Why Reddit is Collapsing: The Coming Reddit Crisis

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Reddit blackout today has caused the the website to cease function. And with reddit going public this brought up questions on how reddit as a business will continue in the future. As the reddit blackout and reddit protest is slowing down reddit by reddit mods.

[FrozenSpark]

Imagine how amazing reddit would have been if Aaron Swartz was still alive and in charge. Spez is a clown.

[justsegal]

It's kinda sad, because Reddit could have been something truly great... But no, they had to go down such an awful path.

[lmn]

Reddit is now the definition of "When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say."

[ObviousRises]

Just so people know Spez was also the moderator for r/jailbait, he basically participated on the spreading of illegal material and grooming minors. Just want people to know this.

[focusedonfuture]

Reddit has been crap for years.

The users and power mods made it a hell hole and heaven forbid you go against the hive mind.

The second Soez admitted to using admin power to edit people’s comments it was over.

Why would any person of influence post there on an AMA only to risk the owner changing the comments after the fact.

The second that happened the site was dead.

[joancollins]

Glad to see Aaron Swartz hasn’t been forgotten. A genius who was a brilliant mind with a good moral compass.

[calculateddeclination]

Reddit's shutdown is also proving how terrible search websites like google, yahoo, etc., truly are. Every time i searched for something reddit was always top of the search with the answers i seeked. Meanwhile, every other selection was basically useless, pointless information.

[beetleinthebottle]

Everyone says they’re for free speech until someone with an opposing opinion uses free speech.
Edit: damn, someone MENTIONING racism in the replies freaked some of you out. Maybe don’t call someone triggered when you’re the one who is replying over and over again to someone? To me, the people who got triggered is pretty obvious. One assertion of belief made some of you create at least five angry replies. That’s a little pathetic

[zackhep]

Reddit is full of the biggest pessimists of all time. Everyone there is a 'victim' when They are their Own Problem. It used to be good, now it's just pathetic

[artfulandtricky]

Very true. Reddit lost its charm and integrity when it went ballistic with its censorship policies. Not anymore a platform where people can share their honest opinions and thoughts

[StarlightNkyra]

I like how the internet was made to be a place where you can share what you want with the world, then corporate greed pokes at it to create revenue where it really shouldn't be made, and years, years later we get to a point where some of the worst examples of greed on the internet are slowly decorperateizing and drowning from their corruption of an amazing place.

[chiefenumclaw]

The front-page of Reddit is anything but organic. You see what they want you to see. It's no different than turning on the nightly "news."

[onemoreguyonline]

Ya know, this is like the fourth video I've seen about this dumpster fire, but I've only heard one person say the tough pill - stop using the site. Stop voting with your digital dollar by using the site.

[SkipperMacky]

I tried reddit once.. my post got picked over by mods (it was just a non offensive general post about ghosts) and then I found out I couldn't engage with users without 'karma' .. the level of snobbery and "post power" totalitarian-like behaviour was disgraceful. Fk Reddit.

[chypshi]

Reddit Moderators is what I imagine enforcement agents of the U.S.S.R must have been like. Absolutely vile people.

[shoopdawoopvi]

Im so sorry Aaron, you didn't deserve to be trampled by greed

[eeshsinger]

I'll be honest, I have mixed feelings about the whole Reddit shutdown. For one, I'll be sad if reddit dies cuz it's a place for me to educate myself and entertain too but, the positive notes are at least the cancer of reddit is destroyed and everybody's free from it. Funny story: I've tried to point out that the Karma system is like the Chinese social credit system and I was censored for it.

[rockinbobokkin]

Frankly, I never liked Twitter, and at a friend's suggestion, I tried Reddit....and honestly, I think it's just as toxic, but with more words. All the fake outrage, political division over inconsequential issues, fantasies and conspiracy theories treated like true abd valid realities ....abuse, power trips.... it's everything that sucks about the internet, without being Facebook.

[DarisT-qcfw]

Reddit hasn't been fun for a while now. The popular posts and r/all seem to be just from people who are perpetually offended.

[miniioe]

Reddit people are judgey. Can't ask a question without being downvoted or something to attack you