Comment by array_key_first
5 days ago
Commenting conservative things is not against community guidelines. However, most conservative comments are against community guidelines.
For example, supporting Trump is fine. Repeating what Trump says might be against community guidelines. Not because being a trump supporter is against the rules, but because trump sometimes says blatantly racist things, and that IS against the rules.
It's simple to be both conservative and not rude, nasty, racist, sexist, etc. Many influential conservative voices struggle with this. So they get banned, and, by value of following their lead, their followers.
Another example, on a bigger scale. Trump can be upset about losing an election. That's allowed. But Trump cannot advocate people go cause violence because of it. That's not allowed, and we had days in court because of that.
Exactly. The sibling replier[1] summed it up. Nobody is getting their accounts nuked for mere "conservative views." They're getting their accounts nuked for heinous views that are against Reddit's rules, whether related to politics or not.
1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45530566
> Repeating what Trump says might be against community guidelines.
For the irony-cherry on top, repeating what he says is also often against r/conservative guidelines - they'll happily ban you for it, because a lot of the things Trump says are also really fucking stupid and contradictory, and his supporters don't like to be reminded that the emperor's naked.
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