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Transparency should indeed be part of any content "government" platform (see the original blog), and it's amazing that it's not.
Comment by InbredNoBanjo at 07/09/2014 at 13:30 UTC
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Excellent point. Profit corporations may have some justifications for keeping their actions secret. For example, protecting trade secrets. But since Reddit management is *de facto* a government of a large community-of-choice, and even *expressly* a government, having taken that position itself, transparency becomes an obligation.
I realize that implementing "complete transparency" in this context has obstacles. But whenever an organization is faced with a huge onslaught of angry customers/citizens/whatever, in *any* context, no matter what the underlying cause, complete forthright transparency and honesty will help, and anything less will ultimately hurt and seem like manipulation.
Comment by [deleted] at 07/09/2014 at 15:01 UTC
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Probably because it's not an official govornment. Anyways, Reddit has members all over the world, trying to compromise between every rule in every country would be impossible. Reddit is a new form of govornment, perhaps one where transparency is completely possible.
Shaped by the people, even.
Comment by AnSq at 07/09/2014 at 18:16 UTC
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Oh, they're a government all right, just not *that* type of government.
Comment by lililililililililili at 08/09/2014 at 05:05 UTC
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The reason it isn't, was because in 2008 some wanker fucks were basically dictating to the fuckwad admins how the banning system should work - making it completely transparent, to the point where the only thing left to do was hide moderated comments with CSS.
Fucking disgusting.
Slashdot deletes 2 comments in 20 years.
Reddit deletes 2 comments every 20 milliseconds.
Comment by Biffingston at 07/09/2014 at 14:28 UTC
-2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Are you seriously implying that Reddit is a government website? I'm guessing you're just not being clear, but it looks that way, quotes or not.