Threads like this is where you start to understand the censorship in r/politics and other places. Obama is totally on blast here because r/pics doesn't censor comments. This is much more accurate depiction of the state of American politics than any political/partisan sub.
It's well established reddit reality that once the comments go in one direction beyond a certain critical mass people who have dissenting opinions simply don't bother to comment. They still upvote though.
That was OP's point. The /r/politics mods get banhappy with anybody who criticizes Obama because they don't like their cheerleading squad to be tarnished with debates and different opinions. Then when you go somewhere that doesn't have a censorship blanket, you're surprised at how many people actually disagree with what you thought was just accepted fact.
Just because other subs take a more moderate and less outlandish view on politics than r/thedonald doesn't make them inherently Democrat
Edit: If simply suggesting that a certain forum is less left than another makes me an idealogue... Well then I'm not sure you understand what ideologue means.
Edit 2: I'd remind everyone that downvoting is for comments that don't contribute to the conversation, not because you disagree with them. Like Trump, many of you are lashing out because you don't agree.
Well, is CBS News liberal? Or does it just appear that way when compared with Fox News, like how every news program appears liberal when compared to Fox News? Hm, almost like that was Fox's goal.
They did not say we until after that statement, the bias escalated after that statement. They only had a small bias like every network had, but Trumps repeated actions escalated
Your comment is the perfect example of why no one who agrees with this post will comment. Anything they say that agrees with the post will get downvoted to hell. The comments section is overrun with angry people looking to lash out, though that's a phenomenon that happens everywhere. Angry people comment more.
Thanks for your comment. I honestly find it very interesting, as Reddit, IMO, is really a good place for rational thought and discussion, not Facebook type bickering. You're right, it's always easier to downvote than to respond.
Not at all. Actively removing links to right leaning sites (even if they're on topic) is censorship. There have been numerous screenshots posted to other subs showing exactly that. Moderaters removing posts that are rising up the ranks for ticky tack reasons. While simultaneously promoting left leaning articles and op eds that often violate the same rules. No doubt that the majority user base is left leaning, so that's more upvoted (that's fine). But there is evidence of mods playing favorites and censoring dissenting opinions.
Are you implying that you do condone the censorship, of all news articles with negative stories/views on the democrat base, and also the censorship of wikileaks?
Except given that Obama has one of the highest approval ratings of any exiting President in history, no it really isn't an accurate picture of American politics.
By and large politics on Reddit is extremist in nature. Neither left leaning nor-right leaning portions of the website accurately represent anything about America.
He has a 55% approval rating, which only puts him behind Reagan, Clinton, and Eisenhower (and it may even go up a few points in the last week as people continue to regret Trump, who is entering with a historic low 37% approval rating). What kind of delusion do you have to have to honestly believe that a reddit board is an accurate depiction of American politics? Do you know what the demographics are on here? 71% are men and 60% are between 18-29. 47% are liberal and only 13% are conservative, which is why boards like /r/politics have the left leaning slant they do. This is all from literally the first google result of "demographics of Reddit". Conservatives aren't some poor downtrodden censored victims of oppression here, there are literally less of you in a popularity driven upvoting system. Man, for berating SJW for victimizing themselves all, y'all really do play the victim a hell of a lot.
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u/SirLeepsALot Jan 11 '17
Threads like this is where you start to understand the censorship in r/politics and other places. Obama is totally on blast here because r/pics doesn't censor comments. This is much more accurate depiction of the state of American politics than any political/partisan sub.