Originally Posted by cordoba

I had fairly good conversions from Reddit. The problem is it's so easy to spend a lot of effort building up a subreddit only for it to get banned over some stupid reason (in my case, apparently because I didn't open a message, 'proving' that I was a spammer). Also, Reddit allows the subreddit to be taken over (eventually anyway) by somebody else. I'm sure one of mine, that was actually high up in Google, had a malicious complaint by a rival, and not only was the subreddit locked but my profile was banned (and they do ip banning now). A couple of months later I saw that my subreddit, that I had put a lot of effort into promoting, had been taken over by a rival.