Comment by OwenProGolfer on 01/09/2021 at 17:40 UTC

37 upvotes, 13 direct replies (showing 13)

View submission: COVID denialism and policy clarifications

So you won’t ban them for harmful misinformation but you’ll ban them for brigading?

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Comment by Deggit at 01/09/2021 at 17:48 UTC*

15 upvotes, 0 direct replies

basically yes

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│               Behavior                │         GigaJanitor response         │
╞════════════════════════════��══════════╪══════════════════════════════════════╡
│ Promoting misinformation that kills   │ I Sleep                              │
│ people in real life                   │                                      │
├───────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Making fake subreddits and            │ ⚡⚡⚡ **THOU SHALT NOT CALL INTO    │
│ 'brigading' other subpages of the     │ QUESTION THE ENGAGEMENT METRICS WE   │
│ same website                          │ PRESENT TO ADVERTISERS** ⚡⚡⚡      │
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Comment by Frnklfrwsr at 01/09/2021 at 20:33 UTC

2 upvotes, 2 direct replies

Yeah but the real reason they banned NNN is because it was making headlines and more and more subs were going private in protest of them not doing it. It hurt their bottom line so they found a reason to implement a ban that they could justify.

They are very much desperately trying very very hard not to take on the responsibility of stating what is true and isn’t true. They want the internet to decide what reality is, and really want to avoid having to publicly say that reality is reality.

The problem is that misinformation/disinformation has to be extremely obvious and provably false before they’re willing to risk calling it out as incorrect. Moreover, it has to lead to demonstrable harm in some real way for them to give a crap.

They’re hiding behind this ideal of “it’s not our job to define what’s right or wrong, people should use their free speech” and ignoring the fact that they’re providing a platform for disinformation that is leading directly to the deaths of thousands of people. They’re naively hoping that the free market of ideas will just “sort it all out”, and ignoring the fact that human nature is such that inflammatory content will always win out over boring content regardless of truth or facts.

Comment by rydan at 02/09/2021 at 01:27 UTC

2 upvotes, 0 direct replies

brigading is the worst crime possible on Reddit. This site is the only one on the planet that will ban a person for clicking on a link on the site to another part of the site and then participating. Every community is a bubble and should remain in isolation always.

Comment by monarchmra at 01/09/2021 at 17:50 UTC

5 upvotes, 0 direct replies

yes

Comment by MangoAtrocity at 01/09/2021 at 22:22 UTC

1 upvotes, 1 direct replies

It’s not Reddit’s job to decide what posts are “misinformation.” I can tell you the that microwaving your balls will give you super powers all I want. It’s up to you to do some research and very quickly and easily realize that microwaving your balls will both hurt *and* probably give you cancer. Reddit should really only be censoring 4 things. Illegal content, targeted harassment, doxxing, and vote manipulation. Everything beyond that should be left to moderators.

Comment by apex_redditor1 at 01/09/2021 at 18:55 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

There's only a dozen subs that practice brigading on the regular, this is a joke

Comment by Fofalus at 01/09/2021 at 19:58 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

It's even better they got banned for being brigaded, not the other way around.

Comment by olcoil at 01/09/2021 at 20:18 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Dang. Reddit is pretty evil

Comment by NeverNoode at 01/09/2021 at 21:17 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Just PR bullshit. They signal "we're responsible" to the media while doing basically nothing. Quarantines and all