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As someone who frequents only a couple of subs on Reddit (which were completely insulated from this fiasco), I have no idea why people were so pissed off. So s
by puranjay 11y ago
As someone who frequents only a couple of subs on Reddit (which were completely insulated from this fiasco), I have no idea why people were so pissed off.
So she made a bad decision. Big fcking deal.
"She's killing the community!". Well, if your idea of 'community' is making public rape threads (while you use a throwaway) and threaten to kill a person, then maybe your community deserves to die.
Reddit has a lot* of good. I've been there long enough to see it. But it has a lot of absolute low-lifes clogging its sewers as well.
- tmerr 11y agoI think users were pissed off because of the lack of transparency. No one knew what the admins were deleting. It was up to the community to find out which subreddits were banned and why. Further the admins never logically explained their decisions, for example, to ban fph over srs. From the outside it seemed like an arbitrary power trip. And for what? Reddit's moderation system is perfect: let users form their own communities and moderate them as they wish. Some of the communities will be terrible but that's the beauty of it; you don't have to go to them. This system is what let reddit grow to the size it is today. While hackernews takes a different approach (moderation at the admin level isn't unusual) that is only manageable for a site of a smaller size.
- jonlucc 11y agoIt seems to me that HN is more like a single subreddit than Reddit as a whole. The admin action on HN feels more like mod action on Reddit, because there is no larger umbrella above HN.
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