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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[–] thefiregecko ago
I think that having clear and simple rules that are applied to everyone equally (as possible) would go a long way, it looks to me (and this could just be 2 sides spinning things to look better) that part of reddit's problem was it started changing rules part way though the game. Also having some sort of accountability for mods perhaps if mods could hide comments in some way that allows normal users to see them if they go looking? A bit like /r/undelete but within each subverse could help. It might work well as another tab on the top after the hot/new/top buttons. That would help keep it from being taken over but they need to keep innovating if they want to stay relevant, they have made some good changes so far but if something else comes along that just has a better way of doing things (ex. myspace->facebook) then people will still leave.