Both Reddit's admins and their future-employee mods are completely out of control, in a way that makes Facebook's intentional topic manipulation seem tame by comparison. These people go out of their way to ban people for no reason -- constantly, every single day -- in a way that can only be described as intentionally abusive. They appear to get some kind of sadistic pleasure in reading ban appeals and denying them, knowing full well that the bans are improper and the appeals are justified.
In fact, they make a point of not properly responding to reports of harassment (including the sexual proposition of minors), but they will permanently ban well-known and popular accounts that never broke a single rule. They'll even ban people directly out of spite, or because they disagree with you. There is nothing too petty for them.
They're even swindling advertisers in the most brazenly shameful way, and they've been banning live streamers to protect the lie[1].
Ultimately, Reddit's strategy is to simultaneously file their IPO and switch the design to be a TikTok clone with a web3 component attached to the awards system. They're going to tank rapidly, but it doesn't matter to them because they already got paid.
The bans were a way to prevent rocking the investor boat until the IPO, but they got caught up in it, and now it's going too far.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29574786
In fact, they make a point of not properly responding to reports of harassment (including the sexual proposition of minors), but they will permanently ban well-known and popular accounts that never broke a single rule. They'll even ban people directly out of spite, or because they disagree with you. There is nothing too petty for them.
They're even swindling advertisers in the most brazenly shameful way, and they've been banning live streamers to protect the lie[1].
Ultimately, Reddit's strategy is to simultaneously file their IPO and switch the design to be a TikTok clone with a web3 component attached to the awards system. They're going to tank rapidly, but it doesn't matter to them because they already got paid.
The bans were a way to prevent rocking the investor boat until the IPO, but they got caught up in it, and now it's going too far.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29574786