Earlier quoted context omitted.
TD is gone for a long time now.
No, it's not. https://www.reddit.com/r/the_donald
that proves the point of the person you are replying to: there is no activity at all; they've moved on.
Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit
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Re: Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit
#42Relevant context: recently, former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao called out Reddit for their policies after Reddit did a statement on Black Lives Matter: > I am obligated to call you out: You should have shut down the_donald instead of amplifying it and its hate, racism, and violence. So much of what is happening now lies at your feet. You don't get to say BLM when reddit nurtures and monetizes white supremacy and hate all da…
Yeah, TD alone was huge in 2016-2017 and was a huge contributor to the dynamic we have in the world today. Ellen is 100% right here and Alex did absolutely nothing to address it. Good on her for publicly calling it out.
You're giving a message forum way too much credit for Trumpism in the United States. Do you actually think that social media is representative of a majority?
Re: Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit
#43“After making a shit ton of money, raising way more money then we needed to, and ultimately handing the future of the platform to soulless investors, I’ve decided to leave to better support people oppressed by police brutality” seems like a more honest statement to me but I guess it doesn’t read as well.
Edit: Snark aside, his actions and financial commitments to various organizations (as well as some of his future earnings) are commendable. If more founders and executives took these actions the world would be a better place. There's always more that can be done, but that shouldn't stop us from committing smaller actions as well.
Re: Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you joking? There's a huge number of cesspools still on reddit. Stuff like thedonald, theredpill, all sorts of blatantly racist/misogynistic communities.
From what I can see the_donald is effectively dead and theredpill is also quarantined so it might as well be, since quarantined subreddits are always eventually banned.
/r/the_donald was quarantined a year ago and hasn't been banned yet.
Re: Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit
#45> I’m saying this as a father who needs to be able to answer his black daughter when she asks: “What did you do?” Wow. I think this deserves highlighting. It's powerful and beautiful.
It's also indicative of one aspect the problem, where we largely don't care until we have a personal stake in things. For another example: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-21804506 > Influential US Republican Senator Rob Portman has renounced his opposition to gay marriage. The Ohio senator said he began to change his mind in 2011 after his son, Will, revealed he was gay. It's great that people change. It's n…
We are human, experience is how we learn. Rather than moralize against it because there is an ideal human you’d prefer recognize that there is a clear and known path to helping people humanize their worldview through exposure.
Re: Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit
#46Relevant context: recently, former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao called out Reddit for their policies after Reddit did a statement on Black Lives Matter: > I am obligated to call you out: You should have shut down the_donald instead of amplifying it and its hate, racism, and violence. So much of what is happening now lies at your feet. You don't get to say BLM when reddit nurtures and monetizes white supremacy and hate all da…
This is just scape-goating and finding something recent to blame for a situation that has been going on for 150+ years.
Besides, it was effectively shut down, and all that did was lead to the creation of thedonald.win, which by all appearances seems to be thriving and growing rapidly, probably much faster than Reddit itself grew when it was founded. To blame the situation on a forum is to misunderstand that the country is filled with people with these viewpoints regardless (and it has been for far longer than anyone today has been alive).
Re: Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
You must be kidding. Please tell me you're kidding. Ever been to /r/the_donald? /r/conspiracy? /r/protectandserve?
TD is gone for a long time now. r/protectandserve is a reddit for police officers as far as I know? Not sure what's controversial.
lately its been them sharing memes about "why are protestors so surprised when we gas them" and the like
Re: Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit
#48Reddit mods wantonly abuse their power and I'm not even talking about politics. Ever been to r/science? 8/10 comments are deleted and those posts can't be read ever again (I'm understating that number, if anything). Honestly, half the reason I come here is because you can still view dead comments - censorship is a surefire way to get me to leave your community.
It's only a UI problem that displays the deleted threads with the deleted annotation. In truth, that sub is better for it. I'm sure everyone wants to share that their grandma doesn't follow the pattern in a paper and everyone wants to enlighten us about correlation and causation and everyone wants to tell us what sample size is reasonable off the top of their heads but it's sooo boring to read that.
Re: Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit
#49I really don't know what they want anymore. How much cleaner than Reddit does it get? There is nothing left that is even remotely controversial. I'm so confused. The way he said BLACK candidate also feels really weird. We get it - you want to virtue signal. Make it a little less obvious.
You must be kidding. Please tell me you're kidding. Ever been to /r/the_donald? /r/conspiracy? /r/protectandserve?
r/mgtow, r/metacanada, r/KotakuInAction, r/TumblrinAction, r/unpopularopinion, r/politicalcompassmemes are candidates. The subreddit about the upcoming AAA game "The Last of Us 2" is pretty vile aswell.
Re: Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit
#50I really don't know what they want anymore. How much cleaner than Reddit does it get? There is nothing left that is even remotely controversial. I'm so confused. The way he said BLACK candidate also feels really weird. We get it - you want to virtue signal. Make it a little less obvious.
It seems like you don't have a great understanding of what's going on in the USA right now. This isn't virtue signaling, which is usually more about posting on social media or using a hashtag. You might disagree with the actions he's taken, but Ohanian is taking action, not just paying lip service.