every month I round up the cards I post to reddit, see what their karma scores are, and then check if there's anything notable in the feedback.
Reddit is fucking awful.
Redditors don't comment usefully on cards, despite being heavily invested. I have had three different cards this year get enormous sprawling threads of angry hateful people posting at me about how I'm a bad designer or I don't understand basic concepts, because they misunderstand the rules of the game.
When I post cards that are less than pushed to competitive modern environments, I get responses from fucking idiots who think the cards are underpowered and therefore bad. When I post cards that are meant to be pushed because they're meant to be special, I get attacked for making overpowered cards, often by people who don't even fucking pay attention to what they're saying.
"When you combine this with three planeswalkers, it's really powerful," well fuckidee doo I wonder if there's anything else in that sentence you just said that's important to consider.
"This card doesn't work the way you think it does," no, it does, it doesn't work the way you think I think it works because you didn't read the card.
"Why would I run this as a commander when three people could all lightning bolt me out of the game instantly," it's for casual commander, talk to your friends.
Then there's the commafucker comments, the rules nitpick comments from someone who is often wrong and the obtuse sneering of people saying I don't take feedback. I do! I don't take bad feedback and because it's a subreddit with rules about politeness, I don't feel it's appropriate to tell you to fuck off and stop being a tiresome chore! You are not contributing, you are anti-contributing!
I will probably keep posting there, because it's a habit, but as far as positive feedback for things I do on the internet, this year's card has been a reminder that:
- They don't want people making commons, like they claim
- They don't care about the actual project of daily posting
- They don't like me, personally and don't want me to feel comfortable there
