Reddit Updates Content Policy, Swings Ban Hammer

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If this content policy update is anything like the last one, pass the popcorn because things are about to get interesting. :eek:

Today, in addition to applying Quarantines, we are banning a handful of communities that exist solely to annoy other redditors, prevent us from improving Reddit, and generally make Reddit worse for everyone else. Our most important policy over the last ten years has been to allow just about anything so long as it does not prevent others from enjoying Reddit for what it is: the best place online to have truly authentic conversations. I believe these policies strike the right balance.
 
After the last cryfest I can only imagine what this will bring.
 
I'm in no way defending the subs that were banned, but it's interesting that they ban these subs and not the SJW subs brigading en masse.
 
I don't understand any of it. Are you being forced to read communities that offend you?
 
hooray for streamlined opinions. every major forum or image board is becoming a big hug box for SJWs. I bet aliens made this planet a big exclusion zone for the amount of stupid it contains.
 
It seems like reddit is now run by the resentful librarian that got pased over for a promotion for knitting sweaters on work time.
 
Digg was used almost exclusively by the same crowd Reddit panders to towards the end. Reddit has been getting worse year after year, it's too mainstream.
 
The first thing one must due when in a hole is to stop digging!

Geez...reddit continues to digg their own grave.

and I lol'ed at the mention of SRS in that reddit thread
 
Thy should ban meta joke circle jerking, that would remove about 90% of the posts.
 
nilepez said:
My guess is those forums scare away investors.
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Bingo. Investors, advertisers, basically... money. Reddit wants money, other than charging users(which would just drive away the userbase overnight), the only way for them to get it is investors(who will want a return on their investment), advertising, and possibly selling metrics of some sort. Serious people with lots of money don't want to invest in something that looks like 4chan.

It's funny how people want to pretend reddit is some free for all community or something, when in reality it is a business that exists to eventually generate revenue.
 
Merc1138 said:
Bingo. Investors, advertisers, basically... money. Reddit wants money, other than charging users(which would just drive away the userbase overnight), the only way for them to get it is investors(who will want a return on their investment), advertising, and possibly selling metrics of some sort. Serious people with lots of money don't want to invest in something that looks like 4chan.

It's funny how people want to pretend reddit is some free for all community or something, when in reality it is a business that exists to eventually generate revenue.
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They are banning niche discussions no investor would look at. The only reason for this would be because people inside Reddit don't like them. If they are worried about investors looking at "everything", they should go shut down all of the porn sub reddits and shit like /r/spacedicks. Or move over to the raw gore sub reddits like /r/degloving.
 
PersonalJ said:
Digg was used almost exclusively by the same crowd Reddit panders to towards the end. Reddit has been getting worse year after year, it's too mainstream.
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The stream you refer to when you say "mainstream" is the stream of money. It costs money to run a website. No money = no website. Those who wish to exercise their right to express opinions and content that are offensive to the mainstream eventually find themselves evicted from the websites that were created to serve them, when those websites exercise their right to continue to exist.

Translate "offensive to the mainstream" with "repulsing the stream of money", and you'll see why the subset of culture that keeps getting evicted will never get what they want until they start paying for what they want out of their own pocket. But websites created to serve a culture that is dedicated to repulsing the stream of money have, so far, not been able to come up with a formula that creates money from a culture that repulses money, As far as I can tell, Voat's only source of funding is donations. That will inevitably become an existential problem for them.
 
Thank goodness they're finally cleaning up the reddit sub forum cesspools. Bye bye low life's...
 
They want to improve their revenue stream, I get that, but the forum goers, the ones that may go elsewhere, like they did to Digg when they did similar, are Reddit's product. Reddit's value, at least to advertisers, is directly tied to the number of users. Will they still have adequate numbers when they are done cleaning house, or will they fade into obscurity like Digg?
 
bloodhawke83 said:
they don't realize that every site needs a shit subforum. where do they think these people will go to? another sub and destroy it.
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I know! That's the amusing thing about it. They also went over to Voat as well.
 
evilsofa said:
The stream you refer to when you say "mainstream" is the stream of money. It costs money to run a website. No money = no website. Those who wish to exercise their right to express opinions and content that are offensive to the mainstream eventually find themselves evicted from the websites that were created to serve them, when those websites exercise their right to continue to exist.

Translate "offensive to the mainstream" with "repulsing the stream of money", and you'll see why the subset of culture that keeps getting evicted will never get what they want until they start paying for what they want out of their own pocket. But websites created to serve a culture that is dedicated to repulsing the stream of money have, so far, not been able to come up with a formula that creates money from a culture that repulses money, As far as I can tell, Voat's only source of funding is donations. That will inevitably become an existential problem for them.
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Its reddit's value will go into the toilet. While the content providers that reddit is trying to make money off for free will just move on. The people that are trying to get something for nothing is reddit. They want to pay for only half the equation, the server and get the content for free. Well, you get what you pay for.
 
I dont get it, I'm not a big reddit user, but I do browse the front page almost daily for funny gifs and the occasional news story. I see all these hilariously evil subreddits being removed, and think to myself "i never knew this existed". What exactly are they protecting me from? I would have never found a subreddit called "WatchNggersDie" without them telling me it existed. I mean the whole point of reddit is to act like the xfinity ultra mega super package right? Hundreds of random channels that you probably never watch, and if you accidentally land on one you just change the channel.

Are entire swaths of people infiltrating other subreddits polluting them with links and what not to their own subreddit?
 
OEM said:
How did they affect your day to day life?
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There are two types of people in this world. Those that don't give a shit and those that need drama so their lives can look a little brighter between their periods of self loathing.
 
Bowman15 said:
Thank goodness they're finally cleaning up the reddit sub forum cesspools. Bye bye low life's...
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Except there's endlessly more that fit these criteria that doesn't fit their agenda to ban so they don't. They aren't cleaning up shit, they're just being assholes.
 
ocellaris said:
They are banning niche discussions no investor would look at. The only reason for this would be because people inside Reddit don't like them. If they are worried about investors looking at "everything", they should go shut down all of the porn sub reddits and shit like /r/spacedicks. Or move over to the raw gore sub reddits like /r/degloving.
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And you think they won't eventually do that after cleaning up all of the "politically incorrect oh my god that's my trigger you're so insensitive" stuff?
 
This kind of pissed me off, never knew about half of the subreddits but just on principle I overwrote two years worth of discussion submissions and deleted my reddit account, fuck them, RIP.
 
w00t69 said:
Except there's endlessly more that fit these criteria that doesn't fit their agenda to ban so they don't. They aren't cleaning up shit, they're just being assholes.
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Yes, the poor racists are being discriminated against. The irony is killing them.
 
McFry said:
I dont get it, I'm not a big reddit user, but I do browse the front page almost daily for funny gifs and the occasional news story. I see all these hilariously evil subreddits being removed, and think to myself "i never knew this existed". What exactly are they protecting me from? I would have never found a subreddit called "WatchNggersDie" without them telling me it existed. I mean the whole point of reddit is to act like the xfinity ultra mega super package right? Hundreds of random channels that you probably never watch, and if you accidentally land on one you just change the channel.

Are entire swaths of people infiltrating other subreddits polluting them with links and what not to their own subreddit?
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They're protecting you from the SJWs who purposely go out of their way to become offended and then broadcast their being offended to the world.
 
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