I don't know how I would internet without it.

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Monday, September 9th, 2013 8:44am PDT - promote requested by Lann.

This video is highly inaccurate if you understand the banning process at reddit. The site does in fact have "editors" and they ban your account. The video acts like reddit is whatever people want it to be, but that's false. It's whatever the admins want it to be. Trust me, I've been banned.

So, its like videosift for more than videos;)

Reddit has moderators/admins...moderators/admins can ban your account.

"Editors" in the context of this video would be people who decide what stories they think are important and belong on the front page...the way most traditional news source websites have editors.

Hahaha

Try to post too many stories that they don't think are important, and they control it at the source and ban you. Not exactly my idea of an "open" site that many people believe Reddit to be. The flow should be controlled by up and down votes, not single admins that simply say "nope".

Don't get me started on how they try to promote their site as a "social" site, when there is a heavy dark line that prevents you from posting "whatever you want". That line is controlled by people behind the scenes. Basically, the site has censorship, and doesn't want you to know that it has censorship.

Way to take something out of context. Bravo. If I was banned for a legitimate reason, I can see how it seems funny. But being banned for submitting too much, and you start to understand that I know exactly what I'm taking about.

It is perfectly open, you are free to create your own sub-reddit and manage it however you please.

Open doesn't mean that every part of the site needs to cater to you, the point is people have the opportunity to do what they want, it doesn't mean there are no consequences.

The core of Linux is open source, you can do just about anything you want on your fork of Linux but it doesn't mean you can do whatever you want in the Ubuntu fork of Linux, that one is heavily moderated and that's their chosen path.

People know exactly what Reddit is, we simply didn't get butthurt over some likely trivial matter to set us on a crusade against it. If you want to not sound petty, feel free to share with us what you were trying to post and where you trying to post it. Then we can form an opinion of our own, as right now, we're just taking your bias word that you were wronged.

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