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A comment on The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate Speech [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate S... by dionidium on Monday September 11, 2017 @02:34PM (#15220910)
Caution: this is presented as a validated theory, but there are many competing explanations for the drop in crime in the 90s.
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Re:The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate S... by mfoy_ on Monday September 11, 2017 @03:07PM (#15221269)
Valid or not, it was a Nirvana fallacy-- just like the idea that there was no point in banning the subreddit because they would move platforms.

Just because you can't achieve an idealized scenario doesn't mean you should not try for some improvement.

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