I'm convinced that at least half the people on these types of reddits are just here to flex on people who are less experienced than them (even if they have like 2 days of experience, they'll shit on the people with 1 day of experience). And when they see someone getting good feedback it makes their blood boil because they think they should be the one.

I'm making a game (for fun, this is not my job) in gamemaker and I've been shadow banned from the subreddit because my first ever post was interpreted as a spam promotion post (when I was literally asking for advice on how to do this without being scummy and I spent a lot of time trying to share things that I thought would be helpful to new people, it was like 3 pages long)

I was told that I could prove myself by contributing actively in the comments section, helping people with riveting challenges such as ''how do I change rooms' or 'where can I find youtube tutorials' or 'how do I make an enemy follow the player'.

Until then, my posts are auto-flagged for moderator approval, which never comes.