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Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces them with approved mods

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Re: Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces them with approved mods

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The 'frontpage of the internet' is actively taking control of the subreddit of a presidential candidate, in an election year. I know that HN is highly against Trump, and probably cheer for this decision, but how is this not a democratic issue?

the_donald is not the subreddit of a presidential candidate.

Re: Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces them with approved mods

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

As owner of a large HN dataset (~4M submissions, all the submissions since starting HNNotify.xyz), I've wanted to do some analysis on this. Currently I only collect submissions, but it isn't hard to also look at the users and their age/karma as well.

How can you own data that is submitted to a site you don't own? Or do users submit to hacker news through your site?

I do not own it in a legal/licensed sense, I own the bytes that are stored in my database. As it it is easily queryable by me, where it wouldn't normally be if only using the API.

Re: Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces them with approved mods

#44

What does this do besides drive them to Whatsapp? Indian Nationalist movement grew to the level it is today in part because of the rapid growth of Nationalist whatsapp echo-chambers.

I'm American. I don't know anybody, not a single soul, that uses Whatsapp.

Re: Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces them with approved mods

#45

The 'frontpage of the internet' is actively taking control of the subreddit of a presidential candidate, in an election year. I know that HN is highly against Trump, and probably cheer for this decision, but how is this not a democratic issue?

I am continually amazed at how many people believe that "free speech" applies to anything other than the government.

No government agency is allowed to impede free speech (with a handful of exceptions). This rule does not apply to any other organization.

Re: Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces them with approved mods

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post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As owner of a large HN dataset (~4M submissions, all the submissions since starting HNNotify.xyz), I've wanted to do some analysis on this. Currently I only collect submissions, but it isn't hard to also look at the users and their age/karma as well.

How can you own data that is submitted to a site you don't own? Or do users submit to hacker news through your site?

They just mean they crawl HN and maintain/mirror their own database of its content.

Re: Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces them with approved mods

#49

The 'frontpage of the internet' is actively taking control of the subreddit of a presidential candidate, in an election year. I know that HN is highly against Trump, and probably cheer for this decision, but how is this not a democratic issue?

HN is actually surprisingly pro-Trump. I have been shocked at the broad support for economic nationalism (trade protectionism, etc.) from HN participants, as well as the chorus of agreement with Trump's anti-China stance.

Re: Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces them with approved mods

#50

I personally think that this article buried the lede as far as controversial Reddit actions go. Users now can be (and have been) banned for upvoting posts in quarantined subreddits (both on the right - T_D - and the left - Chapo Trap House - among others). I've seen controversy erupt all around Reddit about this and it doesn't feel right to me. If the content that people are upvoting is bad enough to get banned over…

Correct me if I'm wrong and I read it wrong, but I think you're mixing up things here. > Users that have more than 500 karma in quarantined subreddits outside of The Donald will not be allowed on the list of approved applicants [to be a moderator] This is only for being a moderator. Simply upvoting posts (that don't break any rules) in quarantined subreddits does not get you punished. > If the content that people are…

This article [1] says they announced it today.

I'm excited to see the fallout on this decision.

[1] https://reclaimthenet.org/reddit-banned-for-upvote-policy/

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