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Re:Reddit rolls out community currencies on Ethereum by brodouevencode on Thursday May 14, 2020 @03:52PM (#23184499)
It matters a great deal because of the subreddit namespace land-grabs. Someone coming to reddit for the first time might naturally go to r/politics (which has become notoriously left-leaning) and not be aware of the rich history of censorship there.
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Re:Reddit rolls out community currencies on Ethereum by root_axis on Thursday May 14, 2020 @07:01PM (#23186660)
> Someone coming to reddit for the first time might naturally go to r/politics (which has become notoriously left-leaning)

You've explained that someone might voluntarily visit a website on the internet that contains partisan content, but you haven't explained why this is a problem. They're not trapped on reddit, they didn't pay a cover fee to enter, who cares?

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Re:Reddit rolls out community currencies on Ethereum by brodouevencode on Thursday May 14, 2020 @07:31PM (#23186995)
It's a problem because it sells itself as something else. I don't care that it's partisan, I do care that it's partisan but bills itself as something else to millions of eyeballs.
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Re:Reddit rolls out community currencies on Ethereum by root_axis on Thursday May 14, 2020 @07:59PM (#23187260)
Why is that a problem?
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Re:Reddit rolls out community currencies on Ethereum by streb-lo on Thursday May 14, 2020 @05:49PM (#23185983)
This is a tired argument.

As terrible and kneejerk as/r/politics may be, it doesn't need to be some neutral ground of perfect arbitration for many reasons, the least of which is that it would be asking an insane amount of work from its volunteer moderators. If it skews left who cares? There are plenty of places to discuss politics online that skew to the right.

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Re:Reddit rolls out community currencies on Ethereum by brodouevencode on Thursday May 14, 2020 @07:32PM (#23187010)
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23186995

Then advertise as such and don't pretend otherwise.

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Re:Reddit rolls out community currencies on Ethereum by streb-lo on Thursday May 14, 2020 @07:35PM (#23187054)
"/r/Politics is for news and discussion about U.S. politics."

How is it misleading people? is /pol also misleading people?

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Re:Reddit rolls out community currencies on Ethereum by kryogen1c on Thursday May 14, 2020 @09:06PM (#23187704)
> is /pol also misleading people?

every chance they get. it's more honest that way

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