Trump’s brigade took over Reddit. Now Reddit is changing its rules to stop them(washingtonpost.com) |
Trump’s brigade took over Reddit. Now Reddit is changing its rules to stop them(washingtonpost.com) |
>Interestingly enough, r/the_donald was already getting downvoted out of r/all yesterday morning before we made any changes. It seems the rest of the Reddit community had had enough. Ironically, r/EnoughTrumpSpam was hit harder than any other community when we rolled out the changes. That’s Reddit for you. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4oedco/lets_...
I can't stand Trump. But even if I was a supporter (or the subreddit in question was for a more amiable candidate), /r/all has been useless for the last couple of months. It's been swamped with hate speech and spam. I've stayed away from it altogether, which is a shame because it's a great way to find trending posts in subreddits I don't subscribe to.
An alternative would have been to allow users to block certain subreddits from their /r/all (making it /r/almost all, I guess). But this would have been difficult and confusing for new users and wouldn't help anonymous users at all.
I wonder if they lost a lot of traffic because of that subreddit.
It gives a messsage on how its a gold only feature, but it seems to work anyway.
Especially if it's polarizing content that might drive a significant volume of traffic that didn't sign up for that content away.
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.
Is censorship of "inappropriate" speech the right precedent?
I actually wonder why the subreddit isn't shut down yet.
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...
Don't tell me how much of an idiot I am, I've already judged myself. Luckily I can say I voted against Trump when I had the chance. Now I'm praying Romney runs third party.
At the risk of veering off topic, would you mind explaining what this meant for you? I've heard people say sort of similar things before ("he's just pretending, he'll be different in office"), but never fully grasped the thought process behind them.
> It was a problem. A smaller problem, but still a problem. As I mentioned in my post, r/all has gone through waves of being overwhelmed by a specific community many, many times over the years. Sometimes it's healthy, sometimes it's funny, most of the time it's annoying, particularly during election years.
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4oedco/lets_...
EDIT: for typos
It's really interesting to watch the power struggle. It's one group of troll taking on another. Must be a headache for the admins.
- post dozens of pictures of Hillary kissing the KKK in a single day
- post a bunch of cropped centipede pictures that can be combined when browsing r/all
- etc
If they want to promote their favorite politician, I understand but populating 40% of r/all with meme shitposts will make the admins take actions.
Well first of all you need to understand I will never vote for Hillary Clinton so I needed to rationalize voting for the Republican candidate.
Secondly it seemed Trump was addressing concerns people actually cared about. Money, security, and the bullshit fed to them by politicians in that order. Up until the Curiel scandal you could have argued the statements made by Trump were not racist. This actually mattered to me since one of the things I love about America is that anybody of any ethnicity could emigrate here and call themselves American. Also some of his positions seemed somewhat rational when you make them somewhat less extreme. For example, some sort of barrier or technology that assisted border patrol in their mandate could significantly curb the problem of illegal immigrants coming into the country and also curb the amount of drugs coming into the country. I also think there are certain countries in the middle east that terrorists almost always originate from, so while I think a complete Muslim ban is unnecessary and unenforceable I don't think we should be accepting anybody from war torn nations with signs of extremism.
Him being against the Trans Pacific Partnership and H1B visas and also being for lowering the corporate tax rate (three things which would affect my family and I significantly). He got my vote over Hillary.
(also Hillary's anti gun stances are another negative for her)
His "almost reasonable" positions led me to take him as my candidate of choice after everybody else I wanted was eliminated. I also believed his "almost reasonable" positions could resonate with voters if he did not make them more extreme. After Curiel he has been doubling down on his extremist rhetoric rather than toning it down which has removed any possibility of me voting for him.
Also it's interesting to note that until Curiel, Trump hadn't made any significant gaffs. Since then he has only made gaffs such as patting himself on the back like a buffoon after the Orlando massacre and he only doubles down. It just serves to make him seem unhinged and not capable of managing a mcdonalds let alone a country.
turning the volume down on one tv because they are purposely boosting it to drown out other tvs is not censorship.
