When I started using reddit about 7 years ago, it was a bastion of intelligent, sometimes irreverent community discussion. But with things like this, and the recent talk of "segregating" communities which reddit "wishes didn't exist", its become a very different place. The mass logging of users by a certain segment of those users is extremely troubling. It actually makes me watch my words, and where I comment. The path they're going is having a chilling effect on speech right now.
Its an awful shame, and what's crazier is that in their zeal to make a safe place, they're enabling shaming and bullying on a massive level. I don't even think the SJWs behind this even comprehend what they're doing.
Reddit will fall. And where the people go, the SJWs will go also to yell at them. How will Voat handle them when they eventually come?
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[–] 1smartass 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago (edited ago)
SJW subs on Reddit would be absolutely nothing without moderator tools like a ban feature and being able to troll users by tagging them with insulting flair.
They troll because they know they can prevent dissent using their ban feature.
Even violentacrez used to do shit like that. He'd fuck with someone from one of his subreddits, usually r/violentacrez, then send them a ban notice.
BTW, before CNN got Reddit to ban him, he created hundreds of subreddits and accounts, many of which were trolls in themselves. Never let spez and company live that down. When they pretend they care about the community, remind them that many times they let one person fuck with thousands, and not just for a few days, weeks, or months, they let it go on for years.