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If you’d read the entire article, you wouldn’t ask why his character is called into question. The receipts are documented.
That's a one-sided article. You should read Michael's replies + other people who've been to Codesmith.
I'm Michael and this was about me. This person never reached out for comment and is missing half the story. I'm happy to fill people in on the rest if this person or someone else wants to hear. I agree with one or two of the characterizations but the majority I don't and there is a lot more to this story than it seems... RE: INDUSTRY. Rithm School (their main competitor) shut down. Hack Reactor is down to single digi…
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Try posting in /r/conservative, I replied to a comment there once and received a bunch of bans from other subs shortly afterwards. It doesn't matter what you post, just the association with that sub is apparently enough.
r/Conservative is a very special case. If you're at the point where you have been vetted and allowed to post on r/Conservative, you've gone way past mere "association." This isn't like some board game forum where you can just create an account and start posting. r/Conservative (probably with good reason) has a long and very active vetting process before you're allowed to post there, and only posts that conform to the…
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I don't say things like "you are not X" when I do not know whether a person is in fact X or not. I read all the same comments you did, and i didn't reach any particular conclusion about the person's politics. Your case is incredibly contrived, imo. A conservative who attempts to use a conservative forum and has a bad experience would have every right to talk about it. Why wouldn't they?
Why would they be shocked the top messages were from conservative viewpoints and report that here? At best the person is centre left with bi-curious right wing urges.
Moderators are the reason why I stopped using Reddit years ago. Every idiot can become a moderator, and there seem to be no rules for them. Suppressing free speech and banning everyone that doesn't share their opinion seems to be ok for them.
The constitution for the Nation of Reddit makes all speech legally protected, after all.
Besides allowing it to happen, Reddit the corporation is not the one doing this. It's private interests of all sorts that are driving down the quality and diversity of discussions for a website that often ranks at the top of google search results.
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What's the story there? I'm curious to know how such behavior manifests in Zen Buddhism, of all things.
Many folks end up in r/zen after reading books like “Zen Mind, Beginners Mind” written by Japanese Zen Buddhists. Ewk is obsessed with the Chinese source material, written by Chan (Chinese for Zen) masters, and believes that the Chinese Chan masters were not Buddhist at all. Many people who come to the subreddit are interested in meditation. It is a big focus of Japanese Zen as practiced in the west. It is not partic…
I do actually believe distinguishing the historical Chinese practice of Zen from its western incarnation is a valuable contribution but also see how unnecessarily instigative his comments can be. Perhaps in a different world where his contributions were more validated he could've learned to frame things in a more generative way
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The constitution for the Nation of Reddit makes all speech legally protected, after all.
This isn't even about Reddit the company. /r/canada got taken over by far right political people who will ban anyone not conservative. The /r/mattress mentioned in this post is also commonplace with private corporations taking over subreddits of interest to ban their competitors. Israel, a nation-state, also pays the mods of /r/news and /r/worldnews. You can't post anything, even factual articles, that goes against a…
Is there any evidence behind this claim?
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No, the biggest one is r/india as it is the subreddit for the largest country in the world with moderators being from an adversarial country and any positive news about the country always being removed while constant critiques and hate allowed
Wow, OK. You're saying the mods are from Pakistan? Or which country do the mods come from?
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Talking about procedures and sentencing for a heinous crime isn't instigating violence lol. Is sending people to prison instigating violence? I really expected more from the HN crowd but this place has obviously deteriorated
Sending innocent people to prison would absolutely be a horrible form of violence against those people. That's why we have trials, with independent judges, juries and rules. Remember when the Boston marathon bombing happened, and Reddit users identified dozens of different people as obviously, and definitely, the bombers ( https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/reddit-regre... )? Remember when the LAPD opene…
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Trans related topics are expressly against TOC and enforced unless a subreddit is ruthless in removing any comments that aren't expressly positive and affirming. There is no room for nuance on this topic. Just giving an example.
to be precise: >Communities and users that incite violence or that promote hate based on identity or vulnerability will be banned. is against TOC. You can talk about trans issues and offer reservations. You cannot say "trans people are a mental illness" or "trans are not people". That is clearly promoting hate and has nothing of substance to discuss. For a more explicit and current example, you can say "I don't think…
You definitelly can. There are plenty of big subreddits with posts like that, whose mods agree with.