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Trump’s brigade took over Reddit. Now Reddit is changing its rules to stop them

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Re: Trump’s brigade took over Reddit. Now Reddit is changing its rules to stop them

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Post by msbarnett »

thescribe wrote: post #2

I feel like this article may be a bit unfair. It sounds like organically a community wields a large number of votes, and they aren't getting the same treatment as other communities on Reddit?

Well, the purpose of Reddit's r/all algorithm isn't to implement some nebulous sense of "fairness" or "content-blind consistent treatment", it's to provide a "good" mix of content from all of Reddit for the enjoyment of users. If one subreddit is swamping the r/all algorithm, it makes sense to tweak it to lower their impact.

Especially if it's polarizing content that might drive a significant volume of traffic that didn't sign up for that content away.

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Post by SixSigma »

thescribe wrote: post #2

I feel like this article may be a bit unfair. It sounds like organically a community wields a large number of votes, and they aren't getting the same treatment as other communities on Reddit?

Of course it's unfair, it's the anti-Trump WaPo

U/spez has declared the_Donald as a problem and is trying to penalise it under the table, and failing.

Unlike F.P.H. they can't just declare the_Donald as against the secret rules and pull the plug, or will they...

Re: Trump’s brigade took over Reddit. Now Reddit is changing its rules to stop them

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Post by legulere »

thescribe wrote: post #2

I feel like this article may be a bit unfair. It sounds like organically a community wields a large number of votes, and they aren't getting the same treatment as other communities on Reddit?

/r/the_donald is harassing moderators from other subreddits, the moderators take part in vote manipulation (for which their most active mod was recently banned).

I actually wonder why the subreddit isn't shut down yet.

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Post by vinhboy »

thescribe wrote: post #2

I feel like this article may be a bit unfair. It sounds like organically a community wields a large number of votes, and they aren't getting the same treatment as other communities on Reddit?

Did you even read the article? They are being targeted because they are engaging in vote manipulation.

Members of other subreddit don't collude to upvote everything and try to get into /r/all. They also don't go and attack other subs.

Also, the racist and sexist nature of the posts makes it inappropriate. Reddit has already taken a stance against this sort of content when it banned a bunch of subreddits a few months ago.

Re: Trump’s brigade took over Reddit. Now Reddit is changing its rules to stop them

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Post by bsamuels »

legulere wrote: post #6
thescribe wrote: post #2

I feel like this article may be a bit unfair. It sounds like organically a community wields a large number of votes, and they aren't getting the same treatment as other communities on Reddit?

/r/the_donald is harassing moderators from other subreddits, the moderators take part in vote manipulation (for which their most active mod was recently banned). I actually wonder why the subreddit isn't shut down yet.

i'm pretty sure reddit couldnt shut down a subreddit dedicated to a presidential nominee without causing the shitstorm of the century, especially trump

Re: Trump’s brigade took over Reddit. Now Reddit is changing its rules to stop them

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Post by FunctionalMan »

Trump's brigade didn't "take over" reddit any more than "Bernie's Brigade" did several months ago, or Obama's brigade did 4 years ago, etc.

It's just that the Management of reddit doesn't like who's popular this month.

That's fine, of course. Now we know why it's called "red"-dit.

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