I think they did this to create a megathread for it. I dont think they have a function to move all comments from one post to another though.
Also, given how left leaning Reddit is nowadays (or maybe more accurately, how much Redditors hate Trump specifically), I would imagine there were probably a lot of comments that violated the rule about “don’t wish death or harm on anyone else,” which is honestly a rule that all humans should have the basic decency of applying to everything.
Reddit?! Left leaning?!?!
Not in the subs I used to frequent. The lemexodus seemed to turn the place into a right wing dumpster fire.
Yes!
r/politics is the exception.
But what’s left on reddit is usually far left russian propagnada surrogate subs, and centrist - far right content. The “social democratic left” demographic has severely shrunk.
Fine, then offer a megathread, but to remove posts that people have already started back-and-forth comment chains on is an authoritian attempt to control the conversation.
I don’t doubt that we’ll see just a handful of new users on the Fediverse as a direct result of this.
Yeah I really hate that bullshit. megathreads always kill the discussion.
The purpose of social media is to discuss things, not disseminate information. That is Wikipedia, or news sites. Tbf Reddit got its start as a news aggregator service. But to halt already started conversations… that really sucks.:-(
Yeah especially for a story like this it deserves new threads every couple hours as new information comes out and a new thread is needed to discuss it. Putting it on a mega thread means any discussion about new information just gets buried.
I agree. Does Lemmy have any such rule, or is that instance specific? I’ve seen a lot of questionable comments on the political communities here.
There was a post saying it’s too bad they missed, and I said “That’s not the way,” and got a mess of downvotes. People were arguing that me saying we shouldn’t advocate for political assassination means that I’m enabling fascism. I don’t even know what to say to that.
Lol isn’t a step of fascism usually assassinating political opponents?
Why yes, yes it is
Yeah, I’ve seen comments about that as well. Thanks for calling them out - it is really important.
I was just over there by accident (not logged in) and yes they had the mega thread but literally every other post on that front page was about it. And many of them were not left leaning at all.
I’m sure the reasoning for it was “glorifying violence.” I got a permanent site wide ban (that was overturned after appealing) for about 2 weeks for just saying “I so would” in response to a picture of a girl in a shirt that said “punch a Nazi in the face.” The post itself wasn’t removed, BTW; just a lot of the comments that agreed with it. That, along with the appocalypse, are why I stopped using Reddit. Can’t view it the way I want, and it’s full of Nazis/Nazi sympathizers in the admin staff. Fuck that site.
There is no place for facts in a politics sub on Reddit:-P
“The fact is, you’re either with us, or you’re wrong and will be banned.” -some mod somewhere
Do they still have mods, I thought they were all robots at this point? Especially for those large ones… Then again, this is so big it could even be an admin decision.
I absolutely hated auto-mods. I’d usually just give up trying to comment/post in a sub because I couldn’t figure out what subset of rules I was breaking while other people seemed to post the same thing with no issue.
I recall doing the same - sometimes it was as simple as punctuation used (or not used, who even knows!?:-P). I even became mod of such a sub, that had basically been abandoned and nearly died out as a result of that. But then I abandoned it myself, after making sure I had passed it on to a good substitute:-). Nothing beats the care and concern of an actual human.
Reddit bias is real. There is no way the Trump shooting isn’t the biggest story on the internet at this moment and reddit is pretending that it isn’t trending!
Reddit is 100% Biased!!!
Oh, yay, they’re wagging the dog.
