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Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet

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Re: Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet

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Post by IshKebab »

andrewmcwatters wrote: post #255
VLM wrote: post #164

For, uh, purely scientific purposes I've noticed the posting volume on pr0n subreddits like /r/gonewild and uh, a few dozen similar subreddits, is perhaps 100 to 1000 times the sheer posting volume of a controversial subreddit like /r/the_donald. The sheer volume of relatively R rated pr0n is perhaps 1000 times the volume of everything else. There seems to be tap dancing around the issue that reddit is a 1960s Playbo…

That's legitimately hilarious. Thanks for sharing this tidbit.

What tidbit? His totally made up statistics?

Because I've noticed that the amount of posting on mainstream subreddit is maybe 5-7 gazillion times more than the porn ones so he's full of shit.

Re: Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet

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Post by tim333 »

aje403 wrote: post #141

Most people are idiots. Consider that half of the population (hypothetically) has less than a 100 IQ score. Idiots did different things together 100 years ago and, 1000 years before that, groups of idiots would get together to raid and rape and pillage. They still do that in other places in the world. Now they come onto the internet to send hateful things and porn to one another. Most of the biggest idiots do not go…

Historically, "The term "idiot" was used to refer to people having an IQ below 30." So not on that definition.

Re: Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet

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Post by andrewmcwatters »

IshKebab wrote: post #751
andrewmcwatters wrote: post #255

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's legitimately hilarious. Thanks for sharing this tidbit.

What tidbit? His totally made up statistics? Because I've noticed that the amount of posting on mainstream subreddit is maybe 5-7 gazillion times more than the porn ones so he's full of shit.

Thanks for mentioning statistics, then using gazillion in your post, really makes it seem more valid.

Re: Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet

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Post by iamcasen »

nkurz wrote: post #680
iamcasen wrote: post #672

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I'm opposed to all political advertising period, and would have also considered a Clinton presidency non-optimal, though likely more stable than what we have now. I'm fine with the down votes, but it should be pretty obvious that it would have been Marco Rubio, or some other sanitary GOP member who got elected if it wasn't for the Russian troll brigade on the internet whipping up a frenzy for Trump. That's my only po…

it should be pretty obvious that it would have been Marco Rubio, or some other sanitary GOP member who got elected if it wasn't for the Russian troll brigade on the internet whipping up a frenzy for Trump You raise a wonderful point. Personally, I don't think a "Russian troll brigade" was singularly more effective than all the other attempts to affect the election, but if there was an influence, it certainly may have…

You know, that's a good question. I read a lot, and I pay attention a lot, so for me dots get connected rather naturally. There isn't much out there talking about russian spamming taking place during the primary. I found this though: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/congress...

That being said, my family is loaded with died-in-the-wool republicans, and I remember them all blown away by the fact that trump was winning the primary. None of them could believe it, and they all hated him during the primary!

After trump won, and it was him vs clinton, then the narrative switched. They loved trump at that point.

It was very chilling. It became clear to me that these folks were heavily influenced by some sort of propaganda because their minds changed like the wind!

Re: Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet

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Post by UrukParthian »

iamcasen wrote: post #672
lopmotr wrote: post #430

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Huh? What if Clinton had won and started a nuclear holocaust? Who's to blame then? You must be opposed to all political advertising for the party you don't like because somehow you're able to see that it's bad and the other half of the population isn't. That's being hopelessly blinded by partisanship.

I'm opposed to all political advertising period, and would have also considered a Clinton presidency non-optimal, though likely more stable than what we have now. I'm fine with the down votes, but it should be pretty obvious that it would have been Marco Rubio, or some other sanitary GOP member who got elected if it wasn't for the Russian troll brigade on the internet whipping up a frenzy for Trump. That's my only po…

You also realize that democrats secretly promoted Trump because they figured he would muck up the Republican primaries and become an unelectable candidate.

Not to mention how incredibly ignorant you have to be to not notice how out-of-stock (out of touch but maybe they lack a stock of common sense) coastal liberals are to the real problems and realities of the "silent majority". Blaming Russia is like blaming a soldier for giving a enemy a bayonet stab. Of course after this enemy has suffered grievous wounds from his own side.

Re: Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet

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Post by rexpop »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #530
branchless wrote: post #466

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My interest is that the feudal lord was living off the backs of others. The state taxing land to build hospitals is not the same thing.

Lords often got their start in lording by building a bridge.

I would read the heck out of a book that purported this.

Re: Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet

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Post by rexpop »

branchless wrote: post #466
thaumasiotes wrote: post #355

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you referring to a feudal lord as a "private landlord" or a "devolved local state"? Both would be more or less fully appropriate. "Devolved local state" is slightly more accurate than "private landlord", because unlike a landlord in a more commercialized society, a feudal lord was not legally able to sell the land he owned. He was legally able to govern it.

My interest is that the feudal lord was living off the backs of others. The state taxing land to build hospitals is not the same thing.

You might enjoy Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17802312-stop-thief
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