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‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the World a Worse Place’

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It's not a hobby to everyone, some people survive by subsistence hunting.

I think they should have clarified in urban environments, people outside of cities use guns is basically every country, even japan.

We've already tried to ban guns in (many) cities while allowing them outside those cities. Criminals just leave the city to buy guns.

Now people in cities want to solve that by forbidding people outside the cities from owning guns.

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Then point to this copious literature of which you speak, and describe how you would employ it impartially in a forum setting to diagnose antisocial behaviour. Frankly, I think I've been more than charitable to your claims so far, and you're just avoiding answering the question.

You've asked me to define what is anti-social behavior. That is an existing term on which lots of study have been performed. Because people don't owe you answers to a question you could research yourself. People also do not owe you solutions to hypotheticals they never suggested in the first place. > I've been more than charitable to your claims so far, and you're just avoiding answering the question. http://wonderma…

I cannot imagine why you think that comic is relevant. Even if you think naasking is acting badly (they aren't), such a gripe doesn't even resemble a person in group X harassing someone about why they dislike group X.

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Every time you see a post on the front page you don't like, filter that sub from your front page. So easy. Unfortunate that Reddit limits you to filtering 100 subs from your front page.

So you're subscribed to them but filter them out of your front page? Why not unsubscribe entirely?

I think I worded it poorly. Reddit.com/r/all will show you what's tops throughout the site. You can filter subs out of that view.

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Every time you see a post on the front page you don't like, filter that sub from your front page. So easy. Unfortunate that Reddit limits you to filtering 100 subs from your front page.

When I tried this I hit the 100 sub filter limit in a few days.

Ha yeah, I meant to mention that. Every few months I'll go through and try to let a few back in to clear up some space.

I ended up blocking like every state subreddit when the front page was nothing but net neutrality posts.

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Here are a few off the top of my head: the death of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville last summer, the nine people killed by Dylann Roof in Charleston, and the two killed by Jeremy Christian in Portland Oregon after they interrupted his anti-Muslim rants. Note that the perpetrators in all these cases are on record as citing racial, ethnic, or religious hatred as motives for their acts.

You are being incredibly disengenious. For all these cases, there it is not shown that they going to online forums radicalized these characters and caused them to kill people. Just as you would not say there is blood on Black activist forums hands because that one radical guy killed all those cops last year. Unless there is a clear link that people in these forums are encouraging terrorism, the forums are not respons…

Just as you would not say there is blood on Black activist forums hands because that one radical guy killed all those cops last year.

Funnily enough, extreme right-wingers do say this.

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What if your unpopular view you wouldn't express in real life is something abusive towards others? i.e. trolling.

You get banned.

Then you just make a new account?

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Everyone knows that Reddit died the day they killed FatPeopleHate. Ellen Pao is cancer in human form. She poisons everything she touches.

I hope it has an implicit /s because spez and the entire leadership seems on board with everything she did

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So you're subscribed to them but filter them out of your front page? Why not unsubscribe entirely?

I think I worded it poorly. Reddit.com/r/all will show you what's tops throughout the site. You can filter subs out of that view.

I see. That makes sense but also why not use your home page instead of /r/all? or are you not logged in?
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