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> "Donald Trump's war on media is 'biggest threat to democracy' says Navy Seal who brought down Osama Bin Laden". What is this an example of? This sounds like
by vostok 10y ago
> "Donald Trump's war on media is 'biggest threat to democracy' says Navy Seal who brought down Osama Bin Laden".
What is this an example of? This sounds like exactly the kind of thing that I would expect on the front page if there was no vote manipulation.
- Drumlin 10y agoIt comes from the politics sub, which - to put it mildly - is one of the most suspect subs for manipulation on Reddit. They let that sub appear on the homepage, yet they ban a lot of other similar subs that are on the other side of the spectrum. It's one of those issues where I look at Reddit and think... something isn't right.
- edgarvaldes 10y ago>something isn't right. Is that a pun? Because obviously reddit has a leftist bias.
- accountface 10y agoAccording to the right, basic concepts like logic have leftist bias
- Drumlin 10y agoIt was an accidental pun. I noticed it before posting the comment and almost rewrote it. I'm not one of those people who say "no pun intended", so I just let the pun go free for others to discover.
- vostok 10y ago> They let that sub appear on the homepage, yet they ban a lot of other similar subs that are on the other side of the spectrum. Perhaps I'm not familiar with the situation. What similar subs have been banned?
- perardi 10y agoThe very large Donald Trump subreddit. (I dare not link to it. It is quite toxic.)
- allemagne 10y agoThat has not been banned (yet)
- vostok 10y agoI just took a quick glance at it and it doesn't seem to be similar. Here's an item from its from page. https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5vx3af/ https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5vx3af/ (NSFW) I don't think I've ever seen anything like that on the politics subreddit.
- cadlin 10y agor/The_Donald is banned from being a default subreddit while /r/politics is not. That matters because users without accounts or who aren't logged in will see content from r/politics if an article is trending but not an equally trending(?) article from r/The_Donald. The reasoning behind this is that r/politics doesn't ban people or articles that the mods disagree with. It's the community itself that downvotes pro-Trump stuff. r/The_Donald, on the other hand, bans people who make comments critical of Trump and people who submit anti-Trump articles. Similarly, r/enoughtrumpspam or r/communism should also be banned from making it to the default front page (I don't know if they actually are).
- gmarx 10y agoI think he means the headline seems generated to get clicks and the underlying implied article isn't expected to contain any news.
- Retra 10y agoSeems to me like the headline is generated to convey a message without requiring clicks, not to get them. The article doesn't add anything because the headline is the content.
- vinhboy 10y agoSpot on. It's like going to a vegetarian restaurant and being upset there's no meat on the menu. I don't understand all these people complaining that reddit does not have enough differing opinions. What the hell? Do you expect users of a site to conform to your beliefs? Why don't you go find a different site that reflects your beliefs. I don't go on HN and complain there's not enough discussion about camping.
- olalonde 10y agoBecause being an elite soldier does not make your opinion on democracy particularly newsworthy? It's obviously a clickbait headline. I would also add to that those "Pope says [insert political commentary]" articles.