As a staunch Democrat who, respectfully, thinks the vast majority of current conservatives are awful people with disgusting views, I would very strongly oppose the banning or r/Conservative and not be a fan of the potential precedent being set
The thought of being surrounded by conservatives sounds revolting to me, so I simply avoid that sub and other subs with a strong conservative presence. I don’t need those subs to be banned
What’s wild to me is that, like Trump or not, r/conservative is a window into seeing that all conservatives don’t support him no matter what. I think it would be a shame to ban their perspective completely, and would seem pretty anti free speech. Are we this afraid of words?
I don’t think it should be banned unless it’s clearly violating some established rule and they don’t remedy the violations when prompted by Admins, this pretty much goes for any subreddit, however.
With that said, r/conservative and every other subreddit is allowed to ban people for no reason, so if Reddit decided to ban them, it’s fair play.
I’d do one better, no ban, just force them private only and they can have the safe space they pretend like they don’t want. Opt in only, true believers only.
Bitch, I would celebrate it. Just like they celebrate the hundreds of “disappeared” comments.
Everybody needs to stop acting like they aren’t our literal fucking enemy. r/Conservative is pure fascist propaganda. If it was up to them, they would have already declared a christofascist dictatorship, shut down reddit and every platform that allows dissenting opinion, sent journalists and opposition leaders to CECOT and prepare to celebrate it all on Dear Leader’s birthday with a YUGE military parade. They have unmasked themselves. We know what they want. We’ve read P2025, we’ve listened to Curtis Yarvin.
Gtfo with all this morality check. They go low, we go fucking lower.
I’ve never visited that sub and am not really inclined to, but I assume that it is what it looks like? (You never know on Reddit!) If so, no I would not be okay with Reddit banning it. Legally it has every right to, of course, but I think a culture of free speech is also important.
No in the sense that I don’t recognize that there’s a good reason to do that. But also Reddit is a private company and this is a private website, so they can do whatever they want with it within the bounds of the law.
If Reddit banned all the subreddits I look at, then I’d be happy to not look at their ads anymore.
The rules or reddit should be enforced uniformly no matter what the politics of the sub are. At it’s current state I would adamantly be against banning r/conservative, even if their ideas are largely misguided they don’t seem to be breaking rules on purpose or doing anything to get banned.
Honestly I wish reddit and some subreddits in general would allow for a little more free wheeling subs. It’s fun to go on subs with generally bad ideas and argue with them or point out why they are wrong. I think deplatforming should be used extremely sparingly.
Unless r/conservative has done something pretty egregious and violated some rule or TOS, I don’t think they should be banned.
So, I suppose that I hope that Reddit treat the r/conservative subreddit with more courtesy and flexibility than that particular subreddit treats those who post in it who do not identify themselves as conservative.
Why? r/conservative is pretty hollow not a lot of actual discussion goes on there other than reacting to what Trump did and pretty broken recordish not exactly a breeding ground of political radicalization 😂.
No. Because the sub is full MAGAts and if it was banned, one of two things could happen:
they go make their own sub (the more peaceful option)
or
they take over r/AskConservatives, the only space with sane right wingers outside of r/askpolitics, and the sane ones lost a safe space of theirs and only have one place to go on Reddit.
I think it’s best if we keep them in their little box.
I would only be in favor if it’s promoting hate speech or dangerous ideas. Reddit banned people pushing Mangione and so it only seems right that it would ban people pushing Nazism or the KKK, for example. I’m not saying that happens in r/Conservative, because I don’t follow it, but I’m just giving an example of what should be banned.
Why is Reddit banning r/Conservative in this hypothetical scenario? If it’s simply for being extremely stupid and MAGA then no I wouldn’t be okay with that.
I feel like this is a good place to remind people that r/The_Donald was banned not because of ideological differences, but because they celebrated violence against Muslims, made open threats against public officials, and did basically no moderation of posts that broke site-wide rules.
I’m not against reddit banning any subreddit that silos their sub to an extreme degree, effectively creating a messaging platform instead of forum. There’s an argument that the sub acts as a holding pen to contain the worst people on this website and if it were to be banned the members would poison other subs, but I’m skeptical. I don’t think users of r/conservative would last long in other subs since they’d be challenged and down voted into oblivion. In all likelihood it would result in their members leaving the site and making everyone else extremely happy.
I was banned from that sub for arguing against the idea that interracial marriage should be illegal. I am still against the idea that the sub itself should be banned. Leave it up as a testament to their hate and disgusting views to show how retched the right wing has become.
I guess if you found that they had repeatedly violated reddit’s rules and/or TOS however I don’t see that happening.
It isn’t against reddit’s rules to run a sub with a specific agenda or message that you want to promote. In fact, that is basically the purpose of any sub. Nor is it against reddit policy to engage in dishonest discussion, people can mostly say what they want as long as they’re not promoting or encouraging specific acts of violence.
I also don’t see a lot of political activism happening over on that sub, it seems mostly like a place where a few ultra-conservatives (or bots playing ultra-conservative) go to jerk each other off over whatever the current social outrage is. So I don’t know if it would actually be beneficial or worthwhile to try to get them banned. It wouldn’t stop the style of conversation that happens there it would just force them to switch to a new venue or start a new sub.
As much as I think the people on r/conservative are vile, no I would not be okay with that. It doesn’t affect me, I don’t look at it. I honestly feel bad that they’ve been let down by society in a manner that’s caused them to end up where they are, but that doesn’t excuse the monsters they’ve become.
Literally wouldn’t matter. They’re so ban happy that they’ve whittled themselves down to just a few people so far up trumps but that they can smell his breath, and Russian bots.
I guess I’m what’s known as a “fiscal conservative.” I was banned from /r/conservative without ever posting there. Why? I stated that global warming was real. At the time you had trump turning science into stalin-era lysenkoism where you were “bad” if you didn’t kiss the king’s fake science.
I think that when you have subs banning people for stating things that are as clearly scientifically accurate as “the earth is warming”, you are creating an echo chamber devoid of rationality, reason, logic, and accuracy. A society where the most uneducated destroys dissent is dangerous to the survivial of that society and all adjacent ones.
We do need some sort of corrective action on subs which become dangerously anti-factual. That can be done across all of reddit, and not just /r/conservative
Is banning the best solution? It’s an easy one. I’d argue that given the prevelence of AI, we could have an AI upper-level appeal process for bans from subs that are known for wiping out rational debate in favor of anti-science tribalism. That would allow banned accounts back in and mods who repeatedly violate reddit-wide rules on reason could be removed.
I think that would be a harder route to do well, but would be better than banning /r/conservative.
If it was banned, I think it would be fine. There are better subs that are filled with conservatives who aren’t compromized by lysenkoism.
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I don’t really care one way or the other. Reddit is a curated platform, that means they can publish or unpublish whatever they want.
As a staunch Democrat who, respectfully, thinks the vast majority of current conservatives are awful people with disgusting views, I would very strongly oppose the banning or r/Conservative and not be a fan of the potential precedent being set
The thought of being surrounded by conservatives sounds revolting to me, so I simply avoid that sub and other subs with a strong conservative presence. I don’t need those subs to be banned
What’s wild to me is that, like Trump or not, r/conservative is a window into seeing that all conservatives don’t support him no matter what. I think it would be a shame to ban their perspective completely, and would seem pretty anti free speech. Are we this afraid of words?
If they did I’m sure the meltdown would be incredible, executive orders incoming, or Musky just buys reddit too
Honestly, I don’t care. Reddit shuts subreddits down when they cause an issue to the bottom line so I’d just assume that they had reached that point.
I don’t think it should be banned unless it’s clearly violating some established rule and they don’t remedy the violations when prompted by Admins, this pretty much goes for any subreddit, however.
With that said, r/conservative and every other subreddit is allowed to ban people for no reason, so if Reddit decided to ban them, it’s fair play.
I’d do one better, no ban, just force them private only and they can have the safe space they pretend like they don’t want. Opt in only, true believers only.
Bitch, I would celebrate it. Just like they celebrate the hundreds of “disappeared” comments.
Everybody needs to stop acting like they aren’t our literal fucking enemy. r/Conservative is pure fascist propaganda. If it was up to them, they would have already declared a christofascist dictatorship, shut down reddit and every platform that allows dissenting opinion, sent journalists and opposition leaders to CECOT and prepare to celebrate it all on Dear Leader’s birthday with a YUGE military parade. They have unmasked themselves. We know what they want. We’ve read P2025, we’ve listened to Curtis Yarvin.
Gtfo with all this morality check. They go low, we go fucking lower.
Banning them for what?
Are you expecting that liberals want all conservatives to be banned just because of the word “conservative”?
The majority of people here have already been banned from r/Conservative, so what would be the difference?
No. I enjoy reading subs I disagree with. It’s good to stay informed.
Reddit is a publicly traded company. It is not the town square. They can ban whoever they want.
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Yes
I’ve never visited that sub and am not really inclined to, but I assume that it is what it looks like? (You never know on Reddit!) If so, no I would not be okay with Reddit banning it. Legally it has every right to, of course, but I think a culture of free speech is also important.
The bots would just post elsewhere that’s it
No in the sense that I don’t recognize that there’s a good reason to do that. But also Reddit is a private company and this is a private website, so they can do whatever they want with it within the bounds of the law.
If Reddit banned all the subreddits I look at, then I’d be happy to not look at their ads anymore.
As long as they’re not breaking site rules, why would they be banned?
It would be very funny lol
Banning anything is not the solution. If anything, it’ll convince them more in support of their ideologies and beliefs.
The rules or reddit should be enforced uniformly no matter what the politics of the sub are. At it’s current state I would adamantly be against banning r/conservative, even if their ideas are largely misguided they don’t seem to be breaking rules on purpose or doing anything to get banned.
Honestly I wish reddit and some subreddits in general would allow for a little more free wheeling subs. It’s fun to go on subs with generally bad ideas and argue with them or point out why they are wrong. I think deplatforming should be used extremely sparingly.
No
Nah, of course not. I’m not in favor of banning any subs unless they’re basically breaking the law.
No however they need to follow rules including no hate speech
Yes lol fuck ‘em.
I prefer they stay in their hole until they’re ready to rejoin polite society.
Its all bots anyway. They show up here as well. Lots of posts from bots….
Unless r/conservative has done something pretty egregious and violated some rule or TOS, I don’t think they should be banned.
So, I suppose that I hope that Reddit treat the r/conservative subreddit with more courtesy and flexibility than that particular subreddit treats those who post in it who do not identify themselves as conservative.
If it allows hate speech and prejudice, yes
Reddit is a private company and can do what they like with their platform.
Why? r/conservative is pretty hollow not a lot of actual discussion goes on there other than reacting to what Trump did and pretty broken recordish not exactly a breeding ground of political radicalization 😂.
I would okay with it in the sense I don’t care. It’s not like I caused them to get banned.
I would rather the mods and people of r/conservative engaged thoughtfully and were open about their beliefs.
What Reddit standard for subreddits did they violate? In what way?
No. Because the sub is full MAGAts and if it was banned, one of two things could happen:
or
I think it’s best if we keep them in their little box.
I would oppose because r/conservative seems to be reasonably level-headed. Especially these days, they now recognize Trump is a bad person.
I would only be in favor if it’s promoting hate speech or dangerous ideas. Reddit banned people pushing Mangione and so it only seems right that it would ban people pushing Nazism or the KKK, for example. I’m not saying that happens in r/Conservative, because I don’t follow it, but I’m just giving an example of what should be banned.
Why is Reddit banning r/Conservative in this hypothetical scenario? If it’s simply for being extremely stupid and MAGA then no I wouldn’t be okay with that.
I feel like this is a good place to remind people that r/The_Donald was banned not because of ideological differences, but because they celebrated violence against Muslims, made open threats against public officials, and did basically no moderation of posts that broke site-wide rules.
I’m not against reddit banning any subreddit that silos their sub to an extreme degree, effectively creating a messaging platform instead of forum. There’s an argument that the sub acts as a holding pen to contain the worst people on this website and if it were to be banned the members would poison other subs, but I’m skeptical. I don’t think users of r/conservative would last long in other subs since they’d be challenged and down voted into oblivion. In all likelihood it would result in their members leaving the site and making everyone else extremely happy.
I was banned from that sub for arguing against the idea that interracial marriage should be illegal. I am still against the idea that the sub itself should be banned. Leave it up as a testament to their hate and disgusting views to show how retched the right wing has become.
Depends on if they’ve broken reddit rules or not.
Depends on why they were banned.
I don’t ever think about them except when they’re mentioned here. I might not even know it’s done.
I guess if you found that they had repeatedly violated reddit’s rules and/or TOS however I don’t see that happening.
It isn’t against reddit’s rules to run a sub with a specific agenda or message that you want to promote. In fact, that is basically the purpose of any sub. Nor is it against reddit policy to engage in dishonest discussion, people can mostly say what they want as long as they’re not promoting or encouraging specific acts of violence.
I also don’t see a lot of political activism happening over on that sub, it seems mostly like a place where a few ultra-conservatives (or bots playing ultra-conservative) go to jerk each other off over whatever the current social outrage is. So I don’t know if it would actually be beneficial or worthwhile to try to get them banned. It wouldn’t stop the style of conversation that happens there it would just force them to switch to a new venue or start a new sub.
No why would they? That’d be super weird, I’ve never seen anything remotely illegal or promoting violence or anything like that there…
As much as I think the people on r/conservative are vile, no I would not be okay with that. It doesn’t affect me, I don’t look at it. I honestly feel bad that they’ve been let down by society in a manner that’s caused them to end up where they are, but that doesn’t excuse the monsters they’ve become.
Then they’d just make a new sub. r/conservative is basically r/the_donald.
Literally wouldn’t matter. They’re so ban happy that they’ve whittled themselves down to just a few people so far up trumps but that they can smell his breath, and Russian bots.
What if reddit banned trash posts
I guess I’m what’s known as a “fiscal conservative.” I was banned from /r/conservative without ever posting there. Why? I stated that global warming was real. At the time you had trump turning science into stalin-era lysenkoism where you were “bad” if you didn’t kiss the king’s fake science.
I think that when you have subs banning people for stating things that are as clearly scientifically accurate as “the earth is warming”, you are creating an echo chamber devoid of rationality, reason, logic, and accuracy. A society where the most uneducated destroys dissent is dangerous to the survivial of that society and all adjacent ones.
We do need some sort of corrective action on subs which become dangerously anti-factual. That can be done across all of reddit, and not just /r/conservative
Is banning the best solution? It’s an easy one. I’d argue that given the prevelence of AI, we could have an AI upper-level appeal process for bans from subs that are known for wiping out rational debate in favor of anti-science tribalism. That would allow banned accounts back in and mods who repeatedly violate reddit-wide rules on reason could be removed.
I think that would be a harder route to do well, but would be better than banning /r/conservative.
If it was banned, I think it would be fine. There are better subs that are filled with conservatives who aren’t compromized by lysenkoism.
As batshit as it is there, it’s fascinating to observe how they act. It’s genuinely interesting to me.
I wouldn’t want it to happen but it’s a private corporation and within their right.