everybody on ilx complains about reddit

This is telling: search Reddit for "child custody" and one of the top three recommended subreddits is for Men's Rights.

Which article?

This one, apparently:

https://thenextweb.com/opinion/2019/06/25/you-cant-offer-to-murder-cops-on-reddit-unless-youre-on-r-thedonald/

Also:

https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2019/06/24/A-pro-Trump-subreddit-is-full-of-calls-for-violence-in-support-of-Oregon-Republicans/224018

I had to cut out Reddit, the alt-right brigading was becoming increasingly obnoxious there, particularly on r/China in my case. I think I attracted some stalkers because I mocked Steve Bannon one too many times.

Here is the thread which made me despair of the place - please note the number of upvotes this prick has got.

https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/3s9axj/forcing_china_to_pretend_to_have_decency_a_howto/

(this will be of limited interest to people who are not familiar with life in China btw)

seeing my r/china posts translated on chinese messageboards like zhihu freaked me out. just boring posts but still. and also i was posting under my real name and unlike twitter where your peers are always hovering beneath you, i felt like i was always in more danger of popping off in a bad way.

/r/honkler, an alt-right subreddit that - to my limited understanding - involved clown pepes saying "honk honk" instead of heil hitler, has been banned.

/r/honkler, an alt-right subreddit that - to my limited understanding - involved clown pepes saying "honk honk" instead of hell hitler

the right is the new counter-culture

This is an r/relationships post from the SA peanut gallery thread because the original was deleted. You will not regret reading this one although you might scream. 🐀🐀🐀🐀 pic.twitter.com/nIt12atnqI

— Horrendous Jake Kablooie (@JakeMHS) July 10, 2019

Yeah, maybe I should've posted it here instead of the Twitter thread

oh sorry, I didn't see that

lol that's totally made up

wow there's an ExRedPill forum with titles like "What is self love" and "How do I stop worrying about my height?"

Reads like incel fanfic:

https://www.reddit.com/r/relationship_advice/comments/cieyn5/update_my_husband_got_a_sex_doll/

Discovered that my wife and I share the same biological father, we have a child on the way - what do we do and what happens next?

every generation has its own ann landers

what a world

My [22F] boyfriend [25M] categorizes everything as Virgin vs Chad and it’s annoying https://t.co/QWmEjrqHUZ pic.twitter.com/0HV05QpzI2

— relationships.txt (@redditships) September 28, 2019

Most of the fakes are over the top but that one’s juuuuuust right.

yeah i'm not sure if it's real. it's just ... what a world!

that third graph lol

the only reason i think that one is fake is cause its too funny

Ok this is gold:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/

(Mind the date, obv.)

"the glitch in the matrix" is a really good source of twilight zone type user-generated fiction

going to have this printed on a t-shirt take it to six flags and have one of their talented t-shirt artists spraypaint God Bless The Troops over it

https://i.redd.it/fgj3cc7mzkx41.jpg

[–]professor_coldheart

1 point 1 day ago
I started thinking about the missing players and coaches. Ideally Oscar is coaching while Kevin and Darryl are playing, but probably Michael is trying to coach and play forward. On the other side, Gunther is definitely holding Rachel up, Ursula is in the game actively sabotaging her own team, and despite this and Joey flirting with Pam, The Office is still getting demolished.

Eddie Menuek is the ref. He's constantly calling fouls, and everyone ignores him.

[–]Professor_Zumbi

12 points 23 hours ago
I kinda like how its mashing up different eras. The artist was probably was just fond of these two shows in particular. If I had any artistic ability at all, I might draw the Office vs Dragon Ball Z.

I mean the artist's name and @ are in the image, if you're willing to give money I bet you can arrange it

boy oh boy do those people over there obsess over the wrong cultural signifiers!

god they sure do

Can we get one of these where one team is Carly Rae Jepsen, the Balloon guy, and Steely Dan while the other team is @Doug Henwood, @DennisThePerrin, and @dick_nixon?

Reddit will ban r/The_Donald, r/ChapoTrapHouse, and about 2,000 other communities today after updating its content policy to more explicitly ban hate speech. The policy update comes three weeks after Black Lives Matter protests led several popular Reddit forums to go dark temporarily in protest of what they called the company’s lax policies around hosting and promoting racist content. It marks a major reversal for a company whose commitment to free expression has historically been so strong that it once allowed users to distribute stolen nude photos freely on the site.

“I have to admit that I’ve struggled with balancing my values as an American, and around free speech and free expression, with my values and the company’s values around common human decency,” Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said in a call with reporters.

In a blog post that cites the company’s new rules, Huffman said users of the r/The_Donald subreddit had violated the site’s policies for years. (The site has no official connection to President Donald Trump, although he did do an Ask Me Anything there as a candidate in 2016.) “The community has consistently hosted and upvoted more rule-breaking content than average (Rule 1), antagonized us and other communities (Rules 2 and 8), and its mods have refused to meet our most basic expectations,” Huffman said.

Similarly, r/ChapoTrapHouse had also hosted content that violates the site’s rules, Huffman said. The subreddit is a spinoff of the popular left-wing podcast.

Reddit’s new policy begins with a first rule that requires users to “consider the human.” It reads:

Remember the human. Reddit is a place for creating community and belonging, not for attacking marginalized or vulnerable groups of people. Everyone has a right to use Reddit free of harassment, bullying, and threats of violence. Communities and people that incite violence or that promote hate based on identity or vulnerability will be banned.

That formed the basis of a policy framework that bans hate speech.

“Reddit’s mission is to bring community and belonging to everybody in the world, and there is speech in the world and on Reddit that prevents other people from doing so,” Huffman told reporters. “Harassing speech or hateful speech prevents people from coming to Reddit and feeling safe and sharing their vulnerabilities ... So if we have speech on Reddit that’s preventing people from using Reddit the way that we intend it to be used, or that prevents us from achieving our mission, then it’s actually a very easy decision.”

The introduction of the new policies has resulted in the removal of about 2,000 subreddits so far, and the company says “the vast majority” were inactive. Only about 200 of them had more than 10 daily users, the company said.

Consider the Human vs Don't Be Evil

Consider the Lobster.

Apparently follows Twitch banning the Trump channel. The infraction? Posting his initial racist volley calling Mexicans rapists, etc. They are aiming right at Trump himself, not just his knucklehead emulators and fans.

gosh I hope the incels are safe

What's the deal with the Chapo sub? I don't pay attention to the podcast because every time I've checked in, it's been annoying for me. But I thought those dudes were left. What is their hate speech component?

Horseshoe theory.

I haven't looked, but it's not just hate speech, it's also inciting violence, harassing, and just generally aggressively flouting Reddit rules.

I think CTH’s biggest offense, officially, was praising the abolitionist John Brown! He killed people, you see, so he’s just as bad as slavers and Nazis.

Huffman:

Though smaller [than r/The_Donald], r/ChapoTrapHouse was banned for similar reasons: They consistently host rule-breaking content and their mods have demonstrated no intention of reining in their community.

It’s clearly also an effort to deflect claims of political bias

I don't know what most of these are, but of the 200 mostly inactive threads there was this group"

r/DarkHumorAndMemes
r/ConsumeProduct
r/DarkJokeCentral
r/GenderCritical
r/Cumtown
r/imgoingtohellforthis2
r/Wojak
r/soyboys

No idea of the politics of any of them, but I assume they are very edge lord centric.

The Chapo subreddit at this point seemed to be primarily young trans and queer people working out their anxiety and fear.

Through joking about killing slavers and Nazis

think you can guess what r/GenderCritical was about

Apparently the Trump forum has been dead or idle for months.

/r/ConsumeProduct wanted to trick people into thinking it was /r/HailCorporate, but when you got there all the posts were like "Wahhhh - why are all these businesses supporting Black Lives Matter?"

think you can guess what r/GenderCritical was about

― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, June 29, 2020 2:59 PM (forty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Is it when the onboard computer is warning you the gender is about to explode

Halt and catch gender

Apparently the Trump forum has been dead or idle for months.

Reddit quarantined the forum last year and banned or restricted most of the users in February.