Yah, except they're hosting /r/The_Donald which has been confirmed to violate Reddit rules. Just like Twitter they cherry pick for $$$.
The proverbial elephant in the room.
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#12And from what I understand, it's been quite effective, too [1]. It seems that removing abusive communities basically reduces the amount of abusive content overall, because there's one less community where that content is acceptable to share. So not as much of a "spillover effect" as feared, which is good news. [1] http://comp.social.gatech.edu/papers/cscw18-chand-hate.pdf
That study if I recall correctly completely misses the spillover to other websites, considering only reddit itself - but bans on sites like reddit and Twitter have lead to the rise of sites like Gab, 8chan and Voat in recent years. The spillover is very real, just not on the same site.
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#13Similarly, Youtube is demonetizing videos with "bad words". Such as referring to "the naked eye".
See here for a deconstruction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlRFoYr-XuY&t=306s
This kind of censorship is nice, until it turns into censorship of "things the company dislikes", versus "bad / illegal things."
See recent vidcon for an example. Despite rules against harassment, a panelist out-and-out harassed an attendee... and the organizers did nothing.
This shows that power and political agendas trump peopl's alleged morality.
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#14Yah, except they're hosting /r/The_Donald which has been confirmed to violate Reddit rules. Just like Twitter they cherry pick for $$$.
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#15Yah, except they're hosting /r/The_Donald which has been confirmed to violate Reddit rules. Just like Twitter they cherry pick for $$$.
What about r/The_Donald violates the rules other than going against your political preferences? There are left-wing sub-reddits that openly call for armed revolution, violence against the "bourgeoisie" and the police, destruction of property, etc; but I'm sure they're OK to exist, right?
Ah yes, "whataboutism" - it's almost like we're on The_Donald right now!
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#16Yah, except they're hosting /r/The_Donald which has been confirmed to violate Reddit rules. Just like Twitter they cherry pick for $$$.
they also host /r/SRS which has been doxxing reddit users for longer than /r/The_donald has existed. Rarely see that one brought up anymore, really makes you think.
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#17This article's content has nothing to support the title. It's just an empty retelling of the site's last year's history.
What's actually being reported here? Feels like clickbait.
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#18And 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
That study if I recall correctly completely misses the spillover to other websites, considering only reddit itself - but bans on sites like reddit and Twitter have lead to the rise of sites like Gab, 8chan and Voat in recent years. The spillover is very real, just not on the same site.
You're right, but in the context of Reddit becoming a more palatable place for advertisers that's neither here nor there
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Ah yes, "whataboutism" - it's almost like we're on The_Donald right now!
"calls for consistency are just whataboutism when applied to content that I agree with"
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#20I 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…
It's kind of an inside joke on reddit now how left-leaning /r/politics is. It frames itself as a generic political news page but it's so biased it's incredible.