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View submission: A conversation with The Guardian
And another bit from the exchange:
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The way people need to view the reddit website is more like Blogger than Digg. If there was a distasteful blog on Blogger, people would not accuse Google of having direct editorial control over that blog. They also would not accuse readers of a separate blog of condoning the views of the offensive blog.
The sections being user-created and moderated is a huge difference that people always overlook. Chen's concern over "double standards" is almost comical when viewed from this realization. Different subreddits are completely different animals.
We have large and thriving LGBT communities, Religious communities, Self-Help communities, Music, TV Show and Book communities.
Just because a few hundred people do something you disapprove of in one dark corner does not mean all these other people are tacitly supporting them.
Chen is either willfully or maliciously ignorant to this, and like to fake outrage for pageviews. We know that we can do our little bit to prevent a few pageviews, so that's why the mods of many subreddits made their decision.
Comment by cjcool10 at 25/10/2012 at 16:21 UTC
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You were killing it in the comments section. I would encourage others who come here to read them as well.