Not just a warning, you get a site-wide ban for voting on wrongthink now

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[–]benesatto 19 insightful - 5 fun19 insightful - 4 fun20 insightful - 5 fun -  (17 children)

oh yeah, I got banned from r/funny for saying "that's a sad gorge". It was a picture of a gorge.

You can't say anything over there, what's the point of a social media site where you can't be social?!

Dumbasses.

[–]jamesK_3rd 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (14 children)

They Are social. It's just social without you.

That your voice isn't there is a feature, not a bug.

[–]magnora7 11 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

Really it's Overton Window control. They have a trillion opinions posted to the site, and they constantly decide what opinions are valid and which aren't. The manage the overton window, which literally manages the national conversation as reddit is in the top 20 most-visited websites in the world.

Ranchers who want to control sheep use sheepdogs. Rulers who want to control people use Overton Window Management. Reddit is the new MSM.

[–]querycan19 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

doesn't saidit do the same thing though? try to control its overton window?

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

Yes in the sense we don't allow advocation of violence. But our overton window is much much wider than reddit's or voat's, and that's kind of the whole point of the website

[–]querycan19 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

saidit doesn't try to maintain a "balanced" overton window, regardless of any consensus forming among the site's users?

[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Not really, we try to avoid becoming voat (and also avoid becoming reddit) but almost all the culture is determined by the users

[–]querycan19 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

that sounds like artificially influencing the overton window if the site is prevented from organically becoming too voat-like and too reddit-like.

[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

well the thing is it's not organic, it's caused by brigading most of the time, and one person pretending to be many people. Which is how I can root it out easily. Also people pushing things in a voat-like direction often advocate violence, so they're easy to remove over that as well. So it's not artificial, it's just consistent with our ruleset

[–]querycan19 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

was /s/holocaustskepticism brigading?

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

What are you really asking?

[–]Aureus 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

This is why I see leaving reddit as a loss, not necessarily as a principled stand. You're censoring yourself from the majority of people.

Saidit is a great alternative but it gravely limits our reach.

[–]philosopher 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yep, but the more good conversation and ideas we find here, the more that people who are sick of Reddit will stay. Digg was big, but it fell hard when its time came.

[–]Aureus 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

100% agree. This is why it bothers me people are using this site just for memes, news articles, and outrage porn. SaidIt needs to be about quality, not quantity.

Could you read over my thread here and leave a comment on it letting me know what you think? It's related to this topic.

[–]beermeem 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

yawn

[–]beermeem 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Once Trump gets re-elected, no one will ever visit reddit again.

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    [–]beermeem 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

    So... nothing funny, then?