Why is Reddit so toxic and full of pessimistic people?

The short answer: the voting system, the obvious abuse of moderator power, as well as the inevitable circlejerking emerging in subreddits are ...

Yeah, it's likely unhappy people come here to let their frustration out. In fact I think vast majority of people (including me) who are often ...

It depends on the subreddit but there is a lot of negativity on here in general. It just reminds me of how many people there are out there who ...

The reason people are more negative on Reddit is because they have unresolved psychological issues and poorly managed mental health issues, and ...

A lot of the opinions i see on here would be a minority in real life, but you see it quite a lot, and they often end up highly upvoted, if not ...

It's full of people posting complete nonsense, but you cannot explain things to them, if you do, they attack you. I had one person go ...

Because optimistic people don't waste time on reddit. They're out there in the stream of life.

It's no fun, but people feel like they need to label themselves somehow and they make assumptions about themselves based on the garbage they see ...

I realized that people would literally just post extremely negative things that weren't helpful at all. People would just assume things and jump ...

" The upvote/downvote system tends to bury the most toxic people. I ... Your average redditor is a very pessimistic person. Upvote 1

Most subreddits are now run by the same group of people who rule like petty tyrants over their fiefdom. Those same people will then threaten ...

I think the karma system adds to this. Reddit is almost like a giant confirmation bias machine - people down vote what they disagree with, not ...

Reddit is EXTREMELY Toxic.... Reddit used to be a place where people could talk about anything. BUT SOMETHING CHANGED.

At some point it's a mental bandwidth thing- we are not equipped to understand scale/space on a platform of millions of people. So we compress ...

How can a community critique and improve itself if it doesn't do so objectively? Perhaps people are afraid of the backlash that would result ...

I always think it's a bit silly when there is a post asking for personal opinions (such as: “What is your least favorite food?”) and then people ...

I still love Reddit despite it being a toxic negative place full of amateurs that keep on posting 'how do I get started?'. Because people ...

I barely started the AMA on Reddit before the troll brigade arrived. They quickly overtook the page with bad faith “questions”, gotchas, twisted ...

In the Reddit forums, people post long descriptions of family ... But toxic people “are very bad people with good moments. They're not ...

It's because we don't matter to eachother. People say it's anonymity but I don't think that's actually what is happening.