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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

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Post by s9w »

eganist wrote: post #103
s9w wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are well known to ban very good advice on a very specific topic - but we both know that even mentioning that would get me into trouble.

> Well you are well known to ban very good advice on a very specific topic - but we both know that even mentioning that would get me into trouble. The only advice we ban for are: 1. advice advocating for intolerance against a protected class (e.g. lgbtq+, race, etc.) 2. anything involving violence or suicide, regardless of jokes. And beyond that, we're obligated to remove submissions involving CSA per Reddit (or Redd…

Well you just used the term "protected class". That blows my mind.

Re: Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit

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Post by attilakun »

ganstyles wrote: post #40
cycrutchfield wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I get the feeling they are quite familiar with those communities.

Anecdotally, and interestingly, I've only ever seen the phrase "virtue signal" from the alt-right/white supremacist/Trump supporter group. I think I understand what it's trying to convey, but it seems to be used anytime someone sides with something with which that group disagrees. It's like a "dog whistle" for white supremacists and personally when I see it used, it makes me question everything else that person said.

I don't know. The minorities I talk to tend to be quite aware that some people are engaging in point-scoring for ultimately self-serving purposes. However, they are not usually loud about this observation, so the sentiment might get lost in the noise.

Re: Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit

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Post by stronglikedan »

ralusek wrote: post #16
minimaxir wrote: post #3

Relevant 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…

Reddit is responsible for the fact that 24% of people killed by police are black?

> 24% of people killed by police are black

> African Americans, however, account for 24 percent of those fatally shot and killed by the police despite being just 13 percent of the U.S. population. As The Post noted in a new analysis published last week, that means black Americans are 2.5 times as likely as white Americans to be shot and killed by police officers. [0]

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/07/1...

Re: Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit

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Post by v64 »

edc117 wrote: post #96
logicslave wrote: post #20

Reddit is so manipulated at this point. The front page always has a political agenda, unbelievable what happened to that website.

As someone that doesn't use reddit much, could you explain? I thought the front page was essentially a combination of popular things from the subreddits you regularly visit?

That's if you're a user. They're referring to defaults like r/all and r/popular.

Re: Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit

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Post by eganist »

s9w wrote: post #38
eganist wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Only approved users may post in this community. So now it's the truest propaganda machine, you're saying. Approved users only for consumption by a dedicated subscriber base.

No the sub doesn't exist anymore. There was an admin takeover and they left it in this odd "technically existing" state for some reason. TD is gone - you can look for stories about it some months ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/gshffi/trump_si...

The sub clearly exists, comments are clearly recent, and CovfefeBucks (the most recent mod) is clearly submitting content (linked).

Not sure why you insist on gaslighting, but that makes this our last interaction.

Re: Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit

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Post by tenebrisalietum »

jimbob45 wrote: post #23

Reddit 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.

> Who still uses reddit?

Any "top-level" subreddit that is a single-word topic becomes overrun with too many people and also subject to Reddit cultural enforcement, like r/news, r/science, r/pics, etc. If your experience in Reddit is formed mostly by r/all, the popular subreddits, or browsing defaults, you'll suffer.

Re: Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit

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Post by eganist »

s9w wrote: post #111
eganist wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Well you are well known to ban very good advice on a very specific topic - but we both know that even mentioning that would get me into trouble. The only advice we ban for are: 1. advice advocating for intolerance against a protected class (e.g. lgbtq+, race, etc.) 2. anything involving violence or suicide, regardless of jokes. And beyond that, we're obligated to remove submissions involving CSA per Reddit (or Redd…

Well you just used the term "protected class". That blows my mind.

> Well you just used the term "protected class". That blows my mind.

https://www.archives.gov/eeo/terminology.html

grep "protected class"

Re: Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit

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Post by kube-system »

disposekinetics wrote: post #90
MarcellusDrum wrote: post #32

Reddit got too mainstream for its own good. The company desperately wants to become the new social media (think Facebook or Twitter), but many users are standing in the way, making the change from a discussion website to a social media website slow. What made me and many others use Reddit in the first place is that it didn't really matter who you are and what's your political and religious background, the only thing…

Do you know of any federated/distributed alternatives to reddit? Although, maybe the argument is we don't actually need a social media platform at all just RSS.

Most of the sites that attempt to be an alternative to reddit are filled with groups that reddit banned.

Re: Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit

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Post by frakkingcylons »

dstaley wrote: post #33
purephase wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Steve Huffman has been the CEO since July 2015. Ellen was calling out Steve, not Alexis.

Alexis was on the board and still had an active role at the company despite not being CEO, for example, firing a popular moderator and and letting the blame fall on Ellen Pao:

https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/13/details-emerge-abo...

Re: Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of Reddit

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Post by draw_down »

alecb wrote: post #57
logicslave wrote: post #20

Reddit is so manipulated at this point. The front page always has a political agenda, unbelievable what happened to that website.

What "political agenda"? If anything, the original core of the site was very left-leaning or heterodox technophiles that didn't have a home on Slashdot. The political parts of the site are now very much deadlocked in the center-right frame of the Democratic party, pretty far away from what the site once was.

"Agenda" is what people say when they mean "I wanted to look at cat pics but you guys keep talking about real life"
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