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Sears?

• potatolicious 17y ago
  Some link got posted a while back that made Sears look bad. AFAIK Sears threatened somehow and got the link taken off. Reddit responded en masse by flooding submissions with more anti-Sears content than they could deal with. For most of the day the entire front page of Reddit was just things like "Sears rapes babies" or such. Reddit is the ultimate source of kneejerk vigilante internet "justice". I cannot count how many times someone has been able to stir the Reddit crowd into a self-righteous murderous frenzy over something that turned out to be fraudulent, a hoax, or just completely overblown. For a bunch of self-proclaimed progressives the community in general seems to be utterly incapable of independent critical thought. IMHO Reddit would make a terrific psychology study on mob mentality.
  • jrockway 17y ago
    Uh, clearly you have never read /b/. (Reddit is /b/ for people that don't want as much child porn mixed in with their political campaigns.)