<human>: Can you give me the gist of the text in a nutshell?

Reddit is weird. I mean, I guess I'm just not used to it anymore. I used to have an account here and I had like thousands and thousands in karma (I know points mean jack shit lol, but having karma means people are actively approving of what you're saying). But I stopped coming here for a while because the community started to feel kinda toxic and full of circle-jerkulular motions. 

Now I'm back (boredom of course) and basically I've changed a lot and don't feel like filtering my comments anymore. I mean, it's supposed to be a free discussion zone right? Say whatever you want. But not really. I mean, when I treat comments that way I'm always met with open disapproval. I never post anything offensive, but I'm always met with annoyance. Call out someone for saying something I find sexist? Twenty people jump down your throat, defending the other poster. 

None of this matters, really, but it's kind of sad to see that people's default setting is 'disapproval - unless it makes me laugh or intrigues me.' Maybe it simply has to do with reddit's voting system, which forces a person to say either 'yes' or 'no' to something. I guess now that I'm older this website just seems so incredibly childish. 25 people dislike a comment? The comment is hidden from view. Nothing wrong with that in theory, since it weeds out rude or unecessary comments.. But in practice what it *really* means is that every comment is a gamble, catering to the popularity game for visibility. I suppose my problem is that I stopped caring about the game, and subsequently fell very far out of reddit's favor. While I don't really care if I get downvoted into the millionth negative, what's the point contributing to a conversation where you are silenced by disagreement of the majority? Where's the fun in that?
<bot>: since losing motivation to play the popularity game, reddit has become a platform i can no longer speak from and has subsequently lost all interest for me. meh.. i am going to take another break from this site i think