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0 pointsanononaut2y ago0 comments

Their manipulation of votes and what was allowed to be on /all is pretty well documented. After a certain point, the_donald and several other right-of-center subs were disallowed entirely to appear on the meta lists.

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baq2y ago

It should be noted we're typing this on one of the most heavily moderated (in both transparent and opaque ways) sites on the Internet.

wing-_-nuts2y ago

Honestly? Good. So many of the right wing subs were absolute breeding grounds for content violations regarding hate speech, and the sub mods turned a blind eye. It was plainly obvious they were blatantly bad actors on the site long before they got quarantined and banned.

mrguyorama2y ago

I mean yes that's my opinion, but it's important to look at possible neutral interpretations.

I don't think there is a neutral interpretation better than "the_donald was a lot of trouble for reddit as a business and social network, because they caused hostility, even by their existence, and it's not reddit's business to make humans less tribal, so why continue supporting them? Especially after they were clearly brigaiding and manipulating front page content. This front page manipulation was different from what the reddit owners wanted to be on the front page, which for the most part is benign and fun stuff that's easy to monetize."

rightbyte2y ago

The original sub was nothing special rule wise in my opinion. Did you ever visit their spinoff own site? It was psychotic in comparison. Kicking them off Reddit was a mistake for society at large.

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