285 upvotes, 4 direct replies (showing 4)
Ellen,
This makes me sad.
I am not a power user, a content creator or a person in the vocal majority. What i am is a user in the silent minority. I click ad links, stick to some default subs and my gaming sub reddits. I contributed to secret santa, bought gold on various other accounts and mostly mind my own business. I am a lurker.
But i have no information out there on whats going on besides what the vocal majority and your haters have to say because you wont tell me how you screwed up. You say it but i see no ownership of whats been happening even in the past months let alone years.
So eventually people like me who wont tell you how disappointed they are will just start to leave. I am not a mod, i am not a avid content creator. But i also got the feeling i am not important, i may be one drop in the bucket but those other drops will soon feel the same way too.
All i saw the past couple of months is a badly planned, badly thought out execution of ideas that seemed to be planned to piss off reddit. With no explanation to the silent user who will pick up a pitchfork because everyone else is.
I feel like you cheated on me, and i dont know if i can continue to trust you. We need counseling badly.
Comment by dirtyswede27 at 06/07/2015 at 22:18 UTC
17 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I agree. I'm in the same boat as you. I feel like this was the one true site where open discussion was still allowed, even though it could get real shitty at times, but that's real life. There is large portion of real dick bags in the world and being filter-fed sunshine and rainbows all the time on other sites gets real God damned boring.
Then there is the genuine, brilliant, and laugh out loud comments that make me love Reddit so much more. The cleverness of comments make me want to to do better when I comment. It's like a friendly competition to be funnier and more witty than the next guy for imaginary points.
There is so much good on Reddit. I hate to see it take a slow roll down the shitter because the management doesn't understand who there customer is. Who they should stand behind and understand who tells other people to go to Reddit. You know how many mouth breathers in my break room I've told to go to Reddit and explained to them how to use it? Well not that many, but we are the ones expanded the "brand". We interact with it. We share it. We love it. And in the end, I guess we'll be the ones that kill it.
Good bye dick butt.
Comment by jarydf at 06/07/2015 at 23:15 UTC
13 upvotes, 0 direct replies
That is the real problem here. This is a corporate answer very late in the drama cycle that amounts to "we need to respond politely but we are going to do what we planned to anyway". It also makes me think current management does not really know what they are doing here or how to keep a community together and will lose it through mis-steps like this. We are not employees and can leave at any time when it stops being as fun as it once was. It is a pretty tricky job and I dont think they are up to it.
Comment by Dash-o-Salt at 07/07/2015 at 05:59 UTC
3 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Yep, I'm actively looking at alternative sites now. Reddit is dead to me. I can't stand the toxic administration of this site any longer.
Comment by y0mirs at 07/07/2015 at 00:02 UTC
7 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Me too man, me too.