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The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

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Re: The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

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Without being snarky, though, what's left to add? What minority is left disenfranchised?

If you can ignore the incompleteness of black/women/LGBT civil rights movements and the current attacks on black/women/LGBT rights, there's a lot that can be done in things like mental illness (both mild and extreme forms), medical debt, disability, poverty traps, veterans, homeless, prisoners.

Okay, but you specifically said:

>I'd hate to be the one to have to tell the minority picked last that their civil rights isn't scheduled until 2050.

Can you give me a specific example related to that, as in, name a minority that hasn't yet had their 'civil rights' granted?

Because my take on what's going on kinda aligns with the guy above, there's been a mass push for stuff that isn't any kind of accepted by the general populace (and affects fractions of a percent of people) and it's caused a blowback effect when people get sick of having micro-minority issues make daily headline news when their lives are getting measurably worse.

If you were talking about extending basic civil rights to groups that were measurably disenfranchised I don't think you'd be seeing the same pushback.

Instead we see 'drag queen story hour' repeat x 10. You don't have to be any kind of conservative to realise that drag shows and culture aren't well understood by the mainstream population and that a lot of people are going to get the wrong fucking idea and be annoyed as hell but the left just keep hammering it over and over again, like, it's NOT HELPING YOUR CAUSE. I can see it isn't helping. I can see it's going to create resentment and increase divisiveness. Why can't they see that? Are the walls of their bubble that thick? Do they have that much contempt for the average person?

Re: The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

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Perhaps if Congress and media actually addressed voting fraud concerns rather than pretending that our elections magically became perfect now that a Democrat won something, then no one would have shown up. But as it is, it's unclear who won the election without fraud.

>But as it is, it's unclear who won the election without fraud. No it isn't.

Who won Georgia? Fulton County uploaded enough questionable votes to account for the number of votes Biden allegedly won by, a couple times over. That was never looked into before certification.

Other states have similar problems.

Re: The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

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It's just another boring scroll hole for 1 minute content bites, like the rest of the internet is becoming.

It's more of a place to share useless time filler to be scrolled on a phone, and a place to have mostly useless fights(As a time filler).

Nobody really likes it enough to call it entertainment, it's just a pacifier.

Re: The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

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If you can ignore the incompleteness of black/women/LGBT civil rights movements and the current attacks on black/women/LGBT rights, there's a lot that can be done in things like mental illness (both mild and extreme forms), medical debt, disability, poverty traps, veterans, homeless, prisoners.

Okay, but you specifically said: >I'd hate to be the one to have to tell the minority picked last that their civil rights isn't scheduled until 2050. Can you give me a specific example related to that, as in, name a minority that hasn't yet had their 'civil rights' granted? Because my take on what's going on kinda aligns with the guy above, there's been a mass push for stuff that isn't any kind of accepted by the gen…

The proud boys did terrorize children and adults at a drag queen story hour this month.

https://www.businessinsider.com/why-are-the-proud-boys-so-af...

Unless you're complaining about far right terrorism or intentionality divisive mainstream media coverage, you've completely lost me.

Re: The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

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One word: transgender. Any light criticism or joke results in a subreddit and site wide ban.

Do you have any specific examples of the 'light criticism' or joke (including where it was posted) that directly caused the site-wide ban?

The Aimee Challenor debacle was a very high-profile, high-criticism, well documented incident.

Re: The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

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I live in NYC and was first-hand there for the BLM protests. Can attest that they were almost unilaterally peaceful from my anecdotal experience. The police were extreme in their responses. I was at Un Sq and ppl in the streets were just chanting "no justice, no peace" (but peacefully doing so, I suppose a bit of irony), and suddenly the police yelled out to disperse. I was off the to the side just to observe a momen…

I watched from my roof as someone rammed a moving van into multiple store fronts. I'm going to stick with my lying eyes.

You watched someone. As in one person. Which the person you are replying to already acknowledged that there were some bad actors however, the movement was largely peaceful.

Saying that you are sticking to your lying eyes is not productive to the conversation when you are responding to someone else with a first person account too.

Re: The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

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I have not noticed this. What is "the message"?

Generally anything that does not fit the ideologies of a typical reddit mod, and yes they will have certain belief systems, as most people do not have the time or desire to be moderating even for a few hours a day for no monetary rewards, which the average reddit mod sort of needs to have. This is why reddit leans heavily socialist/communist/anti-capitalist (moderated by people who believe moderating for free is more…

If that were true, any human activity done without monetary reward would be dominated by socialists/communist.

Re: The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

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One thing I noticed the other day on Reddit is some subreddits will now ban you by proxy. On my main account I subscribe to alot of subs. While I won't say which one, there was a controversial sub I left a comment on, the comment was benign, I think I was explaining some tech concept. Almost immediately though I got banned from ~20 subreddits, the wording was basically: "we see that you have participated in this sub,…

It was kotakuinaction, no?

Why does it matter what specific subreddit was? Are you trying to cast aspersions on his character? Why?

Re: The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos

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It could also be something as innocuous as software piracy. Not sure about reddit specifically but a lot of websites will immediately nuke anybody who tries to link to pirated content because they're terrified of getting sued.

Reddit has a fairly lively /r/piracy subreddit.

Doesn't mean people don't get banned for it.
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