FUCK REDDIT

Kim · 10-12-2012, 07:18 PM

So, after enabling pedophiles, rapists, violent abusers, and hate communities, Reddit is throwing a tantrum over the fact that an enabler of pedophilia has been outed by Gawker.

You can read the source article here. I'm not going to quote it in full, because it's long as hell, but basically it is a big long thing about who the person is and the Reddit community in general.

Here's a choice quote, however.

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Under Reddit logic, outing Violentacrez is worse than anonymously posting creepshots of innocent women, because doing so would undermine Reddit's role as a safe place for people to anonymously post creepshots of innocent women.

So yeah, fuck Reddit.

Magus · 10-12-2012, 07:35 PM

Hmm, I hate Gawker Media, too, though...this guy certainly seems like a grade-A freak, though.

I actually know little of Reddit--is it basically 4chan/b but with a falsely sophisticated air about it, what with their interviewing presidents and celebrities?

stefan · 10-13-2012, 06:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Magus

I actually know little of Reddit--is it basically 4chan/b but with a falsely sophisticated air about it, what with their interviewing presidents and celebrities?

Reddit is basically what happens when someone takes the concept of 4chan and removes anything remotely redeeming about it.

Let that sink in for a few moments.

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Originally Posted by Loyal

Reddit has an enormous userbase, and one that already tends to lean rather randian to begin with,

fixed that for you. The absence of mainline conservative ideals does not equal liberal leaning, Reddit falls firmly into the smug, short-sighted "fuck you got mine" Internet Libertarian camp.

Ryong · 10-13-2012, 09:11 PM

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Originally Posted by stefan

Reddit is basically what happens when someone takes the concept of 4chan and removes anything remotely redeeming about it.

Let that sink in for a few moments.

I'd like to add in the giant ego issues people in there tend to have due to "the frontpage of the internet" with what you said added in.

Premmy · 10-14-2012, 06:24 PM

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They would say he was a child pornographer, when all he had done was spearhead the distribution of thousands of legal photos of underage girls. They would say the fact that he created a subreddit dedicated to Hitler meant he was anti-Semitic, when really it was just trolling. (Brutsch says he's got Jewish blood himself: "If you see a picture of me, I'm about as Jewish looking as they get.")

This is funny to me because it's basicaly a troll saying:"But, what if my trolling is successful? THAT WOULD BE HORRIBLE!"

Kim · 10-12-2012, 08:02 PM

Reddit is a site like 4chan in some respects, mostly with a different layout. It's owned by Cond� Nast Publications, which produces GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue, and other magazines. They pride themselves on "Free Speech", which was their excuse for allowing sub-reddits to exist entirely around pedophilia, racism, rape, abuse, etc, but it's a very special sort of free speech that goes only one way. That free speech where they think they should be allowed to get away with whatever they want, but to use your free speech in the same way is equivalent to a sin of the highest order. The people in charge of the site allow these things to continue and benefit from their continuing, and the people who support and defend Reddit support the people who do this, even unintentionally. As much as I hate Gawker and as right as it is to hate Gawker, Reddit is simply levels beyond levels worse.

**McTahr** · 10-12-2012, 08:50 PM

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Originally Posted by The article

Under Reddit logic, outing Violentacrez is worse than anonymously posting creepshots of innocent women, because doing so would undermine Reddit's role as a safe place for people to anonymously post creepshots of innocent women.

I am OK with that.

Me too. Free speech all you want, in no way is all the creeper/hate/pedo shit in any way defensible.

pochercoaster · 10-12-2012, 08:55 PM

I can't get through that whole article because it's too upsetting... These people make me nauseous.

Subreddits of snapshots of underage girls? What the fuck? Why haven't the police been involved yet?

There are no words...

Loyal · 10-12-2012, 10:01 PM

I've been following these shenanigans since it broke out, but I didn't want to bring it to NPF because it's a huge shitshow that remains ongoing.

I won't say much on the situation itself because every account I've seen given on the subject is delivered with a remarkable bias in support of itself (or is from Gawker), and it's difficult to discern exactly where the truth lies, but I will say Fuck Reddit nonetheless - for a different reason.

Fuck Reddit, for only dealing with problematic subreddits when they are financially or legally compelled to do so, and Fuck Reddit for letting the whole thing get this far in the first place.

pochercoaster · 10-12-2012, 11:18 PM

This guy is really sick. It's obvious from his interview that he knew he was doing something wrong and was uncomfortable with it. In other words he only cares about his actions inasmuch as he suffers consequences, not because he hurts others.

Inasmuch as "troll" is not exactly a nice title, I think it's an overused term that tends to lighten the extent of bullying and violence-supporting behaviour certain people exhibit online. This guy is a pedophilic, rape apologist, racist, abusive, misogynistic shitbag.

10-12-2012, 08:02 PM	#6
Kim adorable Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 12,950	Reddit is a site like 4chan in some respects, mostly with a different layout. It's owned by Cond� Nast Publications, which produces GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue, and other magazines. They pride themselves on "Free Speech", which was their excuse for allowing sub-reddits to exist entirely around pedophilia, racism, rape, abuse, etc, but it's a very special sort of free speech that goes only one way. That free speech where they think they should be allowed to get away with whatever they want, but to use your free speech in the same way is equivalent to a sin of the highest order. The people in charge of the site allow these things to continue and benefit from their continuing, and the people who support and defend Reddit support the people who do this, even unintentionally. As much as I hate Gawker and as right as it is to hate Gawker, Reddit is simply levels beyond levels worse. __________________ this post is about how to successfully H the Kimmy

10-12-2012, 07:35 PM	#2
Magus Archer and Armstrong vs. the World Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 7,164	Hmm, I hate Gawker Media, too, though...this guy certainly seems like a grade-A freak, though. I actually know little of Reddit--is it basically 4chan/b but with a falsely sophisticated air about it, what with their interviewing presidents and celebrities?

10-12-2012, 08:55 PM	#8
pochercoaster rollerpocher tycoon Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Las Vegas Posts: 1,808	I can't get through that whole article because it's too upsetting... These people make me nauseous. Subreddits of snapshots of underage girls? What the fuck? Why haven't the police been involved yet? There are no words...

10-12-2012, 11:18 PM	#10
pochercoaster rollerpocher tycoon Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Las Vegas Posts: 1,808	This guy is really sick. It's obvious from his interview that he knew he was doing something wrong and was uncomfortable with it. In other words he only cares about his actions inasmuch as he suffers consequences, not because he hurts others. Inasmuch as "troll" is not exactly a nice title, I think it's an overused term that tends to lighten the extent of bullying and violence-supporting behaviour certain people exhibit online. This guy is a pedophilic, rape apologist, racist, abusive, misogynistic shitbag.