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View submission: Let's talk content. AMA.
That's what it seems like honestly.
If Gawker/Mashable/CNN ran a story about /r/coontown I bet they'd be gone.
Comment by EusociallyAwkward at 17/07/2015 at 00:21 UTC
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Gawker has run multiple stories about coontown. It's one of their favorite things to write about lately. They've put considerable energy into documenting the hate subs and their impact on Reddit.
Comment by bandwiches at 17/07/2015 at 00:19 UTC
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Wait... like [this Gawker article?] (http://gawker.com/as-s-c-mourns-reddit-oks-hate-speech-only-good-nigg-1712641096[1]).
1: http://gawker.com/as-s-c-mourns-reddit-oks-hate-speech-only-good-nigg-1712641096
Comment by codexcdm at 17/07/2015 at 02:41 UTC
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Not only does Gawker *constantly* write/obsess over coontown... their "articles," if you can qualify them as such, do nothing but make the assertion that a subreddit that is clearly in the minority actually represents the majority view on Reddit.
Heck, they even insist that it was outright misogyny that ensued during the blackout and Pao's resignation... completely disregarding that the rage was over firing a long-time female member of the site.
I'd link the examples, but frankly I do not want to give their ad-filled pages more views... and am a bit lazy to pull up archive.is
Comment by [deleted] at 17/07/2015 at 10:28 UTC
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Lets make enough noise about it that they do run a story on it. :D
Edit, crap, just saw it's been done, to no effect. :(
Comment by Frostiken at 18/07/2015 at 12:45 UTC
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Mother Jones ran several teary-eyed articles about /r/gunsforsale, and all it did was make /u/yishan buy a gun.