Not only this, but I honestly do not understand how people can spend all day here and never stop brigading/dismissing opposing views. Don't people get bored of being miserable all day, not opening up to dissenting views? I have honestly nearly come to the conclusion more than once that either there is an impressive AI bot driving a lot of the discussion throughout here, or there is an army of underage kids who don't have a grasp on actual politics or digital discussion.

Either way, when someone new decides to jump on here and contribute this is nearly how it always goes:

• They sign up, realize that there is a karma restriction on most channels
• They go to participate to get their karma up, and immediately get brigaded by snarky power users that pick up community rules or whatever else they can find
• The new user now has negative karma, can't contribute in much of anything now, and has to still deal with a mob of neck beards

Reddit needs an overhaul ASAP.