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Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces them with approved mods

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Re: Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces them with approved mods

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Post by s_y_n_t_a_x »

skocznymroczny wrote: post #138
golf3 wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Smart move, quarantine is prelude to deletion, they're just waiting for a pretense.

Deletion will come around election time. Can't have users exposed to non-leftist point of view.

This was just in time for Super Tuesday. Can't have those dangerous ideas (popular grassroots conservatism) anywhere on our site.

Let that be a lesson, if you conservatives gather anywhere in mass on our site we will drive you away.

If it's not our site we'll bitch and moan at the credit card and hosting companies until you have to shut down.

Be careful guys. First They Came…

Re: Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces them with approved mods

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Post by update »

sergiotapia wrote: post #42

It looks like they've moved to https://thedonald.win/ - I wonder if they're using a fork of reddit's old source code. The site feels like a subreddit.

I find it interesting that your comment is being downvoted. Particularly interesting since only certain users have the downvote ability unlocked.

Your comment is informative, especially since a lot of comments so far in this thread are "Where are the users going to go?"

Re: Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces them with approved mods

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Post by baybal2 »

rdtsc wrote: post #78
baybal2 wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FYI, Reddit's major investors include one big Internet company from Shenzhen Advance publications is also having huge exposure to China through Condenast's business in China

Oh interesting. I thought it was a Conde Nast company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit says it's headquartered in San Francisco and owned by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Publications which is headquartered in NYC. Where do the Chinese come into play?

Condenast has huge business in China — unique for being a foreign company in the media business there.

One doesn't get such concessions in China for just nothing.

Re: Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces them with approved mods

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Post by ehsankia »

defertoreptar wrote: post #118
ehsankia wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Correct me if I'm wrong and I read it wrong, but I think you're mixing up things here. > Users that have more than 500 karma in quarantined subreddits outside of The Donald will not be allowed on the list of approved applicants [to be a moderator] This is only for being a moderator. Simply upvoting posts (that don't break any rules) in quarantined subreddits does not get you punished. > If the content that people are…

> This is only for being a moderator. Simply upvoting posts (that don't break any rules) in quarantined subreddits does not get you punished. That was a requirement given for being a new mod at /r/the_donald. There is also a separate, new rule change revealed in the recent "Transparency Report" that says that users who consistently upvote rule-breaking content will be banned. > The whole point of a quarantine is exac…

I'm sorry but this is classic tinfoil conspiracy theorizing. I do regularly check T_D out of curiosity, and almost every single time I see rule breaking comments in top posts. Threats of violence, doxxing, etc. If you can find similar content on left leaning subreddits on a regular basis that doesn't get reported and deleted right away, then I'd be happy to entertain your theory, but I have not seen it.

Also, the Donald wasn't quarantined until a few months ago, which is long long after The_Donald peaked and started popping up on r/all.

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Post by chrisco255 »

Someone1234 wrote: post #89
botwriter wrote: post #46

The comments here comparing the_donald to fascism. its a subreddit for people who support the democratically elected President of the US. Its not extreme its just shit posting and funny memes.

In response to this action the most upvoted thread was mocking WWII holocaust victims. The sub got quarantined for numerous rule breaking actions including racism, doxing (inc. Reddit and Imgur employees), sexism, harassment of other subs, and violent threats. The only way to believe that this has anything to do with supporting a political candidate is simply to ignore all the actual content and posters on that sub.

Is there a sub with 1M users that doesn't experience this? Or is it the nature of large numbers of people on anonymous internet forums that such things will always occur?

Re: Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces them with approved mods

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Post by ArchReaper »

s_y_n_t_a_x wrote: post #72
Traster wrote: post #21

I find it kind of funny that people are getting so excited. Reddit has long had a policy of banning users who breach the site rules. /r/The_donald has long had a policy of breaching site rules including brigading, harassment, threats and sharing personal information. The users of that forum have literally been linked to public shootings. Given how often the breaches occur it seems quite reasonable to actually step in…

That's not true. It's plastered all over not to brigade. NP links are required to prevent it. Ironically T_D deals with brigading from other subs all the time. The mods at T_D have followed every rule to the tee. Other subs are not expected to control all of their users, but at least to enforce the site rules, T_D mods have done this. I haven't seen any evidence otherwise. Guilty until proven innocent if we want to u…

I don't have links at the ready, but I have seen multiple instances of TD brigading with pinned topics. I am not saying I know for a fact it has happened recently, but it has happened. I don't blame you for wanting evidence, but their track record doesn't give them the benefit of the doubt.

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Post by dx87 »

bovermyer wrote: post #45
baalimago wrote: post #20

The 'frontpage of the internet' is actively taking control of the subreddit of a presidential candidate, in an election year. I know that HN is highly against Trump, and probably cheer for this decision, but how is this not a democratic issue?

I am continually amazed at how many people believe that "free speech" applies to anything other than the government. No government agency is allowed to impede free speech (with a handful of exceptions). This rule does not apply to any other organization.

I'm continually amazed at how many people believe that "free speech" didn't exist before the 1st amendment was added to the constitution of the USA.

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Post by ceejayoz »

craftyguy wrote: post #73
sdinsn wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm American. I don't know anybody, not a single soul, that uses Whatsapp.

..and "hacker" "news" continues to march towards conflating anecdotes with general trends/statistics. You are 1 American, not all Americans. Just because you don't know anyone doesn't mean there isn't anyone.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/why-dont-american...

> But according to the Pew Research Center, the number of adults using Facebook plateaued in 2018, and WhatsApp user number decreased: Only 20% of U.S. adults use WhatsApp in 2019, down from 22% in 2018. This is vastly smaller than the 73% who use YouTube, and the 69% who use Facebook. The only social media network that was less popular in the U.S. was Reddit.

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Post by asdfasgasdgasdg »

update wrote: post #130
Andhurati wrote: post #4

What does this do besides drive them to Whatsapp? Indian Nationalist movement grew to the level it is today in part because of the rapid growth of Nationalist whatsapp echo-chambers.

> What does this do besides drive them to Whatsapp? The mods of T_D have created a website, thedonald.win, in anticipation of T_D being shut down. Anyone who visits that sub regularly knows that that's "The new T_D"

Which is a good outcome for everyone involved. Reddit wants to contain the blast radius of T/D. T/D wants to be able to post things that aren't considered acceptable on Reddit. People can and should vote with their feet.

Re: Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces them with approved mods

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Post by floatingatoll »

craftyguy wrote: post #77
floatingatoll wrote: post #56

Reddit’s letter to the forum mods: https://i.imgur.com/lX83eZV.png

> Sign in required >This page may contain erotic or adult imagery. You'll need to sign in if you still want to view it. Fuck that.

That’s usually due to supporters of the forum in question flagging it to prevent others from viewing it easily. If you have the mobile Imgur app it can view the link without being signed in.
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