Three years ago I was quite active on Reddit – at least for a while, until I realized just how manipulated it became. I’m not really holding it against reddit, the same happens on Digg and probably on all similar sites – nothing new here, you’ve probably read all this a thousand times, so I won’t be the 1001st 🙂
Suffice to say, I reduced my activity level, but occasionally still found interesting items I voted up or down there. Hack, I even broke Reddit – or that’s what it said.
Then it broke me. A few months ago I noticed I could no longer log in with my usual credentials. No reason to worry, that’s what password recovery is for:
Oops.. “no email for that user” – I don’t exist. Reddit killed me 🙁 Except it’s not really true. Reddit still knows me as a user:
Still no reason to panic – that’s what support is for. Or so I thought. Most of the support links require logging in, which I obviously could not do, but eventually I found a feedback form, which I duly filled out – and am waiting for a response ever since.
As a last resort I tweeted up @reddit – but as it turns out that’s not a real Twitter presence for Reddit – it’s just a marketing bot that reposts popular reddit entries.
End of story… and I don’t really care. I’m quite happy with StumbleUpon instead.
wow looks like reddit has the same quality support as twitter!
it’s just amazing that these companies just seem to not care about support 🙁
I had issues with Reddit in the past. It took a while, but they were eventually resolved. I guess they’re probably overloaded with incoming mail.