Reddit ‘Quarantines’ Pro-Trump Subreddit Over Anti-Police Threats

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[–]VirtualMerlin 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (21 children)

They won't silence us no matter what they do.........EVER.

[–]IamRedBeard 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (20 children)

You, uh... you weren't silenced. At all. I mean, you can go over there right now and raise all the same hell you did yesterday and the day before.

Stop talkin about killin cops and you will be fine. Your "freedom ah screeeeach" is just a loud and ignorant as ever. Go have a good time. Check it out.

All your russian Bot friends are gone though... you will notice that right away.

Other than that you wont see a difference.

GLHF

[–]bonked_or_maybe_not 12 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 2 fun -  (18 children)

Stop talkin about killin cops and you will be fine.

They can't even provide evidence of the comments they claim were in violation and the moderation log shows that out of 700K users, with literally more than 100K comments and posts per day, the admins found 11 in the past 40 days that were downvoted but not moderated.

That's less than 1 miss per day.

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

Spot on, I know this is hard for people to hear but we are the long road to war, the left in this nation has to stop making everything political. I don't know how to fix this but, I know we are not going to a good place and this is just one more mile to a lot of death.

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

Its not just the Left. I agree with everything you just said but you had to say the Left like conservatives are completely innocent in this - and you're not!

Mud is being slung on both sides. Stop being spineless and take some responsibility! It feels fucking goood when ya do!

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

Both sides promote censorship, the right and left corporate shills. It's the ADL that is doing the censorship more than anyone else though.

[–]IamRedBeard 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (14 children)

T_D has been skating on really thin ice for a looooong time now. Eventually Something was going to push it over the line. T_D had more second third and 60'th chances probably than any other subreddit.

It definitely got more tolerance than /r/Fatepeoplehate and a dozen others. I mean, how could they NOT see the weather changin? More times than I can count I heard and saw complaints of T_D advocating violence and NOTHING happened. Well y'all wanted to be polarizing.

Now everybody at T_D is like that stupid Pickachu meme.

The only people on the fucking planet that seem to be surprised about this are the ones in The_Donald.

[–]bonked_or_maybe_not 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (13 children)

If your point was valid, MediaMatters wouldn't have had to resort to quoting users with less than 20 comments in their entire history and a collective reddit karma of 4, with a comment that was older than the edited window (they literally used a 3 minute old comment from an 8 month old account with a total of 17 comments and 4 reddit karma total.)

[–]IamRedBeard 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (12 children)

Credit @ Bardfinn

Reddit's administration has a hands-off policy, meaning that they are not actively moderating content on subreddits, unless they are forced to do so (by various mechanisms). In plain English: By and large, Reddit admins are not reading, and not moderating, what people post to subreddits. That's why they have Moderators.

T_D has been actioned three other times in their existence that I'm aware of, and each time they've moved away from the issues that Reddit administration brought up with them. Mainly, T_D is "tolerated" by Reddit administration because Reddit administration wasn't getting abuse reports through the report system. 1/3rd of that was because the T_D mods disabled reporting via CSS changes, and 1/3rd of that was because no one banned from T_D could hit "Report" on a post or comment on the Desktop interface, and 1/3rd of that was because no one wanted to bother to do T_D mods' jobs for them, and scroll through their New and Comments queues, and fill out http://www.reddit.com/report. Also, because there was no journalistic coverage of the content. So, when someone started going through their New queue and Comments queue and reporting material that violated the Content Policy, directly to Reddit admins (which can be done by filling out http://www.reddit.com/report, or sending modmail to /r/reddit.com)

The admins had direct, first-hand, red-flag knowledge that the subreddit had content in it that violated the Content Policy. They Quarantined the subreddit because it's SOP for Reddit administration to Quarantine subreddits where they consistently must take moderation actions because the moderators will not take action, or have demonstrated a willingness to ignore the part of the Reddit User Agreement Section 7 : You agree that when you receive reports related to your community, that you will take action to moderate by removing content and/or escalating to the admins for review; So, to RECAP: T_D "moderators" weren't being babysat because Reddit admins don't want to babysit any community - which can be called "tolerating"; T_D "moderators" sabotaged the proper operation of their community and violated the Reddit User Agreement Section 7; People posted content to T_D advocating for armed, violent political insurrection and political assassinations; Journalists wrote about it; Reddit administration was in a position where they could not claim that they were unaware, and therefore executives had to take action to enforce their User Agreement. The Moral Of This Story: Reddit Administration isn't tolerating the existence of T_D -- WE ARE. If people spent time reporting content on T_D that violates the User Agreement / Content Policy / clearly aids & abets violence -- to both Reddit Administration and to journalists -- then Reddit's administration would be forced to act.

[–]astro_eng[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (11 children)

Strange how there are several left leaning subs that advocate violence DAILY, politics & badcopnodonut are 2 easy examples. Why arent they quarantined? Oh thats right because the left supports them. Its censorship and it wont be tolerated. These tech companies are going to broken up sooner rather than later (not violently of course).

[–]IamRedBeard 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (10 children)

Show me your sources, please. I will happily report them myself. Not a screenshot - give me the link.

[–]astro_eng[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

Cmon man look in those subs yourself. Look at the sticky in badcop... they probably dont have that in mildlyinfuriating.

[–]IamRedBeard 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

No. you come here with the accusations. The burden of proof is on you. Otherwise I'm calling you completely full of horse shit and arguing in bad faith.

I can call you a chicken fucker and its hearsay until I show people a picture of you with your dick in a chicken.

Also, You fuck chickens. I'm going to need you to take it on faith, though.

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

Lots of fallacies by you. Stick to the pyriamid of debate Redbeard.

[–]fred_red_beans 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The whole Oregon Democrat vs GOP deal is just partisanship on overdrive. In my opinion, engaging in the whole left vs right paradigm is just disparaging yourself. Making generalizations and and assumptions of a persons ideas and beliefs based on what side they are thought to be on is just stupid. Saidit is here to give people a chance to express themselves, but if you're just here to label someone a commie or alt-right winger because something they said made you think they were on one side or the other, IMHO you only make a fool of yourself. It's divide and conquer. Personally, as an individual, I don't care about democrats or repbulicans or the left or the right. I make my own decisions based on the information I think is relevant, and try to listen to dissenting point of views.