Why is reddit so wank?

[Freinddilemma]

Wheel of death when you try and join s sub.

If you manage to join a sub and try to make a post, 9/10 it gets rejected for [read miniscule small print for this specific sub]

Oh, and: you cant just read shit on your browser. You have to use their shitty app that doesnt work (see above).

Why is reddit so anally retentive? Its such an uptight platform

Depends what subs you join I guess. No issues here. And only use my browser - never the app.

There’s a couple of subs on Reddit about MN, one take the piss out of certain posts

The point that every thread on here needs to have at least one person shoe horn something in about it....

There's good info there but the UX is dreadful. Honestly I think usenet was as good as it got.

Not to be confused with AskBrits sub which is very right wing and full of Reform/Restore/Facebook users. You can tell as they post using emojis (this is frowned upon on Reddit).

I did get a 3 day ban once but it was an error misinterpreting my words. They use auto-moderation and certain words are banned.

I deleted the App after too many pointless arguments on sub reddits I thought would be light-hearted. The trans activists seem to derail a lot of discussions. Or did ...been ages since I was on it.

But I sometimes get redirected there after googling how to fix a leaky tap or whatever! Good in that way in fairness.

The UKDIY sub is brilliant! Loads of knowledgeable and helpful people to guide you through the process of fixing something yourself.

There are some great book subs,

explain to me like I’m 5,

I’m out of the loop on this recent thing so please give me the background,

there are generic fitness and targeted fitness subs

lots of kind of mental health/becoming a better person type subs

dating

some subs have very few rules and some of them you have to be seriously knowledgeable and basically professor standard and have to back up your answers,

some of them are small and it’s the same few people posting so friendships are created

some publicising the fantastic work done by the US dna testing to identify decades old found bodies

and some are wank.

Overall I give it 9.7/10.

And you can manipulate on each sub the order you see the new posts, newest first, most engaged with first, best this week/month/year/ever. Each post and individual comment can be upvoted or downvoted.

There was one woman renovating her house via that sub - here’s my hallway, I need this and that fixing so how do I do it? Followed by progression posts, then ‘I finished the hallway, I need help with the kitchen’. It was great to watch.