What Do You Think About Reddit? Technology

[Spikey]

Do any of you have a Reddit account and if you do, do you feel like there is a sense of mob mentality on the site?

As you may know, Reddit is composed of different "forums" discussing certain things which are known as subreddits. You can accumulate what is known as karma with the things that you comment and post on. Users can either upvote or downvote your posts and comments.

I go on Reddit everyday and post videos and news articles that I find relevant to a certain subreddit. I also leave comments under certain posts and give my opinion. Whenever I give my opinion on something and isn't popular with the majority in that particular subreddit, I get downvoted to oblivion and I get called names and personally attacked by other users of that subreddit.

Redditors can't seem to agree to disagree with things. You either have to agree with them 100% or they start attacking you and sometimes the moderators will ban you from that particular subreddit. The people on Reddit don't want to have a healthy, open minded debate. They just resort to personal attacks and name calling whenever you say or post something that they don't agree with.

HAs anyone else come across this sort of toxicity on Reddit?

 

[Deleted member 63]

Never spent much time there. The odd time when I'm researching something, Google might find a post or three there but otherwise I don't bother with the place. I'm also very much not into Facebook and have not had an active account there in a couple years. For me, forums are my preferred "social media".

 

[Dylan]

I don't have an account, but I do browse fandom related subreddits and AskReddit/AskEurope occasionally. I haven't seen much toxicity but I know Reddit did have a reputation for that.

 

[Tom]

While I use Reddit occasionally to look something up, I've never had an account or felt the need to post anything. I wouldn't say it's anymore toxic than the Youtube comment section or Facebook for that matter, but that is a pretty low bar I guess.

 

[Deleted member 9]

I have an account on there, made a few posts and got some decent help.