Three years ago I was quite active on Reddit – at least for a while, until I realized just how manipulated it became. I’m not really holding it against reddit, the same happens on Digg and probably on all similar sites – nothing new here, you’ve probably read all this a thousand times, so I won’t be the 1001st 🙂
Suffice to say, I reduced my activity level, but occasionally still found interesting items I voted up or down there. Hack, I even broke Reddit – or that’s what it said.
Then it broke me. A few months ago I noticed I could no longer log in with my usual credentials. No reason to worry, that’s what password recovery is for:
Oops.. “no email for that user” – I don’t exist. Reddit killed me 🙁 Except it’s not really true. Reddit still knows me as a user:
Still no reason to panic – that’s what support is for. Or so I thought. Most of the support links require logging in, which I obviously could not do, but eventually I found a feedback form, which I duly filled out – and am waiting for a response ever since.
As a last resort I tweeted up @reddit – but as it turns out that’s not a real Twitter presence for Reddit – it’s just a marketing bot that reposts popular reddit entries.
End of story… and I don’t really care. I’m quite happy with StumbleUpon instead.
(Cross-posted @ CloudAve )
Cambrian House, the poster-boys of Crowdsourcing are essentially dead – assets being sold in a garage sale for a fraction of what investors put in. 
Digg competitor Reddit has been unhealthy lately. Yesterday it spent all day in read-only mode citing a database update which would be completed in a a few hours. Today it appears to be back, but it does not accept my login credentials. No worries, that’s what password recovery is for – except on Reddit, where it returns a 
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