Originally posted by MrMrMANGOMILKbut what i've experienced is that reddit is honestly the most civilized place i've ever been on the internet
lol, I've made quite the opposite experience. I've never got disliked anywhere as much as on Reddit. Once, I literally got downvoted just for asking if something was a glitch. Not even naming something a glitch, but just asking "is that a glitch or is it intended?". And the one time I actually DID call something a glitch, hell broke loose. Admittedly, the thing I had called a glitch turned out not to be one, but it was, in my opinion, quite a bad design decision and thus understandable for people to consider it a glitch. When people told me it wasn't one, I asked them for evidence because it simply didn't make sense to me and I was surprised, so I wanted more information. However, just like I had claimed said design element to be a glitch without much evidence, people kept claiming it wasn't one without ever showing any evidence, either. It took about twenty comments or so before someone finally did (pointing to some interview in some magazine or something like that). Of course at that point I was convinced and stopped claming anything. However, of course every single one of my comments in that thread got immediately downvoted. Even absolutely neutral ones where I didn't claim anything. Even the comment where I thanked that one commenter for providing some evidence. Heck, it didn't matter what I said at that point, people already hated me just for having a different opinion, and at that point, every single one of my comments was auto-downvote. It didn't matter what I say.
And that was one of my less crushing experiences on Reddit. For another thread of mine I was made to feel so guilty that I actually deleted the thread on the same day (based mostly on demands by commenters, I didn't even plan to delete it despite feeling horrible). While that one was more understandably my own fault, I got bashed over something rather trivial, which still baffles me. I talked about a horrible experience I had with GameStop which, to be absolutely fair here, did make me feel very betrayed by them. However, I carelessly decided to choose the wording "I feel assaulted", which I admit was neither a sensitive, nor a smart choie of words. However, the amount of hate I got based solely on this bad choice of words alone was way out of proportion. I mean, it was just something I kinda said without thinking about it too much. I wasn't aware some people actually could get offended by that. Comments I got were in a range from a somewhat tame "mimimi, get over it, it's just a game console" to a very harsh "delete your website" (that weren't the exact words, it did sound more threatening than that). Most commentors didn't even really care about any of the story at all, based solely on that one bad choice of words I made.
Needless to say, my experiences with Reddit haven't been the best. That doesn't mean I only had bad experiences with it. I also had a thread with around 800 upvotes where I showcased my Binding of Isaac mod, along with some other kinda nice moments. In my mind, the bad experiences outweigh the good ones, though. Reddit is a major part of the reason I'm absolutely opposed to having social media with negative feedback. Supporting likes is fine. Supporting dislikes is not, as it just makes for a hostile and uncomfortable environment.
My experiences with Twitter actually haven't been nearly as bad, though I'm also way more aware of my choice of words nowadays and post very little on Twitter, anyways (Nowadays, I generally avoid saying anything which could be missunderstood by anyone, anyways - we just know how these things usually go).
Feel free to visit my website/blog - it's updated rarely, but it looks pretty cool!