So, this is a bit of a rant.

I dislike reddit A LOT and most people probably know this by now. I cannot stand down-vote systems as they are abused by seemingly everyone, and can really annoy you when you have something to say and people who are trolling downvote you, but that's not my main issue.

My main issue is people who go around shouting "errr downvote for blogspam!" and things like that. And people who DEMAND "original source plzzz no blogspam".

Reddit itself is just one big library of Link Spam, that's all reddit is, links to everyone else's content and they monetize that with adverts and premium subscriptions, so people who go around telling people off for what they call "blogspam" seems a bit backwards when the website itself is designed around it.

The main issue is this: I post a lot of articles that are short, most of them simply informing people that something is happening with a few words about it of my thoughts.
If websites like mine didn't exist with those types of articles, then how would anyone find out about anything? No one is going to have 999,999,999 billion bookmarks they check everyday for new content really now are they?

So, what is the problem with giving credit where it is due? Take our Crytek article for example, very little content, but it is getting the word out.
Now, imagine if no one knew who they where but me. If I posted it to reddit I would get everyone shouting "BLOG SPAM, LINK TO ORIGINAL SOURCE, DOWNVOTE!", yet I am the one who researched it and let everyone know about it. Yet I would get no credit because I didn't link to the original source directly.

All other websites (well, decent ones!), give credit when they do an article from another source. So why can't reddit?

There, rant pretty much over. Reddit is just a link spam directory, anyone who shouts at people for "blogspam" are just contradicting fools.

I still take part in redditing though of course, it's like a forbidden love.