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5 Reasons Why I Hate Reddit

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4 pointsOkolosov5 comments

I would love to know which subreddits the author was frequenting. My experience is completely different. I'm not saying there aren't kids just trolling or bashing, but they are a minority. 5.8k karma points in 12 months despite the occasional "downvote storm" on some of my comments.

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Main reason I hate Reddit:

1: Every time I [stupidly] click on a link to Reddit on my phone, it pops up a dialogue asking me if I want to install their app or continue to view the site in Chrome. Every bloody time, for however many years I've had a mobile phone and have [stupidly] clicked on a link to Reddit, I've had to click on the 'Continue in Chrome' button to see the page. Most of the time I avoid clicking on anything that links to Reddit, it's got so annoying.

What part of "Stop fucking asking me. I don't fucking want your fucking app!" do they not understand?

I agree with this sentiment. I used to be a Reddit user. With my Reddit account and my Reddit app. I say used, because I too, grew tired of the constant, aggressive, innecessary nagging trying to push me to install the app. I already have the app. Let me just read this short post in peace. I don't want to open it in the app. I want to read it here and now, and then close the browser.

But since they decided that I don't align with their business plan, I had to close my account and stop using Reddit completely.

I once got banned from a subreddit (a subreddit that I had never been aware of as being in existence) for merely commenting on a picture of an Iron Lung, saying that I hadn't seen one of those for about 60 years.

Know why I was banned? Apparently the picture on the Front Page of Reddit, where I had seen it, was the thumbnail of an article in one of the pro-Trump subreddits.

That over-enthusiastic censorship was one reason that I decided to withdraw from Reddit.

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