The subreddit r/steam, about the digital game storefront, received as many other subreddits a notice to open the community again, or else the mods would be replaced by those who abide.

The mods followed suit posting the following automod message under every new post:

As ya’ll likely know, we’ve been dark to support the blackout against reddit’s antagonistic behavior towards its own userbase. The admins sent us a message today saying we must open or get removed, so here we are.

For those of you browsing this subreddit on non-official apps (Reddit is Fun, Apollo, Sync, Boost, etc), they will break on July 1st due to reddit’s new policies. We’re opening back up but will leave permanent stickies in the subreddit and threads to keep folks in the know.

Our Discord [contains link to https://discord.gg/steam] server is active, don’t forget to check it out.

Good luck and god speed.

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On visit, you quickly notice there is a community wide effort to focus on the literal topic of the given name and post about vapors, steam trains, and kitchen appliances. While posts about the gaming platform get downvoted.

  • onepinksheep
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    392 years ago

    Ah. So basically China’s Social Credit system, but for Reddit.

    • Spirou
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      122 years ago

      Finally putting all that karma to good use.

    • @[email protected]
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      42 years ago

      https://merics.org/en/comment/chinas-social-credit-score-untangling-myth-reality

      Often, the SoCS is merely invoked as a metaphor: either to depict some technological threat at home or to portray a techno-dystopian China.

      This is symptomatic of a tendency to see China not as a real place with real people, but as an abstract “negative opposite” of “us”.

      • @[email protected]
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        42 years ago

        Interesting article, but according to it there where some pilot studies that tried to penalize citizens based on their social score. So I don’t think the meme is entirely wrong.

      • @[email protected]
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        32 years ago

        It’s important to identify these arbitrary lines in the sand, thanks.

      • @minimar
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        22 years ago