automod filters made reddit an absolute nightmare. pouring my heart out on the depression sub and getting it removed because it didn’t have 300 characters or it was image post saturday or god knows what. you basically just don’t get to post on any sizable sub — before it was at least a lottery! post, see if people will like it! but now you can’t even get a post through!
there are 50 automod filters on everything, forbidden words or topics, perfectly good questions cast away to megathreads no one reads!
it’s a dire, awful landscape, and really terrible user experience, having something on your chest and wanting to post, but oh hey this won’t be posted until our ‘mod team’ ‘reviews’ it. isn’t that what voting is for? please stop treating me like a spambot or troll by default!
There were a lot of arbitrary rules that would be easy to break like on AskReddit where if you included anything in the body, your post got removed. Or subs like AITA, TIL, etc. that required you to include AITA and TIL in the subject or your post got removed.
And then some of the rules were temporary, and you’d never know. Some subs outright banned any posts/comments that mentioned COVID at all, in any way.
yeah i never gave a shit about those subs, too popular to be fruitful to engage with.