If you're a reddit 'refugee,' why did you leave?

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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Basically every single one having anything to do with news or politics.

Weird thing is, in r/pics there was a thread about pro-choice message and people were actually (for the most part) doing proper representation of the opposing side https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/ea6kf5/this_really_still_shouldnt_be_a_debate/ , if you read through the comments it sounds reasonable and it's a major sub. It's mostly r/news and r/politics which is really weird, since I'd expect similar crowd to attend it.

Some times I suspect some kind of fuckery is going on reddit targeting certain subs.

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I think you're right. The cost of brigading a reddit thread ten million people will see is cheaper than running a TV ad, and businesses and governments have started to realize this

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Do we have any safeguard to try and prevent that from happening here?

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, we don't have downvotes, so things can't be censored and votes can't be un-done. So they can't hide the complaints and such.

But it's one of the problems inherent in anonymous social media. There's no way to know what anyone's intentions are until they post.