Reddit Quarantine...what's going on?
1 2018-09-28 by justmeherehi
I've been off reddit for a few days. When I came back today I am hearing a lot about the quarantine.
What the hell is going on? I do believe that other platforms were silencing people they dont agree with, but I thought reddit was different. Its why I joined a few months back.
I do agree with the posts of leaving reddit if it continues to hurt their pocketbook. Is their a site people are jumping to or is it better to create our own?
28 comments
1 RMFN 2018-09-28
Anyone with the wrong opinion is shuffled off to a intellectual ghetto.
All gone. Gone forever. All six million. Gone.
1 Zap_Powerz 2018-09-28
Its the Reddit Holocaust!
1 RMFN 2018-09-28
Fascism is corporate.
1 justmeherehi 2018-09-28
Six million total subscribers? Where are they going?
1 RMFN 2018-09-28
Up in digital smoke.
1 PedostaDaMelosta 2018-09-28
We just go wherever we want to go. Hi r/politics :)
1 RationalBogart 2018-09-28
Those subs are a stain for a company trying to make money through advertising. That was that.
I'm actually impressed they just quarantined them.
1 Zap_Powerz 2018-09-28
Everyone needs to do their part to make this website as unappealing to investors and advertisers as possible.
1 RationalBogart 2018-09-28
That's an awful attitude. Not sire how long you've been on reddit but I've been here for years and had a ton of fun and learned a ton and got to get on my soapbox, all for free :)
Why would I want to pay all that back with fuckery? Whether I stay or move on, they have a right to try and make a profit for once.
1 Zap_Powerz 2018-09-28
They have been fucking with you this whole time. You should want to get even.
1 RationalBogart 2018-09-28
I believe very firmly we all have karma that is a living result of the good or bad actions we've undertaken in our lifetimes. A one to one result of causes we've made as effects that are out lives (cause and effect).
So anything nasty I would do to someone, including reddit, just fucks me over karma wise and will come back to me in a one for one fashion.
So no thanks. I'm not shitting on reddit.
1 Zap_Powerz 2018-09-28
Would you receive bad karma for killing Hitler?
1 RationalBogart 2018-09-28
It's never about one event. Karma is a lifetime of actions from grandiose gestures to tiny daily monotonous actions. They add up over time.
The modern metaphor for cleaning up your karma is that old hose that been sitting in the garden for years used. First time you hook it up to the faucet, it takes a while for the water to run clean as all the dirt and shit has to be flushed out first. Karma takes a while to undo just as it does to accumulate.
1 justmeherehi 2018-09-28
I cant reach them on mobile at all (I've been going through the links that people are posting).
Where are people going? Do we create our own?
1 frisbee_coach 2018-09-28
You must go there on the desktop site and opt in to view it for it to show up on a mobile app.
1 Northernrebel56 2018-09-28
If you can deal with it. Voat censors almost nothing.
1 RationalBogart 2018-09-28
Reddit has always been about making your own community if the one you're in isn't serving your interests.
And not sure which subs you are worried about but, most of the ones quarantined were pretty awful ideology wise and infested with the stormfront assholes. Add in some self loathing incels and it's a toxic mix. Be careful if you are involved in those. They can be really bad for mental health.
1 FartfullyYours 2018-09-28
Censorship is great so long as it is your team that controls it, right? If don't agree with a sub's ideology, you could simply ignore it.
1 RationalBogart 2018-09-28
That's exactly what quarantining is.
1 FartfullyYours 2018-09-28
Actually, quarantining is censorship.
1 RationalBogart 2018-09-28
So is banning people that differing opinions.
1 RMFN 2018-09-28
Fuck the advertisers.
1 RationalBogart 2018-09-28
You of all people have enjoyed countless millions of hours of enjoyment from this website. But yeah, bite the hand that feeds you. I hear Voat is accepting newcomers.
1 RMFN 2018-09-28
Free? Lol.
1 RationalBogart 2018-09-28
You're not telling me you bought gold? The shame
1 jpearsonrn 2018-09-28
Voat
1 djh315 2018-09-28
Voat: Come for the free speech, leave for the unrelenting violent racism.
1 jpearsonrn 2018-09-28
Unfortunately, BUT atleast there is not never ending silencing and banning. The great awakening and QRV are very rare to post or upvote the offensive and racist voat stuff