To be fair, CNN has dropped a lot of balls.
But context speaks pretty loud here.
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But context speaks pretty loud here.
New generations of Ratfuckery work in different speeds, but it's still ratfucking.
This is making it to mainstream media, WaPo article:
Good. More and more news outlets need to pick it up. Keep the pressure on Reddit and make them actually ban the damn thing
My biggest problem with this is that these fucks will spin the story and create a fake reality
Their calls to violence and murder needs to be fucking pasted on the front page so that they never escape it
Their calls to violence and murder needs to be fucking pasted on the front page so that they never escape it
This is what pushed them? Not the fact people knew and outed the site as trafficking in Russian intelligence and espionage through that one subreddit?
What a fucking awful place.
I wonder how bad it'll be when it finally gets banned. I remember when they banned /pol/ and /r9k/ on 4chan when I was a daily user there. Every other board was absolutely unusable thanks to their "protesting" and using other boards as their general posting grounds. Even things like the 3D modelling discussion board was raging on fire with it.
The ones on the margins will get tired of going out of their way to participate, and the true believers will scuttle back into their safe spaces.
I won't be satisfied until all machinations regarding that subreddit are exposed/revealed, and everyone who allowed it to exist beyond being a simple place to root for Trump pays the piper.
Reddit was actually like that for a day or two a couple years ago when they banned a sub called /r/fatpeoplehate. Like 90 out of the top 100 posts were about it and replacement communities were popping up like weeds.
It's obviously not as good as an outright banning, but don't you need a verified email account to use quarantined Reddit's? If so then that'll be a big blow to it.
Lol apparently The_Donald2 is a sub now...made over a month ago in case something were to happen
Either this is the first step for them to be able to ban the subreddit by saying "well we gave you some options and you didn't follow them" (highly unlikely) or they're going to say "looks like we addressed the issue and they fixed the problem" and take it off quarantine in a few weeks (most likely scenario).
Wildcard situation is if the subreddit completely implodes, which is possible considering the type of people that post there.
Wildcard situation is if the subreddit completely implodes, which is possible considering the type of people that post there.
Yes. Google influenced the election and I can understand why President Clinton isn't eager to start an investigation. It might de-legitimize her victory.
When your conspiracy can't stand up to the most cursory application of logic.
I'm not going to link the corresponding Voat post I found but essentially Voat was taken over by hardline racists first (being created in the wake of many hate subs getting banned) and T_D isn't tough enough for them. Told them essentially that they weren't wanted. Ban logs are also public on Voat, so T_D mods couldn't create the same insular environment. Low effort trolls running into true believers, essentially.
The whole episode proved T_D is actually just a few thousand active users at most at this point, and not some hideout for millions of Trump supporters. Reddit shouldn't be afraid to ban them anymore.
Attempts to dodge will just bring more heat on T_D. If they keep it up, they're likely to get banned, as weak as the admins are on Reddit.
I rarely use Reddit but I can't imagine there's a more dedicated and psychotic community out there than r/the_donald posters. I wonder how long it'd take for such a shitstorm to calm down after a ban.
I got in by reloading the quarantine popup. I've been banned from that sub since 2016 and I'm glad to see any measure taken to weaken their bullshit. Removing their block of downvoting and reporting is a great first step. I just wish they'd lance the damn boil already
Their fake made up realities won't matter if no one can see or hear them. Their calls to violence, murder, racism, etc. don't need to be broadcast, highlighted or even whispered any place. Let their impotent rage be confined to their own subterranean dwellings so the rest of us can live in the light without them.
/r/subredditdrama is having a blast:
You're allowed to apply CSS to your subreddit, and oftentimes mods will use it to remove the downvote buttons. One can just choose not to use the subreddit style / process the CSS and the buttons will be present again.
Also, after having spent the entire day away from the internet and news, this put a smile on my face as the first story I saw when I fired up Twitter.
There's their excuse. Anything that makes them look bad is fake, or a hoax. They can't stand by any of their own shitty beliefs because they know they're unacceptable, and can't take any responsibility.The mental gymnastics over there are something else.
The same person who will post some hateful racist or violent thing will turn right around and claim their own post is a hoax by "SJWs!" the moment consequences appear. They're fundamentally weak cowards.
That is not surprising it was from outside.
Back in the day Reddit actually did nothing after r/jailbait was on the news and only banned it after someone on the Something Awful forum kicked it up again.
It likely will.
Quarantine nearly always leads to bans. And the action the users are taking will only further push it to be so.
Finally. Hopefully this leads to dropping it altogether. As much as I disagree with it, I can tolerate actual conservatism. Trump supporters aren't conservatives, they're a literal hate group.
Not to derail this thread, but every now and then I go back for laughs and it's straight up unbelievable how dependent that site is on this one.
In smaller, casual communities, it prevents the use of downvotes to pile on people. I think the Yugioh subreddit might have done it in the past because people were downvoting others' decklists.
It would be banned if they went fully against reddit and the powers that be. So depending on their actions they may bite the hand that feeds them.
Wait, why not just outright ban this white supremacists subreddit? Why give them quarantine status?
Things that used to get thousands of upvotes and comments are now gonna be double digits
And maybe they will see that they are not as popular a subreddit as they thought..
Quarantine isn't enough. The sub needs to be banned, along with every user subscribed. Then move on the rest of conservative hate subs, white supremacy needs to be deplatformed in every way.
The quaratine at least sets things up for a ban but its still gonna take months at least knowing how Reddit likes to drag their feet on these issues. If nothing else poking the hornets nest like this is only going to get them to respond in even more fervant and insane manners which should hopefully exacerbate things enough to get them actually banned. At least that's how its happened in the past.
The other place is talking on how this is political interference and facism.
Damn, that place went to shit.
To me, this is not enough, deplatform these Neo Nazis on T_D
Damn, that place went to shit.
To me, this is not enough, deplatform these Neo Nazis on T_D
Im just subscribed to laugh at the crazy weird shit they post like "EVIL COMMUNIST REDDIT ADMINS QUARANTINED US" tho
"Private entities disallowing my fascism is the REAL fascism!"
Shapiro-grade brains just can't help themselves.
They have a weird fetish for bullshit and no concept of personal responsibility.
They just need to shut the shit down. Its absolutely ridiculous. The mods of /r/The_Donald don't give a fuck.
Oh man, this is delicious.
It seems like the mods either can't keep up, or have given up in the thread on r/AskThe_Donald. Sifting through all of the T_D whining, I can't believe we're in a world where "conservatives" are literally calling on their government, the attorney general no less, to force a private company into providing them with an online safe space. They're summoning the specter of Orwell's "1984", ignoring the fact that their own illustrious leader has literally told them that what they're seeing and reading is not the truth.
My favorite sub /r/TopMindsOfReddit is not celebrating as gleefully as I thought they would. That subreddit is great for making fun of conspiracy theorists, racists, etc (basically every conservative sub).
It seems like the mods either can't keep up, or have given up in the thread on r/AskThe_Donald. Sifting through all of the T_D whining, I can't believe we're in a world where "conservatives" are literally calling on their government, the attorney general no less, to force a private company into providing them with an online safe space. They're summoning the specter of Orwell's "1984", ignoring the fact that their own illustrious leader has literally told them that what they're seeing and reading is not the truth.
My favorite sub /r/TopMindsOfReddit is not celebrating as gleefully as I thought they would. That subreddit is great for making fun of conspiracy theorists, racists, etc (basically every conservative sub).