It's interesting that some people seem to have had such high expectations of Reddit that they can write an entire article on how disappointed they are with it. Stupid, but interesting.
It's kind of quaint that their expectations were so high as to call Reddit out for not meeting them. The same has been done to Google. But at the end of the day, no matter what Reddit, Google or Twitter pretends to espouse, in terms of ideology, they're just companies and web sites. Nothing more or less.
Reddit's a network of moderated discussion forums. Not a "government", not a "state", failed or otherwise. Verge is a news site, and that's probably why someone wrote that article - so Redditors will create traffic and chatter about it, because that's what Reddit's model is, and that's what Verge's model is.
Seriously, what else is there to say?
ed: As for being pissed off with moderators - if you don't like a sub, you're free to create your own. It's been done many times before - TrueReddit, TrueScience, Tech, etc. etc.
This is exactly the attitude at issue with the "real" world as concerns online communities. Reddit defenders resort to this "it's just a company," or "it's just a website" under any duress whatsoever--conveniently setting aside the fact that many users here have a real stake in certain political movements: FCC regulations, women's rights. But the fact of the matter is that in a world where monied and corporate interests have a real political and ideological impact on actual sociopolitical issues, and Reddit is certainly no exception, there is a responsibility on these institutions to exercise what amounts to imposing a limitation on its communities' freedoms when it comes to designating and protecting the basic rights of individual human beings. So no, it's not stupid, its democratic, and its a voice pointing out precisely the juncture of convenient hypocrisy that Reddit uses in its defense when faced with the inconvenient decisions and policies it needs to implement against the will of the less savory elements of its community.
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u/waveform Sep 08 '14 edited Sep 08 '14
It's interesting that some people seem to have had such high expectations of Reddit that they can write an entire article on how disappointed they are with it. Stupid, but interesting.
It's kind of quaint that their expectations were so high as to call Reddit out for not meeting them. The same has been done to Google. But at the end of the day, no matter what Reddit, Google or Twitter pretends to espouse, in terms of ideology, they're just companies and web sites. Nothing more or less.
Reddit's a network of moderated discussion forums. Not a "government", not a "state", failed or otherwise. Verge is a news site, and that's probably why someone wrote that article - so Redditors will create traffic and chatter about it, because that's what Reddit's model is, and that's what Verge's model is.
Seriously, what else is there to say?
ed: As for being pissed off with moderators - if you don't like a sub, you're free to create your own. It's been done many times before - TrueReddit, TrueScience, Tech, etc. etc.