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No, I'm saying it doesn't. Your subreddits are much more focused, especially AskScience but not so much for ELI5 and Aww, and that's good. But they are still co
by ramy_d 10y ago
No, I'm saying it doesn't. Your subreddits are much more focused, especially AskScience but not so much for ELI5 and Aww, and that's good. But they are still comprised of comments sections with opinions, questions and discussions that are put forward by other redditors that frequent other subreddits. They are part of that reddit culture where subreddits are not impenetrable silos.
Even if your only subreddit was AskScience with its heavily moderated comments section, you would only be less affected - not completely immune. That is the nature of culture.
- M_Grey 10y agoI'd be interested if you could find some posts in AskScience that were remotely successful, which you could reasonably argue were made by shills.
- nl 10y agoI think that the point was that even if specific posts aren't made by shills the world-view of commentators is shaped by them. I think there is some truth to this. I don't frequent Reddit much, but I'd note that for a period a while back there were people here on HN who believed that the Pizzagate conspiracy theory was true. These were long lived accounts here who had commented on a range of issues, so they didn't appear to be shills themself. But it is hard to argue that their world-view isn't influenced by shills on Reddit.
- ramy_d 10y agoI just read about the pizzagate conspiracy you mentioned as I have not heard of it before, and wow, that is quite a spiral from conspiracy to fake news to a (no injuries) shooting at a pizza restaurant. Crazy. One thing to underline the importance of: when things hit Reddit, they are mainstream now. Reddit is no longer the "small" community it used be back in 2012, 5 years ago.
- M_Grey 10y agoPeople who believe in things like Pizzagate are firmly in the 50% I was talking about (to be charitable), and more realistically are part of an extreme base. The degree to which that kind of thing is the result of shilling on Reddit, or just Breitbart and the rest of the crap leaking through is debatable. Other places, like anything to do with news and politics, is a miserable shit-fest, and would be with or without shilling.
- Ajedi32 10y agoYou're missing the point. You may want to re-read the comments you're replying to. In particular: > Just because a fraction of subreddits are being exploited through shilling doesn't mean that redditors in your favourite subreddit don't go there and that they themselves are (consciously or otherwise) not being affected.
- M_Grey 10y agoI'm not missing the point, I'm contesting it and asking for some evidence of this extremely subtle creep from a place like /r/TheDonald to a place like /r/AskScience.
- jldugger 10y agoI'm curious: do you think that culture bleed stops at the domain name for some reason, and doesn't spill over to say, HN itself?