# Is it just me or is Reddit not worth the trouble of actually posting to (they make it non-easy to become a regular user)

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Your ignorance and irrational antipathy about reddit is well established.

> [@How is the SDMB different from/superior to/inferior to Reddit?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-the-sdmb-different-from-superior-to-inferior-to-reddit/1016573/23):
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> Reddit is mostly adolescent young men who rarely leave their room in the basement unless they run out of Cheetos. Almost exclusivley young men. It is also a very bot driven site. Most new posts will be about politics. Driven by bots. Any post that contradict the popular attitude of the day will be voted off the page and never seen. Most of the first page is political and driven by the bots. Unless you find a sub-Reddit of your own personal intrests it is a waste of time. Facebook for the young…

There is a wealth of good information in there about every conceivable subject. The hobbyist subreddits (not all of them) are usually fantastic and welcoming to beginners. So are the support groups for people with various rare disorders. Ditto for the ones about local news and happenings (in my maybe limited experience). One those ones people definitely know each other and have meetups and are generally well moderated.

The larger subreddits like /politics are certainly like that but that is a small fraction of reddit.

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