When I first tried Reddit, I posted an article about gardening that I wrote on my blog. The rules said that you could do that. Just to be clear, it's a friendly gardening blog about permaculture and organic gardening and not what I would think the average person would consider to be a spam site. I figured that some people in the subreddit would find it useful, which is why I write articles on my hobby in the first place. The reaction was very surprising to me. It reminded me of the scene from the Omen when the monkeys started jumping on the car, only in this case they were giant nerds. I remember the first comment I got said something to the effect of "didn't read, but I hate these people who think lawns are bad." As an aside, my article had nothing to do with that and was not controversial at all. Anyway, if you didn't read it, why are you commenting on it?? Then I was told that I needed to comment on other posts and post other things I thought were interesting, so I did and got secretly banned. Secretly banned? When I checked to see what the more popular people were doing, I saw a lot of crazy racists posts and a lot of spam garbage everywhere. To boot, these folks think they are superior. I just don't get it at all. It was truly shocking.