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This. Every time this comes up, SRS gets a mention like this and every single time, it is completely ignored.
/u/spez has the once in a ~~lifetime~~ thread opportunity to prove he's the hero reddit deserves. However, I don't expect he will reply, even though one of the most well-known members of reddit wrote that comment (actually the thread's *top comment*). Hell, I don't even know who half the admins are and I didn't know of *any* over a year ago, yet I've known of /u/Warlizard since a little while after I signed up.
I have no experience with SRS (and therefore don't judge any individual membes), but I've seen some mean-spirited brigades (and a thousand times read how awful people think they are and how unfair it is that they're protected by reddit admins), while seeing so many people seemingly receive(d) (shadow)bans for "brigading". It just seems extremely unjust, subjective and hypocritical, something the CEO of reddit should not want to be known as.
Edit: It seems /u/spez did touch on SRS in this thread somewhere, but that he only and perhaps unknowingly clearly confirmed that SRS is treated differently from other controversial subreddits such as FPH (a subreddit which I didn't even know before reddit's implosion by 'FPH posts' filling the top 100 of /r/all and every default sub's front page).
Comment by Warlizard at 06/08/2015 at 08:27 UTC
43 upvotes, 3 direct replies
The difference in the way different subreddits are treated is why I posted.
Comment by IceMaine at 06/08/2015 at 16:14 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Comment by reynaden at 06/08/2015 at 20:50 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Why would he reply, he probably doesn't give a shit about the reddit community. He cares about maximizing Reddit marketability. Coke and Ford care if racists and other "abnormal" ideas are here. They wouldn't even know about SRS existing.
Comment by Ryuudou at 09/08/2015 at 12:59 UTC
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and a thousand times read how awful people think they are
Nope. SRS never actually does anything, and it's not nearly as active as it was 2 years ago. It also automatically archives the vote counts with the bot upon post submission so you can check yourself and see that nothing is being bridged. Stuff linked in SRS usually goes up in count after it's linked. Blaming SRS is the literal Reddit boogeyman and /u/spez knows this.
Most of the people who complain about SRS tend to be racists, misogynists, reactionary right-wingers, and generally shitty people who just really don't like that anti-bigotry efforts exist and/or don't like Reddit having self-reflection subs.