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Comment by alarmrings at 08/09/2014 at 06:26 UTC
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no, the majority's displeasure is with reddit flip-flopping on its stance.
if it wants to be completely a bastion of free speech, then why the jailbait saga? if it wants to moderate and draw a proverbial line in the sand, then why allow the CEO (and to a smaller extent, the admin as well) to play the messianic role and convince everybody that they are ethical? futher, why allow the propagation of the cesspool of subreddits promoting rape, molest, pedophilia, necrophilia and the like?
the case is clear that reddit needs to confront itself internally and maintain a singular stance that it can adhere to.
Comment by digital_carver at 07/09/2014 at 15:38 UTC
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Yes, I wish all the people in this thread asking for `$their_favorite_evil_subreddit` to be banned understood this. Censorship is *always* a slippery slope and leads to an "only stuff I agree with stays" status, however well-intentioned it starts out.
Better to view reddit simply as a way of communication where the admins' job is only to keep it running - not to be a "moral police force" or even a "government". Anything else inevitably turns bad real quick.
Comment by CrAzyCatDame at 07/09/2014 at 21:28 UTC
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I am glad you mentioned the proana thing. I have wondered for a long time why subs that promote hate and violence are allowed but a sub like proana isn't. I posted a question to AskReddit and it was just ignored.
Comment by caligari87 at 07/09/2014 at 15:54 UTC
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I think Reddit is really only sustainable at this size if the admins leave these decisions to the individual subreddits and only get their hands dirty when the entire system is threatened, as it was in this situation.
But isn't that exactly what happened here? I think it's perfectly clear the entire site *was* threatened on a technical and legal level. People are just mad because they disagree with the decision. I'd be willing to bet the same thing happened with the FiveGuys controversy; there was probably a ton of lawyering behind the scenes putting the site in jeopardy and they just can't or don't want to go into it.
Comment by starhawks at 08/09/2014 at 00:02 UTC
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Why would the MR sub be unacceptable and not twoxchromosomes or /r/feminism?