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Did you see the front page of Reddit when they were blowing up at Pao over the fat people abuse subreddit? I think it's disingenuous to claim that this is just

by wxs 11y ago

Did you see the front page of Reddit when they were blowing up at Pao over the fat people abuse subreddit? I think it's disingenuous to claim that this is just polite disagreement: http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded/images/original/2015/6/10/front_page_next_morning_-_nazi_.png http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded/images/original/2015/6/10/...

mahouse 11y ago
They were hit back by karma. Reddit has never hesitated to take advantage of the word "democracy" to refer to how their site works. It's a word that sounds very well. So there they have it: that screenshot is what democracy looks like.
- angersock 11y ago
  Yep. Forum users and gamers are the worst sort of people.
  - knd775 11y ago
    Is there a "/s" missing there?
  - Lawtonfogle 11y ago
    Milgram showed that people are the worst sort of people. As did Zimbardo. And quite a few others.
TTPrograms 11y ago
I see /r/all maybe once a day, and I've never seen most of those subreddits on the front page.
istvan__ 11y ago
You mistakenly think that all of the people who signed the petition (~200,000 people) are from the fat shaming subreddit.
Slick135 11y ago
Is /r/Stuff, /r/iAMA_troll_AmA, /r/PaoMustResign, or /r/EllenPao_IsA_Cunt even default subreddits? I didn't see any of those on the front page that day. If they aren't default, then does it really matter? If trolls want to troll away in their own little troll cave, so be it?
- mahouse 11y ago
  I assume lots of people understand /r/all as the "real" front page of Reddit.
  - danielweber 11y ago
    Why? It's no one's default unless you manually subscribe to all subreddits, and you don't get "/r/all" unless type it in or click on "ᴀʟʟ" to get to it.
tzs 11y ago
The submitted article is about the state of trolling in general. It uses Pao's own experience as one particular example. When he says that the "troll" label is overly used, that does not mean he is claiming it was inappropriate in any particular case, such as when applied to what was directed at Pao.
anon3_ 11y ago
I agree that's in bad taste. It gives credence to Pao saying trolls won. But it's more complicated than it looks. Pao and stuff are giving 0 cares about political correctness being a cancer far more evil than fat hate. We don't need owners at reddit to act like priest or therapist spreading their "morality". It doesn't work. Why are jerks like Trump surging? People have had it with the hypocriscy and suppression of truth. You can't speak simple truths without staking your career on it. Armies on twitter claim to be harassment victims while themselves being criminally harassers [1][2] [1] http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2015/07/02/the-fact-and-fiction-of-randi-harper/ http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2015/07/02/the-fact-a... [2] http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/christie-blatchford-ruling-in-twitter-harassment-trial-could-have-enormous-fallout-for-free-speech http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/christie-blatchfor...
pc86 11y ago
It's just as disingenuous to post a screenshot of submissions from /r/PaoMustResign, /r/IAmA_troll_AmA, and /r/EllenPao_IsA_C* and claim that they're representative of the attitude of Reddit as a whole. I'd be much more interested in seeing what the front page of /r/all was for that same period of time.
- wxs 11y ago
  I believe that screenshot is of /r/all, actually though I pulled the screenshot from a news story on daily dot as I don't have my own screenshot from that day.
yellowapple 11y ago
I'm curious as to why you're subscribed to /r/PaoMustResign, /r/EllenPao_IsA_Cunt, and /r/IAmA_troll_AmA ;) EDIT: I suppose you were just on /r/all, but still.

by wxs 11y ago

mahouse 11y ago

They were hit back by karma. Reddit has never hesitated to take advantage of the word "democracy" to refer to how their site works. It's a word that sounds very well. So there they have it: that screenshot is what democracy looks like.

angersock 11y ago
Yep. Forum users and gamers are the worst sort of people.
- knd775 11y ago
  Is there a "/s" missing there?
- Lawtonfogle 11y ago
  Milgram showed that people are the worst sort of people. As did Zimbardo. And quite a few others.

TTPrograms 11y ago

I see /r/all maybe once a day, and I've never seen most of those subreddits on the front page.

istvan__ 11y ago

You mistakenly think that all of the people who signed the petition (~200,000 people) are from the fat shaming subreddit.

Slick135 11y ago

Is /r/Stuff, /r/iAMA_troll_AmA, /r/PaoMustResign, or /r/EllenPao_IsA_Cunt even default subreddits? I didn't see any of those on the front page that day. If they aren't default, then does it really matter? If trolls want to troll away in their own little troll cave, so be it?

mahouse 11y ago
I assume lots of people understand /r/all as the "real" front page of Reddit.
- danielweber 11y ago
  Why? It's no one's default unless you manually subscribe to all subreddits, and you don't get "/r/all" unless type it in or click on "ᴀʟʟ" to get to it.

tzs 11y ago

The submitted article is about the state of trolling in general. It uses Pao's own experience as one particular example. When he says that the "troll" label is overly used, that does not mean he is claiming it was inappropriate in any particular case, such as when applied to what was directed at Pao.

anon3_ 11y ago

I agree that's in bad taste. It gives credence to Pao saying trolls won. But it's more complicated than it looks. Pao and stuff are giving 0 cares about political correctness being a cancer far more evil than fat hate. We don't need owners at reddit to act like priest or therapist spreading their "morality". It doesn't work. Why are jerks like Trump surging? People have had it with the hypocriscy and suppression of truth. You can't speak simple truths without staking your career on it. Armies on twitter claim to be harassment victims while themselves being criminally harassers [1][2] [1] http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2015/07/02/the-fact-and-fiction-of-randi-harper/ http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2015/07/02/the-fact-a... [2] http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/christie-blatchford-ruling-in-twitter-harassment-trial-could-have-enormous-fallout-for-free-speech http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/christie-blatchfor...

pc86 11y ago

It's just as disingenuous to post a screenshot of submissions from /r/PaoMustResign, /r/IAmA_troll_AmA, and /r/EllenPao_IsA_C* and claim that they're representative of the attitude of Reddit as a whole. I'd be much more interested in seeing what the front page of /r/all was for that same period of time.

wxs 11y ago
I believe that screenshot is of /r/all, actually though I pulled the screenshot from a news story on daily dot as I don't have my own screenshot from that day.

yellowapple 11y ago

I'm curious as to why you're subscribed to /r/PaoMustResign, /r/EllenPao_IsA_Cunt, and /r/IAmA_troll_AmA ;) EDIT: I suppose you were just on /r/all, but still.