This isn't that "exciting" of a conspiracy theory but I think it may be of interest to those here so I wanted to share. I had been trying a strategy on Reddit where I pose as a leftist and say a bunch of crazy (but always relevant to the thread) things in different threads like "jail all the unvaxxed" to see what pushback it would get and encourage dissent. I started realizing that I got a lot of pushback, I would post something like this and get a few comments back that were basically calling me crazy, telling me to fuck off basically, etc, the ratio of replies against my comments to those in favor seemed to be like 5-1 on average, so most people clearly thought my comments went too far
I was checking these comments through email though, not on Reddit itself, as they email you every reply you get to my comment. When I eventually went to see the actual replies on Reddit, to see which comment of mine they were replying to, I realized many of the replies against my comment were deleted and there's no sign of it. I found my original comment in the thread and many show no replies, not even showing "deleted" comments. Also I am seeing that often my crazy comments have positive upvote counts.
This level of censorship is even more than I thought it was, they are basically shadow banning many users, at least in relation to specific threads and subs. I don't think any of these users know their comments were deleted but I'm not certain.
I was suspended from one sub for "threatening violence" (in reality it was more like wishing death on the unvaxxed rather than saying anything violent) but it seems other than comments related to violence anything is ok as long as it conforms to a leftist perspective and anything from the right is not ok. I think there's a lot of people on there who think they are "fighting back"against the leftist narrative but in reality no one is seeing what they say except the person who made the original comment. I knew Reddit was evil but I didn't realize the extent to which they are going.
reddit employs numerous methods of censorship, one of which is how they "collapse" certain comments, seemingly at random.
I hope the Maxwell trial brings down reddit.
in the good old days you could spam faggot nigger everywhere and even the controversial subreddits would be defended and left to stay. there were places like /r/shoplifting where people would openly brag and discuss how to steal. /r/darknetmarkets had literal darknet drug lord kingpins advertising selling and providing support. lets not forget /r/greatapes and the chimpire of racists that would make this website seem sjwish in comparison. they also had the antifa subreddits that would openly advocate violence although i didnt pay attention much to those. the real og controversial free speech subreddit was /r/jailbait though. In 10 years reddit has changed so much they went from defending that disgusting pedo shithole to banning random people just for existing.
Reddit is LITERALLY OWNED BY THE CHINESE.
No completely serious. Tencent, the major Chinese state-owned based media investment bought a controlling stake in Reddits stock before 2016 and the infamous Ellen Pao fiasco. Ellen was put in charge of the site because she was the Chicom who took over the site after it was bought out. He attempts at heavy handed censorship caused the original core of reddit to go apoplectic and cry out. China responded by firing Ellen, taking the names of everybody who had an issue with the censorship, and banning them. They then carried on hiring extreme Left hardcore Democrats to staff the site, which was about the time Maxwell became a power-mod of the site as well. Yes Gilliane Maxwell was a mod on like 50+ of the most popular subreddits, and she was very active there, banning users left and right for not being with the program.
Since then Tencent has been running reddit as a light version of how the Chinese manage their media: which is blanket bans of anything off-narrative.
Mods over there lock posts from comments the moment a controversy erupts, you will come to threads where 90% of the comments are deleted, and they are constantly removing posts from subs.
And that is before you notice the many, many, many narrative pushing posts being made by accounts that do nothing but post liberal narratives. Absolutely nothing that happens on reddit is organic when its even tangentially related politics. Even their "wholesome memes" board started shit like "My happy face when I wore my mask on my way to get vaccinated today after saving the black people."
The only reason I maintain a Reddit anymore, is the DCS World flight sim community keep several forums that are useful for asking questions about sims, setups, HOTAS gear, and finding people to play with. This is stuff that is so under the radar that nobody cares to mess with it. Which is fine and all.
If you look at who is commenting in r/news threads about highly political, narrative driven articles you'll find the average age of accounts is 4 years old with an inordinate amount of +6yo accounts. I believe the oldest I've seen was a 12yo account.
The comments are all in support of the narratives.
You'll often find that the commenters are mods of multiple subs or their mod list is hidden so you can't tell, but can assume they mod. It is these accounts that are driving the conversations on reddit.
mods are chuds, interesting name fren, a name that made me laugh.
Before i left reddit when they banned the no new normal sub, i used reveddit and found out i was basically shadowbanned from all the major subs. Mods were deleting all my comments on anything related to covid, but i wasn’t getting the usual notification, and to me the comments were still visible. Shady shit going on at that site.
It has been subverted into a mouthpiece of Geneva and the United Nations.
My Reddit account is locked due to suspicious activity. It says I can recover the account if I change the password, but Everytime I go to do it I just get a code block of computer jargon and I have to refresh the page and start over. Seems my account is just perma locked.
Don't lose any sleep over it - its Reddit - the most cucked site on the web
I use it as a redpill for normies. Look, I posted about relative efficacy versus absolute efficacy now I'm permabanned.