u/santient

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My account's votes have stopped persisting across Reddit.

I can post and comment normally, but when I upvote or downvote recent, unlocked content, the vote does not have any effect. In some cases, it disappears completely after refreshing. In other cases, the arrow remains selected but the displayed score does not change after refreshing. In every case, my votes have not once changed the tally on any post or comment. This occurs across multiple subreddits and regardless of platform, on both desktop and mobile.

The problem began suddenly around a week ago. Could an admin please check whether there is an account-level restriction or a backend issue affecting my voting state?

My account's votes have stopped persisting across Reddit.

I can post and comment normally, but when I upvote or downvote recent, unlocked content, the vote does not have any effect. In some cases, it disappears completely after refreshing. In other cases, the arrow remains selected but the displayed score does not change after refreshing. In every case, my votes have not once changed the tally on any post or comment. This occurs across multiple subreddits and regardless of platform, on both desktop and mobile.

The problem began suddenly around a week ago. Could an admin please check whether there is an account-level restriction or a backend issue affecting my voting state?

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I know Reddit has always had a combative tone. I'm not trying to claim there was ever some golden age where everyone was charitable and thoughtful.

But lately I've noticed what feels like an increase in the baseline level of hostility across the site, not just in one subreddit. More threads seem to turn into dunking, bad-faith readings, pile-ons, moralizing, a snarky reply at every opportunity.

I'm curious whether other long-time users have noticed the same thing. Whether there's any evidence for a platform-wide shift in norms, or if this is mostly nostalgia / selection bias / subreddit choice.

For people who have used Reddit for years: does the overall tone feel noticeably more hostile lately, even compared to Reddit's usual level of snark and argument? If so, when did you start noticing it, and what do you think changed?

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