I've read reddit for years, but I got sick of just looking at the regular front page and whatever people linked me, and finally signed up for an account so I could collect all my favorite subreddit topics and stop going directly to the links.
Week one, I felt like I was in livejournal land all over again. I loved the anonymity, and I felt like I was returning to a place where I belonged. I was semi-doxxed and chased away from Slashdot, someone replied with links to all of my online presence and the university I was attending on every single comment I posted.
Week two, I was still finding subreddits to add to my subscriptions, the level of specificity was excellent, while not surprising. I commented a little, and posted an actual personal response I thought might actually help someone, which they messaged me after and said it was helpful.
Week three was more of the same. I commented a few times, played grammar police on some heavily down voted posts.
Week four, I finally decided to post my first thing. I've been trying to build clientele, and I was trying to legitimately ask a question. I was trying to downplay the self promotion while also explaining what I do and what I've already done. Right now I'm sitting at three up and five down votes, and I'm really bummed out about it. What did I do wrong? Nothing.
I don't know why I'm disappointed, I shouldn't have felt like I belonged and somehow had found somewhere that would embrace me just... 'cause.
It's just people on the internet, like everywhere else.
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