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Re: Changes to our content policy, our board, and where we’re going from here

#11

Post by uniqueid »

yqx wrote: post #7
milsorgen wrote: post #2

Reddit was infinitely more valuable (to the user) when it lead a hands on approach. I understand somethings should and must be removed from the platform but it is undoubtedly an echo chamber, almost unparalleled at this point. It's value to provide viewpoint, insight and discussion is almost nonexistent at this point. This announcement certainly doesn't bode well for anyone hoping to find it a platform that fosters b…

I assume you mean hands off approach? Can you elaborate on the connection between this announcement and the platform's value as a platform that fosters discussion you perceive? Do you mean content moderation has turned the site into an echo chamber?

Reddit still feels like a biker bar to me. I don't know how many important conversations hinge on the ability to use racial slurs. My naive take would be: few, if any.

The average age on Reddit is probably 12 anyways, and those tweens upvote factual errors, more readily than correct information. That's on any topic, political or not.

The rate of important problem-solving on Reddit is a big fat goose-egg: Reddit is a counterexample to "the wisdom of crowds."

Re: Changes to our content policy, our board, and where we’re going from here

#12

Post by pensatoio »

uniqueid wrote: post #6
milsorgen wrote: post #2

Reddit was infinitely more valuable (to the user) when it lead a hands on approach. I understand somethings should and must be removed from the platform but it is undoubtedly an echo chamber, almost unparalleled at this point. It's value to provide viewpoint, insight and discussion is almost nonexistent at this point. This announcement certainly doesn't bode well for anyone hoping to find it a platform that fosters b…

> it is undoubtedly an echo chamber, almost unparalleled > at this point. What does "unparalleled" mean here? It sounds melodramatic.

Hard to find a worse or larger echo chamber than Reddit, no? Seems like a good use of “unparalleled” to me.

Re: Changes to our content policy, our board, and where we’re going from here

#13

Post by KKPMW »

This whole post is weird. Based on the tone they seem to think they are combating racism. But really the CEO of a company just announced that they are looking for a new candidate. Requirements? - No particular requirements, except having the right skin color.

Re: Changes to our content policy, our board, and where we’re going from here

#14

Post by underyx »

KKPMW wrote: post #13

This whole post is weird. Based on the tone they seem to think they are combating racism. But really the CEO of a company just announced that they are looking for a new candidate. Requirements? - No particular requirements, except having the right skin color.

We cannot know what the requirements are other than the one announced here.

Re: Changes to our content policy, our board, and where we’re going from here

#15

Post by uniqueid »

pensatoio wrote: post #12
uniqueid wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> it is undoubtedly an echo chamber, almost unparalleled > at this point. What does "unparalleled" mean here? It sounds melodramatic.

Hard to find a worse or larger echo chamber than Reddit, no? Seems like a good use of “unparalleled” to me.

Do you often debate white nationalists outside of Reddit? I don't (granted I do live in Canada). I would love it if Reddit were closer to an "echo chamber".

Re: Changes to our content policy, our board, and where we’re going from here

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Post by luckylion »

uniqueid wrote: post #11
yqx wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I assume you mean hands off approach? Can you elaborate on the connection between this announcement and the platform's value as a platform that fosters discussion you perceive? Do you mean content moderation has turned the site into an echo chamber?

Reddit still feels like a biker bar to me. I don't know how many important conversations hinge on the ability to use racial slurs. My naive take would be: few, if any. The average age on Reddit is probably 12 anyways, and those tweens upvote factual errors, more readily than correct information. That's on any topic, political or not. The rate of important problem-solving on Reddit is a big fat goose-egg: Reddit is a…

> I don't know how many important conversations hinge on the ability to use racial slurs. My naive take would be: few.

But that wouldn't be content policy, that would be tone policy. You can say incredible racist things without using any slurs. If you want to police the content, you'll outlaw saying racist things (or rather: things you perceive to be racist). If you want to police the tone, you'll outlaw the use of slurs, insults etc, but allow the content.

I assume that Reddit has an issue with the content, not its presentation.

Re: Changes to our content policy, our board, and where we’re going from here

#18

Post by panpanna »

About time. It is almost impossible to browse the front page without seeing some hateful content.

And I am not talking about the political stuff. You can upload video of a random dude getting beaten to death, make some absurd claims like "the guy is a pedophile caught in the act" and watch the hateful comments roll in.

Basically, you can make any claims and the ones that keep people's blood boiling seems very popular way of getting clicks and upvotes.

Re: Changes to our content policy, our board, and where we’re going from here

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Post by kitsune_ »

KKPMW wrote: post #13

This whole post is weird. Based on the tone they seem to think they are combating racism. But really the CEO of a company just announced that they are looking for a new candidate. Requirements? - No particular requirements, except having the right skin color.

Your implied reverse-racism argument just doesn't hold. Are you telling me that there are no capable African-Americans who could fill that board position? If not, the what are you arguing? That increasing the representation of historically oppressed minority groups is bad?

Re: Changes to our content policy, our board, and where we’re going from here

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Post by te_chris »

steveeq1 wrote: post #3

And what defines "hate"? Are they going be as consistent with the content of gangsta rappers? I'd wager no. It really is sad to see how hiveminded reddit has become, particularly with the city subreddits. Any person with a dissenting viewpoint either gets banned or gets downvoted to oblivion. And not everyone shares the same viewpoint on who the "bad people" are out there. I, for one, feel that thug brutality is a bi…

Jesus, so many barely concealed dog whistles in one post. “Gangsta rappers”, “thug brutality”, mate just say what you mean.
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