Some reasons not to use Reddit.com for anything

So after a frustrating, useless experience I will never be using Reddit.com again!

Here is what happened to me, and I felt I may as well post about it since I told them I would. I never make idle threats, so here is my post, for better or worse:

Reddit is the biggest piece of garbage website ever. I’m so annoyed with them right now that I am trying hard not to use profanity in this post. I LOVE profanity. I don’t care what anyone says: it can be very powerful to make points with. I actually recommend it in your writing since people ask me that. My suggestion is this: use it as needed and have it fit any specific characters or circumstances. Don’t just drop F bombs for the sake of doing so.

Anyway, here is why I restraining myself (and I didn’t do so with their poor but useless moderators, Kitsy and Ducky-O (or whatever his name was, I honestly don’t remember).

For those of you who don’t know, Reddit.com has a BOOK section. You have to sign up for their site to post. This was a reasonable but still time-consuming process. I went ahead and did all that.

I then went to post something in books: they allow a section for links and a section for text. THe site itself looks like something out of the 1980′s too. I don’t know why they don’t have an image upload setting to combine with the posts, but they don’t – at least none I could find.

Anyway, so I finally create a post and published it after I created my account. I was rather excited to hopefully promote my newest book, Shamblers, on another venue. As soon as I posted, I got an email from them. It read something like “you’re new so you can’t post, please wait 24 hours.”

I was like…ok -if you say so? It didn’t really make any sense to me though, isn’t that the reason you have people signup for your site? For the privilege of posting? But you still make them wait? As if I have time between my other marketing, social media, and regular life stuff to do this too? Okay, whatever Reddit.

I returned to them a week later when I remembered them. I posted again. This time, I got “shadowbanned!” WOOOO! Sounds spooky! I was informed that I can’t put links to Amazon. Okay, so you have BOOKS but people can’t link to actual books? And they can’t self-promote (I learned there was a self promote link later).

I emailed the moderator back to request I be re-instated. It seemed a bit extreme that after 1 post I was totally banned..of the shadow variety at that! I got a snarky reply back. I then told them what they could do, and where they could go, and what I thought of them and their site: and I let the profanity fly. They had earned it at that point.

I was then told that my attitude wasn’t helping and they may not reinstate me. WHOA…big man, Duck72 or whatever your name was. As if it mattered to me at this point? I told him not to bother, I wouldn’t be back, and I’d put a post just like this so people everyone could learn that Reddit.com is a useless, crappy site with horrible policies and a general waste of time.

So if you want a monotonous experience and a useless forum with a bunch of clowns moderating it who think they’re important, go to Reddit.com

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