During the lead up to the 2016 election, r/The_Donald was by far reddit’s most active subreddit and largest driver of traffic. Instead of embracing this, Reddit admins continuously changed their algorithm to prevent TD from gaining more visibility and to impose uneven rules that were not enforced against other subs. Beyond that, the CEO and site co-founder was caught using the site backend to edit users’ comments on TD for his own amusement. There is no plausible “brand management” or “rules enforcement” justification for this; it was merely him messing around with people he had a clear animus towards. Similar experiences can be recounted with the original Kotaku In Action, Fat People Hate, and almost every subreddit that went against any form leftist orthodoxy in all but the most toothless, token of ways. This while they allowed subreddits like Shit Reddit Says to aggressively raid the domains they didn’t like, up to and including posting child porn on the targeted boards in an attempt to get them shut down.
Your repeated defense of Reddit as just a place where the left happens to congregate is historically ignorant. They courted this audience and wanted this audience, because the admins are this audience.
During the lead up to the 2016 election, r/The_Donald was by far reddit’s most active subreddit and largest driver of traffic. Instead of embracing this, Reddit admins continuously changed their algorithm to prevent TD from gaining more visibility and to impose uneven rules that were not enforced against other subs. Beyond that, the CEO and site co-founder was caught using the site backend to edit users’ comments on TD for his own amusement. There is no plausible “brand management” or “rules enforcement” justification for this; it was merely him messing around with people he had a clear animus towards. Similar experiences can be recounted with the original Kotaku In Action, Fat People Hate, and almost every subreddit that went against any form leftist orthodoxy in all but the most toothless, token of ways. This while they allowed subreddits like Shit Reddit Says to aggressively raid the domains they didn’t like, up to and including posting child porn on the targeted boards in an attempt to get them shut down.
Your repeated defense of Reddit as just a place where the left happens to congregate is historically ignorant. They courted this audience and wanted this audience, because the admins are this audience.
Then I stand corrected.