Re:The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire
by trident1000 on Friday December 11, 2020 @11:26PM
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Reddit had a bipolar shift around 2015 before the election. Thats when the main subs were astroturfed and gamed like I had never seen before.
Re:The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire
by konjin on Saturday December 12, 2020 @12:16AM
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I've heard the same thing about 2008, 2011, 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2019. It's not different this time either. Bad decisions from the top are the reason why the site is getting worse.
Re:The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire
by trident1000 on Saturday December 12, 2020 @12:20AM
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I think its a combo. Ive also been on reddit since the early days and never witnessed a tectonic shift like that.
Go on the front page of reddit and count how many posts from subs like /r/insanepoeplefacebook, /r/publicfreakout, /r/idiotsincars, /r/trashy, and the like there are, right now it's at 15/25. On most days I've done this is close to 20/25. Today there are 5 posts about the TX appeal not being heard by the SC which has pushed some of the usual garbage off the front page.
5 years ago there were none (or maybe one if you squint hard enough): https://web.archive.org/web/20151212085428/https://www.reddi...
Reddit has become a more mean-spirited place the more subs have been banned, and every time the increase in vitriol is used as an excuse to run the next set of bans. People cheer this on until they get banned and then act surprised it happened.