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Reddit is really hard to post in as a new user. If you have no reputation on a sub it's very common to get all your posts deleted, even for perfectly on topic and relevant posts
That was my experience. I think it's still undecided whether sats alone are enough to solve the problem of users who have no reputation/karma/history, but it might be.
I don't think we can quite extrapolate the SN to the Reddit experience just yet. But I'd say SN is about as active as a mid tier subreddit, yet we're operating just fine using sats as the moderator
Although new users on SN don't get explicitly blocked, I do observe them having a hard time getting engagement. But that's partly coz we've been inundated with bots and it's hard to tell who's a genuine new user and who's a bot
I think I stumbled upon SN in 2022 and made my comment a few months later then came back a few months later in 2023
What helps is creating a 'bio' or profile... I was surprised by the welcome reception or orientation
You are right, it is difficult for a new user to break through
@freetx discovered Reddit in the early days
He has some great stories about Reddit
I have since realized that my error was posting in r/bitcoin with a fresh account. Back earlier in my Bitcoin journey, I thought it would be interesting to post some guides I had written there. I had never used reddit before, so I created an account and posted. It got one of these auto-shadowbans that r/bitcoin has. I'm sure they get so overwhelmed with spam and shit posts that they have gated the entire subreddit to accounts that have at least some karma. I did some research and learned that I probably needed to warm my account up posting on things like r/houseplants or whatever. Lost interest after that.
(although, I did try again more recently when I wanted to do some research on r/buttcoin and buttcoiners:
I did eventually manage to get a post up in r/buttcoin, but it took a long time and a bunch of stupidity like the mods auto-deleting my post, but some people still being able read it and respond, but then I couldn't respond to those people because I had been automatically banned or something.)
Reddit is the mess it is because they've opted for superuser moderators. Maybe that's the best method we had (prior to SN), but humans can only do so much and when a new user wants to post on a super popular board, the only way to defend the long-standing active users (who really are the core of the community) is to shadowban. Otherwise, I assume the wall of bots and spam degrades the experience for everyone.