Reddit mods are censoring dozens of words from r/technology posts - Polidicks

[quote] Say what you want about Reddit's r/technology, one of its most popular forums. Just don't say "NSA," "net neutrality," "Comcast," "Bitcoin," or any of the roughly 50 other words that will secretly get your post deleted. There's a bot in r/technology, ready to delete any so-called controversial headline you try to submit. In July, Reddit dropped two controversial subreddits, r/atheism and r/politics, from being automatic subscriptions for new users. Given redditors' frequent complaints about overzealous moderators, r/technology, which boasts more than 5 million subscribers, could be considered their heir as the subreddit everybody loves to complain about. As such, an intrepid redditor, creq, put together a list of words he found were suspiciously underrepresented on the subreddit. Almost all of them have at least two qualities: they're commonly found in the intersection of technology and politics, and they can be seen as controversial, or at least likely to inspire anger in a few people. Another redditor, SamSlate, created a number of graphs showing how often headlines with the acronym "NSA" appear on r/technology. This graph below shows the frequency of "NSA" in r/technology headlines over the past year. The dense chunk in the middle spans June through August of last year, the months during which the intial reports on top-secret documents leaked by Edward Snowden appeared online. The cutoff is clear: A blanket ban on certain words in headlines may do r/technology subscribers a disservice. After all, "newsworthy" and "controversial" tend to dovetail together; why wouldn't people interested in technology read about Bitcoin? About Senator Ron Wyden, likely the most dedicated defender of Internet freedom in Congress? About Internet service providers like Comcast and Time Warner? One moderator at r/technology, agentlame, confirmed to the Daily Dot that, like most subreddits, his uses a bot to automatically filter posts containing words moderators would likely delete manually if they had the time. He said their general rule was to ban headlines with politicized words. [/quote] [url]http://www.dailydot.com/news/reddit-technology-banned-words/[/url]

"net neutrality" Oh the irony..

news outlets so bored that they report on moderator drama in internet forums what.

[QUOTE=Take_Opal;44555068]news outlets so bored that they report on moderator drama in internet forums what.[/QUOTE] The Daily Dot's whole thing is to report on stuff happening in big internet communities

welcome to reddit. shithole of the internet.

[QUOTE=SexualShark;44555120]welcome to reddit. shithole of the internet.[/QUOTE] If reddit's a shithole of the internet facepunch is a pimple right next to it.

Mods of defaults are generally one of the worst ones I've seen.

[QUOTE=Dark RaveN;44555175]If reddit's a shithole of the internet facepunch is a pimple right next to it.[/QUOTE] People have pimples next to their assholes? Well I guess TIL...

mods are such nazis

[QUOTE=SexualShark;44555120]welcome to reddit. shithole of the internet.[/QUOTE] I really don't think so. With reddit, you tend to get exactly the content you look for. It's not like a social media site where you follow individual people who might just one day make a 3,000 word rant about shit you don't fucking care about.

[QUOTE=dai;44555226]mods are such nazis[/QUOTE] Careful dude, you might get banned for saying that :(

[QUOTE=dai;44555226]mods are such nazis[/QUOTE] oh how ironic, mr hitler worshipper!!!! did you think i wouldn't see that you are a facepunch mod??? shame on you and this entire realm

wasnt reddit originally all about free speech lol

[QUOTE=smurfy;44555119]The Daily Dot's whole thing is to report on stuff happening in big internet communities[/QUOTE] I wonder how often Facepunch is featured?

[QUOTE=dai;44555226]mods are such nazis[/QUOTE] you're right, fuck mods

[QUOTE=Bradyns;44555288]I wonder how often Facepunch is featured?[/QUOTE] [url=http://www.dailydot.com/search/?q=facepunch]Not very often.[/url] I think our shining moment is the Subway thing.

So they have a bot to automatically do what Facepunch does manually? Big deal. Reddit's even worse at civil debates than we are, I'm not surprised they're sick of these topics that probably come up fucking constantly.

[QUOTE=SexualShark;44555120]welcome to reddit. shithole of the internet.[/QUOTE] woah careful there facepunch has a lot of religious reddit users

[QUOTE=HOUSE MASTER;44555314]woah careful there facepunch has a lot of religious reddit users[/QUOTE] Breaking news to me. lol

[QUOTE=Dark RaveN;44555272]oh how ironic, mr hitler worshipper!!!! did you think i wouldn't see that you are a facepunch mod??? shame on you and this entire realm[/QUOTE] excuse me FP is fascist thanks

[QUOTE=Bradyns;44555288]I wonder how often Facepunch is featured?[/QUOTE] We're featured twice. Once for the hentai subway thing: [url]http://www.dailydot.com/news/subway-facebook-anime-sandwich-porn-hentai/[/url] And once for calling Chris Dorner "Chocolate Rambo": [url]http://www.dailydot.com/lol/lapd-christopher-dorner-chocolate-rambo-meme/[/url]

[QUOTE=SexualShark;44555120]welcome to reddit. shithole of the internet.[/QUOTE] as if our forum is any better lol

[QUOTE=Holt!;44555345]We're featured twice. Once for the hentai subway thing: [url]http://www.dailydot.com/news/subway-facebook-anime-sandwich-porn-hentai/[/url] And once for calling Chris Dorner "Chocolate Rambo": [url]http://www.dailydot.com/lol/lapd-christopher-dorner-chocolate-rambo-meme/[/url][/QUOTE] hentai and lamar being vaguely racist, that sums up Facepunch pretty well imo

[QUOTE=dai;44555342]excuse me FP is fascist thanks[/QUOTE] fascism =! nazism checkmate 20th century

[QUOTE=Dark RaveN;44555175]If reddit's a shithole of the internet facepunch is a pimple right next to it.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/[/url] you were saying something?

I just don't understand how power-hungry people actually get put into power. It reminds me of a guy I played D&D with; if he wasn't the beefiest, strongest character, prepare for a hissy fit

[QUOTE=SexualShark;44555595]you were saying something?[/QUOTE] Reddit is what you make of it. You don't have a gun to your head forcing you to be subbed to r/atheism. I know 75% of the subreddits I'm subscribed to are art and photo related, the other 25% are gaming and music.

[QUOTE=Banned?;44555309][url=http://www.dailydot.com/search/?q=facepunch]Not very often.[/url] I think our shining moment is the Subway thing.[/QUOTE] Idk if this counts [img]http://imgkk.com/i/8vo9.png[/img]

[QUOTE=Banned?;44555673]Reddit is what you make of it. You don't have a gun to your head forcing you to be subbed to r/atheism.[B] I know 75% of the subreddits I'm subscribed to[/B] are art and photo related, the other 25% are gaming and music.[/QUOTE] i am cracking up.

I use reddit but I try not to read the comments or post anything. So basically just checking out posts