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If reported, Reddit (the company) will usually moderate or shut down subs like those. Recent example being what they just did with /r/T_D.

anigbrowl 7y ago
True, but it's a lot of work with no reward for the reporters.
- hutzlibu 7y ago
  How much work is it? You don't just click "report"? Or send a screenshot of such a forum? (I do not know) And what kind of reward do you expect?
  - anigbrowl 7y ago
    I'm talking about the work to investigate and monitor a forum, gather evidence, and recruit a crowd of people to report it with. I don't know how responsive Reddit is at evaluating any individual report, i don't spend a lot of time on that platform.
collyw 7y ago
I get the impression that Reddit only shuts down right wing leaning Reddits. I hear that there is plenty of calls for violence on left leaning ones such as late stage capitalism.
- pwinnski 7y ago
  This is false, and perpetuating this falsehood without any direct knowledge ("I hear...") is shameful and unhelpful.
  - manfredo 7y ago
    Its not false. I see plenty of calls to violence from the left on reddit. Some of it is overt, like calling for summary execution of conservatives and religious officials in the same vein as in many communist revolts. Much of the time it's slightly more subtle, like calling for violence against "Nazis" while simultaneously calling large segments of their political opponents "Nazis". Just browse a left leaning subreddit like LateStageCapitalism or even just /r/politics and you'll see calls to violence from the left.
    - HappyDreamer 7y ago
      I actually now went to LateStageCapitalism and spent 10? 15? minutes reading topics and comment. I found nothing of the things you mention. (But it was interesting to go there and read.)
      - manfredo 7y ago
        It looks like two weeks ago they added a sticky post telling users to stop making calls to violence: https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/cfs3dx/reminder_report_all_posts_and_comments_that?sort=confidence https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/cfs3dx... I guess Reddit finally told them to clean up their act. This sticky was definitely needed. I've seen among other things, a commenter telling people whose family was killed by the Castro regime that their family deserved to be killed, and others calling for the summary killing of anyone in the top 1% of income. Look at some of the highest upvoted posts of the year: https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/9lhjar/capitalism_will_kill_you?sort=confidence https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/9lhjar... Lots of deleted comments. Several root level comments with hundreds of upvotes. LSC cleaning up it's act is pretty recent.
        collyw 7y ago
        > and others calling for the summary killing of anyone in the top 1% of income. It only takes $32,000 a year to be in the top 1% worldwide according to a couple or articles I read. I bet a lot of the people saying that fall into the 1%. It appears from your down votes that HN doesn't like evidence.
- root_axis 7y ago
  Some famously banned subreddits: /r/incels /r/fatpeoplehate /r/jailbait /r/pizzagate /r/beatingwomen /r/watchpeopledie /r/thefappening /r/ni----s How many of those would you consider right wing?
  - hnisacesspool 7y ago
    all except the fappening. The latest set of bannings have been shit like frenworld where far-right people use clown talk to warn people that "the long nose is not our fren!"
  - collyw 7y ago
    Ok, I meant in a political context, you have deliberately cherry picked non political subs to make your point. Though i guess Pizzagate would probably class as right-wing as it was a conspiracy against Hilary, no?
    - root_axis 7y ago
      > you have deliberately cherry picked non political subs to make your point If I'm cherry picking then please offer up some examples of "right-wing" subs that have been banned to compare with my list.
erichurkman 7y ago
It took them _years_ to touch r/t_d despite many reports to the admins about abusive behavior running rampant. In true Reddit form, they only did something after the mainstream forced them to react. (Same problem they had with other questionable groups, like r/shoplifting, got banned after media attention.)

anigbrowl 7y ago

True, but it's a lot of work with no reward for the reporters.

hutzlibu 7y ago
How much work is it? You don't just click "report"? Or send a screenshot of such a forum? (I do not know) And what kind of reward do you expect?
- anigbrowl 7y ago
  I'm talking about the work to investigate and monitor a forum, gather evidence, and recruit a crowd of people to report it with. I don't know how responsive Reddit is at evaluating any individual report, i don't spend a lot of time on that platform.

collyw 7y ago

I get the impression that Reddit only shuts down right wing leaning Reddits. I hear that there is plenty of calls for violence on left leaning ones such as late stage capitalism.

pwinnski 7y ago
This is false, and perpetuating this falsehood without any direct knowledge ("I hear...") is shameful and unhelpful.
- manfredo 7y ago
  Its not false. I see plenty of calls to violence from the left on reddit. Some of it is overt, like calling for summary execution of conservatives and religious officials in the same vein as in many communist revolts. Much of the time it's slightly more subtle, like calling for violence against "Nazis" while simultaneously calling large segments of their political opponents "Nazis". Just browse a left leaning subreddit like LateStageCapitalism or even just /r/politics and you'll see calls to violence from the left.
  - HappyDreamer 7y ago
    I actually now went to LateStageCapitalism and spent 10? 15? minutes reading topics and comment. I found nothing of the things you mention. (But it was interesting to go there and read.)
    - manfredo 7y ago
      It looks like two weeks ago they added a sticky post telling users to stop making calls to violence: https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/cfs3dx/reminder_report_all_posts_and_comments_that?sort=confidence https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/cfs3dx... I guess Reddit finally told them to clean up their act. This sticky was definitely needed. I've seen among other things, a commenter telling people whose family was killed by the Castro regime that their family deserved to be killed, and others calling for the summary killing of anyone in the top 1% of income. Look at some of the highest upvoted posts of the year: https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/9lhjar/capitalism_will_kill_you?sort=confidence https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/9lhjar... Lots of deleted comments. Several root level comments with hundreds of upvotes. LSC cleaning up it's act is pretty recent.
      - collyw 7y ago
        > and others calling for the summary killing of anyone in the top 1% of income. It only takes $32,000 a year to be in the top 1% worldwide according to a couple or articles I read. I bet a lot of the people saying that fall into the 1%. It appears from your down votes that HN doesn't like evidence.
root_axis 7y ago
Some famously banned subreddits: /r/incels /r/fatpeoplehate /r/jailbait /r/pizzagate /r/beatingwomen /r/watchpeopledie /r/thefappening /r/ni----s How many of those would you consider right wing?
- hnisacesspool 7y ago
  all except the fappening. The latest set of bannings have been shit like frenworld where far-right people use clown talk to warn people that "the long nose is not our fren!"
- collyw 7y ago
  Ok, I meant in a political context, you have deliberately cherry picked non political subs to make your point. Though i guess Pizzagate would probably class as right-wing as it was a conspiracy against Hilary, no?
  - root_axis 7y ago
    > you have deliberately cherry picked non political subs to make your point If I'm cherry picking then please offer up some examples of "right-wing" subs that have been banned to compare with my list.

erichurkman 7y ago

It took them _years_ to touch r/t_d despite many reports to the admins about abusive behavior running rampant. In true Reddit form, they only did something after the mainstream forced them to react. (Same problem they had with other questionable groups, like r/shoplifting, got banned after media attention.)