Re:Washington Post integrates Talk – Mozilla’s open-source c...
by TACIXAT on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @11:32AM
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In my opinion, the overall theme of reddit is heavy moderation. You have subreddits on all sides of the political and social spectrums that ban dissenting opinions (e.g. the_donald and latestagecapitalism). Even what jedberg is suggesting -
>As a site owner, you can fully moderate the conversation by only embedding comments from a subreddit you fully control.
I agree that moderation is necessary (hate speech, spam, etc.), but allowing any individual(s) to create arbitrary rules feels really awful. I wish there was an overall "moderation guidelines" for popular subs that enabled discussions to occur, and some recourse if mods abused their powers. Right now it's an echo chamber machine and I'm starting to hate it.
Which culture? Outside of the default subs, I'm not sure its really accurate to say that Reddit _has_ a singular culture, except perhaps in the same broad sense we might say that "the internet" has one.
Rather, each subreddit has its own unique culture, and there can be a _lot_ of variance between the cultures of different subreddits.