/r/CTH was litearlly 100% of my Reddit usage for about a year pre-ban and I'm a proud leftist that's read theory.

Yesterday, I spent a few hours expressing my own personal doubts that re-electing Trump would benefit the left. I went to bed around 3AM my time and at that time most of my replies where positively upvoted. When I woke up everything was downvoted harshly.

I would have lost about 500 karma overnight and likely been shadow banned if this was Reddit. I was met with really sardonic replies that I frankly assumed we reserved for people that weren't allies. I can take whatever you dish, but people dipping their toes here will be almost immediately turned off.

I've been on Reddit since it started (quite literally) and it went though a lot of the same growing pains. It was an echo chamber at first -- and while we can't know for certain what Reddit does anymore w.r.t. it's algorithm to discourage that -- at the beginning it was at least universally accepted that as long as a Redditor engaged in good faith you would take it in good faith and debate.

Being unnecessarily sardonic to allies in your own camp is just fucking stupid.