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I look forward to hearing about the next website that will replace Reddit as the top news aggregate website. I have been around the internet long enough to know that no website stays at the top of the food chain forever. Especially when that website has lost focus on its own directive.
Reddit can be the front page of the internet as long as people feel comfortable with visiting on a regular basis. If you take away that comfort by banning Redditors for unannounced reasons, allowing serious conversations to be taken over by trolls and/or edge-lords, or allow a lack of inclusion to push people to the outside when your website thrives on everyone participating, you can surely bet that it won't be long before you fall from the top.
I can't say much for banning Redditors as I myself have been subjected to bans and I fought against them as much as I could until I was suspended from Reddit entirely for 3-days, (I'll leave that subject for another day). I can't single-handedly combat trolls and/or edge-lords and expect to make any real meaningful progress. That leaves me with one option. One that I have stumbled across during my time on Reddit. A lack of inclusion. One that shows a clear divide between the Administrators, Moderators, and the Redditors they rely on to enjoy their time visiting to operate at the level they are currently at.
The story I can tell to prove a lack of inclusion through Reddit starts shortly after my 3-day suspension had ended. I admitted defeat and did what the Administrators told me to do, ignore the moderation teams of r/news and r/inthenews and move on to other subreddits. I used a few RES (Reddit Enhancement Suite) features to do exactly that. I blocked all posts from those subreddits and to eliminate any contact with those subreddits for any other reason other than cross-posts that may show up on other subreddits.
Upon taking these actions, I noticed there was a Redditor that I had previously placed on my personal Reddit "blacklist" that had several contributions on the front page of r/all. They had earned over 14 thousand karma between three posts.
The original reason I had placed this Redditor on the blacklist was because they were posting content onto subreddits you would not expect them to normally visit judging by their Reddit history. For example, this person would say how much they were a dog lover and how much they hated cats, yet the majority of their posts the following day would be cat videos across cat-related subreddits. As long as it got them the karma they craved, they didn't seem to care.
Upon further investigation, this Redditor had millions of karma points and over ten years of Reddit gold amassed but, registered their account with Reddit merely 4 years ago. It shows that Reddit doesn't mind this person breaking some rules, as long as they can rely on them to post quality content at certain times to bring others to the site, why would they stop this person from bringing advertisement revenue to their website?
How does this person break the rules? This is a person who falls into one of the following columns of breaking "Reddiquette". They are addicted to Reddit and visit on a daily basis to get their fix of karma by spam posting unoriginal content at times of high traffic for their own gains, or they are using additional add-ons to post selective pre-screened links at the times of high traffic to maximize their karma collecting, or they are abusing what Reddit is supposed to be for their own pleasure and exposing Reddit Administrators and Moderators for what they are, the gatekeepers to the cool kids table. If you're not contributing to the site like this particular Redditor is, they don't want you around as often.
Keep in mind this Redditor isn't breaking any real rules but, if Reddit continues to allow one person to be pushed to the top while banning others for similar reasons, who would want to continue to be a part of a community like that?
Reddit can be the front page of the internet as long as people feel comfortable with visiting on a regular basis. If you take away that comfort by banning Redditors for unannounced reasons, allowing serious conversations to be taken over by trolls and/or edge-lords, or allow a lack of inclusion to push people to the outside when your website thrives on everyone participating, you can surely bet that it won't be long before you fall from the top.
I can't say much for banning Redditors as I myself have been subjected to bans and I fought against them as much as I could until I was suspended from Reddit entirely for 3-days, (I'll leave that subject for another day). I can't single-handedly combat trolls and/or edge-lords and expect to make any real meaningful progress. That leaves me with one option. One that I have stumbled across during my time on Reddit. A lack of inclusion. One that shows a clear divide between the Administrators, Moderators, and the Redditors they rely on to enjoy their time visiting to operate at the level they are currently at.
The story I can tell to prove a lack of inclusion through Reddit starts shortly after my 3-day suspension had ended. I admitted defeat and did what the Administrators told me to do, ignore the moderation teams of r/news and r/inthenews and move on to other subreddits. I used a few RES (Reddit Enhancement Suite) features to do exactly that. I blocked all posts from those subreddits and to eliminate any contact with those subreddits for any other reason other than cross-posts that may show up on other subreddits.
Upon taking these actions, I noticed there was a Redditor that I had previously placed on my personal Reddit "blacklist" that had several contributions on the front page of r/all. They had earned over 14 thousand karma between three posts.
The original reason I had placed this Redditor on the blacklist was because they were posting content onto subreddits you would not expect them to normally visit judging by their Reddit history. For example, this person would say how much they were a dog lover and how much they hated cats, yet the majority of their posts the following day would be cat videos across cat-related subreddits. As long as it got them the karma they craved, they didn't seem to care.
Upon further investigation, this Redditor had millions of karma points and over ten years of Reddit gold amassed but, registered their account with Reddit merely 4 years ago. It shows that Reddit doesn't mind this person breaking some rules, as long as they can rely on them to post quality content at certain times to bring others to the site, why would they stop this person from bringing advertisement revenue to their website?
How does this person break the rules? This is a person who falls into one of the following columns of breaking "Reddiquette". They are addicted to Reddit and visit on a daily basis to get their fix of karma by spam posting unoriginal content at times of high traffic for their own gains, or they are using additional add-ons to post selective pre-screened links at the times of high traffic to maximize their karma collecting, or they are abusing what Reddit is supposed to be for their own pleasure and exposing Reddit Administrators and Moderators for what they are, the gatekeepers to the cool kids table. If you're not contributing to the site like this particular Redditor is, they don't want you around as often.
Keep in mind this Redditor isn't breaking any real rules but, if Reddit continues to allow one person to be pushed to the top while banning others for similar reasons, who would want to continue to be a part of a community like that?
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