Reddit is a failed social media platform

reaaski · May 10, 2022

moonshine7000 said:
You can make money on Reddit but they got a lot of anti-câptilists on that site that is why set my moderation on my subbreddits to very high.They are jealous of people making money and they hate the rich they also want to eat the rich also

Communism is hard there. jk

Gogol · May 10, 2022

bartosimpsonio said:
I've been critical of Reddit before, but this time I'm pretty much convinced they're a failed platform.

For reasons. Among them:

Up and down voting brigades are rampant on popular subs

You can easily fool their system and how exactly it's done is all over the place

The political bias is just too blatant. There's not even an attempt to keep it subtle

Their user base has no purchasing power (get to front page and see how it converts)

The concept of user-moderated communities is a tragedy (their concept of benevolent moderators sucks)

Just thinking out loud here.

I kinda think Reddit's pretty much bound to fail in the long run. What say you?

I kinda agree with this. Have seen the same in my country’s community. I have been burned multiple times for speaking the truth, just bcoz it did not match their theory/opinion. I don’t really care coz then I can just post a picture of a cute pussy, and my karma is back. I dunno if I could call reddit “failed”, but it is toxic for sure.

2DHades · May 10, 2022

For a website that big, their collective buying power is definitely low for some reason... The traffic of the network is notorious for its low quality, but often the quantity is larger.

reaaski · May 10, 2022

2DHades said:
For a website that big, their collective buying power is definitely low for some reason... The traffic of the network is notorious for its low quality, but often the quantity is larger.

Yeah. I post a random post there and 200 views is almost guaranteed.

nakamura · May 10, 2022

Btw. Reddit is probably the best place ever if you are the type of person who always wants to please others and always says what others want to hear. This gets you instant karma

Surfer420 · May 10, 2022

Remember one business owner saying all their marketing activities on reddit mostly brought them freeloaders with almost 0 paying clients.

Looks like it is best for onlyfans type of girls advertising on subreddits to boost their followers count.

NoNonsense · May 10, 2022

I guess spamming crap doesn't convert that good on Reddit. I don't agree it's far-left though, maybe you see it that way if you come from a rural area.

But yes, ads don't convert as well.

reaaski · May 10, 2022

Surfer420 said:
Remember one business owner saying all their marketing activities on reddit mostly brought them freeloaders with almost 0 paying clients.

Looks like it is best for onlyfans type of girls advertising on subreddits to boost their followers count.

Here's a realistic scenario for Reddit.
1000 sign-ups for trial. 0 renewals and only new abusive sign-ups for trial. Meh.

moonshine7000 · May 10, 2022

reaaski said:
Here's a realistic scenario for Reddit.
1000 sign-ups for trial. 0 renewals and only new abusive sign-ups for trial. Meh.

One of the called me a "scammer" for promoting products on Amazon.

montequila · May 10, 2022

I think Reddit is best social media platform

neilarmstrong1 · May 10, 2022

bartosimpsonio said:
I've been critical of Reddit before, but this time I'm pretty much convinced they're a failed platform.

For reasons. Among them:

Up and down voting brigades are rampant on popular subs

You can easily fool their system and how exactly it's done is all over the place

The political bias is just too blatant. There's not even an attempt to keep it subtle

Their user base has no purchasing power (get to front page and see how it converts)

The concept of user-moderated communities is a tragedy (their concept of benevolent moderators sucks)

Just thinking out loud here.

I kinda think Reddit's pretty much bound to fail in the long run. What say you?

the reddit moderator issue is a huge factor in this. If I recall correctly it was like 92 of the top 400 subreddits are run by the same 5 people. This is done way more but just goes to show how badly the power is divided. The moderators fucking suck and want to feel power thus creating this puppet show in a lot of subreddits.

Alexion · May 10, 2022

It really depends from sub to sub, as in REAAALLY depends.

Here's a recent example.

Managed to get close to 30,000 visitors from one post on /r/gadgets. Adsense total income for that stream alone: $280

A few days later, decided to try out /r/hardware. Managed to get 25,000 visitors from one post. Adsense total income for that stream alone: $30

I said what the hell, something must have been wrong on my side. I checked analytics, and for /r/hardware, the bounce rate and swell time were pure cancer.

Of course, in both cases, my posts were deleted shortly after because of a 10% self-promotion rule I wasn't aware of.

PHPInjected · May 10, 2022

K-One said:
Not true. If you feel a site as big as reddit is ‘failed’, then maybe it’s not for you.

As for the Draconian measures by the mods, maybe that comes, at least in part from higher up the chain of command. If I was the Mod for a sub with 1 million + members, i’m not going to risk any penalty just for one or two members, ‘right to free speech’.

The admin are the real aholes on reddit. If you stir up a sub which happens to be overlooked by an admin too, that’s when you get banned. And they don’t give a shit how many awards you got or karma you racked up... talking from experience.

Playing devil's advocate just to do it or inflate the post count? Because the draconian methods by the mods are well documented, so there's no 'maybe' about it.

Penalties don't happen like that on subreddits and it takes some effort to get your subreddit banned.

pocketttt · May 10, 2022

I make alot money by promoting stuff on reddit, so i like

Usamak · May 10, 2022

reddit is the only one that actually has moderators & admins enforcing that nonsense.

karteek666 · May 10, 2022

Reddit is actually good , where facebook twitter has not much quality content you can find it on reddit

HoNeYBiRD · May 10, 2022

Is it a social media site though? It always striked me more like as a forum, a discussion board.

I don't visit it too often, pretty much only when it comes up at top for a search query. It has the same purpose as Quora for me.

xReminisce · May 10, 2022

Reddit is fulled with degenerate speds who are high off moderating powers.
It's a place where, you are encoruaged to be a sheep or you get downvoted or harassed to oblivion.
It's what the world is trying to enforce on the population, so in a way, it's not really a failure.

HenryObi · May 10, 2022

Scorpion Ghost said:
dont know. Is the internet bound to become just blog posts and marketplaces? Thats depressing.

Everyone wants to make money from home.

HustleTong · May 10, 2022

Even weirder, moderators that act like everyone's a threat

Reddit is a failed social media platform

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