>>40796175Reddit has three problems:
1) Vote system.
2) User accounts.
3) Users can make their own forums.
The problem with 1) is that it leads to echo chambers. Yes /pol/ is slanted to the right, but we still have plenty of people from all over the spectrum. Their voices aren't stifled; their posts aren't hidden. They can post and it will bump the thread to the top of the catalog no different than any other thread. In fact, because contrary posts tend to get more (You)s than agreement posts, posting something against the grain tends to give your post a HIGHER chance of being seen.
The problem with 2) is that once users have an account and history they can be dismissed or acclaimed for who they are and not the content of their post. You post X, someone checks your history and says "oh I see at one point you said Y so your current opinion is invalid." Highly rated user123 posts something and everyone circle jerks "oh it's user123, he's important, let's venerate him regardless of if this post was actually good." Also if your score is based on people liking your posts it feeds back into 1) where it becomes an echo chamber. You echo the current sentiment instead of speaking your mind, just to farm points.
The problem with 3) is that it splinters the community. You get down voted enough and you break off to form your own echo chamber, but this just gets rid of discussion. Again, here on /pol/ we put everyone in the same room and they're forced to argue with each other. On a place like reddit all sides partition themselves off and circle jerk. The few people who go to visit their neighbor are voted down and they quickly realize the error of trying to have a discussion.
Basically reddit as a forum is set up to discourage free speech and discussion. As a forum's sole use is to act as a medium for discussion, it fails at its primary goal. That is why I hate reddit.
