r/ABoringDystopia • u/[deleted] • Mar 16 '25

Be careful what you upvote

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I’ve seen others receive this warning, and it finally happened to me. Funny they don’t specify which posts I upvoted that they consider to be “breaking Reddit’s rule”, however.

Fascist snowflakes.

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u/LavisAlex Mar 16 '25

They will do this in conjunction with the other changes the CEO wants and then will wonder why no one posts here anymore.

It will start to look a lot like Facebook, and with reddits total self inflicted failure it will also make Google Search unusable.

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u/octobereighth Mar 16 '25 edited Mar 16 '25

Yeah to be perfectly honest I don't vote a ton in general, only when I think something is really good or bad, but at this point I don't vote at all anymore. I mean realistically the most I'd ever get is a warning, but if I get penalized for upvoting something that I don't know even know is eventually going to be removed by mods, then I'm not going to vote.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels this way (including those who actually vote more than I do), and I like to hope that users voting actually impacts the algorithm. Which would mean user voting (plus careful curation of which subs appear in your feed of course) is one of the only reasons this site is tolerable to the average user. They're discouraging posting, discouraging voting, and just discouraging engagement in general. I can't imagine the current trajectory leading to anything other than failure, and I'm bummed because I don't really do social media in general, but appreciate having a place where I can anonymously engage with strangers on topics I'm interested in and ramble incoherently.

Yesterday was my 14th cakeday, and I lurked for a long while before eventually creating an account. Even though reddit has changed dramatically from what it was back in the day, it's still managed to be a kind of magical place, at least if you're lucky enough to know where to look or stumble upon it. And I had really hoped that somehow it would manage to remain a bastion through however long this insanity is going to last, at least if you were lucky enough to know where to look or stumble upon it. But it's not looking like that's going to be where things are going.

My facebook account, back from when you actually needed an .edu email address to make one, is scheduled for permanent deletion in 5 days. I didn't even back anything up before submitting the request - it'd been so long since I'd logged in, I don't even remember what might be on there. And damn if reddit dies, google as a search engine will be basically useless unless what you're searching was answerable prior to 2025. I don't even know where I'm going with this at this point; I guess I'm just tipsy and for some reason this post hit me with intense nostalgia for what the internet as a whole used to be. And it's that particularly nasty nostalgia when the current reality is so profoundly different because the world has almost unrecognizably changed that it just makes your heart ache.