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Post by jtdev »

varispeed wrote: post #255

Is Reddit now partially owned by China? If that's the case then I believe there will be more of that. It's just part of the agenda to create divide and chaos in the West.

Not sure on any ownership stake by the CCP, but it does seem that U.S. social media companies in general have zero loyalty to the U.S., its people, or the principles that the U.S. was founded on and stands for.

I get the impression that U.S. social media companies have a very sympathetic mindset and relationship with the CCP driven by social media company's desire to use their technology to surveil and drive the economic, social, and political direction of humans on a mass scale.

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Post by mam2 »

musingsole wrote: post #281
mam2 wrote: post #203

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am 100% convinced that the rate of pedophile is higher in: - positions of power (we have had a few in france who were judges / party representatives etC...) - any job close to children, which includes in particular schools, but also.. - church Why ? Because if you woke up tommorow as a pedophile, without any morals, and wanted to maximise the "chances" to satisfy your sexual attraction, where would you go ? Exactly…

> - any job close to children, which includes in particular... Schools! Oh...you went a different route. Right, we don't acknowledge the widespread sexual misconduct and cover-ups in the schools for another 5 years in this timeline because the church story was just so juicy.

I absolutely meant school on this bullet point :) (i edited)

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Post by notwhereyouare »

notJim wrote: post #253
pumaontheprowl wrote: post #66

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The new UX on the site is unusable. I don't use anything except old.reddit.com and if they ever try to get rid of that, I'll surely stop visiting the site altogether. You have to wonder how long they'll continue to maintain two different web frontends for the site, though.

What's the issue with it? I see nothing but hate, but I honestly don't mind the new design. Edit: lol, I participate in a lot of contentious threads here, but this simple question where I am genuinely trying to understand something has generated the most downvotes.

for me personally, it's slower to load and seems to have more issues. There's a good chance if new reddit is struggling to load, old.reddit.com loads just fine

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Post by _jal »

auser1231232 wrote: post #181
douglasisshiny wrote: post #98

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I'm sorry -- are Trump supporters not able to speak any more? To my knowledge that is not at all the case. There's even one subreddit dedicated to asking Trump supporters questions, although posts have to be approved by the moderators.

> I'm sorry -- are Trump supporters not able to speak any more? The subreddit was banned, Donald Trump was banned from Twitter, a very popular conservative social media platform was kicked off of its hosting providers, etc. Regardless of your political views, it is abundantly clear that certain viewpoints and opinions are being suppressed, which is fundamentally contradictory to free speech and American values.

> which is fundamentally contradictory to free speech and American values

Freedom of association is a deeply American concept. Within certain parameters, I can ban anyone I want from my business.

The problem here is that certain entitled people feel entitled to use other peoples' property as their own.

Also... just noting that many of those same users went on to do arguably the most unAmerican thing in American history - they attempted to end it.

You can spit and puff all you like, but I won't be listening to a word you have to say about who is and isn't acting in the American tradition.

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Post by disgrunt »

nindalf wrote: post #200
caslon wrote: post #174

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What's the harm in such a pointless joke? It was silly, but it's not like the meme subreddit he did it to was a super serious one like AskHistorians is.

I get where you're coming from, but to the users of the_donald, it wasn't a meme subreddit. They thought they were the main reason he got elected in 2016 and were looking forward to playing a similarly pivotal role in 2020.

> I get where you're coming from, but to the users of the_donald, it wasn't a meme subreddit. They thought they were the main reason he got elected in 2016 and were looking forward to playing a similarly pivotal role in 2020.

That sounds exactly like what a Donald Trump meme subreddit would say.

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Post by devwastaken »

pen2l wrote: post #152
trident5000 wrote: post #111

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The CEO himself admitted to going into The_Donald subreddit (before it was banned) and editing user comments. I don't think this guy is leading the charge to admin transparency. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/reddit-ceo-edits-user-comment...

This gets brought up a lot. And it's a bit of a doozy to make sense of. First, consider the context: the CEO (spez) was an easy punching bag on the_donald subreddit, in fact it was a bit of a meme there to attack reddit's admins (and those in the know do know that the attacks were often crossing a line, like accusing them of being pedophiles and things of the nature). The change that spez made was a bit of a joke its…

The problem isn't just that spez had an act of weakness - it's that reddits admin tools have built in features to modify comments. Meaning they're using that feature more than just this singular time.

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Post by icholy »

notJim wrote: post #253
pumaontheprowl wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The new UX on the site is unusable. I don't use anything except old.reddit.com and if they ever try to get rid of that, I'll surely stop visiting the site altogether. You have to wonder how long they'll continue to maintain two different web frontends for the site, though.

What's the issue with it? I see nothing but hate, but I honestly don't mind the new design. Edit: lol, I participate in a lot of contentious threads here, but this simple question where I am genuinely trying to understand something has generated the most downvotes.

It's slow.

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Post by uvnq »

lettergram wrote: post #271
BitwiseFool wrote: post #18

Reddit feels very Soviet lately. Everything is heavily manipulated and it seems like users are aware of that fact but are powerless to change anything.

There is the ".win" community - https://patriots.win/ https://communities.win/ Which does have a more classic feel.

The first link is pretty conservative if that's your interest. They sometimes share good leads to information/news from primary sources, which is pretty useful imo. Especially stuff that is not reported on or shared outside of conservative circles. For example, links to the uncut bodycam footage of the George Floyd incident as soon as it was leaked by the Daily Mail. As always it's best to be skeptical of the information you hear online.

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Post by adamrezich »

notahacker wrote: post #261
maxk42 wrote: post #30

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Reddit's automoderator is not a wild animal that gets "aggressive." It's a simple regex: https://www.reddit.com/wiki/automoderator/full-documentation Someone edited the rules to deliberately block any mention of the name in question site-wide.

Tbf admin real names seem like quite a reasonable thing to include in such a regex (unless they're so common it's likely to be an accidental collision or publicly known) which is consistent with Reddit's explanation The allegation is that the name was only mentioned in the body of a linked (paywalled) article though...

But it's the name of a public figure (outside of the admin role)

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Post by irrational »

prepend wrote: post #220
pen2l wrote: post #152

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This gets brought up a lot. And it's a bit of a doozy to make sense of. First, consider the context: the CEO (spez) was an easy punching bag on the_donald subreddit, in fact it was a bit of a meme there to attack reddit's admins (and those in the know do know that the attacks were often crossing a line, like accusing them of being pedophiles and things of the nature). The change that spez made was a bit of a joke its…

> pretty insignifiant in the grand scheme of things. It was super significant in that it was evidence that Reddit employees have the ability to edit messages with no audit trail and no governance. So while the individual edit was not important, the fact that it happened was. And there is an unknown number of other edits that were never disclosed and is unprovable. So Reddit broke the one thing it’s supposed to do- al…

>that Reddit employees have the ability to edit messages with no audit trail and no governance.

Help me understand this. Reddit is a private company. Is there some sort of contract somewhere that says they won't edit messages and will maintain an audit trail? I mean, I might not like that they are doing it, but I'm also not paying a dime for Reddit (and I have all ads blocked, so they doubly aren't making any money off of me) so I don't see where I can be upset if Reddit does this. You get what you pay for.

If we want governance and audit trails, it either needs to be maintained as a public resource, paid for out of tax dollars, or needs to be a fully paid for product that involves entering into a 2 way contract. Otherwise, I think they are free and clear to do whatever they want to do with any subreddits, posts, or comments.

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