Reeddit - Minimalist, elastic and read-only web app client for Reddit

Re:Reeddit - Minimalist, elastic and read-only web app clien... by redthrowaway on Saturday January 05, 2013 @01:46PM (#5013532)

>Censorship has become an issue within some subreddits, too. It's not about getting rid of blatant spammers any more. Far too often we've seen contributing, albeit unorthodox, members of these communities banned for expressing views that may be controversial, but still worth expressing.

Reddit's problem has never been spam. In fact, you alluded to it earlier in your post: it's quality.

"Censorship", aka moderation, is necessary to promote quality content. Wikipedia, /., and SO are all heavily moderated. So, too, is HN. Without moderation (censorship, in your words), content regresses to the LCD. This is bad, and worth preventing. Moderation achieves that.

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Re:Reeddit - Minimalist, elastic and read-only web app clien... by pekk on Saturday January 05, 2013 @02:27PM (#5013695)

Moderation on the basis of ideological purity does not produce "quality content," just an artificial ideological uniformity.

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Re:Reeddit - Minimalist, elastic and read-only web app clien... by redthrowaway on Saturday January 05, 2013 @03:05PM (#5013841)

I've been a redditor for something like 4 years. I've read thousands of complaints about Nazi mods banning people they disagree with. Upon closer inspection, I've found the vast majority of those who were banned deserved it. In only a handful of cases have I seen mods who legitimately were trying to censor opinions they disagreed with.

People have a tendency to hide behind the principle of free speech as if it were all-encompassing and omnibenevolent. It isn't. Just because you have the right to speak your mind doesn't mean you have the right to be heard. Low-quality contributions can and must be suppressed if the level of discussion in a community is to remain high.

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Re:Reeddit - Minimalist, elastic and read-only web app clien... by mistermann on Sunday January 06, 2013 @12:41AM (#5015461)

Its not so much the moderators, its the downvotes. Reddit, imho, has a very particular and narrow opinion on many subjects - disagree with this opinion, even in legitimate good faith of open discussion, and your comment will be buried within minutes. The masses in the community have really lost their way.

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Re:Reeddit - Minimalist, elastic and read-only web app clien... by ChiperSoft on Sunday January 06, 2013 @01:24AM (#5015567)

Hivemind happens everywhere, even on HN and SO. There will always be a status quo.

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Re:Reeddit - Minimalist, elastic and read-only web app clien... by rmc on Saturday January 05, 2013 @05:55PM (#5014359)

But what if the goal is ideological uniformity? r/lgbt or r/transgender is about LGBT or trans issues. They want to make a Safe Space where people don't have to justify trans 101?

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Re:Reeddit - Minimalist, elastic and read-only web app clien... by DanBC on Saturday January 05, 2013 @05:58PM (#5014371)

Set up your own subreddit. Announce the rules early. Get cooperative mods with you.

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Re:Reeddit - Minimalist, elastic and read-only web app clien... by willurd on Saturday January 05, 2013 @02:58PM (#5013814)

I think you're on to something here. I'm going to ponder this for a while.

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