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As a non-US citizen, the amount of US politics content is frankly way too much. It affects subs that should have been apolitical, like r/pics, r/science, r/coro

As a non-US citizen, the amount of US politics content is frankly way too much. It affects subs that should have been apolitical, like r/pics, r/science, r/coronavirus. I hoped things would calm down a bit after US elections- it did, but not nearly enough. Truth is, I personally wouldn't mind political content, I regularly read NYT, obsessed over every update in last US election. My problem with Reddit is that there really isn't interesting political content, same old DT-bad-AOC-good over and over again. Some niche subs are exception, but they won't ever make front page, and will be heavily brigaded if they ever do.

BitwiseFool 6y ago
To be honest, I don't think the forced political content on Reddit is going to decline in any meaningful way going forward. I think the people who are constantly pushing the political content realize how powerful of a reach they have and there's no reason to slow down. You're already seeing new subreddits like "MurderedByAOC", despite the fact that AOC tweets always get posted to every major subreddit.
- strombofulous 6y ago
  There's no way murderedbyAOC isn't run by her staff. It only costs about $50 to buy enough upvotes to get on the frontpage of reddit (less once people start subscribing and upvoting organically), that's probably some of the cheapest advertising-per-eyeball you can get.
GloriousKoji 6y ago
r/science absolutely sickens me now. I hate how its now just cherry picking, p-hacking, statistics skewing data to fit some narrative that a persons political affiliation results them in being some "measurable" % worse than the opposite party.
Shivetya 6y ago
Well you can thank some really well organize political action committees for that. Once reddit gained so much popularity it pretty much was co opted. Its not difficult to mount an organized attack on a particular subreddit including brigading from both directions; this includes reporting en mass Think of it like talking points. You get your daily site and subject list and with reddit it means voting on specific postings.
chillwaves 6y ago
How could /r/coronavirus be apolitical given the state of America? on a US centric website? And yeah, I wish we could stop reporting on how Trump is bad and corrupt, but that would require to stop doing bad and corrupt things. Maybe you are mistaking views you disagree with as bias even when they are firmly grounded in reality?

BitwiseFool 6y ago

To be honest, I don't think the forced political content on Reddit is going to decline in any meaningful way going forward. I think the people who are constantly pushing the political content realize how powerful of a reach they have and there's no reason to slow down. You're already seeing new subreddits like "MurderedByAOC", despite the fact that AOC tweets always get posted to every major subreddit.

strombofulous 6y ago
There's no way murderedbyAOC isn't run by her staff. It only costs about $50 to buy enough upvotes to get on the frontpage of reddit (less once people start subscribing and upvoting organically), that's probably some of the cheapest advertising-per-eyeball you can get.

GloriousKoji 6y ago

r/science absolutely sickens me now. I hate how its now just cherry picking, p-hacking, statistics skewing data to fit some narrative that a persons political affiliation results them in being some "measurable" % worse than the opposite party.

Shivetya 6y ago

Well you can thank some really well organize political action committees for that. Once reddit gained so much popularity it pretty much was co opted. Its not difficult to mount an organized attack on a particular subreddit including brigading from both directions; this includes reporting en mass Think of it like talking points. You get your daily site and subject list and with reddit it means voting on specific postings.

chillwaves 6y ago

How could /r/coronavirus be apolitical given the state of America? on a US centric website? And yeah, I wish we could stop reporting on how Trump is bad and corrupt, but that would require to stop doing bad and corrupt things. Maybe you are mistaking views you disagree with as bias even when they are firmly grounded in reality?