Current Events > Why is Reddit so restrictive to new users?

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Seriously, it's 3 in the morning and I just want advice on how to escape an abusive relationship, but no, I can't post a damn thing for some reason. My threads *always* get automatically removed.

It's a safeguard against spambots, russian bad faith actors and trolls.

That's a shitty situation though, I might be able to help a little if you can talk a little about what you're going through?

pinky0926 posted...

It's a safeguard against spambots, russian bad faith actors and trolls.

That's a shitty situation though, I might be able to help a little if you can talk a little about what you're going through?

I'll PM you tomorrow when I have more time.

Never understood reddit myself. If I make a topic with a simple question someone always thumbs it down. I don't get the point of that? It seems they do it to all of them.

As for your situation. Sorry to hear that. There are numbers you may be able to call with resources.

I hope everything is okay man. :(

projectpat72988 posted...

Never understood reddit myself. If I make a topic with a simple question someone always thumbs it down. I don't get the point of that? It seems they do it to all of them.

As for your situation. Sorry to hear that. There are numbers you may be able to call with resources.

By design reddit creates these weird little bubbles of people and curates content based on what most of them want to read or think is correct. You sort of have to be the baby bear to goldilocks' passion/knowledge on any topic if you want to fit in. Can't be too passionate, can't be unpassionate, you have to know just enough to sound impressive to a layperson but not know so much that you make others feel intimidated.

So in your situation, you asked a simple question but that was probably annoying for the regulars of that sub that have these rules about content. Maybe they expect you to do a search or read the wiki.

Yeah it's peculiar and people need to touch grass.

I had that problem on the Modern Warfare subs. Couldn't start a thread ever and no one explained what the autofilter is looking for so all my attempts would fail.

Same reason they raised the karma requirement for CE.

pinky0926 posted...

By design reddit creates these weird little bubbles of people and curates content based on what most of them want to read or think is correct. You sort of have to be the baby bear to goldilocks' passion/knowledge on any topic if you want to fit in. Can't be too passionate, can't be unpassionate, you have to know just enough to sound impressive to a layperson but not know so much that you make others feel intimidated.

So in your situation, you asked a simple question but that was probably annoying for the regulars of that sub that have these rules about content. Maybe they expect you to do a search or read the wiki.

Yeah it's peculiar and people need to touch grass.

Usually it's some loser who just recently made a topic so in order for their topic to make it on the front page they have to down vote every other topic.

dotsdfe posted...

I hope everything is okay man. :(

I'm doing my best.

Super_Slash posted...

I'm doing my best.

I'm always around if you need someone to talk to. Wishing you the best.

dotsdfe posted...

I'm always around if you need someone to talk to. Wishing you the best.

I just might take you up on that.

I'm actually tempted to write an entire thread on it after I sleep and explain everything thats going on. I'm a little more comfortable doing so now that CE is private.

Super_Slash posted...

I'm actually tempted to write an entire thread on it after I sleep and explain everything thats going on. I'm a little more comfortable doing so now that CE is private.

Has your partner ever seen you use gamefaqs, or ever had access to your phone/computer? I would just be careful of them knowing your username and reading your posts. If in doubt, you could create a throwaway account.

pinky0926 posted...

By design reddit creates these weird little bubbles of people and curates content based on what most of them want to read or think is correct. You sort of have to be the baby bear to goldilocks' passion/knowledge on any topic if you want to fit in. Can't be too passionate, can't be unpassionate, you have to know just enough to sound impressive to a layperson but not know so much that you make others feel intimidated.

So in your situation, you asked a simple question but that was probably annoying for the regulars of that sub that have these rules about content. Maybe they expect you to do a search or read the wiki.

Yeah it's peculiar and people need to touch grass.

This. Every damn sub has its own byzantine rules and they always want useless megathreads for questions and then your question just goes unanswered buried in big the thread nobody likes

MegaThreads are only good for containing "LOOK AT MY RARE DROP/PULL"

Also the megathreads often aren't even pinned, made consistently or easily searchable.

pinky0926 posted...

Has your partner ever seen you use gamefaqs, or ever had access to your phone/computer? I would just be careful of them knowing your username and reading your posts. If in doubt, you could create a throwaway account.

That would work before they put a high karma restriction on CE and before they turned CE private and blocking every new account from viewing CE!

pinky0926 posted...

Has your partner ever seen you use gamefaqs, or ever had access to your phone/computer? I would just be careful of them knowing your username and reading your posts. If in doubt, you could create a throwaway account.

She asks for my phone occasionally, but I make sure she doesn't see anything like this.

And yeah a throwaway won't work lol. Going to bed now, will write the thread later.

I have to delete posts sometimes because of the down voting.

There is a lot of missing info. Do you have enough karma? Or were you posting it on the wrong sub?

I've had multiple instances of having spent hours writing fairly detailed posts only for it to be auto removed by a spam filter with zero insight on what in my post triggered it.

I could edit and reedit the post multiple times for only for it get removed each time.

I actually question if I was shadowbanned for some reason.

Regardless, Reddit is fuckin aweful and only getting worse.

Foppe posted...

That would work before they put a high karma restriction on CE and before they turned CE private and blocking every new account from viewing CE!

Wait CE is private?

pinky0926 posted...

Wait CE is private?

Now it is, yes.

pinky0926 posted...

Wait CE is private?

Yep. Surprised there wasn't a Sticky on this.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/6-gamefaqs-announcements/80747432

BlueTigerLion posted...

Yep. Surprised there wasn't a Sticky on this.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/6-gamefaqs-announcements/80747432

Woah, I didn't realize that happened yesterday. It really is the beginning of the end for CE.

If there was a happy medium between the "karma requirements" and nothing of the sort I would go for that. But there isn't or they haven't found one that works yet and if I had to choose between the two now I would take the current system they have a hundred times out of a hundred.

And for a lot of these subs the karma requirement isn't "reddit" rules, it's the rules of the sub. Again I would take a happy medium, but I've seen totally unmoderated subs and they are terrible.

Oh wow, they're really trying to kill CE huh?

Unsuprised_Pika posted...

This. Every damn sub has its own byzantine rules and they always want useless megathreads for questions and then your question just goes unanswered buried in big the thread nobody likes

MegaThreads are only good for containing "LOOK AT MY RARE DROP/PULL"

Also the megathreads often aren't even pinned, made consistently or easily searchable.

Facts, this is exactly what happened when I got the S23 Ultra phone. The sub reddit made a rule to only post battery questions in their "megathread". AKA post here and no one will even notice your post. Certainly don't make a topic where many people can see and will surely answer.

Back when forums used to be alive I hated when people did that shit there too. IMO, it just kills the potential for activity. Especially on already slow forums.

projectpat72988 posted...

Facts, this is exactly what happened when I got the S23 Ultra phone. The sub reddit made a rule to only post battery questions in their "megathread". AKA post here and no one will even notice your post. Certainly don't make a topic where many people can see and will surely answer.

Back when forums used to be alive I hated when people did that shit there too. IMO, it just kills the potential for activity. Especially on already slow forums.

The /r/fitness subreddit slowly elimated every organic thread in favour of daily megathreads, and then started to get confused when nobody wanted to participate in the subreddit anymore. They've started to relax the rules a little bit.