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News: Reddit became worse hole of racism than Stormfront
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Reddit became worse hole of racism than Stormfront
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One section of the Web forum is dedicated to watching black men die, while another is called "CoonTown" and features users wondering if there are any states left that are "****** free." One conversation focuses on the state of being "Negro Free," while another is about how best to bring attention to the assertion that black people are more prone to commit sexual assaults than whites.
But these discussions aren't happening on Stormfront, which since its founding in 1995 by a former Alabama Klan leader has been the largest hate forum on the Web. They're taking place on Reddit, a huge online bulletin board. Reddit was recently spun off into its own independent entity from Advance Publications, the parent company of mass media giant Condé Nast, which also owns Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and 20 other print and online publications that reach an estimated 95 million consumers. (Advance Publications is still a majority shareholder in Reddit.) Reddit has been hailed as the last bastion of free speech on the Internet, an unregulated and vibrant community of users who post whatever they want and rely on the community around them to police their content.
The world of online hate, long dominated by website forums like Stormfront and its smaller neo-Nazi rival Vanguard News Network (VNN), has found a new — and wildly popular — home on the Internet. Reddit boasts the 9th highest Alexa Internet traffic ranking in the United States and the 36th worldwide. Many of Reddit's racist subreddits are among its most popular.
Reddit is a news site that hosts user-submitted links and discussion, organized into specific communities of interest comprised of "subreddits," which are ranked by votes from users. If a reader believes content is a constructive contribution, he or she can "upvote" it, pushing the content further up the page. Conversely, if a user thinks that content is either off-topic or is not constructive, it can be "downvoted," causing it to sink further down the page.
Content on Reddit is "moderated based on quality, not opinion," according to the working document that dictates community guidelines, called "Reddiquette." This idea of user-policed communities that contain high-quality, diverse content is part of the ethos Reddit has worked hard to project. "We power awesome communities," reads the graphic atop its "about" page.
But awesome communities for whom?
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Member Since: 9/4/2012
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reddit is a cesspool yet the media doesn't portray that
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Member Since: 12/9/2009
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Yea reddit is garbage
I feel like what it comes down to is, the average person is pretty ignorant and the average person lovessss to sign up for reddit, so it's inevitable.
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Member Since: 4/13/2011
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The point of reddit is that you can create your own community (subreddit) and moderate it how you like.
As a result, there are some extremely ****ed up communities in there, yeh, but that doesnt mean reddit as a whole entity is bad or racist.
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Reddit is such a huge site with so many sub-sections that it's hard to pigeon hole the whole thing as having a over-arching POV. It's like saying "tumblr is pro-ana" when it's just one corner of the site.
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4Chan can finally pass the crown now.
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Member Since: 8/1/2012
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The bias, the dishonesty 
I just looked up r/coontown, and apparently it's some backwoods subreddit with roughly 5,000 subscribers. That's about one sixth as popular as r/tsunderesharks.
r/GreatApes has even fewer. Seriously, "wildly popular"? Who do they think they're kidding?
If I tried to turn this tripe in to my journalism class I'd get a D.
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Member Since: 2/4/2014
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Originally posted by Chill Bill
The bias, the dishonesty
I just looked up r/coontown, and apparently it's some backwoods subreddit with roughly 5,000 subscribers. That's about one sixth as popular as ''r/tsunderesharks''.
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Dishonesty?! Read another comment. It's not only racist but :
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Reddit is also the most misogynistic place on the internet
Forums for rapeherwhileshesleeps, rapethemyoung, womenareworthless, beatallbitches, killa****, and more
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Member Since: 4/6/2014
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I have never been on Reddit but I see why so many people on Tumblr trash it now.
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Member Since: 2/4/2014
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I have never been on Reddit but I see why so many people on Tumblr trash it now.
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Tumblr and only Tumblr from now on.
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Tumblr and only Tumblr from now on. |
There are many racist and awful Twitter/Tumblr accounts as well. These platforms are just made up of people - even the one that are scum. It's not fair to paint the entire platform as trash.
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ATRL Contributor
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Some of y'all are so damn judgmental tho. 
Like let's not act like there's never been a blatantly racist or sexist thread on ATRL. Does that mean the entire site is racist or sexist? No. That being said, I do think Reddit needs to better monitor the subreddits they allow.
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Oh, please, like Tumblr's any better...
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None of these sites are better but I enjoy when racists get dragged all over Timblr.
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Reddit is such a huge site with so many sub-sections that it's hard to pigeon hole the whole thing as having a over-arching POV. It's like saying "tumblr is pro-ana" when it's just one corner of the site.
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This. I'm not gonna come in here and defend Reddit because I've met some terrible people on there and there's a lot of them. But there's also a lot of great people there and a lot of amazing subreddits and threads. Just like any online community, there are bad apples. Someone could easily write an article about how racist and misogynistic ATRL is (and it would be entirely 100% true) but that doesn't paint an accurate picture of our community as a whole, because that's just a small fraction of users here. So take this with a grain of salt. At least it's not 4Chan. 
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I have never been on Reddit but I see why so many people on Tumblr trash it now.
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As if Tumblr is any better 
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Member Since: 8/18/2013
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That's only one subreddit....
Do you know how large reddit is?? 99% of the people on that website probably have never been to that subreddit. 
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Member Since: 9/30/2009
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What a disgusting site. And I can't believe racists are in here defending it.
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Member Since: 2/4/2014
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Originally posted by Chill Bill
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Have you considered the fact that those "forums" have been deleted after thousands of reports?! It's the internet sis. Think. Tumblr's better, because racists, sexists, transphobes, homophobes, misogynists are a minority and they get dragged each day. 
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Member Since: 2/4/2014
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They also have subreddits dedicated to necrophilia, snuff films, and female corpses. 
But nevermind those. nosleep and LetsNotMeet are my life at night.
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