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Re:Reddit nuking accounts of anyone who mentions a new emplo... by nelsonmandela on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @10:29AM (#26555445)
Why wouldn't you just hide it or ignore it?
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Re:Reddit nuking accounts of anyone who mentions a new emplo... by jakelazaroff on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @10:35AM (#26555543)
Because I think having the same (mostly tribal) political discussion ad nauseum harms the community.
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Re:Reddit nuking accounts of anyone who mentions a new emplo... by ddalex on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @03:30PM (#26559303)
If people had cancelled Greenwald this way years ago perhaps nobody would have learned of Snowden's disclosures.

Who knows what we will never learn because people want to avoid certain type of discussions

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Re:Reddit nuking accounts of anyone who mentions a new emplo... by 0-_-0 on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @01:18PM (#26557484)
More optimistically, it allows the community to blow off steam in threads you don't read
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Re:Reddit nuking accounts of anyone who mentions a new emplo... by dang on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @02:16PM (#26558267)
Steam is not a good analogy. A better analogy is fire. Steam blows off, fire spreads.
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