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Yes, I routinely see left leaning political ads on the front page. I really don't see what good could come from Alexis's resignation. The site is already a left

Yes, I routinely see left leaning political ads on the front page. I really don't see what good could come from Alexis's resignation. The site is already a left leaning echo chamber and most of the controversial subs are quarantined or outright banned. Any new ones that crop up are routinely removed. The most controversial (the_donald) has been effectively shutdown for months and removed from r/all for years. What more is there to do?

z9e 6y ago
Funny how much this is being downvoted.
- fernandotakai 6y ago
  right? i never ever see right wing content on reddit's /r/all frontpage, but i ALWAYS see left-wing content (including there small subreddits with 10k+ upvotes). see, i'm not conservative (i'm absurdly socially liberal and a bit fiscally conservative -- i prefer less taxes and less government spending in general) but it's baffling that people call reddit a "right-wing-cesspool". if you look at unfiltered /r/all right now, most posts are related to the current protests.
  - z9e 6y ago
    I'm fiscally conservative, and even trying to discuss those ideas on Reddit has met me with downvotes galore without being discussed. Even while trying to be respectful and open-minded. I gave up after a while. A lot of people can't fathom how conservative ideas would be shunned on there until they actually try to discuss them. Reddit is comprised of a lot of younger people who are indoctrinated to think in certain ways and haven't ventured far outside of their ideological bubble. So I just chalk it up to that and don't even go there anymore because nothing there adds much to my life other than pointless distraction.
    - orthecreedence 6y ago
      I'm a libertarian socialist/communist (aka rabid leftist) and even I am often annoyed by how much of a "liberal" (whatever that means anymore) echo chamber reddit is. People who have great points against the hive mind are often downvoted into oblivion. It's less of a place for discourse and more a place for voicing agreement. The worst experiences I've had are in the socialist/communist subreddits themselves. I've been banned from those places for saying things like "artists and homemakers are proletariat." I guess if you don't have a hammer in your hand you're just a neo-liberal reactionary?? And sure, T_D is a violent cesspool that should have been gone long ago, but in general I'm sick of social media platforms deciding for us what views are acceptable and what aren't. Their algorithms constantly guide people into weird places that drive engagement but at the expense of critical thought and real public discourse. I'd much prefer free speech and neutral platforms over corporations deciding what we are to believe. But I suppose reddit's problems are now cultural and that's a more difficult problem to fix than adjusting an algorithm.
      - fernandotakai 6y ago
        >I'm sick of social media platforms deciding for us what views are acceptable and what aren't. i couldn't agree more. i never commented/subbed to the_donald. i added to my /r/all filter and i don't have to see it anymore. btw, i do that to 99% of all political subs -- i just filter them, and now i don't have to interact. now, do i want them banned? nah, no way -- everyone deserves a place to discuss whatever they want, be it extreme left or extreme right politics. hell, i even disagree with chapo trap house being quarantined! no community should be "quarantined".
      - Avicebron 6y ago
        I've also been thoroughly confused by a weird form of "liberal" that has infested social media. It's not necessarily left-leaning as in "help the poor workers, unionize, strong manufacturing domestically, etc". It's "offshore everything, maximize profit" damn the workers. It's very much not a left position in the traditional sense.
        6y ago
  - bitwize 6y ago
    There are upsides to being on the right side of history. One of which is that people and organizations who are decent or want to appear decent will support you. Objectivity is fundamentally at odds with "political balance" in the sense of equal time or space being given to left- or right-wing content, because reality has a liberal bias.
  - walls 6y ago
    What is your idea of some good 'right wing content' that should have been on reddit's front page?
snapetom 6y ago
Remember when HuffPo was actually a decent, political scoop/gossip site? It was far more balanced then. It got hot when it veered left, but today it's an unexciting story mill. I wonder if that's the path reddit is headed towards.
asdff 6y ago
It's simple, you take the inverse. If you are looking for the right leaning accounts, look at the most downvoted and controversial comments in a given political thread. I will say that true conservatism is few and far between, and it doesn't help that the viral strategy the GOP has settled on in recent years is heaps and heaps of outright false or racist memes, so there just isn't much good right leaning content being written or created to begin with that isn't far right.
- colpabar 6y ago
  sorting by controversial is usually much more interesting anyway. top comments on reddit are almost always a meaningless quip that echoes the message of whatever is being shared.
  - adamrezich 6y ago
    You can only "sort by controversial" on Old Reddit—New (default) Reddit doesn't have this functionality anymore
- lemmonii 6y ago
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z9e 6y ago

Funny how much this is being downvoted.

fernandotakai 6y ago
right? i never ever see right wing content on reddit's /r/all frontpage, but i ALWAYS see left-wing content (including there small subreddits with 10k+ upvotes). see, i'm not conservative (i'm absurdly socially liberal and a bit fiscally conservative -- i prefer less taxes and less government spending in general) but it's baffling that people call reddit a "right-wing-cesspool". if you look at unfiltered /r/all right now, most posts are related to the current protests.
- z9e 6y ago
  I'm fiscally conservative, and even trying to discuss those ideas on Reddit has met me with downvotes galore without being discussed. Even while trying to be respectful and open-minded. I gave up after a while. A lot of people can't fathom how conservative ideas would be shunned on there until they actually try to discuss them. Reddit is comprised of a lot of younger people who are indoctrinated to think in certain ways and haven't ventured far outside of their ideological bubble. So I just chalk it up to that and don't even go there anymore because nothing there adds much to my life other than pointless distraction.
  - orthecreedence 6y ago
    I'm a libertarian socialist/communist (aka rabid leftist) and even I am often annoyed by how much of a "liberal" (whatever that means anymore) echo chamber reddit is. People who have great points against the hive mind are often downvoted into oblivion. It's less of a place for discourse and more a place for voicing agreement. The worst experiences I've had are in the socialist/communist subreddits themselves. I've been banned from those places for saying things like "artists and homemakers are proletariat." I guess if you don't have a hammer in your hand you're just a neo-liberal reactionary?? And sure, T_D is a violent cesspool that should have been gone long ago, but in general I'm sick of social media platforms deciding for us what views are acceptable and what aren't. Their algorithms constantly guide people into weird places that drive engagement but at the expense of critical thought and real public discourse. I'd much prefer free speech and neutral platforms over corporations deciding what we are to believe. But I suppose reddit's problems are now cultural and that's a more difficult problem to fix than adjusting an algorithm.
    - fernandotakai 6y ago
      >I'm sick of social media platforms deciding for us what views are acceptable and what aren't. i couldn't agree more. i never commented/subbed to the_donald. i added to my /r/all filter and i don't have to see it anymore. btw, i do that to 99% of all political subs -- i just filter them, and now i don't have to interact. now, do i want them banned? nah, no way -- everyone deserves a place to discuss whatever they want, be it extreme left or extreme right politics. hell, i even disagree with chapo trap house being quarantined! no community should be "quarantined".
    - Avicebron 6y ago
      I've also been thoroughly confused by a weird form of "liberal" that has infested social media. It's not necessarily left-leaning as in "help the poor workers, unionize, strong manufacturing domestically, etc". It's "offshore everything, maximize profit" damn the workers. It's very much not a left position in the traditional sense.
      - 6y ago
- bitwize 6y ago
  There are upsides to being on the right side of history. One of which is that people and organizations who are decent or want to appear decent will support you. Objectivity is fundamentally at odds with "political balance" in the sense of equal time or space being given to left- or right-wing content, because reality has a liberal bias.
- walls 6y ago
  What is your idea of some good 'right wing content' that should have been on reddit's front page?

snapetom 6y ago

Remember when HuffPo was actually a decent, political scoop/gossip site? It was far more balanced then. It got hot when it veered left, but today it's an unexciting story mill. I wonder if that's the path reddit is headed towards.

asdff 6y ago

It's simple, you take the inverse. If you are looking for the right leaning accounts, look at the most downvoted and controversial comments in a given political thread. I will say that true conservatism is few and far between, and it doesn't help that the viral strategy the GOP has settled on in recent years is heaps and heaps of outright false or racist memes, so there just isn't much good right leaning content being written or created to begin with that isn't far right.

colpabar 6y ago
sorting by controversial is usually much more interesting anyway. top comments on reddit are almost always a meaningless quip that echoes the message of whatever is being shared.
- adamrezich 6y ago
  You can only "sort by controversial" on Old Reddit—New (default) Reddit doesn't have this functionality anymore
lemmonii 6y ago
[removed], [removed], [removed], ...