The thing is I totally get where you're coming from, but when you study how reddit really is and I mean actually look into it deeply you'll discover it's so much worse than simple 'censorship'. Censorship would at least be fairly honest and straightforward compared to what redditors do on a daily basis to people. The levels of fakery, psychopathic behaviour, astroturfing, psyops and power modding is off the charts and that's just the stuff that's been documented.
I once posted that child porn probably isn't the worse thing that these guys have done and another person on here had to agree with me on that because we both understood how bad they fucking are. The cuddly hugbox posting really is a front to a lot of borderline or actual criminal behaviour.
The levels of fakery, psychopathic behaviour, astroturfing, psyops and power modding is off the charts and that's just the stuff that's been documented.
I would argue that it's a typical internet behavior. I'm a bit older, still remembering forums era. It was all the same, people don't change.
Reddit stands out to me as an even bigger echo chamber, because of the downvoting system.
If you don't agree with the majority, your comment/post will be rendered invisible by downvotes. It has also much greater bearing on impressionable minds of young people.
You get rewarded with points for "good behavior" and punished for "bad behavior".
And now with censorship that comes from above (actual reddit admins), we can't even have our own communities, where you don't get downvoted automatically to speak slightly negative about certain topics.
Forums could at least do what they wanted but reddit has a sitewide iron fist on every discussion. There's also the bots.
Not sure why they copied the voting system for this platform. I can only imagine scored wants to implement their own flavor of social control, even if it's "better" than reddits.
The thing is I totally get where you're coming from, but when you study how reddit really is and I mean actually look into it deeply you'll discover it's so much worse than simple 'censorship'. Censorship would at least be fairly honest and straightforward compared to what redditors do on a daily basis to people. The levels of fakery, psychopathic behaviour, astroturfing, psyops and power modding is off the charts and that's just the stuff that's been documented.
I once posted that child porn probably isn't the worse thing that these guys have done and another person on here had to agree with me on that because we both understood how bad they fucking are. The cuddly hugbox posting really is a front to a lot of borderline or actual criminal behaviour.
I would argue that it's a typical internet behavior. I'm a bit older, still remembering forums era. It was all the same, people don't change.
Reddit stands out to me as an even bigger echo chamber, because of the downvoting system.
If you don't agree with the majority, your comment/post will be rendered invisible by downvotes. It has also much greater bearing on impressionable minds of young people.
You get rewarded with points for "good behavior" and punished for "bad behavior".
And now with censorship that comes from above (actual reddit admins), we can't even have our own communities, where you don't get downvoted automatically to speak slightly negative about certain topics.
Forums could at least do what they wanted but reddit has a sitewide iron fist on every discussion. There's also the bots.
Not sure why they copied the voting system for this platform. I can only imagine scored wants to implement their own flavor of social control, even if it's "better" than reddits.