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This is why I'm leaving Reddit. (Note the +48)

This is in a news thread about the recent rules Harvard announced relating to single-sex clubs. Because men being accused of rape is the REAL issue here /s
Also points for "female" (god forbid you call us women) and quote marks around rape.
The whole thread is whiny as fuck.




Reddit is on track to become just another chan board. The admins still won't do anything about revenge porn and leaked photos, subs with outright hate speech are growing at astounding rates, and the few moderators that try to do well are continuing to be ignored by the admins. They've even outright decided they'd rather moderators just "block" users who antagonize their communities and spam their modmail because that means they don't have to get involved, so users are allowed to be terrible and never face a suspension. Even more, mods are now waiting 12 or more days to hear back from admins on serious issues!
The whole place is a lost cause.
Honestly, what are these guys doing that they're constantly being accused of rape?
The number of times I've seen a man on reddit insist he's been falsely accused of rape TWICE makes me more inclined to carry pepper spray.
I'm so glad we have Imzy to turn to now.
Hear, hear! The difference in how I feel after spending an hour on each platform is night and day.
The voting mechanism sounds great in theory, but in practice it creates an echo chamber for the dominant demographic. It causes their views and opinions to become increasingly detatched from reality.
Sometimes I wonder if reddit's recent bigotry downturn was the inevitable result of the format and userbase.
I hope you can forgive my cynicism, but I'd like to talk about this.
I don't really have a lot of experience in this area, and my information is anecdotal at best but... Having spent a few years in a media focused profession (game development). It's become increasingly clear that marketing measures success in demoraphics. What I mean by that is: marketing is measuring how well something is doing by looking at potential demographics and then comparing sizes to their user base. In the case of video games, you see a lot of developers targetting "13-24 year old [white] males" as the line goes, and I think a lot of that is also the target of reddit so I'm trying to apply some of my experiences to reddit's ongoing behavior. It is my belief that there is a struggle at reddit official, where some people are pushing to combat toxicity of the website, and others questioning the value of combatting that toxicity. The questionining, in my opinion, arises from a mental model that cannot see the monetary value of a less toxic community when it is believed that toxicity is ubiquitous with the "13-24 year old [white] male" demographic.
Theres a great post from Yishan (former Reddit CEO) around the Blackout period that gives some insight into management and the Board's thinking:
"on at least two separate occasions, the board pressed /u/ekjp [Ellen Pao] to outright ban ALL the hate subreddits in a sweeping purge. She resisted, knowing the community, claiming it would be a shitshow."
https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/3dautm/content_policy_update_ama_thursday_july_16th_1pm/ct3n7hc
So it's the shitshow that stopped Ellen Pao. I wonder if that's what's stopping Alexis and Steve. The weird thing is, they openly admit to removing sexist, racist etc content in the early days. So why they haven't done it, I don't know.
Well, they're right in that it would be a shit show. But at the end of the day, when the babies have had their tantrum and left, reddit would have still been a viable website. More viable in the long term is my guess.
There was plenty of support for Ellen Pao's changes. It was the first and only time I bought reddit gold, and from memory more than one server got named in support of the changes.
It's a shame that Ellen didn't agree to the cull. She was going to get bullied out of reddit either way, she might as well have changed reddit for the better.
The legacy of that fiasco seems to be staff that are too scared to enact positive change. So reddit's tantrum worked I guess.
If that's true, it's pretty grim.