The Secret To Winning The Game of Reddit

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It's not mentioned in the article, but people need to understand that the most useful Reddit content, the content that shows the most insight and practical knowledge, is often the least upvoted. Upvoted content, and educational content, are almost but not quite orthogonal.

I left Reddit after a forum moderator contacted me privately and threatened me with banning if I didn't adopt his views on a controversial science topic (and one about which he was clearly wrong). It was an outrageous gangster tactic and abuse of moderator power, and as soon as I realized there was no remedy, as soon as I realized that I wouldn't be able to speak freely, I stopped posting to Reddit.

More here: http://arachnoid.com/psychology/reddit_psychology.html

When I found the site a few years ago it was all dandy.

Now you can blatantly tell the power users are getting paid to censor certain information in the biggest subreddits. Not only that but the power users are seriously creating 20+ accounts each in order to keep it that way.

Unless the reddit admins actually take a seriously look at whats going on with the power users reddit is done for within another year or so

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