You're so right. But the problem is that reddit is corporate owned and their goals are different than what their readers want. They want their main subreddits to have editors, to come precensored. And since they own it, they get their way. They won when they bought the site.

But the problem is that reddit is corporate owned THIS...and this forever. I think that we, the community, need and open source and secure reddit. Something along the lines of the open source facebook website Diaspora.

I have a strong feeling that eventually, we'll see open source and free alternates of all popular web services that are currently exploiting us for their gain. The only two things that are actual constants in our universe, IMHO, are change and balance. Currently, the overwhelming amount of awareness on these modern day hot topics is a sure sign for hope though.

I hope you are right. But when the plutocracy got control of the print and broadcast media, alternatives disappeared, like 99.9% disappeared.

Then they fight you..then you win.

I don't see how that can work when they own the site. If you look at US media for the last 100 years you see a few wealthy people controlling more and more of it. Till there was little if any free press.

This was the end of the free press in America:

In 1917 Congressman Oscar Callaway told the House that, in 1915 JP Morgan interests and their subsidiary organizations purchased the editorial policies of the 25 most important newspapers in the U.S. By controlling the policy of the most important, they were able to control the general policy of the whole media. They used this power to turn public opinion in favour of entering the First World War. The Rockefellers took over the Morgan empire, and in the 1950s they had one of their pharmaceutical company directors and publisher of the New York Times, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, appointed as Director of the Associated Press. They also owned the trend setting magazines Time, Life, Fortune, and Newsweek. Laurance Rockefeller was a director of The Reader's Digest, a barometer of orthodox thinking, especially on the medical issues in which his family had enormous financial interests. http://www.policestateplanning.com/chapter_2_.htm

It always comes to a head.

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7 "Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

8 So the TPTB scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.

http://www.reddit.com/r/all/

Reddit.com/r/all/ gets around one hundred new submissions every two minutes .. so if you are not logged on, @ twenty five posts per page, a story that went onto r/conspiracy, will be 20 pages back ten minutes after it was posted!

God, I didn't like that result. Too many pics and funny and WTF and more nonsense. That's the reason I unsubscribed to those subreddits.

We need more... control. Say, be able to specify no more than 2 'pics' and 2 'funny' per 25 submissions. I don't mind a little, but I don't want to be drowned in it.

That's almost as good. Now if only they would modify it so that one could filter out the subs not wanted. Oh wait....

It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings, baby.

You're not done yet are you? You think your only voice is through the internet?

What happens when you can't speak on the net? Will you go out side and speak out? If you let them take that away, then they have won a major battle. They still have not won the war.

There are efforts against us, but I'm not dead yet and neither are you.

You're very right, but it's going to be a tragedy to watch them cripple the capabilities of the Internet.

It's very clear that's what they're trying to do but, oh well, we adapt and overcome. Pulling this shit now just means that they are scared and we are winning.

I can imagine some soviet citizen, thrown in GULAG, during Stalin's rule thinking the same thing ;) But IMHO this is just the standard media tactic and we are definitely loosing.

I believe in what Zinn called, "a power governments cannot suppress." If shit goes Gulag I got your back and you got mine.

That seems a bit strange. Why would Reddit close the main page? I'll believe it when I see it.

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Well rats. This is the wrong decision, in my view. The front page was always where all posts aspired to be. Now what are the going to aspire to?

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Big part of the readers don't have an account - and they got the same front page. Another big part do not subscribe to any subs, they got the same page.

/r/all has nothing to do with /r/reddit.com, it's discussed in other comments here.

Yo Dude .. recently on a trip to the laundromat, a couple of coin oped internet machines lay idle, I popped a buck, and sought Red / Consp my fav site!

The Hell .. Reddit turned up ok, but there was no link to Conspiracy, I went to EDIT, at top right, but since I was not logged on, there were only 25 listings per page,

Going thru a number of pages, with all kinds of strange listings to obscure sub reddits, it still had not turned up, back to Google to see if there was a direct link, there was not, whence the coin oped computer was prompting me for more dough.

I remembered the url was reddit.com/r/conspiracy, typing that onto the address bar, the site came up, just as the computer told me that it needed money!

The moral of the story, is that Reddit has become Balkanized, by divide and rule tactics, and if you are unfamiliar with the site, it is virtually impossible to find r/conspiracy!

You are right. At 40,000 members, this is one of the larger subreddits, yet ones that are much smaller and more irrelevant appear on the main "edit" page that most people will never get past.

I would never have found this reddit were it not for using reddit search function.

Unfortunately, by only containing people who seek it out, this reddit is largely a circlejerk, preaching to the converted.

Maybe we need a coordinated effort to infiltrate r/politics?

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They're hypocrites. When they do it it's OK because they agree with themselves, so that makes it OK.

I am shocked to think that Ron Paul fans would organize to falsely inflate their cause.

Oh the irony:

http://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughPaulSpam/comments/li32a/paultards_set_out_to_infiltrate_rpolitics/

Have fun storming da castle!

You should create a subreddit called r/enoughlibtardspam and invite your friends to join it. Then any post you want to call to the attention of your friends you can resubmit in your own subreddit so they can check the related tab and find the post you want to promote. It's must be easy because the nolibs crew does it all the time. Oh, how does it feel to know they are still stalking you after all this time?

Every subreddit is reddit.com/r/[name]. You know the name of the subreddit you want. Virtually impossible my ass.

Most of the good subreddits don't show up on the front page, it's hardly a conspiracy.

Sure .. that's how "they" dumbed down Russia, all libraries were state run, browsing the shelves was forbidden, and anyone wanting a book had to fill out a request form, whence, under ideal circumstances anyway, library staff would go fetch it!

It allowed Zionist insurgents, who had infiltrated the Russian public service, to record who was snooping and into what areas, to see whether the respondent was the right stuff for the Gulags, as the FEMA camps of the day were called.

The FBI does it in a somewhat similar way .. their website says, "give us a tip, & tell us what you know," then the same Zionist insurgency that claimed Russia, that has similarly infiltrated at every level in the US, including the FBI.

Sends a John Yoo death van with a mobile operating theater, whence yr heart, liver, lungs, kidneys and kaboolies, are out in a jiffy, and off to the organ donors market, sans anesthetic, which interferes with the recipients convalescence.

Apparently flooding the front page with crap just wasn't effective enough; welcome to the filter bubble, NWO's new not-so-secret weapon.

The front page isn't going down.

They didn't shut down the front page, they shut down /r/reddit.com. Go to www.reddit.com and you'll get the actual front page.

A couple of the 4chan guys could set up a Linux based reddit type site overnight. Reddit's layout is quite minimalist but effective. If they do push ahead with closing down reddit the owners will rue the day they done it.

bring story's to the masses

You meant 'stories', right?

Well rats. This is the wrong decision, in my view. The front page was always where all posts aspired to be. Now what are the going to aspire to?