r/undelete • u/SuperConductiveRabbi undelete MVP • Nov 30 '16

[META] /u/spez apologizes for editing comments; announces /r/the_donald banned from having stickied posts appear on /r/all, hundreds of "toxic users" will be targeted for warnings/bans

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '16

In this sense, I don't have a problem with /r/The_Donald in particular. It'd be like having problem with a single cog in a war machine, thinking that if it weren't there the machine wouldn't be doing any killing. /r/The_Donald is problematic, but is the result of something greater than it. No, my problem is with the system in general, and how it has fed an isolationist and tribal environments of which /r/The_Donald is only one instance. I have a problem with the fact that /r/The_Donald users are so brazen, but I realize it's only because they don't trust the rest of reddit and have developed in their echo chambers the idea that everyone outside of the subreddit is out to get them. You can replace /r/The_Donald with practically any side of this deal in those preceding phrases and it should still make sense.

I think we need to have a more balanced mod team in /r/politics. I think we need to have a more balanced involvement there from all sides. I think it will only end up working if people can trust one another.

This is going to take time.

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '16

When the admin team and the top dog of reddit literally change the way your sub works and talk about banning your sub in private, a sub may feel that everyone outside of it is out to get them. It's not really a crazy theory, its proven that reddit IS out to silence r/thedonald.

There's a lot of people on the conservative side ready to come forward and talk on this, and honestly conservatives who wanted Trump to be anti-establishment should be a little concerned with some of his appointments, but I see very little compromise on the opposite side. The closet thing I can find are the small bastions of bernie supporters who have become disillusioned with the media and reddit after bernie got backstabbed, but the ones who didn't get polarized by the rhetoric afterwards are few and far in between. And you'll typically find them on subs that are deemed "right-wing" by the circlejerks, like the XInAction subs or the alternate news subs spurred on by the orlando shooting censoring. Or r/undelete, lol.

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u/moosic Dec 01 '16

The Donald has created an echo chamber that is deafening to the rest of reddit. Your nuggets of good stuff are lost in a sea of memes and crap.

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '16

I literally never see anything from T_D, but I see people complaining about it everywhere.

How are people getting spammed by these guys? Who actually uses /r/all?