Reddit CEO Cracks Down on Abusive Content to Protect Users, Attract Advertisers
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Re: Reddit CEO Cracks Down on Abusive Content to Protect Users, Attract Advertisers
#2When your business model is advertisement based, this is the inevitable outcome. The users are the product, and advertisers are the customer. Furthermore, non-government entities are under no legal obligation to protect speech in most jurisdictions.
Re: Reddit CEO Cracks Down on Abusive Content to Protect Users, Attract Advertisers
#3And from what I understand, it's been quite effective, too [1]. It seems that removing abusive communities basically reduces the amount of abusive content overall, because there's one less community where that content is acceptable to share. So not as much of a "spillover effect" as feared, which is good news.
[1] http://comp.social.gatech.edu/papers/cscw18-chand-hate.pdf
Re: Reddit CEO Cracks Down on Abusive Content to Protect Users, Attract Advertisers
#4Yah, except they're hosting /r/The_Donald which has been confirmed to violate Reddit rules. Just like Twitter they cherry pick for $$$.
Re: Reddit CEO Cracks Down on Abusive Content to Protect Users, Attract Advertisers
#5Someone needs to put a stop to this bad meme... On social media, advertising is not an endorsement of the content. This might be the case for traditional media, but social media is different. Advertisers and platforms need to recognize the difference, to accept the lack of control over user-generated content as a feature, and to push back on unfair criticism. But perhaps their real goal is increasing their control over social media content.
Re: Reddit CEO Cracks Down on Abusive Content to Protect Users, Attract Advertisers
#6So what are reasonable Reddit alternatives that don't act as outlets of banned subreddits? Once you start banning stuff left and right, it's a slippery slope, making large groups of population feel weird/forcing them to learned hopelessness. It would be better instead to train some ML for content classification, then set user preferences about what triggers them, and then warn users that some submission might disturb them, requiring additional click to see the content in question. There ML would be just a helper, not sole arbiter-of-truth, and even an imprecise one won't have a stifling effect on free speech.
Of course, if Reddit owners/investors feel they need to fully submit to requirements of their advertisers, there is little they can do, and should just max profit and see if they can survive with a lot less "love" from their users.
Re: Reddit CEO Cracks Down on Abusive Content to Protect Users, Attract Advertisers
#7Someone needs to put a stop to this bad meme... On social media, advertising is not an endorsement of the content. This might be the case for traditional media, but social media is different. Advertisers and platforms need to recognize the difference, to accept the lack of control over user-generated content as a feature, and to push back on unfair criticism. But perhaps their real goal is increasing their control ov…
I don't see why it's not an endorsement. Money changed hands. The content of reddit's many forums is well known. No one is blind to this.
"I didn't give the killer money for a knife, I bought him lunch!"
Re: Reddit CEO Cracks Down on Abusive Content to Protect Users, Attract Advertisers
#8I would love to see a statement from Reddit/Twitter... explicitly stating that they will remain politically neutral. There’s certainly content that should legally be taken down, there’s probably content that isn’t advertising friendly and could be taken down. It seems like these companies are being very slanted in their evaluation of the latter category. Basically right leaning = bad, left leaning = good. All I want is impartial.
Re: Reddit CEO Cracks Down on Abusive Content to Protect Users, Attract Advertisers
#9Yah, except they're hosting /r/The_Donald which has been confirmed to violate Reddit rules. Just like Twitter they cherry pick for $$$.
At least you know what you get when you visit /r/The_Donald. Is it better to have a cesspit bubble/sandbox than having none?
Re: Reddit CEO Cracks Down on Abusive Content to Protect Users, Attract Advertisers
#10Yah, except they're hosting /r/The_Donald which has been confirmed to violate Reddit rules. Just like Twitter they cherry pick for $$$.
What about r/The_Donald violates the rules other than going against your political preferences? There are left-wing sub-reddits that openly call for armed revolution, violence against the "bourgeoisie" and the police, destruction of property, etc; but I'm sure they're OK to exist, right?