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Reeddit - Minimalist, elastic and read-only web app client for Reddit

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Re: Reeddit - Minimalist, elastic and read-only web app client for Reddit

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Post by willurd »

pekk wrote: post #58
redthrowaway wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Censorship has become an issue within some subreddits, too. It's not about getting rid of blatant spammers any more. Far too often we've seen contributing, albeit unorthodox, members of these communities banned for expressing views that may be controversial, but still worth expressing. Reddit's problem has never been spam. In fact, you alluded to it earlier in your post: it's quality. "Censorship", aka moderation, i…

Moderation on the basis of ideological purity does not produce "quality content," just an artificial ideological uniformity.

I think you're on to something here. I'm going to ponder this for a while.

Re: Reeddit - Minimalist, elastic and read-only web app client for Reddit

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Post by knocknock »

redwood wrote: post #42

Honestly IMO the biggest problem with reddit's subreddit UX is that you can't choose the ratio of which subreddits are most important to you. Unfortunately you're not really fixing that... I think that would be more powerful than showing groups of subreddits. In other words, I should be able to say "I want 30% of my links to come from r/worldnews, 10% from r/science, 5% each from r/biology, r/programming, r/chemistry…

I agree that this is a huge problem that reddit has. I hardly ever see any stories on my frontpage from the smaller subreddits I subscribe to.

Re: Reeddit - Minimalist, elastic and read-only web app client for Reddit

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Post by redthrowaway »

pekk wrote: post #58
redthrowaway wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Censorship has become an issue within some subreddits, too. It's not about getting rid of blatant spammers any more. Far too often we've seen contributing, albeit unorthodox, members of these communities banned for expressing views that may be controversial, but still worth expressing. Reddit's problem has never been spam. In fact, you alluded to it earlier in your post: it's quality. "Censorship", aka moderation, i…

Moderation on the basis of ideological purity does not produce "quality content," just an artificial ideological uniformity.

I've been a redditor for something like 4 years. I've read thousands of complaints about Nazi mods banning people they disagree with. Upon closer inspection, I've found the vast majority of those who were banned deserved it. In only a handful of cases have I seen mods who legitimately were trying to censor opinions they disagreed with.

People have a tendency to hide behind the principle of free speech as if it were all-encompassing and omnibenevolent. It isn't. Just because you have the right to speak your mind doesn't mean you have the right to be heard. Low-quality contributions can and must be suppressed if the level of discussion in a community is to remain high.

Re: Reeddit - Minimalist, elastic and read-only web app client for Reddit

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Post by baquerober »

matthuggins wrote: post #56

I like the layout. One main reason I wouldn't use it is that I can't see how many upvotes/downvotes each comment has, and I don't know how you have the comments sorted right now.

I am not changing the 'natural' way Reddit sorts the comments and posts - which is basically based on the result of upvotes - downvotes through time.
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