Study finds Reddit’s ban of its most toxic subreddits worked (2017)

Re:Study finds Reddit’s ban of its most toxic subreddits wor... by r3bl on Sunday April 28, 2019 @08:10AM (#19770676)

> Migration was common, both to similar subreddits (i.e. overtly racist ones) and tangentially related ones (r/The_Donald).

Tangentially-related? I'm pretty sure this crosses the line of being tangentially-related to racism. https://i.redd.it/ua1ukmoi8ls21.jpg

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Re:Study finds Reddit’s ban of its most toxic subreddits wor... by akhilcacharya on Sunday April 28, 2019 @09:58AM (#19771172)

As someone that’s heard the president talk it really is hard to say tangentially related.

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Re:Study finds Reddit’s ban of its most toxic subreddits wor... by just_a_dev on Sunday April 28, 2019 @10:17AM (#19771241)

Islam is a race now?

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Re:Study finds Reddit’s ban of its most toxic subreddits wor... by amanaplanacanal on Sunday April 28, 2019 @12:03PM (#19771849)

"Race" is a pre-scientific term. It means whatever people want it to mean. Language is funny that way.

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Re:Study finds Reddit’s ban of its most toxic subreddits wor... by cannedslime on Sunday April 28, 2019 @11:02AM (#19771448)

You realize anyone can post anything on reddit? I could go to /r/SandersForPresident and LARP as a violent communist revolutionary, right this moment if I wanted to.

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Re:Study finds Reddit’s ban of its most toxic subreddits wor... by r3bl on Sunday April 28, 2019 @06:12PM (#19774053)

Yes, you could. You'd probably receive a ban instantly, not have people engaging with you and upvoting you. You'd certainly not be able to do that for weeks (since some of these I've opened at random still post in t_d).

I don't know who you're trying to fool by claiming this shit isn't common on t_d, but you're not fooling anyone.

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Re:Study finds Reddit’s ban of its most toxic subreddits wor... by walls on Sunday April 28, 2019 @05:06PM (#19773670)

You could, but you wouldn't get 40 upvotes.

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Re:Study finds Reddit’s ban of its most toxic subreddits wor... by 1337biz on Sunday April 28, 2019 @08:17AM (#19770715)

Congratulations, you found a few idiots amongst 700.000+ people.

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Re:Study finds Reddit’s ban of its most toxic subreddits wor... by r3bl on Sunday April 28, 2019 @08:24AM (#19770754)

This screenshot is about half a month old. I've just opened two of these at random and they both still post in t_d.

If it were a few idiots, they'd be easy to ban. I've moderated a controversial sub for years and I guarantee you that a few idiots are easy to ban way before they reach the stage in which they're comfortable with posting shit like this. They know that they won't face any consequences.

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Re:Study finds Reddit’s ban of its most toxic subreddits wor... by throwaway287391 on Sunday April 28, 2019 @08:29AM (#19770772)

If you think this kind of thing is hard to find on /r/The_Donald, you've either never visited it or are (possibly willfully) in denial.

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Re:Study finds Reddit’s ban of its most toxic subreddits wor... by EasyTiger_ on Sunday April 28, 2019 @08:37AM (#19770805)

To be fair I've seen worse on /r/politics, a subreddit that has way more exposure than the D

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Re:Study finds Reddit’s ban of its most toxic subreddits wor... by CathedralBorrow on Sunday April 28, 2019 @10:18AM (#19771246)

Can you provide some screenshots?

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Re:Study finds Reddit’s ban of its most toxic subreddits wor... by gristig on Sunday April 28, 2019 @08:19AM (#19770729)

The underlined posts have 2 upvotes. It can't really be used to represent anything

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