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View submission: Announcing the Crowd Control Beta
I'm really confused by this; how are users supposed to develop a reputation in a community if their comments are hidden from most users simply because they lack history in a given subreddit?
Isn't this pretty blatantly hostile to people who are new to reddit in a way that cannot possibly be balanced out by the benefits it might bring to established communities?
I realize this is just a beta, but it seems antithetical to the very nature of reddit to allow moderators to use such a feature as userbases on this platform are per se transient.
This kind of feature runs the risk of turning communities into echo chambers that accord with their moderators ideological viewpoints, and I urge extreme caution before implementing it site wide.
Comment by ExiledMadman at 12/12/2019 at 00:15 UTC
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This is just a way to tame and shape narratives. Don't be fooled. Reddit is a giant propaganda machine.