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assuming this is in good faith, please take a look at this list of banned subreddits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communities#Banned_sub

assuming this is in good faith, please take a look at this list of banned subreddits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communities#Banned_subreddits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communiti... though the world is probably better off without a lot of those, they are not all literal nazi subs.

whymauri 6y ago
GP is probably referring to Voat, which was a Reddit alternative with less censorship that went down the gutter within a year.
jandrese 6y ago
It won't be 100% Nazis. You'll also have the spammers, pedos, and assorted wingnuts. Trolls can always take over unmoderated forums because while they can drive the reasonable users out by reducing the signal to noise ratio down to a useless level, the reasonable users have no power drive them out. It's a completely imbalanced power dynamic. All forums need some sort of moderation or they will always collapse once they grow beyond a fairly modest threshold.
- leetcrew 6y ago
  "reasonable users" is doing a lot of work here. not everyone desires the same level of discourse you do on every site they visit. /b/ has just about the bare minimum level of moderation needed to comply with US law and a lot of people seem to enjoy using it.
  - jandrese 6y ago
    /b/ is a good example of a forum that is only trolls at this point, and as you note it does have some moderation. Some of the other forums on 4chan might be better examples, but even those have some moderation. Forums like /tg/ have managed to hang on alright, although their total post volume per day is quite small compared to /b/.
    - leetcrew 6y ago
      > /b/ is a good example of a forum that is only trolls at this point and some people enjoy that. you don't have to go there if you aren't one of them. you're not describing some platonic ideal of an internet forum. you're just describing what you personally want out of one.
      - jandrese 6y ago
        Sure, if you want a forum that is only trolls then go ahead and leave it unmoderated. Just don't act surprised when suddenly Nazis show up.

whymauri 6y ago

GP is probably referring to Voat, which was a Reddit alternative with less censorship that went down the gutter within a year.

jandrese 6y ago

It won't be 100% Nazis. You'll also have the spammers, pedos, and assorted wingnuts. Trolls can always take over unmoderated forums because while they can drive the reasonable users out by reducing the signal to noise ratio down to a useless level, the reasonable users have no power drive them out. It's a completely imbalanced power dynamic. All forums need some sort of moderation or they will always collapse once they grow beyond a fairly modest threshold.

leetcrew 6y ago
"reasonable users" is doing a lot of work here. not everyone desires the same level of discourse you do on every site they visit. /b/ has just about the bare minimum level of moderation needed to comply with US law and a lot of people seem to enjoy using it.
- jandrese 6y ago
  /b/ is a good example of a forum that is only trolls at this point, and as you note it does have some moderation. Some of the other forums on 4chan might be better examples, but even those have some moderation. Forums like /tg/ have managed to hang on alright, although their total post volume per day is quite small compared to /b/.
  - leetcrew 6y ago
    > /b/ is a good example of a forum that is only trolls at this point and some people enjoy that. you don't have to go there if you aren't one of them. you're not describing some platonic ideal of an internet forum. you're just describing what you personally want out of one.
    - jandrese 6y ago
      Sure, if you want a forum that is only trolls then go ahead and leave it unmoderated. Just don't act surprised when suddenly Nazis show up.