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Re: Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin

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Post by jandrese »

sonthonax wrote: post #116
cde-v wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe don't hire a known child rapist/torturer if you don't want to be hated.

We're in agreement that knowingly associating oneself with pedophiles deserves a degree of opprobrium. However that does raise the question, how much opprobrium? The person in question probably suffers psychologically a great deal. Who wouldn't if they were dealt with the double-hand of gender-dysphoria and a pedophile father? I think it is safe to conclude this person is not well. Does the world really stand to gain…

Technically most Reddit staff would have to say that they were associating with pedophiles if they were around while Ghislaine Maxwell was one of the biggest and most active admins on the site.

Re: Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin

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Post by stickfigure »

The ELI5 context for those (like me) that were very confused:

Aimee Challenor is a trans (MTF) woman who was very active in UK green party politics. She appointed her father as an official in her election campaign after he had been arrested for rape and torture of a 10yo girl. For which he would subsequently be convicted and sentenced to 22 years.

Adding additional color to the narrative: Aimee Challenor is very active in the furry and infantilism communities. And her farther committed his crimes while wearing wearing baby-doll dresses and nappies.

Aimee Challenor left the green party (accusing it of transphobia) and apparently now works in some capacity for Reddit.

Re: Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin

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Post by jandrese »

Black101 wrote: post #58

I just mentioned her name and linked to a few news article on Reddit on a few different subs and haven't been banned yet. Edit: It took 22 minutes to have one of my posts locked ...

You might have to check if you are shadowbanned.

Re: Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin

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Post by frogpelt »

9387367 wrote: post #256
onewhonknocks wrote: post #244

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Now at #93.

Perhaps HN should look into the weight of flagging, judging by #votes, seems like their ranking is not working or perhaps it is and they are happy this is not the top post. Quite ironical, regardless as Reddit is a YC startup, none the less Paul Graham is the ideator and the post is about paid Reddit staff silencing users. Edit: Now at 114 on the 4th page...

If you're trying to create a discussion community where the least desirable outcome is controversial discussions/flame wars, high weight on flagging seems to be a good way to do it.

Of course, people flagging it might be thinking all kinds of things like "Why would a topic about what Reddit does be important here?"

Re: Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin

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Post by BrianOnHN »

dfraser992 wrote: post #114
BrianOnHN wrote: post #62

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Barbara who? Edit: seriously, I couldn't tell you what she's done. Sing? Movies? Both?

Oh dear... I assume you're being sincere, so no shade or anything like that. I just realized exactly how old I am relative to you and the other person who posted the same sentiment. ;) Both. She was a big big name of my parent's generation (think Rhianna version 2, Rhianna is version 3 or 4 or 5... if you go back to Maria Callas or Josephine Baker being version 1)

I guess Rihanna better do something worth her namesake soon, then!

And no "shade" or anything... am I using that right?... but those latter two names are more foreign than B.S.

Re: Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin

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Post by felipelemos »

phpnode wrote: post #22

HN is also penalising threads that discuss this. This post has 74 upvotes in 27 minutes and 11 comments at time of writing. Ordinarily it would significantly outrank most of the other posts on the front page, but it doesn't seem to be able to break past #15. Either this is because HN users are flagging it, or because something else is going on. As Reddit is a YC company it'd be really nice to hear an explanation. Thi…

5th page now.

Re: Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin

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Post by Black101 »

jandrese wrote: post #263
Black101 wrote: post #58

I just mentioned her name and linked to a few news article on Reddit on a few different subs and haven't been banned yet. Edit: It took 22 minutes to have one of my posts locked ...

You might have to check if you are shadowbanned.

I can see my comments from another account and one of my comment that I made since then have been upvoted... so I appear to not be shadowbanned (shadow banning is another very shady practice).

Re: Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin

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Post by felipelemos »

onewhonknocks wrote: post #244
9387367 wrote: post #228

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This thread has more votes (454 points) than any on the front page apart from number 1 (540 points) with more comments, 205 vs 118 from the top post. As of now, it seats on the second page at #44.

Now at #93.

#128 for me now

Re: Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin

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Post by howinteresting »

slibhb wrote: post #226
DanBC wrote: post #220

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> No one is saying transition is a "regrettable outcome". Please for the love of christ just spend 10 minutes reading some of the gender critical arguments before trying to represent them here, because you're saying stuff that is 1) untrue and 2) very obviously untrue to anyone who's given even cursory attention to what these people are saying. Transition currently has very low rates of regret; lower than many other…

You interpreted my post as a bizarre absolute. I meant "no one here," not "no one period". Either way, your post is nit-picking. My point was that being against affirmation in all cases is simple not the same thing as viewing all transitions as a "regrettable outcome". > Transition currently has very low rates of regret; lower than many other forms of surgery. Hip replacement has higher rates of regret and there's no…

No, you can't say that without failing to support trans people, I'm afraid. Doing harm is as bad as allowing harm.
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