Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while

Post by betwixthewires » Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 9:53 AM UTC

Jonnax wrote: post #741

betwixthewires wrote: post #731

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This is a tired old argument and it isn't convincing or effective. There's a big difference between some kids screaming in your coffee shop and a community on a website supposedly dedicated to free discussion. A more apt comparison would be a group in a corner having a conversation at a rock concert. Suddenly this argument appears less apt. And while some are screaming for these sites to get shut down over it, most o…

Where does discord say it's for free discussion? In two clicks I found their community guidelines on their website: https://discord.com/guidelines Second rule: "Do not organize, promote, or coordinate servers around hate speech. It’s unacceptable to attack a person or a community based on attributes such as their race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, or disabilities…

Post by jaimex2 » Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 9:55 AM UTC

NotPavlovsDog wrote: post #669

This is really exciting, feels like open standards, independent internet is going to continue getting extreme motivation to expand and establish, with private "freedom of speech" censorship by for-profit platforms. We're going to see more fragmentation, and growth of closed platforms perceived by users as "slightly less evil" such as telegram vs watsapp. This may also motivate the return to truly open internet ideals…

Post by rorykoehler » Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 9:57 AM UTC

anonytrary wrote: post #557

ve55 wrote: post #14

And they chose today as the best possible time to enact this ban? Really? I really think they should have put more thought into the timing of this decision; a lot of users are going to be upset and will suddenly start to realize that a single company has a monopoly on their online social life (this may seem like an exaggeration, but it feels quite true to me colloquially, especially if you're a younger US male and/or…

> a lot of users are going to be upset and will suddenly start to realize that a single company has a monopoly on their online social life Hmm, it's almost as if this just happened recently, but people looked the other away because it was tightly coupled to politics. I think 2021 is going to blow 2020 out of the water.

Post by prox » Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 10:02 AM UTC

agumonkey wrote: post #722

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Any on-line venue is a place where mods and admins make the rules. You know them before going in. Their place, their rules. It’s the same when going into any bar. Some bars may allow rowdy behavior, others have strict measures. In such places speech is a privilege and not a right. The only remarkable thing here in this article is the size of the discord. The problem with huge size is that the amplification effect is…

To reuse your bar analogy. I came in and said 'dont you think the tea is not warm enough' owner said 'uhh nooo' I said 'really, I never drank tea that cold, i think it's a lot better warmer' when suddenly the chair was removed from behind and I was thrown out. Maybe I didn't see the sign 'no complaints about tea temperature allowed in here or you will be removed asap' but I found the whole ordeal ridiculously immatur…

Post by dvdkon » Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 10:06 AM UTC

ggggtez wrote: post #742

NotPavlovsDog wrote: post #707

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There is nothing preventing an open standard moderation tag that each user selects how to treat. With such moderation tagging in place, for example, if I wanted to use Reddit but mistrust moderators, with an open treatment of data, I would be able to select to ignore their rating/per entry and use ratings by a group of users I select. (impossible to imagine Reddit doing something like this) However, it requires I hav…

This seems to misunderstand the purpose of moderation entirely. Moderation serves many purposes, but only one of them is to save your delicate eyes from seeing things you don't want to see. Perhaps the more important one are things like: ensuring that your social media service doesn't have a bad reputation so that people other than disaffected white guys will actually want to use it. If your site is overrun with porn…