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Reddit updated hate speech rules... and is now allowing hate speech
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teezzy
Banned
On Reddit, I talk about computers, favorite bands, hockey, and Buffy.
Rarely do I ever see people flinging mud. If there's an asshole, the community is quick to self moderate by downvoting any unwarranted post int oblivion. I dont understand which communities necessitate these rules, but I'm glad I dont partake in them.
Rarely do I ever see people flinging mud. If there's an asshole, the community is quick to self moderate by downvoting any unwarranted post int oblivion. I dont understand which communities necessitate these rules, but I'm glad I dont partake in them.
shoplifter
Member
That was actually the first argument I saw when that policy was posted. Globally, white people are a minority so they cannot be discriminated against as Reddit is a global platform.
LoV
Banned
Groups in the majority? Do these mental patients realize that reddit is international and you have no way of knowing whose marginalized or not in their region?
It's funny watching the left turn into the biggest racists right before our eyes. Not saying they weren't racists before but now they are publicly doing it.
It's funny watching the left turn into the biggest racists right before our eyes. Not saying they weren't racists before but now they are publicly doing it.
Tesseract
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shoplifter
Member
The sign says 'anti-racist', didn't you see?
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Easy. It'll be based on the ratios and splits of........... the USA!
And it'll be a blanket approach, so whether it's hockey (majority white) or basketball (majority black) it won't matter. it'll come back to USA whites 70%, blacks 13%, Laitino/Asian/Other the rest.
You can have a topic based in Asia or Africa where it's probably 95% local ethnicities, where according to the guideline should be fair game, but it won't be.
Just watch.
cryptoadam
Banned
Silly its not white people. If your a white women your safe. If your white but gay your safe. If your a liberal or leftist your safe.
This will only be applied to conservatives. And Jews. Because some how jews make up the majority.
This will only be applied to conservatives. And Jews. Because some how jews make up the majority.
Musky_Cheese
Banned
No thats not what it says.
Its cis straight white males. Because White Women and White LGTBQ+ are not majority
Yeah
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DunDunDunpachi
Banned
pssst reddit was always trash
It was simply blessed with subreddit communities that would've otherwise existed on their own boards and on amateur blogs in other parts of the internet.
It was simply blessed with subreddit communities that would've otherwise existed on their own boards and on amateur blogs in other parts of the internet.
Halo is Back
Member
I still don't believe them. Glad I got rid of the app anyways
Mr Nash
square pies = communism
It makes me wonder when people are going to start learning how to setup their own boards and get them hosted privately. For a small, niche board that might only get a couple hundred posts per day, it wouldn't be terrible expensive to operate. It's weird to see how people on the internet today much prefer to use existing systems rather than make their own place to do stuff from scratch.
DunDunDunpachi
Banned
Why else do you think GAF is growing? People will drain out of the "hubs" as they become more constrictive on speech. There's no reason to be on reddit if all your favorite subreddits have been banned except two. There's no reason to be on reddit if you have to walk on eggshells.
There's no reason to be on any internet platform if you have to walk on eggshells. Folks are snapping out of their stupor and remembering this simple fact.
Nymphae
Banned
Already happening all the time
Mr Nash
square pies = communism
Yeah, but people have the luxury of falling back on a pre-existing board when it comes to NeoGAF. The same could be said for RPG Codex and a handful of other long-running boards. That's a very different thing than having to make one from scratch because a person's favorite subreddit has gone to shit, or it may be fine, but some people don't want to use reddit on principle. A sizable chunk of the population is pretty lazy and will hold their nose while wading into a sub-optimal site rather than creating a new forum on their own. I'd love to see the triumphant return of VBulletin (or whatever software it is people use to make their own boards) but that will take quite some time happen.
The same could be said for people making their own web sites in general. It was far more common 15-20 years ago, but virtually unheard of today. People would rather use existing platforms like YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, and so forth to create content knowing full well the increasingly restrictive environments they are entering. They just want a place to slap up ready-made content without doing even a little heavy lifting to set it up. Hell, I'd be happy if people just started making more NeoCities sites. It's the spiritual successor to GeoCities, requires minimal web development knowledge (can even use a WYSIWYG editor if one wants), and it opens the door to people making whatever sort of site they want. It's still on a platform, but the sites there are all over the place, and hopefully get people thinking about what it's like to make a site from the ground up, even a very simple one. It's the sort of thing that I hope will get people thinking, "Fuck it, I'll make my own site" eventually rather than being forever reliant on massive omni-present platforms.
For every NeoGAF out there, there are plenty more massive voids that won't be easily filled, but I hope eventually a few people will come around and make their own solutions on their own terms rather than use the Reddits, YouTubes, and Twitters of the world to get their ideas out there.
Mr Nash
square pies = communism
Where specifically? Not a dig, I want data to see what's happening out there.
Nymphae
Banned
Just two examples off the top of my head from like this week are TheDonald.win and Consoomproduct.win, not to mention countless small/private forums that are out there on the net
DunDunDunpachi
Banned
It ebbs and flows, and it happens in stages. The hubs sucked up a lot of traffic, and now the hubs are draining out, mostly back into those same forums and websites. New websites will show up and old ones will die.
I am totally on board with the spirit of your post and your positivity about the internet. I too think everyone should have a simple site or blog and post their thoughts, or post their creative endeavors. It's not really that hard to set it up (far easier than it used to be). The problem is finding like-minded people. The internet has been railroaded by the search engines and by "affiliate networks".
Mr Nash
square pies = communism
It's funny that it would take something like a modern day equivalent of a web ring or simply a links page on one of these sites to get that going rather than depend on search engines. It would have to be very genuine, though, with people only linking to sites that they actually care about rather that devolving into link farming because that was held in such high regard by Google's search algorithms 10-15 years ago. Back in the late 90s and early 2000s, I loved sifting through some sites' links pages because I found a lot of neat stuff in the far flung corners of the internet. A modern search engine would never point me towards those sort of sites.
ILoveGTR
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Nymphae
Banned
They actively hide a lot of these from you know, the world is nuts.
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