I don't think Reddit should be able to censor lawful content and also claim protections under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. If they want to police lawful content that is fine but then they are no longer an open platform and they should forfeit their Section 230 protections. I dislike the ability for online platforms to have their cake of protection against lawsuits and also eat their cake of policing lawful content they don't like.
Reddit started banning accounts that voted for content “against their policies”
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Re: Reddit started banning accounts that voted for content “against their policies”
#112They've got so many moderation related issues.
Amidst all this accounts that randomly spam the site with collections of articles and etc run free. They don't participate in discussion (maybe a handful of actual comments... with more links), they just push a particular point of view and inundate every sub they can find with article after article....
A simple query "hey is this user just spamming submissions" could deal with some of them.
If you search new you're presented with repost after repost of these spammers, sometimes reposing their own content, just from another news source.
If you're part of a location based sub that is in the news, it's just an AVALANCHE of distantly cause related submitters spamming it up.
Re: Reddit started banning accounts that voted for content “against their policies”
#113I 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
You mean 4chan/8ch?
Re: Reddit started banning accounts that voted for content “against their policies”
#114For years reddit stood by and did nothing while certain groups exploited and spammed the front page with their hate speech, im glad to see they're finally doing something about it.
Re: Reddit started banning accounts that voted for content “against their policies”
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
I imagine the mods have a fairly finely tuned sense of which threads will turn into a shitstorm and don't give a fuck about pre-emptively killing them. And honestly I WISH nobody used reddit anymore, maybe it could roll back 10 years when it was frankly more fun, but it sure seems like more people than ever are using it.
I imagine the mods have a fairly finely tuned sense of which threads will turn into a shitstorm and don't give a fuck about pre-emptively killing them. How do we feel about pre-emptive moderation? Is it warranted? Is it warranted every time? Only certain topics?
Ultimately the mods are volunteers, they get to do what they want?
More precisely I would imagine they don't care about facilitating/refereeing culture wars inside their subs, cause lord only knows how much work that would be.
Re: Reddit started banning accounts that voted for content “against their policies”
#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
To the extent that a site like Reddit tries to police content and decide what's "hateful" content versus just mildly offensive, etc, the platform becomes less valuable to me. These policy changes have driven me off of Reddit. Not because I was part of any quarantined "communities" but just because I see where things are going. Reddit used to actually believe in the ideal of free speech, full stop. That stopped being…
They didn't believe in the ideals of free speech, they just didn't want to pay employees to kick users off their site. All ad clicks are good clicks.
Re: Reddit started banning accounts that voted for content “against their policies”
#117The main issue is asymmetric rule enforcement more so than the rules themselves. This is probably true for most if not all social media platforms.
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#118I feel safer already. Thank you Reddit for protecting me from my bad opinions.
Re: Reddit started banning accounts that voted for content “against their policies”
#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
It continuously baffles me that some people don't learn from unmoderated online communities. They become dens of bigotry, doxing, attack mobs, racism, misogyny. Saying your site is driven only by "free speech" is the cowardly reply that refuses to stand up to these things.
It's not mandatory to be against the things that you listed. Many people enjoy reading and talking about things they're legally allowed to.
"Many people enjoy being racist" is a weird hill to die on.
Re: Reddit started banning accounts that voted for content “against their policies”
#120Is there any evidence this is real? The image specifies /r/reddit.com, which was discontinued about a decade ago. Obviously this practice is/would be awful. But it's really surprising and the image seems a little fishy.
It's real. Reddit is doing a ban based on what you up-doot