HEL M.

My original Reddit profile was HelMort. It was quite old, beloved by followers, and significant for the community, but it got banned. Why? As always, moderators decided to ban me and others, condemning me forever over a simple question of abuse of authority.

I commented on a video, suggesting that the people in it should face consequences from the police to learn a lesson. These young guys happened to be African American, so my comment was deemed racist. In the video, a group of young people looted an Apple store. When Apple blocked their devices, they reacted by laughing, throwing them on the floor, kicking them, spitting on them, urinating on them, and spitting up some juice. Below the video, there were thousands of comments from people totally disappointed, and many like me got banned forever. We expressed extreme disgust for people who steal in the face of others who work hard to obtain a technological device, not because they were African Americans. I'm not racist at all. I believe that regardless of a person's skin color, everyone is just like me – another person deserving respect only for doing good and bad things.

After many years on Reddit, I can say with 100% certainty that there's a significant problem with moderators. Mods abuse their powers and have specific political views, personally attacking and banning people for their amusement. If you attempt to make a post about transgender people, American minorities, or LGBT individuals, you'll get a guaranteed ban. Even using "female" instead of "woman" will get you banned. If mods don't like the color of your cat in your shared pic, you'll be banned. It's totally random.

If you don't believe me, try posting something similar yourself, including positive content, and you'll get a 100% guaranteed ban and post removed after seconds in many subs. Alternatively, check the most famous posts about any topic to see thousands of deleted comments and banned users. In the first months of Reddit, long ago, this platform was about free speech. But the truth is that it's not. Every time you try to write, for example, in "asks" or post in other subreddits dedicated to dialogues, your posts always get closed. In 70% of the cases where you get a ban, you don't even know why. Trying to reach the mods for help or to understand why you were banned is a 100% sure ban from the entire platform because you can't protest.

Another important thing to consider is that mods are clearly leftists and don't permit any posts about right politics like Republicans, etc. The funny part is that I'm a leftist and European, but I find all of this disgusting because not allowing the other side to talk is an attack on democracy. I believe in political free speech. What's happening on Reddit about politics is not okay, and it's extremely dangerous. Reddit can be very dangerous for the next presidential American elections because it risks politically indoctrinating people only to one side.

We must also consider the dark side of Reddit. In over three years on Reddit, I've received daily private messages from scammers of all kinds, messages from sexual perverts asking disgusting stuff, and comments that are 99% toxic, aggressive, and violent reactions to questions like "What food can I choose for my dog?" with responses like "I don't give a f. About your dog." If you're happy about a movie, people write stuff like "I hate enthusiasm, you should die." Not to mention the constant abuse of downvotes, where people downvote whatever you write or share that isn't a dumb viral video. I even tried to share my art and give a chance to the artists to be for free in my art gallery in London to help them with their career, but thousands of artists downvoted and attacked me in the comments, so if you have a business, don't try to invest on Reddit because users do all their best to ruin it. It's basically impossible to get attention unless you share some hentai anime characters; 90% of Reddit is pure porn. Porn subs are everywhere.

In a nutshell, Reddit is the most disgusting social platform I've ever experienced. It's like a cult where a few people think like a hive mind, writing as if they're the same person, excluding whatever is considered dangerous enough to question their feudal lifestyle and creepy Soviet mindset. Reddit is the top of the worst.

Obviously, there are some good people around, and some subreddits are born with good intentions, but they're a minority and usually get closed, and these people leave. Reddit is the most toxic social platform currently present on the play store.

I tried to contact Reddit help many times for my issues, but they never answered.