Re:Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of R...
by throwaway45783 on Friday June 05, 2020 @01:08PM
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What's wrong with /r/conspiracy?
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Re:Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of R...
by belltaco on Friday June 05, 2020 @01:36PM
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It has a lot of far right misinformation, fake news and articles from fishy sites. The mods are biased and wont moderate those.
E.g from yesterday https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/gwgv6i/awfully_...
Re:Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of R...
by throwaway45783 on Friday June 05, 2020 @01:50PM
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Sounds like typical conspiracy theory behavior to me, not sure what you expected from a conspiracy subreddit or why you would want the subreddit banned.
Re:Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of R...
by belltaco on Friday June 05, 2020 @02:23PM
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Outright falsehoods aren't always conspiracies, they usually lie in the unknowns. It's one thing to say Clinton is a secret Chinese sympathizer, it's another thing to say she was born and brought up in China. Many of the fake news things fall into the latter category, just lies designed to promote the far right.
Conspiracy theories used to more neutral like 5 years ago. Now they're exclusively far right and anti-liberal.
Re:Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of R...
by psychometry on Friday June 05, 2020 @01:17PM
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The same thing that's wrong with conspiracy theories (e.g. Q). Lunatics flock to platforms that let them disseminate their lies.
Re:Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of R...
by devado on Friday June 05, 2020 @01:39PM
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but everything is cleanly tagged under /r/conspiracy ?
Re:Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of R...
by psychometry on Friday June 05, 2020 @02:20PM
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Yes and the people who populate that subreddit comment everywhere else, too. Same goes for other misogynist/racist/right-wing subreddits. The proliferation of these subreddits leads to a proliferation of low-quality users.
Re:Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of R...
by devado on Friday June 05, 2020 @03:52PM
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doesn't reddit have that extension (forget the name) to ban users across all subreddits and tag them etc ? (not from the site but for your own browsing)
Re:Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Resigns from the Board of R...
by psychometry on Friday June 05, 2020 @08:45PM
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You're talking about literally thousands of people you'd need to ban.