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By "T_D users", you mean one user who made one post in a thread, right? I read T_D, and a lot of other sites on reddit. T_D is 99% of the time pro-police. You

By "T_D users", you mean one user who made one post in a thread, right? I read T_D, and a lot of other sites on reddit. T_D is 99% of the time pro-police. You are much more likely to see anti-police sentiment and posts which encourage violence against police officers on other subs on reddit(usually, the more liberal ones like /r/politics).

krapp 7y ago
> By "T_D users", you mean one user who made one post in a thread, right? This Media Matters article[0] contains screenshots showing more than one user supporting violence against the police. Of course, any such comments have been deleted from Reddit proper, now, and you may well consider them faked, but given the number of outlets reporting on this, and the fact that no one here seems to be denying that these comments actually ever existed, I think it's safe to assume that more than one user and one post was involved. [0]https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2019/06/24/A-pro-Trump-subreddit-is-full-of-calls-for-violence-in-support-of-Oregon-Republicans/224018 https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2019/06/24/A-pro-Trump...
- oh_sigh 7y ago
  I never said they were faked. In another post I said that I couldn't find any reference to them to be able to judge if they were particularly popular content on the sub or if they were heavily downvoted.
- SkyBelow 7y ago
  Isn't this the same sub reddit that had the admins edit comments on a database level? Calling something fake/false flag seems a lot more reasonable when there is already a confirmed case.
  - krapp 7y ago
    Right-wingers call anything that makes them look bad a false flag nowadays. It's like the "Boy who cried Leftist." You're referring to this[0] incident I believe. No, that doesn't make all subsequent claims of false flags more reasonable or likely. [0]https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/5frg1n/tifu_by_editing_some_comments_and_creating_an/ https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/5frg1n/tifu_...
    - SkyBelow 7y ago
      Generally we judge entities based on similar past behavior. Why would this instance be an exception?

krapp 7y ago

> By "T_D users", you mean one user who made one post in a thread, right? This Media Matters article[0] contains screenshots showing more than one user supporting violence against the police. Of course, any such comments have been deleted from Reddit proper, now, and you may well consider them faked, but given the number of outlets reporting on this, and the fact that no one here seems to be denying that these comments actually ever existed, I think it's safe to assume that more than one user and one post was involved. [0]https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2019/06/24/A-pro-Trump-subreddit-is-full-of-calls-for-violence-in-support-of-Oregon-Republicans/224018 https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2019/06/24/A-pro-Trump...

oh_sigh 7y ago
I never said they were faked. In another post I said that I couldn't find any reference to them to be able to judge if they were particularly popular content on the sub or if they were heavily downvoted.
SkyBelow 7y ago
Isn't this the same sub reddit that had the admins edit comments on a database level? Calling something fake/false flag seems a lot more reasonable when there is already a confirmed case.
- krapp 7y ago
  Right-wingers call anything that makes them look bad a false flag nowadays. It's like the "Boy who cried Leftist." You're referring to this[0] incident I believe. No, that doesn't make all subsequent claims of false flags more reasonable or likely. [0]https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/5frg1n/tifu_by_editing_some_comments_and_creating_an/ https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/5frg1n/tifu_...
  - SkyBelow 7y ago
    Generally we judge entities based on similar past behavior. Why would this instance be an exception?