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What was your best and worst experience on Reddit? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by vis4valentine@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Tell the best experience or interaction you had on Reddit, and the worst one.

The best for me would be when r/egg_irl helped me realize I was in fact, not cis. Or when r/aspiememes helped me comprehend that my psychologist at the time was wrong. The worst one would be every single time I had to deal with powertriping mods or when I had to fight the rampant transphobia in the platform.

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[–] Vlyn@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Gated communities on Reddit suck.

A thread hits /r/all, you type out a long comment in reply to someone, hit send.. then get an automod message that your comment was denied. Because you aren't part of that subreddit, or you aren't verified in that subreddit.

Probably the worst example was /r/blackpeopletwitter. They have open threads where you can talk with people. Then at some point they lock down their threads (make it verified black users only) and your next comment in a chain of replies simply gets nuked. Even though you had a civil discussion and just wanted to continue it.

Often those threads aren't even about race, just general things happening. Reddit has shitty support to lock things down where the UI doesn't get greyed out. So you already type a long reply, hit send and only then you get kicked out. I had to block several of those subreddits because I kept running into this issue when browsing /r/all.