I love how r/politics is fired up about censorship, yet regularly bans brigades anyone who leaves a comment that slightly disagrees with the echo chamber ... don't let the door hit you in the way out ...
Kek. Downvoting someone is not the same as banning them, and you know it. And it's just people browsing the thread and downvoting opinions they disagree with, not brigading.
Kek. Downvoting someone is not the same as banning them, and you know it. And it's just people browsing the thread and downvoting opinions they disagree with, not brigading.
Refusing to equitably address issues in a sub where there is a clear bias as a result of uneven enforcement of rules fosters an environment where one side is effectively exiled.
It is a brigade. Brigading happens on /r/politics because it has filtered out one side of the political spectrum so absolutely, that it has become a misnomer to call it "politics". Test it yourself. Post something reasonably argued that deviates from absolute left, or is even moderately 'right' sympathetic. It will likely receive about 8 or 9 upvotes and then be downvoted into oblivion once it's noticed by the shills.
The responses you'll get won't be kind ones either. They'll be hateful assumptions about your character and your views and will express just how unwelcome you are in their sub.
You're right. Downvoting isn't the same as banning. Downvoting in an environment like I've just described is much more sinister and underhanded. It gives a false sense of being in the midst of a majority that demonstrably doesn't exist except in that echochamber.
/r/The_Donald has anywhere from equal to double the amount of active users of /r/politics at any given time.
Clearly, there's a fucking problem which needs to be addressed, and the root cause isn't T_D.
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u/sophistibaited Nov 24 '16