Aaron Swartz must be rolling in his grave.
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
#62This is incredibly disturbing, in light of the fact Reddit's CEO was once caught secretly editing[1] the comments of The Donald's users. Can't assume this is being done in good faith as the comments leading The Donald to be quarantined could be edits, or shill accounts. I'm sure someone will say "their website, their rules" but in that case it's better to just ban it entirely instead of engaging in subversive practic…
Disturbing? I don't think so. I subscribe to the_donald because I want to keep up with what the nutters are saying. Yesterday I reported a post where they had photshopped out the dots in the " i "s in all of Mike Bloomberg's ads and replaced them with the star of david. That's just yesterday. And just one post that caught my eye. And it was one of the top posts of the day with thousands and thousands of votes and hundreds of comments. What's actually disturbing is the view that subreddit affords into the minds of 20-30% of the country.
The_donald has always been breaking the rules. The only reason it isn't banned is because reddit doesn't want the bad press of deleting it outright, even by their own rules it should have been nuked ages ago.
Finally, this isn't even touching the level of silent censorship that happens on hacker news to maintain its quality so its a really funny place to take a stand on it. If reddit is disturbing to you then man, you should be horrified by this place. Funny how HN is such a great place for discourse -- wonder how that happened.
edit: since a ne'er-do-well has accused me of lying here's a screenshot of the post. But I want to make it clear, this is one example out of an infinity of examples. I am illustrating that the_donald will not follow the rules and that's why this is happening: https://i.imgur.com/NHN1Mhx.png
Re: Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces them with approved mods
#63It 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.
It's far more active than I would have imagined from this sort of splinter forum. Though it's also the height of T_D drama which lights the perfect fire under a splinter forum.
Re: Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces them with approved mods
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Whatever one's personal views, selective enforcement has been used as a stick with which to beat certain groups and should concern everyone, even if–perhaps especially if–you aren't a member of the group being beaten at the moment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_enforcement
Reddit’s platform, Reddit’s rules. I get to pick and choose who I let yell from my front yard too, but the sidewalk is mostly fair game.
Sure. But selective enforcement of rules on a platform undermines its value as a platform.
Re: Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces them with approved mods
#65Any other subreddit would have simply been banned long ago for unremitting and unrepentant rule breaking and evasion. And by the subreddit moderators themselves, no less, not just the users!
I can't say the behavior of its participants and moderators is all that shocking. If you venerate someone famous for breaking rules, shattering norms, and thumbing his nose at the delicate sensibilities of others, what are the odds you are going to be careful with "community guidelines" and such? And what are the odds you'll meekly accept your dethronement by "insiders", the reddit "deep state"? I don't expect this to unfold gracefully or be over any time soon.
Re: Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces them with approved mods
#66The 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.
That's an incredibly charitable description.
First, Trump lost the popular vote by millions.
Second, T_D has been a source of posts that incite violence, harass other users and general racism/homophobia
Re: Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces them with approved mods
#67I 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…
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
Re: Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces them with approved mods
#68The '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?
You say this as if the members of r/the_donald are just regular ol' folks just talkin' about their candidate. This was/is one of the most rule-breaking subreddits on the entire website, which has only survived until this day due to preferential treatment. Subreddits have been completely banned for much, much less.
Re: Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces them with approved mods
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reddit’s platform, Reddit’s rules. I get to pick and choose who I let yell from my front yard too, but the sidewalk is mostly fair game.
Sure. But selective enforcement of rules on a platform undermines its value as a platform.
Value to whom? Reddit has decided that they do not value the users being deplatfomed. Any value you receive from the platform as a user is a byproduct.
Pool funds for VMs and fire up phpBB or IRC if unhappy with the platforms available.
Re: Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces them with approved mods
#70I 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…
Misleading summation.
Reddit will ban users for upvoting RULE BREAKING posts on quarantined subreddits. In other words, they're going to ban the people posting rule breaking content and also people promoting it via upvotes (after warnings/repeat behaviour/etc).
To let others know about this without including the RULE BREAKING part is misleading.