448 upvotes, 15 direct replies (showing 15)
View submission: Promote ideas, protect people
Looking at the comments, and what's been upvoted, it becomes clear to me that there is a problem. Reflexive cynicism and distrust rule the day.
/u/kn0thing and /u/5days it seems that Reddit has lost the enthusiastic trust and support of its community. How do you plan to address this?
Comment by [deleted] at 14/05/2015 at 22:21 UTC*
116 upvotes, 2 direct replies
I have left reddit for Voat[1] due to years of admin mismanagement and preferential treatment for certain subreddits and users holding certain political and ideological views.
As an act of protest, I have chosen to redact all the comments I've ever made on reddit, overwriting them with this message.
If you would like to do the same, install TamperMonkey[2] for Chrome, GreaseMonkey[3] for Firefox, NinjaKit[4] for Safari, Violent Monkey[5] for Opera, or AdGuard[6] for Internet Explorer (in Advanced Mode), then add this GreaseMonkey script[7].
2: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tampermonkey/dhdgffkkebhmkfjojejmpbldmpobfkfo
3: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/
4: https://github.com/os0x/NinjaKit
5: https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/violent-monkey/
7: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/10905-reddit-overwrite-extended
Finally, click on your username at the top right corner of reddit, click on comments, and click on the new OVERWRITE button at the top of the page. You may need to scroll down to multiple comment pages if you have commented a lot.
After doing all of the above, you are welcome to join me on Voat[8]!
Comment by fre3k at 14/05/2015 at 23:40 UTC
47 upvotes, 2 direct replies
I been here damn near 10 years now. It's been a never-ending spiral of older users having less and less faith in what the company reddit is doing to the platform reddit. The first comment of all time talks about how comments are detracting from what reddit was before.
See https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/17913/reddit_now_supports_comments/?sort=old
Literally from the first moment users were able to provide feedback to the company it was negative. Perhaps the criticism was unwarranted at that particular moment, but the dissenting voices have only gotten stronger and more numerous.
Personally, I was with the company until SRS really got into it's SJW mode and wasn't treated the same as anyone else. I actually enjoyed SRS right at the beginning before it became just a crazy person/SJW cesspool with special brigading privileges.
Comment by [deleted] at 14/05/2015 at 20:55 UTC
253 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I'm actually on-site at Reddit HQ and was able to photograph /u/kn0thing and /u/5days working on a solution to address the loss of community trust in Reddit administration and staff:
http://i.imgur.com/lqv2Yim.jpg
Comment by elavers at 14/05/2015 at 18:53 UTC
347 upvotes, 3 direct replies
With more blog posts! /s
Comment by Werner__Herzog at 14/05/2015 at 21:25 UTC
32 upvotes, 1 direct replies
It's been ten years, it was bound to happen. They had a good run.
Comment by Orbitrix at 15/05/2015 at 10:51 UTC*
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I don't think people like or trust reddit's current CEO, Ellen Pao, that has a lot to do with it.
Users also don't like the way reddit handled #GamerGate, lots of censorship and abuses of power. A movement of distrust and interest in a potential exodus has been brewing in subs like /r/kotakuinaction for a while now.
Subreddits like ShitRedditSays have been given unfair immunity from all the shadowbans and censorship. This is another thorn in reddits' side... there are clearly double standards being applied, and reddit appears to be run by many "Social Justice Warrior" types.
Reddit is on a VERY slippery slope. sites like http://voat.co/[1] have cloned reddits functionality. It hasn't been enough to convince people to switch. But I feel like if an shiny new idea comes along, not just a clone, all its going to take is one more misstep and I think people will jump ship to a new site. It happened to DIGG, it WILL happen to reddit. IMO its a matter of 'when?' not 'if'.
Comment by benihana at 14/05/2015 at 21:58 UTC
6 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Reflexive cynicism and distrust rule the day.
Where you see cynicism and distrust, I see people voting on what is important to them. Your use of the word reflexive to describe other people's opinions seems extremely dismissive. It implies you think the opinion wasn't formed deliberately or after much thought; just that the person felt something they didn't like and shouted an opinion. Which seems very condescending to me.
Comment by runnerrun2 at 15/05/2015 at 11:25 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
They will address this with more censorship.
Comment by [deleted] at 31/05/2015 at 17:41 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Until Ellen Pao is fired reddit will continue to be shit.
~144 million dollars of a pension fund was lost
Comment by tadcalabash at 14/05/2015 at 21:33 UTC
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I understand that reddit administration is not perfect and has made mistakes in the past, but I think this schism owes equal blame to much of the userbase's natural anti-authoritarian cynicism.
This site is user run as much as it is administrated, and users need to meet half way rather than crossing their arms while scoffing at all attempts by admins to improve.
Comment by Okichah at 15/05/2015 at 15:09 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Secret police, no oversight, and disappearing anyone who dissents. Didn't you read the post?
Comment by AprilFoolsChild at 15/05/2015 at 08:30 UTC
0 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Amen. I'm constantly at odds with my use of reddit these days - I'm not overly concerned with it being a safe place; I agree with many, the world is becoming too concerned with keeping space safe for others instead of individuals taking responsibility for their own well-being; however, it's becoming very clear that reddit has one very loud voice, and that is of angry white dudes who are dismissive of criticism and love any chance to disprove and discredit those who do not fundamentally align with their views.
I would not recommend reddit to anyone right now, as I hardly feel comfortable admitting I use it at all. It's frustrating, because I do think it's fairly competent as "front page of the internet", but the readers seem to be overwhelmingly shit and the comments are ruining the articles.
Comment by APOSTATEDENIER at 15/05/2015 at 14:21 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
You are making me feel a bit unsafe...
Comment by TheCodexx at 15/05/2015 at 07:33 UTC
0 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I'm sure they'll have a new blog post up tomorrow. And the day after that, and the day after that, and the day after that.
We'll have the same thread every day until they get the hint or pull the plug entirely.
If they want to take this site from the users, they're going to have to take it by force.
Comment by bamgrinus at 14/05/2015 at 23:10 UTC
-3 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I'll tell you, whenever I read comments on blog posts, it makes me feel like reddit is a terrible place filled with shitty, shitty people. That is not my experience day to day on reddit...maybe just because I tend to avoid subs that I think have a lot of shitty people.
