Reddit started banning accounts that voted for content “against their policies”

Post by hombre_fatal » Mon, Jun 22, 2020, 4:36 PM UTC

buboard wrote: post #46

torben-friis wrote: post #22

I don't really get reddit's efforts to clean their site. They sometimes come up with measures like this, while routinely ignoring the development of horrible communities that they're aware of (since some users take any possible opportunity to mention them to the admins and are met with silence or half measures). They even came up with the concept of quarantined subreddits. I honestly can't think of a single honest re…

Because competitors exist

Post by stevebmark » Mon, Jun 22, 2020, 4:37 PM UTC

godzillabrennus wrote: post #15

There is an alternative to the group think/hive mind called https://gab.com/ but it’s also a cesspool or horrible people sharing horrible ideas. Not sure what makes sense.

Post by rtsil » Mon, Jun 22, 2020, 4:37 PM UTC

ed25519FUUU wrote: post #48

torben-friis wrote: post #22

I don't really get reddit's efforts to clean their site. They sometimes come up with measures like this, while routinely ignoring the development of horrible communities that they're aware of (since some users take any possible opportunity to mention them to the admins and are met with silence or half measures). They even came up with the concept of quarantined subreddits. I honestly can't think of a single honest re…

The missing component of your thought process is who, exactly, deems subreddits not worthy of existence. Many people view pornography as an extremely damaging problem and addiction, would you want all 18+ subreddits removes because somebody “can’t think of a single honest reason for them existing”?

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jun 22, 2020, 4:38 PM UTC

cthalupa wrote: post #49

s3r3nity wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> it’s also a cesspool or horrible people sharing horrible ideas. I tend to follow Voltaire's ‘I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.' I agree with your assessment of the quality of ideas thrown around there, but I'd prefer a world where the internet allowed sites like that to exist, rather than one that's increasingly owned & distributed by giant corporate conglomerates wi…

There's nothing wrong with Reddit not wanting to facilitate and provide a platform for that sort of content, though. It's a massively popular site with mainstream appeal. They don't want to let that popularity and audience be taken advantage of to spread ideas that are hateful and likely to incite violence. Quarantined subreddits are dumb, but it's a sign that their afraid of the backlash of outright banning them - t…

Post by haunter » Mon, Jun 22, 2020, 4:39 PM UTC

staycoolboy wrote: post #47

walrus01 wrote: post #8

Eventually reddit will go the way of digg and fade into irrelevance.

I read digg multiple times a day. It is far better than it was over a decade ago. As an aggregator, it is nearly perfectly aligned with my interests (except for the year they spent heavily promoting Jimmy Fallon).