Re:How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addict...
by eplanit on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @05:56PM
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It follows the "safe-space" "you're not allowed to dissent" model pioneered by some "leftist" subs, and will ban people for having perfectly legitimate dissent.
Exactly -- and why I lasted only a week on Reddit. It's nothing but a collection of echo chambers. No matter how sincere and thorough I would try and make arguments, if they're weren't in line with the herd I'd get downvoted to oblivion (no counter argument except insults) if not outright banned (never had been banned before). It's no fun participating when the only accepted input is "me, too!"
Re:How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addict...
by ryanmerket on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @11:47PM
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Every subreddit is different. You can't judge the whole site based on one subreddit's rules...
Re:How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addict...
by borne0 on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @02:19PM
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reddit works much better if you unsubscribe from all the default subs, then subscribe to ones that interest you. Discovery is a bit harder but much of the reddit 'culture' is absent if you choose wisely.
Re:How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addict...
by 24gttghh on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @12:53PM
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Wouldn't the solution be to un-follow /r/all? I've never seen a post from the subreddits-which-shall-not-be-named...
Re:How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addict...
by Karunamon on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @01:27PM
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/r/all isn't even a thing you can subscribe to or even see unless you explicitly link to or type reddit.com/r/all into the address bar.
It used to be the front page while logged out was /r/all, but that was replaced with /r/popular a while back (which has a completely non-transparent filter applied to it)
It follows the "safe-space" "you're not allowed to dissent" model pioneered by some "leftist" subs, and will ban people for having perfectly legitimate dissent.
It managed to exploit some loopholes in how reddit works to take-over the front page. The most interesting one was "stickying" new posts so they were shown on their front page. They did this to a new post pretty frequently. This let them
* Coordinate which posts got to the front page of reddit
and
* Exploited the reddit algorithm for determining "hotness"
For a while, 8 out of every 10 posts on the front page were from /r/the_donald.
It marks the first major incidence of the community engineering tools (that I believe were pioneered by subs like /r/shitRedditSays) being used by the right.