Comment by audobot on 14/05/2015 at 17:05 UTC

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View submission: Promote ideas, protect people

Those who responded to the extremely dissatisfied question were a much smaller set (on the scale of 100) relative to the larger set of dislikes (scale of 10k).

When you look at the larger of volume of comments about what people disliked, the community was by far the top concern. The "heavy handed moderation and censorship" shows up for only 10% of the overall reddit population.

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Comment by JudgmentCall at 14/05/2015 at 20:08 UTC

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So long as its a statistically significant sample, the scale becomes increasingly irrelevant.

But more to the point, just take a look at the comments in this thread. People care about censorship. The comment you are responding to is at the time of writing tied for the second most upvoted comment in this thread, and the topmost is complaining about the messed up shadowbanning policies.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. This is a community site. Its content is managed by a democratic collective. Sometimes thats unfortunate, but its ALWAYS a lot better than having some "benevolent censor" get in the way of expression.

Cripple your website and watch as some competitor comes along to gobble up your users. The graveyard of the internet is full of websites who lost track of why people liked them. Don't be the next. Listen to your fucking users.

Comment by [deleted] at 18/05/2015 at 06:35 UTC

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Comment by [deleted] at 14/05/2015 at 17:49 UTC

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Comment by go1dfish at 17/05/2015 at 13:33 UTC

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So in other words these concerns are a minority opinion and will go ignored. ಠ_ಠ

You also still haven's answered the question:

What is being done about that?

/u/kn0thing?

Comment by go1dfish at 14/05/2015 at 18:11 UTC

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Reddit is powered by 'community moderation'

Heavy handed moderation and censorship is a community concern.

Comment by Okichah at 14/05/2015 at 18:57 UTC

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The "heavy handed moderation and censorship" shows up for only 10% of the overall reddit population.

False, thats only for the 16k that you surveyed."Overall reddit population" happens to be a bit more.

Comment by liquilife at 14/05/2015 at 18:45 UTC

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Yup. And there is no real solution to this as they are generally upset for breaking a rule and being moderated. It's trendy nowadays on reddit to claim censorship when you break the rules and get moderated.