Study Finds Reddit’s Controversial Ban of its Most Toxic Subreddits Actually Worked

[Garnier Fructis]

Actually worked to do what? Create a safe space? Yes.
But not to rid the world of anything you dislike. Why not just have a conversation? I guess you really do like walls.

How is it that I'm supposed to have a meaningful conversation with someone who, for example, thinks I'm subhuman?

[minteK917]

oh this bodes well for the nazis. oh wait sorry had that backwards, it's the "liberal free thinkers" who want to police free speech and cleanse the unworthy out of their perfect dream nowadays.

Why are alt-righters always so much against private ownership? Free speech protects you against the government, reddit is not owned by the government. 1+1=

[Orby]

Never used reddit, and still don't I am still not even sure what it is. Isn't like a large forum database or old school message board thing? All I know if the place is a toxic landfiill I am happy being ignorant

[ImpTaimer]

Oh boy more pseudoscience studies.

Deleting subreddits changes nothing. You're not deleting the people (which is inevitability of any socialist ideology). All you do is stifle discussion instead of containing it. All you do is spread it around until it either dominates or contains itself again.

Do people really think because they get approval or disapproval from the internet that it translates back to real life? What actually happens is echo chamber mob mentality. Right and wrong is meaningless in this situation. Its still scapegoating.

Thank god America has a constitution that isn't socialist dog shit.

[minteK917]

Never used reddit, and still don't I am still not even sure what it is. Isn't like a large forum database or old school message board thing? All I know if the place is a toxic landfiill I am happy being ignorant

Nah its useful for games and other specific things. Like theorycrafting in video games, trading in card/board games etc. Reddit is as toxic as what you are looking for. If you go to say magic the gathering reddit, its unlikely to be really toxic, if you go to one of the political garbage like Donald, then yeah its toxic as fuck lol.

[kasuke06]

Why are alt-righters always so much against private ownership? Free speech protects you against the government, reddit is not owned by the government. 1+1=

And why are liberals "everyone should be free to do everything under the law" so focused on shutting down everyone's freedom that they don't agree with?

[minteK917]

And why are liberals "everyone should be free to do everything under the law" so focused on shutting down everyone's freedom that they don't agree with?

Show me where those anti freedom laws are voted first? Reddit is not a government body, closing a sub reddit is like me telling you to leave my house. You arent entitled to enter my private propriety, pretty simply concept. What you are suggesting is actually communism.

[Moralgy]

And why are liberals "everyone should be free to do everything under the law" so focused on shutting down everyone's freedom that they don't agree with?

Do you mean, "liberals that think everything should be legal" with that statement? The way you wrote that makes it sound like you are saying "liberals think everyone should be free to do everything that is legal".

[kasuke06]

Show me where those anti freedom laws are voted first? Reddit is not a government body, closing a sub reddit is like me telling you to leave my house. You arent entitled to enter my private propriety, pretty simply concept.

and if they shut down any of the left leaning ones you'd be sure to say the exact same, right?

Do you mean, "liberals that think everything should be legal" with that statement? The way you wrote that makes it sound like you are saying "liberals think everyone should be free to do everything that is legal".

from what I've read that is the basic thought of their movement, that if it is allowed under the law, you should be allowed to do it.

[Garnier Fructis]

Oh boy more pseudoscience studies.

Deleting subreddits changes nothing. You're not deleting the people (which is inevitability of any socialist ideology). All you do is stifle discussion instead of containing it. All you do is spread it around until it either dominates or contains itself again.

Do people really think because they get approval or disapproval from the internet that it translates back to real life? What actually happens is echo chamber mob mentality. Right and wrong is meaningless in this situation. Its still scapegoating.

Thank god America has a constitution that isn't socialist dog shit.

Look, if you ignore the one line conclusion and look at what they actually found, they addressed these points of yours.

[minteK917]

and if they shut down any of the left leaning ones you'd be sure to say the exact same, right?

Im not exactly sure what your point is, reddit is free to ban/remove/delete/close anything it wants. Are you really suggesting out of its million users reddit never banned something left learning lmao? if there is an antifa sub reddit with people calling for deaths or people are overly toxic, yes it should be shut down all the same.

At the end of the day the only view that matters on reddit, is the view of the owner. We are all free to not use reddit.

[Saucexorzski]

Silencing folks you dont like to prevent from talking about things you dont want to hear works? Who would have thought!

[Moralgy]

from what I've read that is the basic thought of their movement, that if it is allowed under the law, you should be allowed to do it.

That is like, the definition of legal though. If the law doesn't prevent something, someone is allowed to do said thing.

[kasuke06]

Im not exactly sure what your point is, reddit is free to ban/remove/delete/close anything it wants. Are you really suggesting out of its million users reddit never banned something left learning lmao? if there is an antifa sub reddit with people calling for deaths or people and overly toxic, yes it should be shut down all the same.

took me 10 seconds to load the antifa reddit which has calls for a man to be run down by a truck in it's top three currently.

[minteK917]

took me 10 seconds to load the antifa reddit which has calls for a man to be run down by a truck in it's top three currently.

Then click the report button. But again its up to reddit to do what they want with it? Its not a government body.

[BuckSparkles]

Those who are happy with banning all those mean opinions that are different, how would you like if your opinions were banned?

Would suck, yeah?

How about you just let everybody have freedoms. Nobody is forcing you to go to toxic subreddits. Just like nobody forces me to go to Social Justice Warriors: The Subreddit.

[xChurch]

I think I'm okay with stifling debate about "r/coontown" and "r/fatpeoplehate", but maybe that's just me.

[BuckSparkles]

I think I'm okay with stifling debate about "r/coontown" and "r/fatpeoplehate", but maybe that's just me.

Nobody is making you go to either of those tho.

[kasuke06]

That is like, the definition of legal though. If the law doesn't prevent something, someone is allowed to do said thing.

By an even implementation of the law, no money, no race, no creed considered. everyone follows the exact same set of rules.

[xChurch]

Nobody is making you go to either of those tho.

There is also not a whole lot of reason for them to exist, especially if Reddit actually wants to be a somewhat respectable platform.