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You must be kidding. Please tell me you're kidding. Ever been to /r/the_donald? /r/conspiracy? /r/protectandserve?
by psychometry 6y ago
You must be kidding. Please tell me you're kidding. Ever been to /r/the_donald? /r/conspiracy? /r/protectandserve?
- s9w 6y agoTD is gone for a long time now. r/protectandserve is a reddit for police officers as far as I know? Not sure what's controversial.
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- s09dfhks 6y agolately its been them sharing memes about "why are protestors so surprised when we gas them" and the like
- mst 6y agoI don't really see how removing the subreddit would make them any less likely to gas protestors though. Honestly, I'd've thought anti-police-brutality people would prefer them to share such things publicly for screenshotting purposes and etc.
- throwaway45783 6y agoWhat's wrong with /r/conspiracy?
- psychometry 6y agoThe same thing that's wrong with conspiracy theories (e.g. Q). Lunatics flock to platforms that let them disseminate their lies.
- devado 6y agobut everything is cleanly tagged under /r/conspiracy ?
- psychometry 6y agoYes and the people who populate that subreddit comment everywhere else, too. Same goes for other misogynist/racist/right-wing subreddits. The proliferation of these subreddits leads to a proliferation of low-quality users.
- devado 6y agodoesn't reddit have that extension (forget the name) to ban users across all subreddits and tag them etc ? (not from the site but for your own browsing)
- psychometry 6y agoYou're talking about literally thousands of people you'd need to ban.
- belltaco 6y agoIt has a lot of far right misinformation, fake news and articles from fishy sites. The mods are biased and wont moderate those. E.g from yesterday https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/gwgv6i/awfully_convenient_protests/ https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/gwgv6i/awfully_...
- throwaway45783 6y agoSounds like typical conspiracy theory behavior to me, not sure what you expected from a conspiracy subreddit or why you would want the subreddit banned.
- s9w 6y agoI hope she reads this bro
- belltaco 6y agoOutright falsehoods aren't always conspiracies, they usually lie in the unknowns. It's one thing to say Clinton is a secret Chinese sympathizer, it's another thing to say she was born and brought up in China. Many of the fake news things fall into the latter category, just lies designed to promote the far right. Conspiracy theories used to more neutral like 5 years ago. Now they're exclusively far right and anti-liberal.
- lksaar 6y agor/mgtow, r/metacanada, r/KotakuInAction, r/TumblrinAction, r/unpopularopinion, r/politicalcompassmemes are candidates. The subreddit about the upcoming AAA game "The Last of Us 2" is pretty vile aswell.
- sevenf0ur 6y agoSounds like you aren't fan of those subreddits but should they be shut down if they are not violating the site rules? The fact is that those subs are heavily moderated. If they weren't they'd be the first to go.
- psychometry 6y agoThe point is that the rules should be changed to disallow those sorts of subreddits. Let those users go somewhere else; reddit has no responsibility to society to host them.
- lksaar 6y agoI'm fine with these subreddits, aslong as they're properly moderated and not calling for violence or start brigading other subreddits. When the whole Jessica Price controversy happend there was a lot of new users on r/Guildwars2 that never posted there before or even played the game. I don't agree with them and think they're vile, but aslong as they don't break sitewide rules I'm ok with them.
- s9w 6y agoIf you consider KIA, unpopularopinion and making fun of TLOU2 as vile then I'm not sure what that word even means. plus: There are regular calls to murder all cops these days on reddit. In plain sight. Just imagine what would happen for any of those "bad" subs if they wouldn't remove those within seconds.
- colinmhayes 6y agoKIA is undeniably vile. If you don't consider it vile I'm not sure what that word even means.