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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

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Post by chrisco255 »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #63
sergiotapia wrote: post #42

It 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.

It's been active for months. They knew Reddit was moving in this direction over a year ago and then when they got quarantined last summer they sped up development and released it. T_D had close to 1 million members, so it's a big population of users.

Re: Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces them with approved mods

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Post by s_y_n_t_a_x »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #63
sergiotapia wrote: post #42

It 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.

It's been the official website of the T_D subreddit for awhile now.

This is not the first wave of drama T_D mods have dealt with. They've dealt with quarantines, post-editing, brigading, and ranking algorithm changes, that's why they have a site already and are using it as a primary platform as opposed to a backup (although the subreddit still has a much larger user base, the content is fresher on the main site).

Also, half of America approves of Trump's job, it's not crazy to think that there's a large amount of traffic, they have to go somewhere online.

Re: Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces them with approved mods

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Post by rtkwe »

baalimago wrote: post #20

The '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?

This is at the end of a long long line of trying to find some way to deal with one of the more unruly subreddits on the site that's been the source of loads of brigading, vote manipulation [0], and doxxing. If a community can't behave after 4 years of warnings and increasing controls at some point Reddit had to do something, this is short of just banning everyone and nuking the community which they're well within their rights to do.

[0] At one point td was basically the only thing on r/all because they found out that by upvoting everything and stickying posts to get upvoted they could spam the rest of the site.

Re: Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces them with approved mods

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Post by dave5104 »

ceejayoz wrote: post #67
baybal2 wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

What? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Publications

"Owned" is a bit generous. But Tencent has a financial investment in reddit.

> In February 2019, Chinese company Tencent invested $150 million into Reddit as part of its Series D.

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit

Re: Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces them with approved mods

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Post by rhema »

I think the approach is bizarre. How will replacing 1/2 of T_D mods with new management solve anything? What is the goal? I would really like to understand what is going on in the room when these ideas are presented.

T_D is a cesspool. It's not the only cesspool on Reddit. It is a special cesspool with special attention and solutions that are tricky, especially in an election year. At some point, big tech companies are going to have to articulate their role (wanted or not) in tweaking society.

Re: Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces them with approved mods

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Post by [deleted] »

uk_programmer wrote: post #40
maverick2007 wrote: post #7

I 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…

It is literally punishing people for liking something they don't like. This used to be a meme on forums of when someone was complaining about people liking something in a thread about discussing said thing.

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Re: Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces them with approved mods

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Post by floatingatoll »

bmarquez wrote: post #28

This 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…

Conspiracy theories are not considered valuable commentary here on HN, so ironically you may find your post flagged and remove by the community due to violating of this forum’s user and mod expectations.

Re: Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces them with approved mods

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Post by baalimago »

brosinante wrote: post #41
baalimago wrote: post #20

The '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?

the_donald is not the subreddit of a presidential candidate.

Oh, I were not aware. I don't have a reddit account and can't even get into the subreddit without one.

Re: Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces them with approved mods

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Post by Someone1234 »

botwriter wrote: post #46

The 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.

In response to this action the most upvoted thread was mocking WWII holocaust victims.

The sub got quarantined for numerous rule breaking actions including racism, doxing (inc. Reddit and Imgur employees), sexism, harassment of other subs, and violent threats.

The only way to believe that this has anything to do with supporting a political candidate is simply to ignore all the actual content and posters on that sub.

Re: Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces them with approved mods

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Post by dave5104 »

rdtsc wrote: post #78
baybal2 wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Oh interesting. I thought it was a Conde Nast company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit says it's headquartered in San Francisco and owned by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Publications which is headquartered in NYC. Where do the Chinese come into play?

Tencent invested in reddit's series D financing round in 2019. Can't figure out what % they "own", but OP implying full ownership is not entirely correct.

Edit: and looks like OP edited their comment to clarify.

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