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668 points wildmusings | 3 comments | 24 Nov 16 00:50 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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seanalltogether ◴[24 Nov 16 01:24 UTC] No.13027203[source]▶
The tension that The_Donald and many alt-right subreddits place on reddit in general seems to be reaching a boiling point. I get the feeling the admins are just waiting for a credible reason to present itself that lets them cleanly wipe out all of them.
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gottam ◴[24 Nov 16 01:37 UTC] No.13027290[source]▶
What is the tension about exactly? That they don't align with their own personal political views?
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bcherny ◴[24 Nov 16 01:44 UTC] No.13027327[source]▶
I think it's more about the way they express their opinions, rather than the content of those opinions.

Posting in ALL CAPS, posting fake news or insults to other members of the community, posting to incite anger, etc. does not make for good discussion, and hurts the sense of community. That, and bringing that to other subreddits via brigading, etc.

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a_bonobo ◴[24 Nov 16 01:54 UTC] No.13027390[source]▶
Plus heaps of users browse /r/all and the the_donald community is so large, and the upvotes come so quickly (some insist it's upvoting bots since it's so fast) that the top of /r/all is often the_donald. Right now the nr. 1 post and another one on all are from the_donald.
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1. artursapek ◴[24 Nov 16 03:18 UTC] No.13027741[source]▶
I remember spez or another admin actually saying that /r/all gets relatively little traffic. Something like less than 10% of users ever open it.
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2. Melk ◴[24 Nov 16 04:14 UTC] No.13028015[source]▶
As I recall it was more like 2% or 3%.
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3. ddingus ◴[24 Nov 16 22:21 UTC] No.13033141[source]▶
But that concentration is huge!

I moderate a small sub. Traffic once something hits r/All is insane.

Recently, here nowe traffic is in the low hundreds on average. The last r/All post resulted in 33,000 sustained for the better part of a day.

The sub basically doubled subscribers and has seen a permanent uptick in here now numbers.