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[Murcielago]

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[The Last Kingdom]

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[Girl Meets World]

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So I jointed Reddit recently. In a subreddit for my city, there are a bunch of threads from local people asking for recommendations for various businesses. On one of them I shared my recommendation, and gave a bit of detail about the company and my experience/history with them, which was positive. I got a bunch of downvotes, and someone commented that I must work for them. I said no, just that I'd had really good experiences with them in the past and was trying to be helpful. THAT got downvoted too. None of the other comments, that just stated names of businesses and no details, had negative votes. The OP of the post replied to me, though, thanking me and saying my comment was helpful.

I figure since I'm new to Reddit I must've broken some unspoken rule, hence the downvotes, but I'm not sure what it could be. Is it frowned upon to give details when people ask for recommendations? I figured it was okay, since in a previous comment (I've only made a few) I wrote a fairly long repsonse and got some upvotes. But now I'm kind of afraid of posting more just because I don't want to do anything wrong and piss people off. Anyone have any insight on what I did wrong?

I'm not a huge reddit person but imo they were just being assholes.

Reddit occasionally does get posts written by the employees of a product. I mostly hang out in video game areas and that has happened before.

My suggestion would be to read other posts that have positive reviews with high upvotes and see if there is a big difference between tone or writing style in your OP.

There is a pretty substantial subset of redditors who are uber-paranoid about 'shills' and go batshit anytime they think they spot marketing on the website. See /r/hailcorporate (maybe it's hail_corporate, I'm not sure). To be fair, companies have legitimately used reddit accounts to attempt subtle advertizing, but the way so many assume anyone having a positive experience with a company is just paid to promote them is frustrating as all hell.

I'm sorry you had a bad experience so early on in your time there. Some corners of the site are filled with more obnoxious people, some with less...and unfortunately, there's often no good way to know which until you spend enough time there.

Above people have covered it pretty well. The upvote/downvote system is a blessing and a curse. You will inadvertently (and possibly unjustifiably) piss people off on multiple occasions, so try not to pay too much attention to your comment karma.

I say this without a hint of sarcasm;

Welcome to Reddit. r/movies is worse.

I'd guess it was probably just the way you worded your post that set off alarm bells. Company/product shills are VERY common nowadays and so people are very cynical, especially of local business reviews. As a general rule, when I give reviews about businesses I try to be very informal and use slang, leave in spelling mistakes, whatever.

Don't let it put you off posting again. The OP thanked you, and a lot of people will still read and take into account even downvoted posts.

I'm not sure how familiar you are with the 'net culture on a site like Reddit, but it's very different from tumblr, LJ/DW, or other fan-dominated places. People on Reddit (and SA, the various -chans, etc.) tend to have a much more aggressive style of interaction. That includes being much quicker to upvote/downvote, criticize, demand verification, etc. Overall it can feel very intimidating when you first join, but you shouldn't let it drive you away. It just takes a little while to adjust to the difference in atmosphere.

It might be because you ARE new - if you haven't posted anything at all (people can see the comment posting history on your account) and your very first comments are jumping in to praise some business, people might have mistaken you for an employee (who signed up purely to advertise their product). There are some businesses (and spambots) that do that, so people get paranoid about that kind of thing from new accounts.

Edited 2015-12-16 03:59 (UTC)

Redditors can be a suspicious, cynical bunch. It was likely the combination of you being a new account and your positive comments about a specific business that led people to think you're a shill. Stick around, have some activity in your comments, and people will probably relax.

nah, people on reddit can just be dicks for no reason tbh

don't get too caught up in what gets upvoted or downvoted and just discuss stuff as you wish, is my advice

Weirdly, I was recently reading a thread about underwater earphones where a rep from a company apparently replied and their comments received very positive responses. They mentioned upfront who they were though.

It's probably because they were open about being a rep. I don't think people really have a problem with reps or creators talking about their product, it's when they pretend to be customers that people get pissed.

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