Reddit hasn’t been the same in years. I’ve been thinking about leaving for a long time now. Ever since subs started banning people for participating in the “wrong” subreddits, things have really gone downhill. People shouldn’t be expected to do a background check on every post they want to comment on.
The things I could say but won’t. I’ll just leave it as, yes. I hate it!!! I’ve been banned for the dumbest things from 2 subs, ran by the same girl. Once for promoting my sub, which ok, maybe I shouldn’t have done, and second because oh no!!! I used a Reddit bot in my Discord server and I guess the chick thought I was copying her.
The thing that sucks is that now my sub is suffering and I’m weary od creating a BDSM subreddit because this doesn’t seem the place for that.
I was drawn to reddit in the early days for the uncensored and open pics, gifs of the arab spring horrors. I stayed with the promise of free speech, though I did welcome the clamping down on hate, anti lgbt+, and similar.
The thing is free speech should apply to all opinions, not just those you don’t like. There are hate speech laws on the books but the bar is set high and it’s done for good reasons. If someone incites violence or makes threats then they should be prosecuted. But being offensive does not meet the bar of hate speech.
Reddit hasn’t been the same in years. I’ve been thinking about leaving for a long time now. Ever since subs started banning people for participating in the “wrong” subreddits, things have really gone downhill. People shouldn’t be expected to do a background check on every post they want to comment on.
The things I could say but won’t. I’ll just leave it as, yes. I hate it!!! I’ve been banned for the dumbest things from 2 subs, ran by the same girl. Once for promoting my sub, which ok, maybe I shouldn’t have done, and second because oh no!!! I used a Reddit bot in my Discord server and I guess the chick thought I was copying her. The thing that sucks is that now my sub is suffering and I’m weary od creating a BDSM subreddit because this doesn’t seem the place for that.
I was drawn to reddit in the early days for the uncensored and open pics, gifs of the arab spring horrors. I stayed with the promise of free speech, though I did welcome the clamping down on hate, anti lgbt+, and similar.
The thing is free speech should apply to all opinions, not just those you don’t like. There are hate speech laws on the books but the bar is set high and it’s done for good reasons. If someone incites violence or makes threats then they should be prosecuted. But being offensive does not meet the bar of hate speech.