Dissecting Trump’s Most Rabid Online Following

Post by aanm1988 » Thu, Mar 23, 2017, 6:51 PM UTC

Arizhel wrote: post #8

wopwopwop wrote: post #7

I haven't read the linked articled (yet), but I wanted to urge everyone to check out r/the_donald. It is the strangest online community that I've seen. Truth doesn't really matter unless it supports us, everyone who says good things about us is right and everyone who doesn't is a corrupt MSM cuck libtard. To get banned you don't even have to be critical of Trump. If you're even ambiguous you'll get banned. In a sense…

It sounds just like the /r/Hillary_Clinton subreddit I briefly checked out during the election. I said something a little bit critical of Hillary and was immediately banned. This is just how Americans are these days. You have to pick a camp, and you need to agree 100% with everything in that camp or else you'll be shunned. And there's only two main camps too; if you try to pick an alternative camps, or even a camp th…

Post by Panoramix » Thu, Mar 23, 2017, 9:40 PM UTC

Arizhel wrote: post #8

wopwopwop wrote: post #7

I haven't read the linked articled (yet), but I wanted to urge everyone to check out r/the_donald. It is the strangest online community that I've seen. Truth doesn't really matter unless it supports us, everyone who says good things about us is right and everyone who doesn't is a corrupt MSM cuck libtard. To get banned you don't even have to be critical of Trump. If you're even ambiguous you'll get banned. In a sense…

It sounds just like the /r/Hillary_Clinton subreddit I briefly checked out during the election. I said something a little bit critical of Hillary and was immediately banned. This is just how Americans are these days. You have to pick a camp, and you need to agree 100% with everything in that camp or else you'll be shunned. And there's only two main camps too; if you try to pick an alternative camps, or even a camp th…

Post by mshenfield » Fri, Mar 24, 2017, 11:25 AM UTC

wyldfire wrote: post #9

The code is on GH [1] and the data is on BigQuery [2]. [1] https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/subreddi... [2] https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/table/fh-bigquery:reddit_c...

Post by peregrine » Sun, Mar 26, 2017, 4:39 PM UTC

mkstowegnv wrote: post #15

peregrine wrote: post #6

This story is extremely fascinating and relevant to the HackerNews Community but it's already been Shadow Banned. Neat.

sorry but how can someone/some group shadow ban a story and who do you suppose would be behind shadow banning this one?