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[–]Alienhunter 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Looks like a star trek subreddit. It's the classic case of political creep on reddit I guess. The political zealots need to insert culture war politics into everything then heap abuse against anyone who complains whether they agree with them or not. Usually starts a flame war and kills whatever online space they infect. Conservatives do it as well as you'll see if you let the religious zealots have free reign to condemn everything they don't like as blasphemy.

[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Conservatives do it as well as you'll see if you let the religious zealots have free reign to condemn everything they don't like as blasphemy.

Yeah, maybe a little bit, but by far the main political dynamic I see on Reddit is leftists just assuming everyone agrees with them. The person who posted this probably figured 99% of r/StarTrekWhatever agrees with him, and didn't consider his post any more political than, say, a meme celebrating the allied victory in WWII. That's how smug those motherfuckers are.

[–]Alienhunter 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Reddit in general has an extreme left leaning bias. It's become more pronounced as they purity spirals banning anyone they perceive as a "right wing troll" even if they are banning people who are more or less leftists themselves.

It's a common problem in politically "woke" spaces of any persuasion, why the old adage of "don't talk politics or religion in mixed company" existed.

The real problem with Reddit isn't so much that the users have such biases but the way the upvote downvote system works and the ban happy mods does more or less mean that you won't see many right wing positions getting much coverage unless they are in the context of leftist outrage over them. It's very much an echo chamber.

The star trek subs in general have had a lot of problems. Most people didn't like the newer star trek series for various reasons, politics not withstanding, but it turned into a purity spirals, and the moderators of the main star trek sub were going around banning anyone who criticized the new shows. An alternative sub formed that was less censorious but like all the alternative subs on reddit that formed due to poor moderation on the main sub it was eventually banned.

Reddit moderators are mostly spoiled adult children who can't function in the real world where the might have to actually have a conversation with someone who doesn't share their views, instead they have a pathological need to cultivate a space where they can wield their dictatorial aspirations to power to ban any kind of opinion they don't like so they can maintain a fantasy where they are well liked and their opinions popular against the brutal reality where they are the exact opposite of what they aspire to be.

[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

ban happy mods

Yeah, like Board_Gaming, who was perfectly content to run r/Braincels with a very light touch until the actual Reddit employees decided to ban it. Supposedly she was some chubby old black chick, too. She wasn't outraged enough to suit the Reddit supermod nose-pickers, I guess.

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

It's impossible to maintain large online forums without this sort of thing creeping in I think. Eventually they get so big you either have to restrict users to prevent spam and legit disruptive trolling, or you just let it kill the space until eventually people get fed up with it to the point they allow in a bunch of power hungry mods who will eventually take over and make it their own personal walled garden anyway.