Does anyone else realize that this website is broken?

Let's forget the "censorship" narrative for a couple of quick seconds and consider these recurring themes in your posts:

  • Repeated downvotes for speaking your mind.

  • Your posts being deleted.

  • Being removed from communities based on the content of your posts.

  • Admins taking steps to remove you and your friends from the website.

With these in mind, ask this question:

  • As a wholly privately-owned website, are you entitled to full reign of reddit?

In 2013, reddit accounted for six percent of all Internet traffic. Hiveminds exist (as they always do), but the site is overall quite diverse. Liberals, Libertarians, It's Always Sunny fans, cat lovers, dog lovers, SJWs, white supremacists... too many groups to count. It sounds like everywhere you go on this enormous site--regardless of the sub-community, you experience repeated problems.

Why does this really keep happening to you?

Here's two possibilities:

  • Reddit is broken. It's a censorship bonanza. SJWs keep downvoting your posts and getting you banned. The admins are conspiring against you. This site should be a hub of free, uncensored speech--but the powers that be are conspiring to suppress that speech. You are being pushed out of your home on reddit by stricter rules, cheating algorithms and vengeful feminists.

  • It's you. Your posts are upsetting. You never actually want an honest discussion--only the right to complain that there is no such thing here. Strangely enough, it's not your views--it's your attitude. It is possible to state your views in a way that isn't inherently upsetting to people. You can disagree with SJWs in a productive way that doesn't condescend your fellow redditors, after all. I've posted quite a few anti-SJW posts in /r/Negareddit (a generally feminist sub). Nothing has happened to me.

I hope, for your own interest, that you honestly consider what I have said here. If you must accuse me of being someone I am not (like your friend has done to /u/drunkferret), that is fine. Five downvotes isn't the difference between a bad and a good day for /u/GORGATRON2012.

You, on the other hand, have a lot to think about.

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