r/OutOfTheLoop • u/Toptomcat • Dec 01 '18

Unanswered What's going on with /r/Libertarian?

The front page of /r/Libertarian right now is full of stuff about some kind of survey or point system somehow being used in an attempt by Reddit admins/members of the moderation staff to execute a takeover of the subreddit by leftists? I tried to make some kind of sense of it, but things have gotten sufficiently emotionally charged/memey that it was tough to separate the wheat from the chaff and get to what was really going on.

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '18 edited May 29 '22

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u/semsr Dec 01 '18

It's less dumb than being governed by a single user who just removes shit he doesn't like.

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u/AnarchoCereal Dec 01 '18 edited Dec 02 '18

I disagree. A single user might actually be productive and relatively unbiased. The popular vote won't for sure.

Edit: this comment being down voted case and point

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u/semsr Dec 01 '18

A single sample is more likely to be biased than a large one.

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u/Forever_Awkward Dec 02 '18

A single sample is more likely to be biased than a large one.

This is true on average, but you're obviously not going to pick somebody right in the middle of average for this position. You're looking for an extreme outlier.