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L&HH said:
Reddit is not filled with ***** the two sites hates each other. The only thing ***** people do on reddit is troll. This past year whenever a youtube video would hit the front page of reddit ***** would flood the comments and mock redditors on youtube by calling themselves "neckbeard" and "m'lady" and other shyt like that

As far as that racist shyt. The most popular presidential candidate on reddit right now by a wide Margin is Bernie Sanders who has had this to say regarding blacks and prison complex:
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****** just like Anonymous is made up of a bunch of different people wit different agendas but mad ****** people are on Reddit, and there's no way of determinin who the most popular presidential candidate is on a site that has 160 million users and you didn't even attempt to back up that claim wit evidence. Stop capin for that racist cac site.
 
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L&HH said:
Only 600 subscribers in 2+ years of its existence :francis:
https://www.reddit.com/r/blackinamerica/
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r/hiphopheads where most of the goons lurk
StackMoney said:
****** just like Anonymous is made up of a bunch of different people wit different agendas but mad ****** people are on Reddit, and there's no way of determinin who the most popular presidential candidate is on a site that has 160 million users and you didn't even attempt to back up that claim wit evidence. Stop capin for that racist cac site.
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Reddit isn't really racist tho
 
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StackMoney said:
****** just like Anonymous is made up of a bunch of different people wit different agendas but mad ****** people are on Reddit, and there's no way of determinin who the most popular presidential candidate is on a site that has 160 million users and you didn't even attempt to back up that claim wit evidence. Stop capin for that racist cac site.
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I'm on there frequently enough to know there's Bernie Sanders related post that hits the front page almost weekly. They've been rallying hard for him in the last few months because the media's been neglecting to acknowledge his existence. Bernie Sanders AMA last month is in the top 25 most upvoted AMAs in its history. That's quite a feat for a relatively "unknown" candidate who the media won't even mention because the public has all but given it to Hilary [Democratic nom]. He has an entire subreddit dedicated to his campain with 60k+ subscribers, most of which have come in the last month.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/top/?sort=top&t=all
https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/?
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/36j690/i_am_senator_bernie_sanders_democratic_candidate/?
https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersFor...ll_not_stand_for_the_refusal_to_acknowledge/?

I'm not capin for anything. I just want people on here to help themselves. Another poster on here just said they used reddit to bolster their resume to land a fukking job. Where else on the internet will you get that for free? Certainly not here. I do some internet marketing related stuff and there's reddit posters on there that have helped me with PPC campaigns for free, to help me make money. You'll get out of reddit what you want to get out of just like anything else in the world.
 
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So it looks like reddit is gonna be more censored since Pao left or some shyt.

and the old CEO (yishan) of reddit ethered the reddit userbase:



YYYYYY LMAO

How's everyone doing? This is AWESOME!

There's something I neglected to tell you all this time ("executive privilege", but hey I'm declassifying a lot of things these days). Back around the time of the /r/creepshots debacle, I wrote to /u/spez for advice. I had met him shortly after I had taken the job, and found him to be a great guy. Back in the day when reddit was small, the areas he oversaw were engineering, product, and the business aspects - those are the same things I tend to focus on in a company (each CEO has certain areas of natural focus, and hires others to oversee the rest). As a result, we were able to connect really well and have a lot of great conversations - talking to him was really valuable.

Well, when things were heating around the /r/creepshots thing and people were calling for its banning, I wrote to him to ask for advice. The very interesting thing he wrote back was "back when I was running things, if there was anything racist, sexist, or homophobic I'd ban it right away. I don't think there's a place for such things on reddit. Of course, now that reddit is much bigger, I understand if maybe things are different."

I've always remembered that email when I read the occasional posting here where people say "the founders of reddit intended this to be a place for free speech." Human minds love originalism, e.g. "we're in trouble, so surely if we go back to the original intentions, we can make things good again." Sorry to tell you guys but NO, that wasn't their intention at all ever. Sucks to be you, /r/c00ntown - I hope you enjoy voat!

The free speech policy was something I formalized because it seemed like the wiser course at the time. It's worth stating that in that era, we were talking about whether it was ok for people to post creepy pictures of women taken legally in public. That's shytty, but it's a far cry from the extremes of hate that some parts of the site host today. It seemed that allowing creepers to post (anonymized) pictures of women taken in public, in a relatively small subreddit that never showed up on the front page, was a small price to pay for making it clear that we were a place welcoming of all opinions and discourse.

Having made that decision - much of reddit's current condition is on me. I didn't anticipate what (some) redditors would decide to do with freedom. reddit has become a lot bigger - yes, a lot better - AND a lot worse. I have to take responsibility.

But... the most delicious part of this is that on at least two separate occasions, the board pressed /u/ekjp to outright ban ALL the hate subreddits in a sweeping purge. She resisted, knowing the community, claiming it would be a shytshow. Ellen isn't some "evil, manipulative, out-of-touch incompetent she-devil" as was often depicted. She was approved by the board and recommended by me because when I left, she was the only technology executive anywhere who had the chops and experience to manage a startup of this size, AND who understood what reddit was all about. As we can see from her post-resignation activity, she knows perfectly well how to fit in with the reddit community and is a normal, funny person - just like in real life - she simply didn't sit on reddit all day because she was busy with her day job.

Ellen was more or less inclined to continue upholding my free-speech policies. /r/fatpeoplehate was banned for inciting off-site harassment, not discussing fat-shaming. What all the white-power racist-sexist neckbeards don't understand is that with her at the head of the company, the company would be immune to accusations of promoting sexism and racism: she is literally Silicon Valley's #1 Feminist Hero, so any "SJWs" would have a hard time attacking the company for intentionally creating a bastion (heh) of sexist/racist content. She probably would have tolerated your existence so long as you didn't cause any problems - I know that her long-term strategies were to find ways to surface and publicize reddit's good parts - allowing the bad parts to exist but keeping them out of the spotlight. It would have been very principled - the CEO of reddit, who once sued her previous employer for sexual discrimination, upholds free speech and tolerates the ugly side of humanity because it is so important to maintaining a platform for open discourse. It would have been unassailable.

Well, now she's gone (you did it reddit!), and /u/spez has the moral authority as a co-founder to move ahead with the purge. We tried to let you govern yourselves and you failed, so now The Man is going to set some Rules. Admittedly, I can't say I'm terribly upset.

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RookieToVet said:
i dont know if anyone posted this but
thecoli.com on reddit.com • /r/thecoli.com
:wtf: these cacs have a forum about thecoli all i did was type in thecoli and i was looking for past threads
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It's not a subreddit.

It's just articles/links/threads sourced by a domain. If you click on each topic it takes you to a different sub.. weirded me out at first.

example:

hxxps://www.reddit.com/domain/yahoo.com/
hxxps://www.reddit.com/domain/thecoli.com/
hxxps://www.reddit.com/domain/wsj.com/
hxxps://www.reddit.com/domain/cnn.com/

there is no
https://www.reddit.com/r/thecoli.com/

like
BlackPeopleTwitter • /r/BlackPeopleTwitter
 
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