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Reddit Will 'Hide' Vile Content After Policy Change
AmiMoJo writes: It will be more difficult to find "abhorrent" content posted to community news site Reddit, the site has announced. It stopped short of banning the material outright and instead will require users to log-in to access it. The company reiterated its existing complete bans of illegal content, including child abuse images and so-called "revenge porn." Chief executive and co-founder Steve Huffman told users: "We've spent the last few days here discussing, and agree that an approach like this allows us as a company to repudiate content we don't want to associate with the business, but gives individuals freedom to consume it if they choose."
I really feel like the quotes should be around 'vile' instead of 'hide'
How will they determine what free speech is "abhorrent"? Anything that doesn't fit into the SJW group think?
Perhaps Reddit's owners/creators can go back to creating a bunch of fake Reddit users and posts like they use to do. That might help hide posts they don't want anyone to see.
I don't understand why the following doesn't solve all discussion board problems with trolls. OK here goes:
1) the ability to declare someone either interesting or a troll (or neither) and have such cumulative count public.
2) have the option to hide from your view all posts by poster X
3) have the option to hide all poster's posts hidden by one or more posters you think are interesting
4) have a reputation report available on each poster, including yourself, on how many or what % of posters are hiding that posters posts and how many of those posters you marked interesting.
Done.
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RESULT:
1) you can learn from long timers who the trolls are and inherit their preferences.
2) you can block someone without declaring him to be a troll
3) you can see how people see you. Trolls whose posts aren't seen go away.
Slashdot has something like this in prototype. But it seems simple to me. Implement that and you're basically done.
Seriously, what am I missing?
Because viles where the money is?
Seriously strange decision.
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
Reddit introducing three tier content tiers: approved / hidden / banned. They announced that they would hide some of the undesirable content, as the summary said, but they are outright banning other content - they gave the example of /r/rapingwomen as a subreddit which would be banned, not hidden.
/r/justiceporn though, the real differentiator is probably better characterized as: "subs which we don't like and which also have a violence theme."
The differentiator between a sub to be banned and a sub to be hidden is officially the promotion of violence. Given the unlikelihood they that would start banning subs like
Why is this tagged "freespeech" ? It has nothing to do with freedom of speech, as the site in question is privately run. Nothing that Reddit is proposing/doing prevents anyone else from saying what they will on their own web site. The notion of free speech revolves around the constitution's requirement that the government (not counting cases of actually illegal stuff, as mentioned above) can't step in an tell Reddit how to set their editorial policies. Hiding a fat shaming forum? Reddit is free to do so, and nobody's freedom to go out and talk all they want about fat people in their own or some other venue. Having the government ban fat shaming content? Then we'd be talking about a free speech issue.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
I love how Poa or Pao or whatever her name was is 1000% not even close to being conservative.
But okay lol
Not as long as /r/coontown and it's ilk continue to exist with thousands of subscribers.
Reddit can't profit from hate and expect my patronage.
People with green cards wouldn't need amnesty for being illegally present. Their green card is part of the paper trail of a legal immigrant.
If you're the sort of tool who posts revenge porn on Reddit then I guarantee you that the Reddit admins know better than you do.
No, the real question is when Dice will sell Slashdot to Reddit. There are way too many stories about them here to believe something is not up.
It's about maximizing market value. A very simple concept.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Voat can barely keep up with the constantly increasing demand even without taking the constant DoS attacks into account, and they're starting to pull in outside funding.
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
Because even the single most toxic sub on the entire website which openly tries to goad at-risk users into committing suicide, routinely engages in doxing, and considers brigading to be a core part of their sub's existence still has the favor of the admins.
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
Citation given. But considering that Voat has pretty much been under a DDoS since the 3th of the month when people threw a hissy fit because it's a reddit alternative there's a huge gap missing.
Om, nomnomnom...
I am aware of that. I wasn't talking about discussion of illegal activity but rather inciting it. Violence would of course fit under that, but so would things like posting your ex's credit card info and SSN and other personal data for others to abuse.
All my liberal friends think I'm a conservative, all my conservative friends think I'm a liberal.
They'll just keep up their goofy games of modifying and wiping people's posts and comments without the person knowing it unless they go in private browsing mode. There's no difference.
Posting personal data is banned by a separate rule. I was using their example: advocating for drugs is okay, advocating for rape is not. They reason they give for that is violence, though they allow promoting violence in other contexts. I gave the example of vigilantism, which is also illegal.
There's something sinister about this: "It stopped short of banning the material outright and instead will require users to log-in to access it."
AS though that information, what you participate in on Reddit will be used for something nasty.
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
...and they're starting to pull in outside funding.
Wake us when this funding would fall under the rubric of "profitable advertising."
Or "sustainable."
Don't blame me, I voted for Baltar.
Wake us when this funding would fall under the rubric of "profitable advertising." Or "sustainable."
Well that's sure not reddit, then again you have to ask how they could run a site for years and still need VC to be sustainable. But considering the push that Pao made to can anyone who refused to move to San Fran, it looks like the main VC company behind them want to cash out now.
Om, nomnomnom...
"o Anything that harasses, bullies, or abuses an individual or group of people"
90% of the comments section of any political article. The other 10% are "I made $40,000 dollars last week using this one weird trick."**
**Numbers pulled out of my ass, so if they stink, you know why......
Donald Trump, on a crusade to make Nixon look respectable
Does this mean they won't be indexed by search engines anymore?
Or are they going to make that an exception?
Moderating "-1, Disagree" is simple censorship. Have the guts to post your opinion. -- Spazmania (174582)
Which means that we'll just see this play out all over again when they decide that they want to make money. The outside funding doesn't care about ideals, freedoms, or anything outside of getting a good return on investment.
It's probably no more sinister than posting these stories and having people talk crap about Reddit and their issues means that they aren't complaining about Beta, Bennett Hassleton, or whatever else people typically complain about.
"Chief executive and co-founder Steve Huffman told users: 'We've spent the last few days here discussing...'
There it is. If you've ever wondered how any repressive regime started with perfectly good intentions and ended putting humans through meat grinders, then there it is.
Imagine the scene: the great and the good at Reddit discussion what to do about revenge porn, swastikas and confederate flags in a plush air-conditioned office. They all have beautiful wives and young kids at home. Who, just who among them will seriously make any point about how Reddit is part of the fabric of free speech and that all they should do is give the community the tools to deal with it?
Nobody will. They don't want to come across as some swivel-eyed libertarian loon! We all know evil when we see it after all!
That's why I like Slashdot. Look at the length of my ID: I have never in all that time ever seen a swastika or any hate speech at all. I'm sure it exists though.
"And the meaning of words; when they cease to function; when will it start worrying you?"
This is an excellent point. Anyone advocating censorship needs to set in place some method by which the censorship is achieved. That generally means picking a group of people and telling them to apply some sort of standard (of whatever looseness). What I think the parent poster was getting at (before they were downvoted) is that it's arrogant to think that you, yourself, know best what content is Good and what is Bad
I would add that it's also foolish to think that you can predict the long-term consequences of your choices better than anyone else. The law of unintended consequences likes to show up with its buddy Murphy.
You are seriously lacking a decent drug education. Do not do drugs as you will do so in an unsafe manner and end up hurting yourself or other people. I think you are the first person I have ever seen that would not be benefited by experimentation.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
Nobody cares about the dark web. It is accessed, from the last statistics posted here, by a fraction of a single percent of internet users. So, while it might be nice (and surely already exists) the reality is that nobody will notice. If you make an interface to connect it to the WWW then maybe you have a chance. I do not think such has been done in a meaningful fashion with any real results at this point so that is an idea that you can run with.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."