Reddit is still in turmoil

Post by RubyPinch » Fri, Jul 22, 2016, 10:19 AM UTC

intoverflow2 wrote: post #249

The main problem with Reddit is the users dishonesty to themselves. Ask a reddit user why they like reddit they'll probably mumble something about AMAs. Then visit /r/all and a completely different picture will be painted for you as the sites most popular content is a mixture of pornography, racist jokes passed off as being subversive and political ranting.

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jul 22, 2016, 10:20 AM UTC

jules wrote: post #236

rmc wrote: post #213

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"right wing" or "far right wing". Remember we're talking about literal neo-nazis here, not just Conservatives.

That's not how it goes in practice. The fact that the people in that twitter thread endorse antifa shows that they are either ignorant of what antifa actually is (as opposed to what it claims to be), or they endorse an organisation that is more fascist than the fascists it purports to fight.

Post by Asooka » Fri, Jul 22, 2016, 10:28 AM UTC

gallonofmilk wrote: post #199

beefsack wrote: post #23

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> If there is a lesson in this, it is that online communities which plan to implement anti-harassment policies ought to do so from the beginning, and develop the expectation among the users that such policies exist, and will continue to exist. A few relatively popular programming languages have begun publishing official community code of conduct documents[1][2]. While initially I thought it was a bit overreaching, I…

there is an inherent trade off though. would reddit have ever become so big and popular if it had enforced a strict conduct policy from day 1? many of the early users of reddit were not necessarily the mainstream "good" users that eventually came post-digg. it can be a distraction to focus on that early on when what's most important is user adoption...

Post by liotier » Fri, Jul 22, 2016, 10:33 AM UTC

adevine wrote: post #145

empath75 wrote: post #104

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Reddit's main problem is that they spent years building their user base as a site to find 'jailbait' porn (it was by far the largest search result that brought people to Reddit for a long time). That created a toxic culture, which allowed stormfront and similar groups to use it as a recruitment ground for racists. Reddit still refuses to do anything about it. The 'quarantined' a bunch of truly vile subreddits but all…

This isn't how I remember the culture years ago. I looked at reddit every now and then, but I really came over six years ago during the big Digg v4 revolt when Digg fucked up their site. At the time, I remember being really impressed how many of the comments on reddit were more personally supportive, which I rarely saw elsewhere - for example, I learned a ton from r/fitness back then. Yes, there were the more odious…

Post by Asooka » Fri, Jul 22, 2016, 10:38 AM UTC

tzs wrote: post #82

vertex-four wrote: post #38

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The issue isn't really the amount of asshats. In the physical world, it's generally really unlikely that you'll get more than a couple of particularly egregious asshats with similar beliefs in the same place. When you do, it's often a news story. Online, just as people with good intentions can find each other, people with bad ones can find each other and band together. In other words, the unmoderated Internet is an a…

> Online, just as people with good intentions can find each other, people with bad ones can find each other and band together. Yup. Besides egregious asshats, it has greatly helped conspiracy theorists to get together, fringe religious groups to get together, and fringe political groups to get together. > In other words, the unmoderated Internet is an amplification device for small groups of people who might otherwis…