169 upvotes, 3 direct replies (showing 3)
View submission: Update to Our Content Policy
Because the policy is meant to just instill fear and irrational obedience. Youre supposed to always be paranoid about voting on the wrong content.
Comment by whymauri at 29/06/2020 at 18:02 UTC*
24 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I hate appeals to Orwell on the internet because they're often incredibly reductionist or laughably dramatic, but it's hard to read this and not think of wrongthink.
To elaborate: while most forms of moderation require users to participate in spoken or written engagement, which is reviewed by humans, now users can be reprimanded by a black-box algorithm for entirely passive participation (upvoting). This policy is somehow tenable even if the upvotes are not brigades.
Comment by CunningKobold at 29/06/2020 at 17:53 UTC
-6 upvotes, 1 direct replies
It absolutely is and is part of why Reddit is quickly dying. Come to [Ruqqus] (https://www.ruqqus.com[1]), we have beer and free speech!
The servers are getting swarmed rn so join us on Discord[2] to get your toes wet while they get fixed.
Comment by AidenTEMgotsnapped at 29/06/2020 at 17:37 UTC
-14 upvotes, 1 direct replies
The upvote button is for content that adds to Reddit.
Let's be honest, upvotes on those subreddits were all misusing the upvote button.