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It is literally impossible to visit reddit regularly without seeing casual racism, sexism, able-ism, etc. "Some leakage" is actually a steady stream of hate int

It is literally impossible to visit reddit regularly without seeing casual racism, sexism, able-ism, etc. "Some leakage" is actually a steady stream of hate into every subreddit at one time or another. Some subs are better than others, but mostly the good ones (science, AMA, for example) are already heavily moderated...they won't change because the racist trolls are already being silenced in those subs. If you don't find reddit obnoxiously bigoted as it currently is, it is because you are predominantly visiting subs that already have stricter content policies than any reddit is likely to impose site-wide. And, I will note that we're all talking on HN which has always had relatively strict guidelines and heavy-ish moderation (compared to most of reddit). If anyone hates moderation and a strict set of content guidelines, you're in the wrong place, because HN is stricter and has more active/aggressive moderation than reddit will ever have site-wide.

baddox 11y ago
> It is literally impossible to visit reddit regularly without seeing casual racism, sexism, able-ism, etc. Sure. It's also literally impossible for reddit to perfectly prevent all such content from being posted, so I don't see this as a particularly strong argument. > If you don't find reddit obnoxiously bigoted as it currently is, it is because you are predominantly visiting subs that already have stricter content policies than any reddit is likely to impose site-wide. Not necessarily. I subscribe mostly to very small subreddits that only attract people who actively go looking for a subreddit dedicated to the topic. They're not a target for trolls until they get larger, and by then I've usually moved on. > If anyone hates moderation and a strict set of content guidelines, you're in the wrong place, because HN is stricter and has more active/aggressive moderation than reddit will ever have site-wide. I actually do dislike ("hate" is too strong) the strict moderation of HN, but it's not all or nothing. I still think HN is a great community with good content and discussion. HN is also different than reddit, because it's more like a single subreddit. Reddit is a host for subreddits, which can have their own moderators who are not affiliated with reddit the corporation.
- SwellJoe 11y ago
  "It's also literally impossible for reddit to perfectly prevent all such content from being posted, so I don't see this as a particularly strong argument." I certainly don't see how this is an argument that they shouldn't bloody well try to prevent such content from being posted on their platform. I can't prevent all spam from hitting my inbox, but you can sure as hell bet that I've got SpamAssassin, greylisting, etc. running on my server.

baddox 11y ago

> It is literally impossible to visit reddit regularly without seeing casual racism, sexism, able-ism, etc. Sure. It's also literally impossible for reddit to perfectly prevent all such content from being posted, so I don't see this as a particularly strong argument. > If you don't find reddit obnoxiously bigoted as it currently is, it is because you are predominantly visiting subs that already have stricter content policies than any reddit is likely to impose site-wide. Not necessarily. I subscribe mostly to very small subreddits that only attract people who actively go looking for a subreddit dedicated to the topic. They're not a target for trolls until they get larger, and by then I've usually moved on. > If anyone hates moderation and a strict set of content guidelines, you're in the wrong place, because HN is stricter and has more active/aggressive moderation than reddit will ever have site-wide. I actually do dislike ("hate" is too strong) the strict moderation of HN, but it's not all or nothing. I still think HN is a great community with good content and discussion. HN is also different than reddit, because it's more like a single subreddit. Reddit is a host for subreddits, which can have their own moderators who are not affiliated with reddit the corporation.

SwellJoe 11y ago
"It's also literally impossible for reddit to perfectly prevent all such content from being posted, so I don't see this as a particularly strong argument." I certainly don't see how this is an argument that they shouldn't bloody well try to prevent such content from being posted on their platform. I can't prevent all spam from hitting my inbox, but you can sure as hell bet that I've got SpamAssassin, greylisting, etc. running on my server.