Reddit admits that their latest subreddit purge was a failure; only 18% decrease in "toxic comments"

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[–]ISaidWhatISaid[S] 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

So first they create a few fake accounts that demand that Reddit ban the sub.

I don't know if they need fake accounts for that. Seems to me like there's plenty of volunteer censors in AHS that have nothing better to do all day then to track down shit they supposedly don't want to see anyway (though I personally think they honestly get off tracking down and watching it), and then neg Reddit to have it removed. AHS and QAH really seem to enjoy this game of whack-a-mole with their ideological enemies. I guess it gives them a sense of purpose, and they actually get a rush or a high out of the powertrip of censoring people. It is for this reason that I don't think bots are necessary. Too many controlfreaks on Reddit who truly get off on being censors and controlling the speech of others. Bardfinn wouldn't be where he is today if there weren't thousands of other Bardfinns all over Reddit.

[–]Canbot 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No need to wait for someone to actually demand you do the thing you want to do when it is trivial for you to manufacture that demand. And this is hardly unique to Reddit. All those conservative speakers who get banned from speaking at colleges because of "threats" or Antifa showing up were actually banned because the college administrators are leftists. That is why those same administrators will tell the cops to stand down and let Antifa terrorize participants and damage property.

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What's QAH?

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

QAH = https://www.reddit.com/r/QueersAgainstHate/

It's one of the /r/AgainstHateSubreddits sistersubs. They do all the things that /r/AHS is notorious for: creating blacklists of subreddits they want to take down, organizing brigades, doxxing wrongthinkers, etc.