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Reddit Cracking Down on ‘Most Toxic’ Trolls in Pro-Trump Forum
New York Post ^ | December 1, 2016

Posted on 12/03/2016 10:30:02 PM PST by nickcarraway

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has announced a plan to crack down on the “most toxic users” of a forum on the site used to discuss President-elect Donald Trump.

Huffman writes in a post on the link-sharing and discussion platform that the actions being taken against some users of a forum titled “The_Donald” range from “warnings to timeouts to permanent bans.” Some commenters in the forum have repeatedly harassed Huffman.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: internet; reddit; trump

1 posted on 12/03/2016 10:30:02 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

I am betting with in three years they loose a lot of there traffic.


2 posted on 12/03/2016 10:32:01 PM PST by PCPOET7
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To: nickcarraway

Huffman is a libtard?


3 posted on 12/03/2016 10:37:30 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: nickcarraway

As someone who has done battle with some really rabid lib-progs online; they can really bring out the worst in a person.

It sounds like the problem is most likely some nasty libs who sling vitriol (hate speech) around constantly and repeat themselves ad naseum. Good people practically have no choice but to call them on their BS and shut them down.

I’ve learned it does no good to shame them. They have no sense of shame because they simply have no sense of anything.


4 posted on 12/03/2016 11:21:02 PM PST by Boomer
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To: Boomer

This is actually all about bulls***.

The admins have been busted with their chats being posted where they discuss screwing over The_Donald sub.

Much of what the admins point to as malicious trolling and/or doxing actually comes from admin posts in The_Donald.

Reddit is fully converged by SJW at its top.

SJWs always lie.
SJWs always psychologically project.
SJWs always double down when caught.

This is what’s going on now.


5 posted on 12/04/2016 12:54:20 AM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Paladin2
You decide...


6 posted on 12/04/2016 12:59:16 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: nickcarraway
I post once in a while on Reddit and they seem to be looking for a no-loss-to-them way to get rid of their section on Trump since they are really libs anyway. That's my guess and the people posting on the Trump section are really pissed off at the clowns running Reddit.
7 posted on 12/04/2016 4:35:24 AM PST by rodguy911 (Go Sarah go! America home of the free because of the brave.)
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To: Boomer

Every time I have posted on Redditt they let my first post go through and then on the second post they kill it no matter what and tell me to post again in five minutes that I’m posting too often,WTH?


8 posted on 12/04/2016 4:37:08 AM PST by rodguy911 (Go Sarah go! America home of the free because of the brave.)
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To: nickcarraway

Lots of complaining on there about this Spez guy. Why don’t they all migrate elsewhere?


9 posted on 12/04/2016 6:08:24 AM PST by ReaganGeneration2
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To: PCPOET7

Some people are moving to voat.co but there’s quite a few skin head sounding people on voat. If enough everyday conservatives got onto voat, the white power types could be drown out.


10 posted on 12/04/2016 6:24:14 AM PST by Pollard (TRUMP 2016)
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To: Boomer

“I’ve learned it does no good to shame them. They have no sense of shame because they simply have no sense of anything.”

Don’t shame them. Openly insult them. Alinsky openly states this was the only way to destroy his arguments. He also knew because his opposition was civil, they wouldn’t engage in that tactic.

Nay nay, engage away. I been calling them morons for years. Best thing I ever did.


11 posted on 12/04/2016 6:33:36 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Election 2016 - Best election ever.)
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To: PCPOET7
I don't know about that. It seems that the more that Reddit censors Trump supporters, the faster Trump supporters come to the site. On the r/The_Donald subreddit alone, there are now 316,000+ subscribers (up from 270K on Election night) and most of the time there are over 10,000 of them actively reading and posting. And it appears to be mostly a YOUNG crowd.

I got almost 5,000 upvotes on a post I made there last night and all I did was post a photo of a smiling Trump making a victory sign. The Trump support over there is something to see and the numbers are growing.

I think that once Trump gets into office and starts "making America great again", he is going to completely win over the Millennials and Gen X'ers, not to mention making inroads in the Black and Hispanic communities. This is what the Democrats have feared all along and explains why they have gone all out to do whatever it takes to bring him down.

12 posted on 12/04/2016 6:40:36 AM PST by SamAdams76
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don’t trust the up votes there...the site manipulates the voting.


13 posted on 12/04/2016 7:07:21 AM PST by PCPOET7
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To: Grimmy

Dr. Jordan Peterson has done a psychological analysis of SJWs vs “classic liberals”. Both groups were high in “agreeableness” and valuing everything be equal in outcome. Where they differed was that SJWs were:
* much higher on neuroticism (more had various diagnoses, too)
* lower on conscientiousness (logical inconsistencies don’t matter much)
* SJWs were far more authoritarian - likely a result of their greater anxiety/neuroticism
* SJWs on average had a lower IQ than the average “liberal”, and there is a strong correlation between an IQ in the 80s and crime and use of force to solve problems, because you don’t see better, non-violent alternatives; the lower IQ of the women’s studies/ethnic studies/LBGT coursework is lower than a business major, for example


14 posted on 12/04/2016 7:38:57 AM PST by tbw2
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To: Boomer
They have no sense of shame because they simply have no sense of anything.

Some of this had to have come from the CTR folks, Paid Clinton Team "Correct the Record" operatives that were active on many boards to destroy Trump.

15 posted on 12/08/2016 2:54:46 AM PST by Dustoff45 (A change is a comin')
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