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Nothing will be as bad as Voat, that's for sure. Except the pedophilia of course. 
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Dec 1, 2015 20:53
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FCKGW posted:Yeah, seriously. Something fundamentally changed around the firing of Ellen Pao and the whole rhetoric around that. I think a lot of the more moderate users just got fed up with all the poo poo being pushed to the front page around that time, all the people who flooded the entire site with posts about Ellen Pao, FatPeopleHate and all the "Chimpire" stuff being banned. Those users left and never came back. Also since Pao got canned, a lot of the more vocal shitheads on Reddit felt vindicated because they got what they want and now they feel like they can just run the place and put up any garbage they want. The head of a bunch of cp subreddits was openly friends with the Reddit admins until fairly recently
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Dec 1, 2015 20:54
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It also depends what part of reddit you're taking about. As an example, r/Syrian Civil War has been a good, useful place to follow the ins and outs of the Syrian Civil War. After Russia intervened recently in Syria the subreddit has had issues from pro-Russian users brigading the place. (There also tends to be a bias towards whichever group is winning and/or in the news a lot.) Certain subreddits are better or worse than others, and the default subreddits are generally terrible. (People from r/worldnews tend to invade r/Syrian Civil War after a big news event, and it make the place much more unreadable.) fade5 fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Dec 1, 2015 |
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Shifty Pony posted:The admins tried to ignore the problem and let it take root instead of stomping it out right away. It wasn't until there was a full fledged network of racist subreddits which straight up called itself the "chimpire" with a hundred thousand users that they decided to take action. Community moderators are always reluctant to put on their stomping boots and really go to town.
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Dec 1, 2015 20:54
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You guys acting like we don't have forums for anime, insane racist soldiers and gun nuts.
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Dec 1, 2015 20:56
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So is this a gotcha question or the kind of question the Republicans want asked at the next debate?
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Dec 1, 2015 20:57
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fade5 posted:It depends what part of reddit you're taking about. As an example, r/Syrian Civil War has been a good, useful place to follow the ins and outs of the Syrian Civil War. After Russia intervened recently in Syria the subreddit has had issues from pro-Russian users brigading the place. (There also tends to be a bias towards whichever group is winning and/or in the news a lot.) Yeah I think that's what's mainly changed. There's been a lot of bleed over into mainstream and other subs now. TIL is a perfect example where racists posts stuff like "TIL black people are bad" and all the other racists up vote it to the top. It happens in TIL, ELi5 and other "meta" subreddits where there are self posts or people making racist or mysogonystic comments posed as questions or facts. I highly recommend Sarah Jeong's book "The Internet Of Garbage" which talks about a lot of the problems Reddit and other online communities have. She also lurks the forums and had a line about SA in the book.
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Dec 1, 2015 20:57
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Radbot posted:I'm ashamed to admit I've been active on Reddit for five years or so, and I can definitely say it hasn't always been this bad. Maybe not as bad, but bad. Reddit always had that awful population of awful people, for the large part holed-up in their fringe subreddits. That stuff constantly leaked out into the more mainstream subreddits and plenty of redditors found themselves unironically agreeing with racially charged posts. I don't think Reddit started off bad or just became awful suddenly, but it's been going downhill at a constant pace ever since it was created. It's just the nature of the site. Remember that the website was the fostering ground for the "brogressive"-types (pretend I linked to the SA post about it here).
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Dec 1, 2015 21:01
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zoux posted:You guys acting like we don't have forums for anime, insane racist soldiers and gun nuts. You're kind of kidding yourself if you think ADTRW and GIP are that level of bad. Yeah, you have idiots permeating them, but you generally don't get Reddit level poo poo without it being stamped out.
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Dec 1, 2015 21:01
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AlternateNu posted:You're kind of kidding yourself if you think ADTRW and GIP are that level of bad. Yeah, you have idiots permeating them, but you generally don't get Reddit level poo poo without it being stamped out. GIP is absolutely as bad, and GBS isn't much better.
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Dec 1, 2015 21:04
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this_is_hard posted:GIP is absolutely as bad, and GBS isn't much better. To be fair, GiP kinda transcends irony and places it on a whole new pedestal. It's hard to say what's real down there.
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Dec 1, 2015 21:05
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AlternateNu posted:You're kind of kidding yourself if you think ADTRW and GIP are that level of bad. Yeah, you have idiots permeating them, but you generally don't get Reddit level poo poo without it being stamped out. I guess they are required to cloak their racism with dog whistle terms, irony and the posting equivalents of knowing looks, but I dunno if that's a huge improvement. Reddit has funny pictures and memes though.
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Dec 1, 2015 21:05
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FCKGW posted:Yeah, seriously. Something fundamentally changed around the firing of Ellen Pao and the whole rhetoric around that. I think a lot of the more moderate users just got fed up with all the poo poo being pushed to the front page around that time, all the people who flooded the entire site with posts about Ellen Pao, FatPeopleHate and all the "Chimpire" stuff being banned. Those users left and never came back. Also since Pao got canned, a lot of the more vocal shitheads on Reddit felt vindicated because they got what they want and now they feel like they can just run the place and put up any garbage they want. More like right after Pao was tossed they banned the explicit hate groups, which lead to "no, gently caress YOU dad!" of the racists going more explicit everywhere else and getting more shitbirds to come roll on the filth. In a macro scale it is that the economy has been crashing out and the weakening of privilege doesn't offer the protection from that it used to, so you have a lot of very angry formerly middle class people. Mix that with identity being the name of the game in these individualism-as-marketing days you end up with more ethno-populism than broad based ideological coalitions. Oh, and the mainstreaming of white supremacism during this time as hatred of Muslims and Obama got cranked up and now Trump's rhetoric.
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Dec 1, 2015 21:06
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Thump! posted:To be fair, GiP kinda transcends irony and places it on a whole new pedestal. It's hard to say what's real down there. Dogge thread is real Post dogges Pette dogges
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Dec 1, 2015 21:12
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zoux posted:I guess they are required to cloak their racism with dog whistle terms, irony and the posting equivalents of knowing looks, but I dunno if that's a huge improvement. Reddit has funny pictures and memes though. I will take irony and knowing looks over earnest, verbose discussion about how to best exterminate black people.
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Dec 1, 2015 21:13
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The funniest thing w/r/t the Ellen Pao stuff is it turns out she wasn't doing a single thing they were accusing her of all along, and in fact was more or less 'on their side' w/r/t the censorship debate.
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Dec 1, 2015 21:13
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Republican House and Senate have just agreed to a $305 bln 5-year highway bill Reminder that Hillary announced her $275 B 5-year plan the other day
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Dec 1, 2015 21:14
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People in general are racist and have vile viewpoints. Message boards give people an outlet for it with no repercussions. Stamping it out is fairly impossible when the site is as popular as Reddit is. You can't really expect any popular website to not have tons of garbage on it.
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Dec 1, 2015 21:15
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Zombie Samurai posted:Wait... what? That was my same response, mixed with choked out  .Uh, sure Jeb! Communications Director, try googling that. I'm sure DeviantArt or Reddit will steer you in the right direction...
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Dec 1, 2015 21:16
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Fried Chicken posted:Republican House and Senate have just agreed to a $305 bln 5-year highway bill What helpful legislation are they dismantiling with it?
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Dec 1, 2015 21:16
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Fried Chicken posted:Dogge thread is real  The GiP Dogge thread is better than the whole Pet Island because it's nothing but dogges being dogges.
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Dec 1, 2015 21:16
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Who wants to read a fun article about how the GOP establishment is simultaneously tearing their hair out yet quivering in fear pissing themselves over Trump. Won't someone rid me of this troublesome Trump? Not me tho, I don't want him to call me a bozo on twitter.
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Dec 1, 2015 21:17
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Fried Chicken posted:Dogge thread is real Thump! posted:
Dog. It is called a dog.
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Dec 1, 2015 21:17
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Fried Chicken posted:Republican House and Senate have just agreed to a $305 bln 5-year highway bill
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Dec 1, 2015 21:18
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The dogge thread is good but the Yospos catte thread is where it's at 
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Dec 1, 2015 21:18
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JT Jag posted:And the poison pill is... It's a literal one, and the bill requires Obama to take it. "Vetoing our nations infrastructure over SPECIAL INTERESTS again Obummer"
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Dec 1, 2015 21:18
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Doctor Butts posted:Dog. You're a dog
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Dec 1, 2015 21:19
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JT Jag posted:And the poison pill is... Reauthorizes the IM-EX Bank, does not raise the gas tax
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Dec 1, 2015 21:20
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Grouchio posted:Should we be expecting a new patriot act this month? Or will the lesser crisis compared to 9/11 allow cooler heads to prevail? For as much hand-wringing I made it out to be in the OP, I think what will happen is that they will talk big, but nothing will happen. Next year, some people will put out new proposals (including Tom Cotton who has vowed to reinstate the NSA's authority to collect phone metadata) but they won't be approved. However, one of those proposals that we see come out in the next year will be revived right after the next major terrorist attack and passed without comment.
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Dec 1, 2015 21:21
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baw posted:this one's a real bummer 
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Dec 1, 2015 21:22
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Btw how did we not have someone dig up a gif or video of Scott Walker face planting last night at WI's lighting ceremony? Per his people he had been "nipping into the eggnog" (and it showed) before hand
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Dec 1, 2015 21:23
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Thump! posted:To be fair, GiP kinda transcends irony and places it on a whole new pedestal. It's hard to say what's real down there. Its surreal, but I'd hate to say its ironic, because its really not. 
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Dec 1, 2015 21:23
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SubponticatePoster posted:Yeah why did I read that one There are really only two things that I get despondent about : the acceptance of Islamophobia in American discourse and policy, and million dollar kickstarters for cops that kill unarmed black kids.
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Dec 1, 2015 21:24
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JT Jag posted:And the poison pill is... Probably Obummacare being repealed
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Dec 1, 2015 21:26
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zoux posted:Who wants to read a fun article about how the GOP establishment is simultaneously tearing their hair out yet quivering in fear pissing themselves over Trump. "Bro-kered Conven-tion!" *clap clap clapclapclap*
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Dec 1, 2015 21:27
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a shameful boehner posted:"Bro-kered Conven-tion!" *clap clap clapclapclap* I want to see something like a mirror universe West Wing Season 6/7 convention where Walker or Kasich or one of the other fuckheads who already dropped just randomly throw their hat back in the ring after the first convention vote becomes a clusterfuck and fails to elect a nominee.
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Dec 1, 2015 21:41
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Well that "Trans leftist bank robber" theory didn't last very long. Also a town clerk confirmed that the "F" on his voter roll info was in fact a typo. Did Cruz and company forget this guy was taken in alive or what?
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Dec 1, 2015 21:42
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CommieGIR posted:Its surreal, but I'd hate to say its ironic, because its really not. Wishing the entire world to end in cleansing nuclear fire is better than just the middle east right?
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hobbesmaster posted:Wishing the entire world to end in cleansing nuclear fire is better than just the middle east right? "Pity the living, for the dead got the easy out" But seriously, I don't know how many people in the service I've heard say some really lovely/racist/awful things and I keep hoping they are joking...
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