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What do you think about reddits thebanout? Are you supporting it or not, and why?
I personally think that if it doesn't get reigned in, it will destroy a LOT about reddit.
I personally think that if it doesn't get reigned in, it will destroy a LOT about reddit.
I don't reddit anymore, could you (or someone else) provide a bit more context?
Racist subs made racist remarks against reddit admin's wife Serena Willams. Did not end well for the subs.
Could we get a little more detail? Is this related to the /r/greatawakening ban?
It is, but my comment was mistaken. Apparently, thebanout refers to a subreddit (r/thebanout2018) trying to get what it views as hate subs banned.
A bit like r/againsthatesubreddits, which @dubteedub mods, but way more extreme, judging by how many comments they remove.
What does it view as "hate subs" and is it any different from what everyone else views as hate subs?
It has come to my attention that dubteedub also mods that sub and regards it as a "transparent joke."
So I guess it's just a troll version of r/againsthatesubreddits, using the same criteria?
It's basically a rif on /r/blackout2015, probably because that sub ended up being taken over by Meta-Reddit conspiracy nuts.
I personally appreciated Banoween
He also mods the rthebanout2018 sub last I checked.
They apparently auto-mod remove any comment that isn't a specific phrase. I don't get that. Are they not encouraging discussion concerning how they might go about being effective in getting those subs banned? Or is that discussion elsewhere? I'm interested more in the social dynamic that exists on reddit from a scientific point-of-view, and would have liked to see those discussions.
But, they're apparently effecting change, so despite their methods, it somehow appears to be working to an extent.
Oh wow, I think that qualifies as my first "whoosh" on Tildes.
That is pretty funny, now that I see what they're doing. It's actually pretty damn creative.
I agree that it is transparently a joke!! And a hilarious one, at that! Nice work.
I was certainly scratching my head when I found r/thebanout2018 on r/DrainTheSwamp, when a ton of people were melting down about it.
I actually think @starchturrets is getting one piece of Reddit drama confused for another. I actually got about halfway through typing a response in this thread talking about the r/greatawakening whatnot before I realized it was the wrong subject.
I'm pretty sure what @Akronymus is referring to is the movement associated with r/TheBanOut2018.
If you want to wade back in for a read: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheBanout2018/
I haven't been following closely, but here goes.
Essentially, moderators from several large subreddits and a handful of smaller ones have taken it upon themselves to ban users in bulk based on their participation in "hate speech" subreddits. Their motivation is
To the best of my knowledge, this is against Reddit's site-wide rules, but I'm not too certain about that. Obviously though, it's rubbing people the wrong way for a whole variety of reasons.
It's against moddiquette, but not any site-wide rule that I know of.
Thanks for the info! I had heard something about how this was a rule that the admins made, but that was second hand, and it's clear how they could have been confused!
I've looked at it for two seconds and it just seems like a circle-jerky joke. Maybe it's going to get hijacked by people who mean it but IMO the Reddit admins aren't going to listen to them. If they were in the business of listening to that kind of talk they would have banned a bunch of subs waaaaaaaaaay back when.
I have no idea what "thebanout" is but it sounds like a bunch of assholes who had their feelings hurt because their favorite edgy sub was banned.
Actually, it seems to be the opposite. From what I've seen, it's a group of people who are actively trying to get the Reddit admins to ban subreddits they class as "hate subreddits".
People might also notice a mod in those top users who shares the same characters as @dubteedub. Not that the users are identical or anything
That is indeed @dubteedub.
many of those subreddits are hate subs, though.
The tell for me, outside of automod and n8theg8 (who for his part seems to trigger t_d types everywhere), was including r/drama and r/lol as “hate subs.”
That said, if I didn’t have those clues, the shittiness of people on Reddit generally would’ve potentially had me seeing it as a pointless protest, like so many others on Reddit.
I talked to n8 yesterday on slack and up until then I didn't realize it was a joke either.