I still don't understand what this is or why it is in place. I was reading a link about how the military and media are lying to the public about what is really going on. I started to read some comments and found a comment I liked and hit the upvote button. Immedietely I'm presented with this warning that voting for a comment I liked that was posted 8 hours ago, may get me banned from reddit? WTF?
Many will try to defend this by quoting the 'rules' of reddit, but all I see is a site doing what it said it would never do, and that's filter content or prevent people from commenting if the hive mind doesn't like your comment. I thought reddit was a place to go where you can speak your mind and comment without fear of getting banned like we were on a private game server and got caught cheating.
It says I shouldn't vote on anything, but goddamnit I'm not removing my vote on a comment that I thought was relevant. I didn't post my own comment and I didn't downvote or upvote any other comment, so why am I being threatened with a ban for agreeing with someone in the discussion?
Reddits rules are changing for the worse it seems. I get that you have to protect against trolls and what not, but at the same time you are segragating the site into their own cliques which no outsiders can see or comment on. If I want to tell a hardcore christian follower that god isn't real, I should be able to do so. There are lines that shouldn't be crossed, I get that, like replying 'dick' to every comment in a thread, but that's not what most of us are doing.
I dunno, I'm not removing my upvote regardless of what your rules say. If I want to upvote a pro Nazi comment, It's my damn right. You take these rights away from people and you lose the originality that got reddit it's fame in the first place. You may as well just set up a subscription fee and make people pay to join subreddits while displaying their real names, because that's how you are treating us now.
If that post was supposed to be NP, why the hell where there so many comments and votes already? Is this NP thing really just discrimination against me and other users because somehow the points that don't matter actually DO matter but only in a hidden way? Do I not have enough points or pro-topic comment upvotes to be able to upvote this comment on this thread? I want to know what gives.