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/r/popular isn't filtering with any bias to the left. The problem is that /r/the_donald has destroyed every other conservative or republican subreddit. Even /r/
by jgoewert 10y ago
/r/popular isn't filtering with any bias to the left. The problem is that /r/the_donald has destroyed every other conservative or republican subreddit. Even /r/conspiracy has a forced policy against anything anti-45.
/r/conservative used to be a fair place for fiscal conservatives and social conservatives. Now, the rules are set up that criticizing 45 in any way or form is an bannable offense. Want to talk about how spending tens of millions a month just to transport 45 and all his family around is a complete waste of money? Ban.
So, the quality of the posts faded and therefore users who are sick of it have walked away and those subreddits have diminished in popularity. If you can have a discussion, why go to a place where someone is just going to unintelligibly scream at you?
Insular policies are to fault.
- zakk 10y ago45?
- anamoulous 10y ago45th president
- zakk 10y agoSo why is he calling President Trump 45? HN is a place for serious discussion, I think we should call people by their name.
- cafard 10y agoI suspect as a follow-on from the days of "Bush 43", in which case it made at least a little sense to say Bush 41 and Bush 43, and not leave the listener wondering whether he had missed an "H.".
- anamoulous 10y agoSome people like to use shorthands that are common in DC. This is why you'll hear people enunciate POTUS as "POTE-US". Additionally you will occasionally hear people refer to Obama as "44"... if you are looking for the merger of these two, see President Obama's new twitter handle: https://twitter.com/potus44 https://twitter.com/potus44 People on internet message boards like to use lingo. I don't know how many times I've seen people use journalism lingo on HN, dek, graf, kicker, etc. It's not usually necessary but I think it makes people feel cool or send some signal...