[Avamander]

> Communities not advertiser friendly are destroyed.

Incorrect. There definitely are subreddits that aren't very useful to advertise in and they're left to be.

> Others are quarantined,

Only the most vile shit.

> and users shadow banned for showing wrongthink.

I don't think they do shadowbans any more, stuff does however get caught in spam filters and removed by mods. And Mods have each and every right to take out holocaust-denying, racist, homophobic garbage.

> The majority of top posts come from the same old users, generally paid content creators.

Learn how to pick subreddits.

[ungamed]

> I don't think they do shadowbans any more

They absolutely do.

> And Mods have each and every right to take out > holocaust-denying, racist, homophobic garbage.

They 'take out' users for much less.

[artiszt]

They 'take out' users for much less.

obviously in a non-educated manner, or on a personal preference basis ?! appears so, yes. i still try figure out what happened to my account i can't login with all of a sudden

whatever, it's not transparent and not even possible to figure out if, for instance, one got banned when eg l/p reset appears to work [emails sent, new pw chosen] but still one can't login [at login it keeps shouting : 'password incorrect']

where to go, what to do ? their >help< lets one circle in a way more dumb dull manner than opting for self-mummyfication journey on the shortest Moebius band imaginable

[tinus_hn]

As do the moderators of Hacker News.

[Avamander]

> They 'take out' users for much less.

"Only a Sith deals in absolutes" Heavily depends on the subreddit and there are examples of it extending in all directions.

[ekianjo]

> Learn how to pick subreddits.

No, that much is very true. Top content is definitely driven by paid content creators, unless you are talking about massively small subreddits without traffic.

[Avamander]

It can be true in massive subreddits, it isn't true in smaller ones. Smaller subs can and do have traffic.

Learn how to pick subreddits. It's the same with every social media.