Reddit *used* to be amazing. Fucking amazing. Real free speech, interesting conversation, intelligent people, wide variety of viewpoints. Then Chairman Pao started banning subreddits- one of the two founders said "free speech is not a bug" which later inspired the site notabug.io . That was the beginning of the end and when a lot of us found voat, and later Poal would open up. Aside from bots, reddit has been caught strait up editing other peoples posts. I wouldn't doubt that they routinely just add upvotes directly, in addition to their admitted use of bots. Also, when they started pushing people out, it was only the extremists and people who valued free speech. I left because of the FPH ban, even though I don't hate fatties, and only went to that sub a few times. Free speech above all. What this inevitably does is shift the forum away from people on the extremes, people on the right, and free speech lovers. Then it becomes a self perpetuating feedback loop where the forum gets more and more left, prompting more left crazies to comment more unabashedly. Eventually they've gone so far left that they are openly calling for White genocide.