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What is the tension about exactly? That they don't align with their own personal political views?
by gottam 10y ago
What is the tension about exactly? That they don't align with their own personal political views?
- Mithaldu 10y agoThat you think they're actually expressing their political views instead of shitposting to rile up actual trump voters while pissing off the rest of the internet is fairly naive.
- gottam 10y agoI dont think anything, it was a genuine question and I'm out of the loop. I don't go to reddit much so its the first I've heard of this.
- Mithaldu 10y agoFair enough. Your question sounded leading to me and given the atmosphere i failed to provide benefit of the doubt. That particular sub-reddit is a mixture of real people, and trolls who pose as trump supporters to egg the supporters on, as well as scaring and pissing off people against trump. The result being that with little effort and prodding on their side they get to see glorious internet mudfights. However due to the way they're doing it, it's hard to tell which is which. That puts reddit admins in a bind and they have to balance things. Do they keep distance and let subtle trolls go unscathed? Do they take harsher measures and hit actual trump supporters? How much of this spills over into other reddits? How to handle the /all pollution? Letting it get in there just increases the mudfights, but if they take steps they'll be accused of censorships.
- nicky0 10y agoDon't worry, I go to Reddit every day and this is the first I've heard of it.
- 551199 10y agoExactly. It's not even trying to be non biased. The bigger issue is with subreddits like r/politics that you would think to be at least somewhat non partisan but was controlled by correct the record during election.
- bcherny 10y agoI think it's more about the way they express their opinions, rather than the content of those opinions. Posting in ALL CAPS, posting fake news or insults to other members of the community, posting to incite anger, etc. does not make for good discussion, and hurts the sense of community. That, and bringing that to other subreddits via brigading, etc.
- trungaczne 10y agoI hardly feel that sub to be any different than other political subs. If anything, the insane censorship, hivemind of r/politics is more toxic. But I guess the latter is "quiet" so it's alright. No discussion makes the best discussion.
- pavanky 10y agoThe_Donald has the exact same problems and worse.
- a_bonobo 10y agoI've looked at the_donald a few times to escape my own filter bubble and it's very much censored - stuff like Trump's recent reneging on the persecution of Clinton didn't appear at all, and comments calling out Trump's lie about having saved that Ford factory from relocation to Mexico were promptly deleted. It's in their rules and that's part of the package, it's extremely controlled. Use uneddit.com on the_donald if you want to laugh.
- Mithaldu 10y agoHoly shit, you were not kidding. uneddit makes it look like they just delete 90% of comments on principle.
- tomp 10y agoBut the point is, the_donald is obviously biased - it's literally in their name. On the other hand, r/pol is supposed to be politics in general, ideally free of bias, so censorship there is much more deplorable. I wouldn't care if r/leftwing_pol had a bias, but r/pol should be bias-free.
- RubyPinch 10y agoIts in the link, isn't it? > As much as we try to maintain a good relationship with you all, it does get old getting called a pedophile constantly. constant fighting and complaining with other subs as well (which normally they would just shut down, but (un)fortunately, the r/the_donald mods are doing all they can do prevent that being needed, so its a constant minor (but active) problem, instead of being a large one-time problem that they can just ban) Its the whole concept of poisoning the well, you have some people acting bad, and then the other people act bad in return, and then everyone watching just feels bad for watching it, and it makes everyone feel shit
- forgetsusername 10y ago>Its in the link, isn't it? So you think wiping out a subreddit community is reasonable because some members of that community do idiotic things? People from a subreddit as large as The_Donald aren't some homogenous group.
- rednerrus 10y agoEveryone is pissed that T_D won an election with meme magic.
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- amorphid 10y agoA couple months ago I was on the bus, and a religious person started preaching. Loudly. It was really annoying. I asked him to stop, and he hid behind some reference to his constitutionally protected rights. I did nothing, but I really wanted to do something. A certain subreddit reminds me of preacher duds on the bus. I wish I had better tools to deal with assholes. Savvy leadership can come up with clever solutions sometimes, but it'd be nice to somehow reduce the need to be clever.
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- EpicEng 10y agoIn this case, they are clearly a large group of belligerent morons.
- Waterluvian 10y agoPolitical opinion blended to a puree with racism and harassment.