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I find the fact that I cannot post certain ideas to Reddit in my local city subreddit without getting downvoted to Oblivion and then no longer can post at all d
by Vaslo 4y ago
I find the fact that I cannot post certain ideas to Reddit in my local city subreddit without getting downvoted to Oblivion and then no longer can post at all due to negative karma problematic. In fact, I find this way more problematic for me than s handful of asshole cops. Should I start posting information about community managers or employees at Reddit who don’t help in this situation?
Doesn’t matter what your equivalency argument is. This is problematic and opens the door to abuse.
- bigbillheck 4y agoWhat kind of ideas?
- Vaslo 4y agoIdeas like I’m not pro-Union and tend to vote republican. Just because people don’t like a side doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have voice. I’m certainly not against investigating and punishing bad cops to the full extent of the law,but to post the names of all officers, many who are doing their job right and just, and many of whom are undercover? That’s ridiculous.
- hobs 4y agoSign up a new account I guess? If the cops decide to beat your ass or follow you in reality your life is meaningfully changed, crying about post karma on reddit is so far divorced from the reality of the situation of cops killing people, stealing, and getting away with it. My partner is an attorney and she just sued the cops for improperly looking up a specific woman tens of thousands of times, checking in on her, harassing her, following her, stalking her with his cop authority. Now imagine the opposite, you are on reddit and someone wont stop replying to your comments, which one of these might need some accountability?
- Vaslo 4y agoHow does one cop unlawfully looking up and harassing someone justify producing all the names of all the officers including those who are undercover? That’s like asking for every mod name to be revealed on Hacker News in order to be able to pushback against a ban. I don’t worry about cops beating my ass. I always comply when I’m confronted and it’s amazing but they treat me with respect. I also don’t commit violent crimes, that helps as well.
- haswell 4y ago> I find the fact that I cannot post certain ideas to Reddit in my local city subreddit without getting downvoted to Oblivion and then no longer can post at all due to negative karma problematic In this scenario, who holds the power to downvote you to oblivion? Who makes the rules about participation relative to karma? If you said the same things in a local bar, would you find it problematic if people disagreed with you or maybe decided not to talk to you? To find the behavior of privately moderated community groups more problematic than the behavior of bad cops - behavior that ruins or ends thousands of lives every year - seems like a major misalignment. > Doesn’t matter what your equivalency argument is. This is problematic and opens the door to abuse. In a discussion comparing things, equivalency always matters. The world is filled with systems, communities, and organizations that are wide open to abuse. That potential is not by itself an equalizing factor.
- kevviiinn 4y agoIf you discuss your ideas in public on main street and people got mad at you would you feel the same way? Why is reddit special?