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> "/r/ShitRedditSays is right to eliminate these communities from Reddit and shame the participants." I really, really heavily disagree here. /r/ShitRedditSays
by potatolicious 14y ago
> "/r/ShitRedditSays is right to eliminate these communities from Reddit and shame the participants."
I really, really heavily disagree here. /r/ShitRedditSays is very much the opposite end of the spectrum from /r/creepshots (et al), and having the pendulum swing completely in the other direction is, IMO, just as bad.
Look at the content of /r/ShitRedditSays. Like, really look at it as a whole with a critical eye - you have a few truly egregious things getting called out, then you have people getting into a populist rage-fest over inane stupidity, and you also get a very large chunk of simply harassing people for going against groupthink/being controversial.
/r/ShitRedditSays is exactly the sort of censorship we don't want - i.e., an organized cabal of users who enforce their ideology on everyone else by means of harassment, ad hominem attacks, labeling, and drumming up massive populist outrage. Go up against /r/srs? Congrats, you are now a misogynistic racist gay-bashing bigot, regardless of what you actually said. Once /r/srs readers hook onto a thread all semblance of discussion stops. Silent downvotes plunge posts into oblivion with nary an explanation, combined with a litany of outraged replies, name-calling, and ad hominem attacks.
They're not the objective observers they think they are - like every other subreddit they have evolved their own groupthink and notion of what is acceptable and not, and it happens that they've settled into a fairly narrow definition of acceptable content (whereas /r/creepshots have a very very wide definition of acceptable content).
No, just no. /r/ShitRedditSays is not the solution to /r/creepshots and the like. You go from an open community with a fringe, disturbing element... to a closed community that toes the party line, or else.