| I was a mod and drew the line when I got a death threat. Most mods work as volunteers to keep a sub clean of spam and porn. When the only ‘thanks’ you receive is, ‘we know where you live, watch your back’ I’m done. The cherry on tip is when you notify the admins that there is nefarious activity and they literally don’t return a response for 3 weeks. Reddit’s voting system enforces group-think, the users think it’s a ‘democracy’ in that they get to make the rules and mods should just follow orders, then mods need help due to an uprising, admins are no where to be found. The meme subs aren’t funny any more, pics of cats and dogs are tired. The anti-mask, anti-vax, the_donald, and so much more all incubated in Reddit under the watch of the mods, the admins, and Condi Nast themselves for nothing more than advertising dollars. I understand Reddit serves a purpose for some but it, in part, is assisting in the downfall of society. By allowing people to downvote without thinking critically, without thinking about the affects of polarizing endlessly until right and wrong don’t matter as long as everyone is in agreement. And if someone isn’t in agreement, downvote them in to oblivion. |
Those subs are by far in the minority and are always on the line of getting quarantined or outright shutdown.
r/politics is the poster child of what 90% of Reddit is. Reddit is by FAR an echo chamber for leftist ideas than it is for "alt-right" anything.