[–] fasthansolo 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Admins have let the mods run amok. That's the problem.
[–] donson 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Truthfully, removing r/niggers, while it seemed an OK thing to do at the time, was actually the beginning of a long and slow decay of the innate respect the people there should have had for free speech. That's really on all of us for not realizing the implications of such a thing right then and there. It seems like justice on the surface, but in actuality it is the erosion of a principal that should be higher than that.
[–] Empire_of_the_mind 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
The Admins like what the mods are doing.
[–] DXGypsy 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
“I think Reddit has a dual personality,” says a Redditor who goes by Dworkin. She’s a moderator of the ShitRedditSays subreddit, known as SRS, which began as a collection of all the worst quotes of Reddit and has evolved into a sort of enclave within the site for people who have deep concerns about the main community.
Those sure aren't the words I'd be using to describe SRS.
[–] wulf-focker 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago (edited ago)
Yeah, their actual deep concern is how to eradicate all males from the planet. At least some have expressed such bs there. SRS is actually one of the most toxic subreddits there.
[–] BrutalJones 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago (edited ago)
I have a bone to pick with this article.
>also moderates the soft-porn subreddits gentlemanboners
/r/gentlemanboners is softcore porn? Are you kidding me? What a hilariously wrong statement. This author needs to look up softcore pornography on wikipedia, and then browse /r/gentlemanboners for a bit. Photos of elegant women dressed up is not "softcore pornography", and it's ridiculous to suggest that it is. Otherwise every wedding you've ever been to could be appropriately described as a "softcore pornographic event". Utterly absurd.
Secondly, /r/gentlemanboners is described as part of "bad reddit", yet there's no mention of /r/ladyboners, which was created before /r/gentlemanboners. Hell, the latter's name is a play off of /r/ladyboners, and /r/ladyboners is frequently far more racy than /r/gentlemanboners, with men frequently featured half-naked; you'd never see a topless woman on /r/gentlemanboners.
This article touches on some important issues with Reddit, but it's clearly tainted by sexism in its exploration of them.
[–] ronintetsuro ago
They put up a screenshot of r/earthporn's frontpage to indicate that porn is pervasive on reddit. That's when I closed the article, myself. That author doesn't have a clue what they're talking about, too focused on the agenda they are working to inject into the conversation.
[–] wulf-focker ago (edited ago)
These are modern day puritans we're dealing with. And hypocrites.
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[–] juggernaut 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
banning SRS would probably clean up the site immensely
SRS isn't exactly the problem, though. Its the SJW moderation and the small but vocal number of crappy users. Those users would just coordinate their activities elsewhere if SRS was shutdown. Hell, think about if 100 of them showed up here for a week.
[–] mr_skeltal 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
I agree, SRS is a good containment sub for them. Let them have their hugbox. It'd be excellent if you could lock them in there and only there but luckily most of them only peek their noses out to troll and get downvoted heavily for their troubles.
[–] mr_skeltal 0 points 10 points 10 points (+10|-0) ago (edited ago)
Real objective journalism ( /s ), giving a voice to 3 SRSers (who are mostly radical feminists, white knights and SJW's) and one shock sub mod. Arbitrarily deciding what is good and bad. Nothing at all about the manipulation and censorship that is rampant in subs such as news, worldnews and politics, nor the power mods who can ban you across 100+ subs that they moderate if they see you post something they disagree with. This article is a fucking hatchet job made to make all Redditors look like sick paedophiles or necrophiliacs.
This is only going to justify censorship in the minds of people who are oblivious to the real situation. They are trying to spin it so that if there is a huge shitstorm in the near future on the level of gamergate about this censorship it will be "those perverts are just sad they can't look at dead girls anymore."
But in the end it doesn't really matter because this is my main hangout now. Reddit can go fuck itself with its SJW CEO, SJW mods and largely stupid userbase.
[–] donson 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Solution: don't read Guardian ever again, advise other people not to read Guardian ever again. Note the name of the journalist and read nothing by that person ever again, advise other people not to read anything written by that journalist ever again.
Don't read any publication that allows that journalist to write for it ever again, and others to do the same.
Problem solved without anyone's speech, voice, opinions or ideas being repressed or aggressed upon through physical force, removal, or censorship.
Just simple autonomous decision making and exercise of free choice.
That's all we need in a free society to determine the correct ideas and views. Those who choose repression and aggression upon the rights of others choose their own fate.
But those who continue to read these pieces and remain silent in passive support of them also sacrifice their freedom as individuals to stop such things from happening.
[–] PM_ME_UNDRESSED 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
Yea, I kept waiting for a section on censorship but it never came. This article is yet another echo in the chamber and will only lead to more censorship.
[–] BatmansTesticles 0 points 11 points 11 points (+11|-0) ago
Thank you for this article OP. Interesting, but tough to read. All this about "the dark side of reddit". Phtt. Please. Does reddit have a dark side? Well, let's see, it's an open platform for people to use as they see fit. Do some people have a dark side? Yes. So does reddit have a dark side ... ? Well, that's an inevitable result of giving people the ability to do whatever they want. The alternative is censorship.
Yes, we'd all like to live in a world of sunshine and roses and have there be no such thing as disease or pain or /r/creepshots. But we don't live in that world. So can we please stop blaming the medium when the message is so clear - human beings are fucked, and as long as we are fucked, we will do fucked up shit.
When will society grow up and stop blaming the paper for the note that is written on it?
[–] MagnaFarce ago
Have you heard about the dark side of photographs? People are taking fucking pictures of their nude bodies, and some sick fucks are killing people and taking pictures of their dead bodies.
I think it's about time we completely banned photos. We cannot allow a medium that can be abused to such a dangerous degree.
[–] voatergoater 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Upvote for quality comment/observations.
[–] voatergoater 0 points 17 points 17 points (+17|-0) ago
Begging for some mercy here. Unsubscribed to meanwhileonreddit to clear the front page of the excessive posts concerned about what's going on over there. Please let's build new here, and move on. Reddit is not that fascinating compared with all the other quality posts that could be contributed to this site. Certainly, it's news-worthiness is very limited, imo. Bless the coders for this new spot to share. Thanks for reading.
[–] squiremarcus 2 points 0 points 2 points (+2|-2) ago
ok make a more interesting subreddit and post some content.
but for now we are in reddits shadow. it is 300 times larger than voat if the reported numbers are right
[–] dabork 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
He's not complaining about the content, he's complaining about the location.
We have a sub specifically for news about Reddit called /v/Meanwhileonreddit . It makes no sense to post news about Reddit outside of that area and doing so leads to a saturation of mediocre content across multiple verses. People who want to hear news about Reddit will subscribe to that verse and people who don't will not. But that system falls apart if we start posting Reddit news in other verses. It's one of the main problems with Reddit. People aren't concerned with posting in the most relevant sub, they post where the people are, and that's not how it's supposed to work.
[–] voatergoater 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I'll help you with that goal. I've reserved my downvotes. Hard to earn ----> careful to use, in my mind anyway. Trying to engage with conversation about quality content rather than downvote because I don't agree that it's so news-worthy it needs to appear in every possible subverse. Maybe it is news-worthy but folks are so caught up in the reddit-universe-gossip. Tiresome, imo.
[–] ReverendEntity ago
It's time for Reddit to go the way of Myspace. It's just what happens to things when they draw too much of the majority.