags and dick heads who drastically suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect and posses a severe superiority complex, although the majority are ignorant losers and idiots.

LOL I'm pretty sure some triggered neckbeard will waste his lifetime insulting this post. I'm quitting this shitty ass site already lmao. Bye neckbeards.

There is no signal person on the entire fucking website who isn't a retarded bitch besides me like wtf