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Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse

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Re: Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse

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Post by shakezula »

Miner49er wrote: post #122
nullc wrote: post #20

I'm confused by the article. My understanding was that reddit replaced the moderators of /r/The_Donald months ago after initially making in quarantined. The Wikipedia article seems to agree with my understanding: > In February 26, 2020, Reddit administrators removed a number of r/The_Donald moderators "that were approving, stickying, and generally supporting content in this subreddit that breaks [Reddit's] content po…

Yeah, the ban of T_D is only symbolic; it has been dead for months. I think the real news here is the ban of /r/ChapoTrapHouse, (arguably) the most active leftist subreddit there was.

ChapoTrapHouse has been laughing for months about their incoming ban, though. They knew it was coming and they've been preparing for it by migrating to other subs, moving to Discord, etc... T_D users are probably doing the exact same.

Re: Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse

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ve55 wrote: post #7

Worth taking note that in today's climate, you really cannot win when you are in a position to moderate important things that a lot of people use. There is constantly tremendous pressure on you to perform opposing actions, and even making no decision at all will cause you significant mental stress and harassment, regardles of what the issue is. You have to pick who you want to cave to, and to what extent, and no matt…

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Re: Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse

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Post by jl2718 »

There’s no winning this game. Soon they will be considered liable for anything they didn’t censor, especially from the extreme left, as they are making the appearance of support. I hope they’re paying Michael a massive amount of money to associate himself with this dumpster fire.

Re: Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse

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Post by rmrfstar »

dboreham wrote: post #153
rmrfstar wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's really too bad that there are no scalable "proof of intellectual work" protocols for human interactions. I guess 3301 got things right with the Liber Primus.

Isn't this pretty much what "elites" are for?

I think they tend to be fashion critics more than anything else.

Re: Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse

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Post by numpad0 »

pjc50 wrote: post #139
kylebenzle wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Users won't allow for (use) decentralized platforms until there is a good way to censor them. Once that happens, what would be the point of switching. Facebook and Reddit are successful BECAUSE they are censorship machines. Facebook spends far more man hours on "curating" content compared to engineering. Same with Reddit. Add up all the "moderation" time spent removing negative or controversial posts and I bet much m…

Indeed. The average user, especially women, does not enjoy having their boundaries pushed by an escalation of shocking (but not illegal!) and pornographic (but not illegal!) images, which you will get if you don't have moderation, and even a bit if you do. As proven by Slashdot twenty years ago. Oh, and the plain spam. C1al1s spammers can fill your entire board if you let them.

Having seen countless female gore/porn artists on social networking I’m not so sure how important of a problem it is... especially the porn part

Re: Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse

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Post by jacobwilliamroy »

john-shaffer wrote: post #87
nullc wrote: post #20

I'm confused by the article. My understanding was that reddit replaced the moderators of /r/The_Donald months ago after initially making in quarantined. The Wikipedia article seems to agree with my understanding: > In February 26, 2020, Reddit administrators removed a number of r/The_Donald moderators "that were approving, stickying, and generally supporting content in this subreddit that breaks [Reddit's] content po…

> What's wrong with just saying that it's their platform and they have the right to set the rules? 1) They don't want to alienate people who care about free speech. 2) A lot of people liked reddit because it was user-driven, and don't like it when the content they see is selected by admins and mods. They want to keep the illusion of being user-driven as long as they can.

Let's give them user driven reddit then. Open the floodgates, remove all filters and moderators and bans and locks. Turn off the firewall. Let them see reality.

They'll be back.

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