Re:Reddit reports 18% reduction in hate content after bannin...
by sukilot on Thursday August 20, 2020 @01:50PM
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People ignore the non offensive posts. But every few weeks a "men suck" or "ridiculous attacks on anti-abortion viewpoint" pops up non /r/all.
Re:Reddit reports 18% reduction in hate content after bannin...
by meowface on Thursday August 20, 2020 @01:54PM
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Without specific examples and links cited, this discussion will just run in circles. It probably will anyway, but it has no way of not without citations.
Re:Reddit reports 18% reduction in hate content after bannin...
by eggsnbacon1 on Thursday August 20, 2020 @02:48PM
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its pointless to bikeshed this. People did the same to defend TD and other crazy communities. Most of the posts are fine, but occasionally blatant sexism will make the front page and mods don't do anything about it, or even encourage it by putting the post in "real believer" mode where opposing viewpoints can't exist. Same as TD.
Best example I've seen https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/hzis4w/a_n...
"A message to all men" . Basically telling "all men" their opinions aren't valued or wanted on the sub. Wonderful. And it hit the Reddit front page. Imagine a "mancave" sub on Reddit with mods saying women's opinions don't matter and aren't welcome here and shit like that. It would be banned immediately, probably after making 5 o'clock news
Re:Reddit reports 18% reduction in hate content after bannin...
by kthejoker2 on Thursday August 20, 2020 @04:50PM
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That's...literally not what that message says, "basically" or otherwise.
It literally says the opposite, in fact
> Men, I have a request: Please, think twice before you reply to a post that you can't relate to. I'm not asking you to leave this sub, because I think that it's valuable to read about other people's experiences to learn about their unique challenges in this world.
On their front page right now:
- A post about finishing shampoo and conditioner at the same time
- Celebration of a black female CEO
- Discussion of abortion
- Discussion of Women's only gyms (pros/cons/benefits/etc)
- Discussion about marketing vis-a-vis unhealthy body image
- Inappropriate boss in a meeting
None of those posts are even about men, let alone "hate speech against half the species?" So the emphasis is definitely on you to show that this is a popular usage of the sub.
Subs don't get removed for a scattering of hateful comments, the moderators are expected to deal with those. Subs get banned because their popular purpose is against Reddit's rules or their moderators are unable/unwilling to enforce the rules.