Who here uses Reddit for their startup?

We experimented with Reddit for quite some time and to be honest we found the experience lacking for many reasons. 1/ Post views were sometimes evidently artificially inflated as suggested by many other users as well. 2/Subreddits rules can sometimes be non friendly against marketing attempts or even attempts to discuss a product which is not ours or being promoted 3/ Certain moderators abuse their roles and decipher the Subreddits rules in favor of certain members (they ban specific posts that adhere to the rules and allow others that clearly violate them). When we confronted them, they insulted us and silenced our chat for few days 4/ You need to be very active and build relations by investing lots of time, if your post is to attract attention. I found out that posts in "hot" section are usually posted by the same well established members 5/ Likes have been offset by unknown user downvotes all the time. The issue here is that whenever a like was registered, it was immediately offset by a downvote leading to a zero likes to downvote ratio (we inquired about this and received no reply) To be fair, few years ago we received much more feedback, likes and interactions in our posts. Therefore there may be some new community practices or changes in rules. Or maybe the subreddits we chose were not appropriate. In any case, these are our observations and thoughts. We would of course give Reddit a chance in the future/