Ok I know the title is weirdly said but I will explain more here. I tried using reddit but all of the subs and topics I wanted to speak on were gated by Karma, so I searched reddit for no karma sub so I just posted on ask reddit,nostupid questions and I made one post on r/advice which I cross posted to relationship advice after which my account glitched. Turned out I had been shadow banned and I have no clue how. My theory is I posted to much and copy and pasting a post tripped the alarm but the post was a bit different on relationship advice and I did it once, I saw reddit from like youtube videos and tiktok and people cross post to subs all the time why is that an issue ?

But to get to the main ponint of this, why is reddit run the way it is ? In the sense why do they ask so much of their users hurting both the user expirience and the site’s ability to grow. The Karma system forces you into a position where to get to the content you want you have to interact with and post content you don’t care about.So you have a ton of disengaged user’s just punching their time card to get to what they actually care about. Imagine if other social media sites did this, imagine if you wanted to listen to sabrina carpenter on spotify but to do that you had to listen to 100 hours of Conway Twitty, what sense does that make ?

Reddit’s karma and age gate systems resemble a mobile game and while annoying when it’s done there you understand why it’s designed to get you to pay to skip it, but reddit doesn’t let you pay to skip it at east not directly.

Every other social media site wants to get users the content they want as easy as possible. TikTok is the best example the reason it’s popular is because it’s the best at getting you what you want with as little work required on your part as possible. The for you page fetches you videos your interested in, if your a creator the format of the app increases your chance of being seen and going viral.

Reddit on the other hand leaves so much of the user experience up to weather or not your post on ask reddt go gets upvotes or if you happen to know if a good sub with a karma limit since subs do not disclose their karma limit

Again for the last time, why ? Even from a selfish business standpoint this seemingly makes no sense so what am I missing

    • IloveyouMF@lemmy.worldOP
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      3 days ago

      Thanks for the reply

      though I fail to see how the karma system makes them money.

      the only thing I can think of is maybe it’s an attempt to artificially increase how much time you post on the site.

      To me it’s like business charging to use the bathroom, the reason they don’t is because for every dollar they make from people paying they lose money from people boycotting the business on principle.

      Again to use my spotify example would spotify be successful if it forced you to listen to artist you didn’t care about to listen to the music you want to hear ? “I know you want to listen to the Lana Del Ray but first you have to listen to 1 hour of Limp Bizkit”

      For very one user that sucks it up and uses the site anyway they likely lose people who don’t want to deal with it or are like me and get blocked from using the site.

      Again if it was all about money why can’y you pay to skip it ?

      Also it creates post friction since people are scared to wreck their karma so there is that.