Comment by hilios
5 days ago
/r/conservative is probably the most heavily censored echo chamber on Reddit, yet somehow you only take issue with other subreddits flagging participation.
5 days ago
/r/conservative is probably the most heavily censored echo chamber on Reddit, yet somehow you only take issue with other subreddits flagging participation.
Could you be as kind as to point out where I'm _only_ taking issue with the moderation of other subreddits?
As you can see in my comment I'm merely listing a few examples.
You're listing several examples, including /r/conservative, yet even though this subreddit is widely known (on Reddit) to be a censored echo-chamber, you do not mention this aspect. I find it hard to believe, that this would be a coincidence.
From the HN guidelines:
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith
Let's aim to keep HN better and more pleasant to use than Reddit;)
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That's a very weak argument in my opinion.
How does the moderation in /r/conservatives, a subreddit for conservatives to discuss "from a distinctly conservative point of view", concern a liberal like yourself in any way?
This isn't a subreddit you need to participate in. I think it's more relevant how default subreddits or country subreddits are moderated in a similar way.
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I think the argument here is guilt by association.
It's a bit like banning entry into the US because you've visited Russia.
It doesn't really matter how Russia runs their own country, you might have even gone there to argue against totalitarian dictatorships.
But a US border guard looking at your passport and rejecting your entry based on that alone feels like overreach.
How subs choose to moderate their content is roughly speaking sort of fine, as long as there's no organised harassment, sharing of illegal materials (child porn, revenge porn, war materials etc) and threats of violence or death.
>But a US border guard looking at your passport and rejecting your entry based on that alone feels like overreach.
This is at least such a common practice, that certain countries issue their entry visas in such a way, that they can be removed from the passport. I'd expect issues entering the US, if I had an Iranian stamp in my passport.
And in some places it's one of the few reasons to get a second passport issued.
Does r/conservative ban you for posting in some other sub?
/r/conservative doesn't even allow comments of users without a user flair.
They state: "This is designed so that a couple posts per day are almost guaranteed to have conversation which is not hijacked by leftists and other non-conservatives.Who Gets Flair?
Only mods can assign User Flair, and User Flair is only for conservatives. Once you have a solid history of comments in /r/Conservative, and have been commenting in the subreddit for at least two weeks,[..]
Please understand that this is for conservatives. We do our best to vet you based on your post history on reddit. You will need some post history to qualify - ideally within the subreddit itself. If you do not have a conservative leaning post history you will likely be asked to re-apply when you do."
"Strangely" there isn't a single post on their frontpage at the moment, which doesn't require a flair to comment.
You're not a conservative.
Why are you so concerned about participation criteria for the conservative subreddit, one of the only distinctly right wing places on the whole platform?
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