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It's not about opinions. 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 s
by Mithaldu 10y ago
It's not about opinions.
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.
- ltbarcly3 10y agoI've been browsing The_Donald lately out of curiosity, and it's like 99% memes based on news articles and links to news articles. I see very little there that is objectionable, certainly nothing that seems worthy of shutting it down. Certainly there is a lot of 'things to piss off people against trump', but how is that different from any other political site/sub?
- Mithaldu 10y agoIt runs afoul of brigading due to the sheer scale. If it managed to stay entirely within the subreddit then the admins would never need to be concerned with it and none of this would've happened.
- ManlyBread 10y agoBrigading is a pretty meaningless term when the whole site is build upon linking to other sites. It's pointless to make a distinction between a link to an external site and to reddit itself.
- Mithaldu 10y agoWell it's a good thing you are not on the reddit administration.
- ManlyBread 10y agoYou did not address my previous post in any way.
- Mithaldu 10y agoOk, have a more serious post: I disagree with you strongly, but lack the drive to explain in detail.
- ManlyBread 10y agoI suppose this is what Trump's supporters call "low energy".
- basch 10y ago/r/srs can covertly brigade because they are pro pc tolerance. /r/t_d cannot brigade because they are anti-pc obscenity. it has turned into speech policing. and trying to squash it, with half assed attempts, is making things worse.