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Re:They Didn’t Ask to Go Viral. Posting on Social Media With... by plagiarist on Saturday August 05, 2023 @01:33PM (#37014433)
Of course, this is what I expected to see when you claim far right content isn't a problem. You are severely biased to think that The Donald was anything other than a cesspool of radicalism. The dude has been a lifelong con man. He was an utter failure (and traitor) as a president, as was obvious from the start.

Reddit is full of whatever a dogwhistle becomes when everyone can hear it. Just whistles, I suppose. It is shockingly easy to find racists commenting about IQ and 13/50 bullshit in any subreddit that isn't actively moderating against that, let alone one that encourages it like the Donald.

Re:They Didn’t Ask to Go Viral. Posting on Social Media With... by Gud on Saturday August 05, 2023 @02:01PM (#37014747)
the_donald was banned years ago, along with many other far right subs. Where are these far right wing subs?

Right or wrong, I don't really care. The far right has been effectively purged from Reddit.

Re:They Didn’t Ask to Go Viral. Posting on Social Media With... by plagiarist on Saturday August 05, 2023 @02:54PM (#37015207)
Maybe a single hive was removed after years of activity. The users from the Donald were not removed. They moved to other subreddits where they persist with the same behaviors. There has certainly not been any sort of purge.
Re:They Didn’t Ask to Go Viral. Posting on Social Media With... by DropInIn on Saturday August 05, 2023 @10:09PM (#37018291)
Nah they instead purged those who opposed the hate mongering and called out the trolling...

I've come to hazard a guess they prefer the TD folks because the have higher engagement rates and are more prone to fall for the shady ads that reddit seems to be rife with

Re:They Didn’t Ask to Go Viral. Posting on Social Media With... by Gud on Sunday August 06, 2023 @01:22PM (#37024353)
Where? I just don’t see it.

It looks to me they moved elsewhere, in some cases probably more radical communities.

https://pbfcomics.com/comics/deeply-held-beliefs/

Re:They Didn’t Ask to Go Viral. Posting on Social Media With... by SV_BubbleTime on Saturday August 05, 2023 @02:50PM (#37015173)
>racists commenting about IQ and 13/50 bullshit

I don’t know what you are saying. Explain?

Re:They Didn’t Ask to Go Viral. Posting on Social Media With... by plagiarist on Saturday August 05, 2023 @02:59PM (#37015247)
You've thoroughly proven you have no clue you would recognize far-right content when you used the Donald as a counter-example of it, no need to continue.
Re:They Didn’t Ask to Go Viral. Posting on Social Media With... by SV_BubbleTime on Saturday August 05, 2023 @05:45PM (#37016581)
Why are you having difficulty explaining all the things you are saying are so commonplace?

You are making claims but unwilling to back any of them up.

Imagine for a moment… if you were so far left that everything looked “far right” to you, how would you know?

Re:They Didn’t Ask to Go Viral. Posting on Social Media With... by plagiarist on Saturday August 05, 2023 @05:55PM (#37016641)
I'm not having difficulty, I'm choosing not to follow the directives of someone who thinks the Donald wasn't far right radicalism.

"You didn't write responses on my terms so you're wrong and biased to the point of delusion." No, actually, you think a far-right echo chamber finally getting banned for agitating users towards shooting police officers is somehow Hillary Clinton's fault.

Re:They Didn’t Ask to Go Viral. Posting on Social Media With... by dude187 on Saturday August 05, 2023 @05:19PM (#37016408)
So you're saying there's no examples, meaning that you're actually claiming such subreddits don't exist
Re:They Didn’t Ask to Go Viral. Posting on Social Media With... by plagiarist on Saturday August 05, 2023 @06:02PM (#37016688)
From your comment history on vaccines and illness I presume you are more familiar than I with far-right subreddits. Perhaps you should list a few here to satisfy yourself, since I won't be entertaining the question.
Re:They Didn’t Ask to Go Viral. Posting on Social Media With... by SV_BubbleTime on Saturday August 05, 2023 @08:58PM (#37017876)
You have now in this thread accused two HN members of being far right… while being completely incapable of linking far right activity on Reddit you claim is all over the place.

You may have a religion you aren’t aware of.

Re:They Didn’t Ask to Go Viral. Posting on Social Media With... by plagiarist on Saturday August 05, 2023 @09:05PM (#37017917)
Again, you think a subreddit purpose-built around supporting lifelong con man isn't far-right. Not even after he has been indicted for insurrection and stealing secret documents is it clear to you.
Re:They Didn’t Ask to Go Viral. Posting on Social Media With... by evandale on Saturday August 05, 2023 @09:53PM (#37018217)
I don't understand why you can't link to a single _existing_ alt-right subreddit. You keep referencing a single one that was purged years ago.

You're claiming they're still on Reddit but using a long gone subreddit as proof of Reddit being alt-right today? How does that even work? If you can't link to something today you can't say the problem still exists today.

Re:They Didn’t Ask to Go Viral. Posting on Social Media With... by dude187 on Sunday August 06, 2023 @01:43AM (#37019299)
This is just another admission that your claim has no merit
Re:They Didn’t Ask to Go Viral. Posting on Social Media With... by dude187 on Sunday August 06, 2023 @01:42AM (#37019293)
It would be more tactful to just admit you are wrong. Attacking me with strange baseless accusations, based on what I can only assume are my correct positions in previous scientific discussions, is a strange saving face tactic