191–200 of 298 posts
where do these users go ?
Check out r/worldnews or r/politics for reddit's consensus view of "impartial moderation". The recent events are to be expected and certainly were.
I think the approach is bizarre. How will replacing 1/2 of T_D mods with new management solve anything? What is the goal? I would really like to understand what is going on in the room when these ideas are presented. T_D is a cesspool. It's not the only cesspool on Reddit. It is a special cesspool with special attention and solutions that are tricky, especially in an election year. At some point, big tech companies a…
Reddit is pretty clearly trying to find any viable alternative to outright banning T_D. They're attempting a proof by exhaustion that the community will not cooperate with any viable moderation policy. They're rightly afraid to just pull the trigger and delete the whole subreddit. There's also some chance that they can get the community in its current form to die in a more organic and less sudden manner, by expunging…
I personally think that this article buried the lede as far as controversial Reddit actions go. Users now can be (and have been) banned for upvoting posts in quarantined subreddits (both on the right - T_D - and the left - Chapo Trap House - among others). I've seen controversy erupt all around Reddit about this and it doesn't feel right to me. If the content that people are upvoting is bad enough to get banned over…
Anything said by supporters of this and the other subs you mention are coming from an echo chamber of self victimization. The Youtube related first amendment case form earlier in the week is directly analogous to this but Reddit Admins are trying to handle this on site and not draw media attention to their actions or the sub.
It's ironic that this publication is ostensibly anti-censorship. One of the few things I know about this subreddit is how quick they were to delete posts and ban commenters that didn't fit in with their worldview.
It's an echo chamber of self-victimization that probably sees the Youtube case earlier this week on first amendment application as both a win for private companies and a loss of what they consider their right to free speech.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
NP links aren't 100% effective in stopping brigading. You can simply remove the "np." from the URL.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Compare to /r/AMD_Stock which has a fraction of the size but basically exists to take sides in one of those contentious issues. Most of the time I venture there, I come away with the impression that an outright majority of the comments are shitposts that the community would be better off without. Though I don't think even on that subreddit that I've run into any egregious violations of Reddit policy.
So I tried to visit https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/ to see what the fuss is about, but apparently Reddit wants me to jump through hoops to give them my email to even be able to view it. Is there any archive site or whatever that will let me view this subreddit without giving reddit my personal information?
https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/aayoxb/what_is_a_quar...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you have any examples of 'intent to incite violence' from those subreddits? The difference is that moderators of those subreddits try to remove that type of content.
Do you have any examples of 'intent to incite violence' from t_d?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> In response to this action the most upvoted thread was mocking WWII holocaust victims. So what? Obviously, it is in poor taste and is a bad look but its just idiots on the internet trying to be edgy and generate outrage. Knee-jerk reactions to shut them down are exactly what they want and feed off of. Trump himself does the same thing. He says and does things specifically to rile up journalists and the left to caus…
“Knee-jerk” is so disingenious, they’ve had warnings for over a year
Actions and words are two very different things and we shouldn't lose sight of that lest we be stripped of our right to speak our mind.
Unbunch you undies and stop trying to control everyone you don't agree with.
Reddit has become highly successful as a political discussion forum for people from pretty much every part of the spectrum, but the moderation is utterly opaque. Even relatively centrist subreddits, such as /r/Canada, have mods who ignore the published moderation rules of their own subreddit and do what they please. If they don't like a thread or post it just disappears, even if it violated no rule. Reddit's moderati…
This is why Reddit sucks as a political forum. Along with more open and honest moderation, you would likely have to do some serious changes to the upvote system, or do away with it all together.