We Need to Talk About Reddit

[SirCadsimar]

Eghhh, there's bad and good, but the bad is really frikkin' bad.

Edited December 2 by SirCadsimar

[ScytheBearer]

Ever notice how the most innocuous post gets downvoted and wonder "Now why did THAT get down votes?"  It's the Internet Hate Mob.  Here is how they work.

Post or comment something someone doesn't like, or say something nice about someone which the Internet Hate Mob loves to hate, or just disagree with someone.  The folks (read members of the Internet Hate Mob) who feel inclined will launch your profile and "follow you" so they get notified whenever you post again.  After receiving the notification, they go to the post/comment and down vote it.  No reason, no reading, just you posted something and they down vote it out of spite or hatred.

And they never stop.  Further, once they are following you, disabling followers doesn't help.  You're already on their list.

And it gets worse.  I found this practice documented on r/SkyrimMods almost a decade ago.  It was shared to help people harass a particular mod author which the Internet Hate Mob (even the Internet Hate Mob members here on NexusMods) love to hate.  So the practice seems to be encouraged by the moderators of some subreddits.  Ain't that just the nicest thing?

The ONLY viable solution is to just walk away.  Don't delete the account, just give reddit the big wiggly waggly middle finger and turn our back to them. 

And people wonder why mod makers don't like "non curated" mod rating systems.  The same system used by the Internet Hate Mob on Reddit for bulk down votes would work on NexusMods.  And "the reddit" system is exactly what the vociferous Internet Hate Mob wants on NexusMods as a way to harass mod makers they don't like. 

EDIT:  the Internet Hate Mob does this same thing to YouTube channels, and any "social media" platform with anonymous voting.  Facebook, Twitter, etc are not immune from the Internet Hate Mob.

Edited December 10 by ScytheBearer
Added additional infomation on the Internet Hate Mob and fixed some of my lousy typing.

[AlienSlof]

Wow, how sad some people are to go to so much effort just to spread hate. Never gone near reddit and a good thing too. Sounds like the biggest pile of BS ever.

Some very sad people around.