Reddit gives too many tools for people with no lives like the voting system, the subreddit system and the ability to create infinite alternative accounts to turn the medium into the "game of Reddit" that they then "win". Which of course comes at the price of losing in real life. These neckbeards prefer to organize on off of Reddit persistent chat venues like irc, slackchat or discord to game the rules of the medium. Brigading and doxxing are only punished on the site, which means only normal users are penalized effectively, because the neckbeards are constantly discussing Reddit on these persistent chat mediums and creating cliques of online friends. The more successful of these neckbeards parlay this even into moderating alot of subreddits, and the super neckbeards eventually through these "online frienships" mod an appalling amount of popular subreddits.
I came across this after noticing that I was constantly downvoted on /r/vegan viciously often well below the viewing threshold for innocuous posts. I eventually notice that I had a circle of very vocal enemies, who despite writing what I thought were idiocies, they were eerily rewarded with lots of karma for the standards of that sub for writing bone-headed myths. For a long time I wondered why that was. According to my karma breakdown I am at -100 karma for /r/vegan, but that stops counting at -100, so I am even further in the black. Even I realized my circle of enemies were posting to /r/vegancirclejerk(where I have -78 karma). An aside: as a 35 year old I remember the pre-Reddit internet where the type of stupid puns, unfunny jokes and trouble-making seen on circlejerk subs would get one banned from a discussion forum for turning the place into a soap opera. Even on /r/vegancirclejerk I noticed they created a thread linking to their irc channel and a web-based irc applet. So I joined and found my enemy clique discussing about me, brigading to threads I created, brigading to threads they created, threads others created.
Here are some screenshots I snapped back then:
https://www.reddit.com/r/redditsucks/comments/354hd9/whitewashing_fairy_tale_narrative_about_10_years/
Now if you look at the screenshots, pay attention to two usernames: /u/justin_timeforcake and /u/DrGalactus. Back then 2 years ago, both were not mods of /r/vegan but today they have "experience pointed" all that online friend making into becoming mods of /r/vegan. Later I will try to prove that with archive.org links...
This is a pattern repeated all over Reddit, if you are just a normal Redditor that does not go onto irc, slackchat and discord you are like a second class poster with all the tools of mayhem Reddit allows. You can easily be silenced like I was in the past and continue to be, being banished below the viewing threshold. But if you are a neckeard or super neckbeard abusing persistent chat you can write idiocies, stupid opinions, and be catapulted to moderator dozens or over a hundred subredits and be as capricious as possible and "win the game of Reddit". Indeed Reddit's idiot staff not only knows about this stilted dynamic, they care to it as revealed when the media investigated the ruckus that /r/the_donald caused:
Gizmodo: Reddit Is Tearing Itself Apart
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Reddit’s Cozy Relationship With The_Donald
... a Reddit spokesperson, who did not wish to be identified by name, told Gizmodo in a phone call. ... “The [moderator teams of /r/the_donald] that I’ve been involved with for the last six months or so, we’ve actually had a very close working relationship with. We share a Discord channel with them—their private chat. It’s been highly responsive when we need to ask them to take things down that are probably rule violations,” Reddit contended.* ...
If Centipede Central is the chat Reddit is referring to—a chat room within the Slack-like Discord program, the one linked in the sidebar of The_Donald and one of the largest servers on Discord—its users have encouraged the harassment of other moderators, artificially inflated the vote count on posts, ...
So there you have it, Reddit staff also advantage those super neckbeards by allowing them to create havoc on Reddit as long as they organize it off of Reddit, and they still will co-ordinate with them. Did the Reddit lightbulb staff ever consider investing their time with, say regular users and their user experience instead of catering to the tens of thousands of neckbeards and super neckbeards that ruin Reddit by turning it into the "game of Reddit"?
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