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op made no value judgement as opposed to you
> op made no value judgement as opposed to you Of course they did make a value judgement, it's them qualifying whatever TOS on a bunch of depraved porn ridden websites in the realm of the "reasonable". Reddit made no such statement at first place anyway...
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You also mean they were victims of social media propaganda and gaming the system /R/the_donald was consistently getting bullshit content to the front page using bots. If you're pro free speech you'll need to answer towards the onslaught of bot based content generation and fake users
> /R/the_donald was consistently getting bullshit content to the front page using bots. Just curious, how do you know for a fact that bots were involved in boosting the content? I mean, I'm sure that's possible, it's just that the level of energy/enthusiasm there among the users was extremely high to the point that I think it's reasonable to think that the subreddit's success was mostly just people being enthusiastic…
I've watched this tab for many years because it strikes the right balance between new and interesting content.
During the trump election. Everyday there were multiple posts to the sub getting upvoted and this went on for months.
Also, multiple people analyzed the content voting for that subreddit and it significantly deviated from every other major subreddit.
I get you're trying to claim "there's no way to be statistically certain" but the evidence in the Mueller report and elsewhere makes it clear, internet propaganda is a real problem and is documented.
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You also mean they were victims of social media propaganda and gaming the system /R/the_donald was consistently getting bullshit content to the front page using bots. If you're pro free speech you'll need to answer towards the onslaught of bot based content generation and fake users
My solution to this was not to look at the front page and heavy RES filtering for my own personal preferences. It worked well. But eventually the push to gentrify reddit from the venture capitalists demanding profit on their millions made reddit corporate start banning even completely legit, but unprofitably controversial, subreddits. I left after they banned r/gundeals for having the temerity to exist and post links…
The problem is when a forum becomes a synthetic medium for shills.
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> op made no value judgement as opposed to you Of course they did make a value judgement, it's them qualifying whatever TOS on a bunch of depraved porn ridden websites in the realm of the "reasonable". Reddit made no such statement at first place anyway...
that's some leap
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> /R/the_donald was consistently getting bullshit content to the front page using bots. Just curious, how do you know for a fact that bots were involved in boosting the content? I mean, I'm sure that's possible, it's just that the level of energy/enthusiasm there among the users was extremely high to the point that I think it's reasonable to think that the subreddit's success was mostly just people being enthusiastic…
There's a filter on reddit that is a "1hour/top" that basically shows content that's quickly upvoted. I've watched this tab for many years because it strikes the right balance between new and interesting content. During the trump election. Everyday there were multiple posts to the sub getting upvoted and this went on for months. Also, multiple people analyzed the content voting for that subreddit and it significantly…
Here are 2 ways to look at this. There's no way to prove which viewpoint is correct, but anybody who spent time there will know exactly what I'm talking about.
1) One way to explain this is bots.
2) Another way to explain this is you actually saw genuine enthusiasm for the first time. As somebody who has spent a long time on the Internet, I've never seen a large forum like that devoted to some cause that was basically a 24/7 party-like atmosphere with genuine extreme enthusiasm and people having fun shit-posting, not worrying about political correctness, and making memes. If it was the case that the enthusiasm was indeed an outlier, then the level of activity would also be an outlier.
In light of actual evidence, how one interprets this is pretty subjective and minds are already made up. You be the judge, but I think the answer is obvious.
I occasionally look at a few very niche subreddits, but for news, Reddit is complete garbage. Reddit has been kind of dead to me since 2016. They were the first big victim of the ongoing anti-free-speech wave that started in 2016.
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> /R/the_donald was consistently getting bullshit content to the front page using bots. Just curious, how do you know for a fact that bots were involved in boosting the content? I mean, I'm sure that's possible, it's just that the level of energy/enthusiasm there among the users was extremely high to the point that I think it's reasonable to think that the subreddit's success was mostly just people being enthusiastic…
There's a filter on reddit that is a "1hour/top" that basically shows content that's quickly upvoted. I've watched this tab for many years because it strikes the right balance between new and interesting content. During the trump election. Everyday there were multiple posts to the sub getting upvoted and this went on for months. Also, multiple people analyzed the content voting for that subreddit and it significantly…