Not even help communities on Reddit are safe. I can’t post a comment pointing out a bug I’m currently experiencing, in a bug thread, without somebody voting that…my bug report doesn’t contribute to the conversation? Or something? Because that’s what the downvote button is supposed to be for, last I knew. Even though most people use it just to disagree with or troll each other. And I can’t understand why somebody would “disagree” that I’m currently experiencing a bug on the site. So…
(Never mind that somebody else pointed out that exact same bug shortly after and was upvoted…)
If this is what it’s like just trying to get help for something that’s broken, then forget actually trying to INTERACT with other users in chatty subreddits devoted to one’s interests or just socializing. I have no photo posted there–no way, no how. So my personality must be so repulsive that nothing I say can possibly contribute to any conversation. If I’m not getting downvoted, then threads die as soon as I comment in them. Either way, there’s no conversation, no positive social experience. Nothing but more anxiety, discouragement, and avoidance. Story of my life.
Reddit was one of the two communities left that I was participating in. The other, I haven’t posted in in almost two months, and nobody really cares. Nobody wants me on Reddit either, especially not the “foreveralone” crowd I should fit right in with, so…I’m posting this crap in an anonymous journal that nobody cares about, either.
I don’t know what else to do. It’s not like I have anyone to talk to IRL when I’m lonely and hurting.
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