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Am I the only one who has no problem with a parent company not wanting pro-marijuana ads running on their sites? They legitimately own Reddit, it seems rather childish that Reddit is "rebelling" by running the ads for free.
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I wouldn't be so quick to assume that. there is a deep entrenchment in the establishment to oppose hemp, for purely economic reasons. the war on drugs cannabis is way too profitable for the so-called "northeastern liberalismists" to turn away from it.
Uh, what?
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The more surprising thing IMHO is the air of superiority that Reddit users have over religion, and especially over people who watch Fox News etc. Now I'm not for one minute defending people who only watch Fox News, but there are people who only get their news from Reddit. So instead of a blinkered, biased, inaccurate kneejerkist feed of stories from Fox, they get a blinkered, biased, inaccurate kneejerkist feed of st…
> but there are people who only get their news from Reddit. Can you suggest an alternative to reddit? I really want a less politic, religion or cat pics more tech, coding and critical thinking community.
Am I the only one who has no problem with a parent company not wanting pro-marijuana ads running on their sites? They legitimately own Reddit, it seems rather childish that Reddit is "rebelling" by running the ads for free.
Why do you think they're rebelling? Isn't the most natural interpretation that the corporate statement ("we don't want to profit from this issue") is accurate, and that Conde Nast doesn't mind if Reddit runs the ads?
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CN bought reddit so they can do whatever they want to do with reddit. Either you take the cash or you leave it.
True, but there's also the massive anarchistic user base. /r/all is/was yelling censorship top to bottom. Starting to look a lot like the Digg Revolt[1] circa '07 regarding the 09 F9 .. censorship. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy...
We lost a lot of good users that day...
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They probably thought they were buying a broad general "What news will look like in the future" website. In fact they ended up with a liberal pro drug, pro gay, pro adblock, anti capitalism, anti consumerism, anti advertising, athiest website. As time has gone on Reddits userbase seems to have become narrower and narrower even though it's obviously grown massively. Maybe it's groupthink at work, or maybe it's just co…
Don't forget "anti-semitic". And before anyone even has the audacity to say "it's anti-Israel, not anti-semitic", this: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/ccnir/im_gonna_get...
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The power of reddit (and for that matter hackernews) is the top-voted comment on most articles is a thorough debunking/rebuttal. I'll often read articles that seem perfectly reasonable but are quickly ripped to shreds by the community. So while you are getting a pre-filtered view of the news, you're not getting a single viewpoint on that news. Furthermore (edit), the subreddits that you subscribe to radically change…
That's not the case at all IMHO. The top voted comment is just whatever the groupthink agrees is the 'right' stance on that issue. Over time online communities such as HN and Reddit gravitate towards a specific set of viewpoints. It means that you start only seeing certain types of article, you only see certain types of comments, comments that 'toe the party line' are upvoted to top, etc. The other funny thing is how…
Which is why we should not have politics here.
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Don't forget "anti-semitic". And before anyone even has the audacity to say "it's anti-Israel, not anti-semitic", this: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/ccnir/im_gonna_get...
Gee, I don't think it takes much "audacity". As far as I can tell as an occasional reader, there's some anti-semitism and a lot more anti-Israel politics. But the picture you linked to is neither of those. It's garden-variety 4chan shockerism, and it looks like it worked.
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Not really, during the aacs thing digg literally stopped to function under the weight of 09 f9 subissions. In comparison I've seen more pro-Ron Paul sentimennt on the front page at any given time than I have prop 19 stuff today.
Reddit responded to the prop 19 issue far more quickly than digg responded to the 09 f9 issue, mind.