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I got sick of the admin's crap. Nothing to do with any of the infamously banned subreddits (I actually don't like any of them personally, but have no problem being on the same site as long as I don't have to see their content), but the fact that the Reddit admins have become so complacent and refuse to actually try and improve their site. Examples:
Not letting subs decide what's best for their own sub (within site rules). Shadowbanning store reps for posting their stores in /r/gamedeals despite them following the sub's rules on transparency and being blessed by the sub's mods. People on the sub didn't care that they were posting their own deals because this interaction regularly got better deals during major sales. IIRC they did the same shit to the League of Legend Subreddit at one point.
Using a nebulous definition of "Doxxing" to bully "unflattering" subs. They consider posting a public tweet "personal information" and threatened to ban subs for it, causing people to have to post censored screenshots that are easily waved off as fake instead. I get trying to reduce doxxing, but a posting a public tweet with no malice intended is too far. Same with their vague accusations of "brigading". Vague, nebulous rules that are applied unequally is literally pulling page from China's censorship methods, getting people to self censor instead of having to do it publicly.
Being completely out of touch with the concerns of the users. The first above point is a good example, but there's also the whole AMA bullshit, shadowbanning actual people rather than only spammers (and not having any kind of disciplinary system beyond this for a decade+), allowing people to request and squat on subs in bad faith, etc. etc.
I could go on, but this comments is already too long, so I'll stop. Needless to say, Voat's admin's are far better than Reddit's in that they actually give a shit about the concerns of their user base, as seen in them using a custom advertising system (for privacy and performance) and implementing site-wide HTTPS in a few days rather than like the 8 or 9 years that it took Reddit.
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[–] PirateBear ago
I got sick of the admin's crap. Nothing to do with any of the infamously banned subreddits (I actually don't like any of them personally, but have no problem being on the same site as long as I don't have to see their content), but the fact that the Reddit admins have become so complacent and refuse to actually try and improve their site. Examples:
Not letting subs decide what's best for their own sub (within site rules). Shadowbanning store reps for posting their stores in /r/gamedeals despite them following the sub's rules on transparency and being blessed by the sub's mods. People on the sub didn't care that they were posting their own deals because this interaction regularly got better deals during major sales. IIRC they did the same shit to the League of Legend Subreddit at one point.
Using a nebulous definition of "Doxxing" to bully "unflattering" subs. They consider posting a public tweet "personal information" and threatened to ban subs for it, causing people to have to post censored screenshots that are easily waved off as fake instead. I get trying to reduce doxxing, but a posting a public tweet with no malice intended is too far. Same with their vague accusations of "brigading". Vague, nebulous rules that are applied unequally is literally pulling page from China's censorship methods, getting people to self censor instead of having to do it publicly.
Being completely out of touch with the concerns of the users. The first above point is a good example, but there's also the whole AMA bullshit, shadowbanning actual people rather than only spammers (and not having any kind of disciplinary system beyond this for a decade+), allowing people to request and squat on subs in bad faith, etc. etc.
I could go on, but this comments is already too long, so I'll stop. Needless to say, Voat's admin's are far better than Reddit's in that they actually give a shit about the concerns of their user base, as seen in them using a custom advertising system (for privacy and performance) and implementing site-wide HTTPS in a few days rather than like the 8 or 9 years that it took Reddit.