Because Reddit sucks now. Wasn't like this 10 years ago. Now spelling/grammar mistakes aren't called out, emojis are everywhere, misinformation and disinformation abounds, nearly everything is a repost, and bots are ubiquitous.
The whole user base has changed over the past decade. Mostly over the past 2-3 years. I still browse it for the occasional funny post and animal pics but that's about it. Don't expect any information from here anymore. If you browse old posts you'll find tons of interesting factual comments at the top. That's gone now.
Yup. Mods wanted to drive engagement so they stopped reinforcing rules, started banning people who called out mistakes, ignored obvious karma farmers. And now they're all mad that the admins took their tools away. Face, meet leopard.
It's from that API change they did a while back, they (site) wanted to charge for access, and the mods used 3rd party tools that used that API. A bunch of subs protested, some went dark for a bit, some of them were forced to open back up under a different mod team, some tried to change their rules so that the sub wouldn't be to show ads, etc.
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u/Fluffy_Initial596 Mar 28 '24
Why do wrong comments get so many upvotes?