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/r/Politics mods removing links to johnsonWeld.com but not HillaryClinton.com (self.GaryJohnson)

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This morning, a link to HillaryClinton.com made it to the top of /r/politics. I reported the link and waited several hours before messaging the mods to ask why it hadn't been removed. I got the following response:

"We allow submissions from the official sites of candidates."

So I assumed I was wrong about the rule and posted the following link from johnsonweld.com:

http://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/57xphv/how_is_it_that_the_united_states_the_land_of_the/

After 500+ upvotes and 100+ comments it was deleted. The posted reason? "Unacceptable Domain - Do not use candidate..."

I have once again messaged the mods for clarification and will update this post if I receive a response.

EDIT: The same mod who replied to me this morning replied again:

"This was a mislabel on our part. The reason for removal is the signature solicitation that is too "front and center" on the link you provided."

And he/she/it changed the label to "No Soliciting Users". Here's the old one

EDIT 2: What a joke. I decided to click on the the link from hillaryclinton.com. Here's a screengrab. You can't even read the "article" without closing their solicitation.

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[–]StarfishSpencerGoogleGaryJohnson 101ポイント102ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yep I noticed this. It's infuriating, and its blindingly obvious your original submission only gained the traction it did because it mentioned neither Johnson nor Weld in the title, and it took them a while to realize it was a pro Johnson/Weld article, after which it was immediately silenced. Pathetic.

[–]GenitalDiddlerFeel The Johnson 248ポイント249ポイント  (45子コメント)

Yeah, r/politics is run by die hard Democrats. They are going to do that sort of thing. Test their integrity by posting a non- petition part of the website if you want, but don't be surprised if they take it down Clinton campaign spent alot of money to discredit Gary, and the mods support her campaign.

[–]brotato48 103ポイント104ポイント  (4子コメント)

/r/politics has turned into a propaganda machine. It's disgusting.

[–]TheFaeranBlade 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

/r/politics has become /r/circlejerk

[–]freebytes 2ポイント3ポイント  (2子コメント)

And this is why everyone should unsubscribe and move to another sub instead. /r/truepolitics exists as well. Not sure about it, though.

[–]almosthere0327 83ポイント84ポイント  (17子コメント)

Why would die hard democrats support a sham democrat like hillary?

[–]TankRizzo 90ポイント91ポイント  (0子コメント)

Think you answered your own question.

[–]GregariousWolf 28ポイント29ポイント  (5子コメント)

They'd vote for a yellow dog if it ran on the Democratic ticket.

[–]the_arlen_midget 6ポイント7ポイント  (2子コメント)

Season 4 of Bojack?

[–]SharkBait69I Voted Johnson/Gray 2012! 9ポイント10ポイント  (1子コメント)

The term "yellow dog democrat" has been around for decades.

[–]itsrattlesnake 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

You mean blue dog? I've never heard of the yellow one.

[–]No_Good_Cowboy 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

I really wish they had run a yellow dog. I'm pretty sure I'd be ok with a yellow dog as POTUS.

[–]GregariousWolf 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I love labs. I've vote for a lab.

[–]issue9mm 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

Because they want to... die hard?

[–]BerniesARealAmerican 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

That's what I'm saying Hillary Clinton has never been a democrat just used their tools to further her fucking vile brand of politics.

[–]TheIronMoose 17ポイント18ポイント  (11子コメント)

Do you think the mods are ctr members?

[–]red1dragon588I Voted Johnson/Gray 2012! 22ポイント23ポイント  (1子コメント)

Most of the mods have been there for less than a year for "some reason". We can both guess what that reason is.

[–]GenitalDiddlerFeel The Johnson 2ポイント3ポイント  (7子コメント)

Idk. I'd like someone to see how long each mod has been a mod. Wouldn't be suprised if they let one in at some point.

[–]mxzf 10ポイント11ポイント  (5子コメント)

IIRC, over 50% of them are new within the last year.

[–]VolvoKoloradikal 0ポイント1ポイント  (4子コメント)

Devils advocate here.

Maybe the subscriber count ballooned so much in the past year that they had to add more "staff" for monitoring?

[–]Rossums 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

It used to be a default sub up until 2012 or 2013, it's always had a large community - pretty much every person that subscribed to Reddit before this point would have automatically been subscribed to /r/politics.

[–]mxzf 0ポイント1ポイント  (2子コメント)

Doesn't look like it, the subscriber count hasn't changed significantly in the last three years outside an odd drop mid-December last year (I think that might be a banwave or something like that though, since I'm seeing the same drop in the same place for every subreddit I check out).

[–]Juz16 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

Reddit purged the subscriber counts of a bunch of deleted accounts at that time

[–]mxzf 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

That'd do it. Once I saw it was site-wide I knew it had to be something the admins did, rather than just something that sub did.

[–]JohnQAnon 7ポイント8ポイント  (0子コメント)

All of them are within the past year. Other similar subreddits are not like that.

[–]BattleOfReflexPoint 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I thank think maybe a few might be but probably not. Why would they need it? Vote manipulation is easy and doesn't require being a mod - it just requires the mods be OK with it. I would bet most of them are just die hard Democrats and maybe one or two may be CTR doing what they can to pull some strings behind the scenes.

Despite what you may think most the mods have accounts over 4 years with the average account age coming in around 5ish years so they didn't get created by CTR employees but CTR may have bought some accounts, I just doubt that is the case for most of them. Many of them are new to modding this year, but the age of the accounts predates CTR so I would be surprised if CTR made the accounts 4+ years ago to get to be a mod now.

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/about/moderators

I think the mods are a club of very biased Democrats who will not allow any new mods that aren't also die hard democrats. On top of that CTR has a lot of accounts dedicated to vote manipulation, distraction and redirection. What happened with that sub could easily happen without CTR being mods and I would just use Occams Razor but that doesnt mean its the case for sure.

[–]DarthRusty 24ポイント25ポイント  (0子コメント)

Not even democrats, but Hillary shills. From moderators to posters to upvoters. It's absolutely the worst over there. What a terrible waste of what could have been a good sub.

[–]neovulcanI Voted Johnson/Gray 2012! 6ポイント7ポイント  (1子コメント)

I just don't go to /r/politics anymore. It's a primary reason to unsub the defaults, and another reason I'm actively looking for a community that's more honorably moderated, even other than Reddit

[–]killzon32 36ポイント37ポイント  (4子コメント)

You mean the mods are paid by CTR to push the Agenda.

[–]radbynature 10ポイント11ポイント  (3子コメント)

Liberalism is the new religion. People would do it for free

[–]RepensumEstCanicula 7ポイント8ポイント  (1子コメント)

slap We're LIBERALS. As in Classic Liberals. The classic socialists stole the "word" liberalism from us, and then started using it for their own ideas.

[–]ewbrower 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

People would do it for free.

That's the best response for all those people calling out everyone as a shill in /r/politics.

[–]Juz16 4ポイント5ポイント  (1子コメント)

CTR had at least $6 million, wouldn't be surprised if they bought /r/politics directly

[–]Afrobean 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

They did, they definitely have control over the mod team. Check them out, they're all new this year and I hear they recently added a few people who are already mods on other CTR-run subs.

[–]pxp920 311ポイント312ポイント  (58子コメント)

No point bothering with that sub, it's comprised of 99% fanatic shills.

[–]34679[S] 114ポイント115ポイント  (50子コメント)

It has 3 million+ subscribers. You can't stick your head in the sand and expect progress.

[–]PsychedelicVisions 164ポイント165ポイント  (25子コメント)

Correct The Record has completely taken over that sub there's nothing we can really do, they'll delete, downvote, cover up anything that isn't pro-Hillary. Just look at the front page of the sub it's 99% anti-trump

[–]dublinclontarf 30ポイント31ポイント  (22子コメント)

Can we get the sub removed from the front page given it's all propaganda?

[–]jerruh 56ポイント57ポイント  (5子コメント)

It's not a default sub anymore, unsubscribe and drive their numbers down

[–]3rd_Party_2016 8ポイント9ポイント  (0子コメント)

wow, very good!

[–]somanyroadsJohnson/Weld 2016 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

TIL...I was unsubscribed before but re-subscribed because I wanted to engage with as wide a politically-active audience as possible. No longer being default, however, likely limits the audience to more die-hard political junkies...unsubscribing again.

[–]FARTBOX_DESTROYER 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

I unsubscribed years ago. I can't even imagine what its like now

[–]billywob -3ポイント-2ポイント  (1子コメント)

This. And T_D if so inclined. It's like having normal reddit back.

[–]Lajamerr_Mittesdine 19ポイント20ポイント  (0子コメント)

Well, T_D was never a default so no one was forcefully subscribed. I think pretty much everyone subscribed to it did so knowingly.

[–]MrMoustachio 13ポイント14ポイント  (14子コメント)

As if admins aren't being paid by Hillary...

[–]PsychedelicVisions 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

They are

[–]rsnauth -5ポイント-4ポイント  (12子コメント)

Given how big /r/the_donald is I doubt it.

Some people may point out the algorithm implemented to prevent one sub from taking over the front page, but /r/politics /r/EnoughTrumpSpam and other subs also took the same hit.

So if they are getting paid by hillary, they aren't doing a good job

[–]flyingburritoman 9ポイント10ポイント  (11子コメント)

Idk they're constantly on the front page while Reddit deletes Donald posts from the front page a lot

[–]rsnauth -2ポイント-1ポイント  (10子コメント)

because of how the algorithm works........

for example if /r/politics only sends like 3 posts to the front page, then those 3 posts will stay for a long time. But if it were like, 10, then 7 of them would be "deleted" (pushed down)

Donald posts are constantly being sent to the top, so to insure that only a few of them occupies the front page, then obviously a bigger number also are pushed down

just check it right now, no single sub can "dominate" the front page anymore

i didn't know this a few days ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/57ae6m/megathreadwikileaks_podesta_emailspart_6/d8qj9gc

[–]spartan6222 3ポイント4ポイント  (9子コメント)

And who changed the algorithm this election cycle to make it that way?

[–]rsnauth -2ポイント-1ポイント  (8子コメント)

So I dug up a bit and I don't know if you remember but before that, posts usually took a few hours before reaching front page. Then some bombing or shooting happened and people kept complaining about the algorithm being too slow and useless to get breaking news from reddit.

So they changed it, but then of course subs like /r/circlejerk /r/the_donald and even /r/EnoughTrumpSpam (which you conveniently ignore) "took advantage" of it constantly sending "combo posts" (you know like faces and CUNT words) because all it mattered was a few people upvoting very quickly. So again required change

I bet you were also one of the people who complained about sandersforpresident dominating the front page

But as I said before, I'm not even discarding the possibility they are getting paid but they aren't doing a great job if they are.

[–]somanyroadsJohnson/Weld 2016 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

It's depressing to see the front page of that subreddit covered in propaganda and other assorted garbage every day...when you only hear one perspective, it's hard to have an honest viewpoint.

[–]PsychedelicVisions 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

It's disgusting and dangerous. When most people only read headlines this can drastically alter people's perceptions. This influencing social media shit needs to be illegal

[–]killzon32 17ポイント18ポイント  (12子コメント)

First of all 1+ million of those subscribers are inactive accounts.

[–]34679[S] 3ポイント4ポイント  (10子コメント)

Are you aware of a larger single forum for the discussion of US politics in any form, anywhere in the world? Because if so I want in.

[–]killzon32 11ポイント12ポイント  (8子コメント)

Large doesn't really give any value to it. Its a shitty subreddit. So shitty it was taken off the main subreddit selection and is a non default subreddit due to how crap it is it has a ton of subs because of a long time ago it was a default subreddit.

r/PoliticalDiscussion I think is an alternative.

[–]Senseisntsocommon 19ポイント20ポイント  (5子コメント)

It's not a viable alternative, same users in both. One is just far more blatant than the other. Lots of astroturfing.

[–]killzon32 5ポイント6ポイント  (4子コメント)

As long as the mods and admins aren't suppressing anyone then people being liberal and loving Hillary is fine.

[–]gleap 3ポイント4ポイント  (1子コメント)

Can I be liberal and just kind of okayish with her as a semi acquaintance?

[–]ExistentialEnso 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

If anything, that's preferable!

[–]Senseisntsocommon 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Mods and admins are fine near as I can tell. Just a lot of hive mind.

[–]wellyesofcourse 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yeah except the mods there are paid off and fucked too. I didn't think so until I asked about recently added moderators.

I asked during a meta thread why new moderators were added who had absolutely zero post history in the past 6+ months because it seemed like obvious bullshit and I got banned, specifically asking about /u/Anxa because if you check the post history prior to being made a mod, they had zero goddamn posts for a long time.

http://i.imgur.com/a20nG1p.png

Pretty much any mod after and including /u/Anxa can't be trusted. I don't know who added them, but they are most definitely tailoring the discussion and not being honest or impartial in their moderation.

[–]Bernie_Brewer 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

I had to stop going there almost altogether over the past few weeks. The Hillary echo chamber is too much at this point

[–]southsideson 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yeah, I expected this story to be somewhere in /r/politics, its not on the first 2 pages that I could find, but multiple rehashed ProHillary fluff filled up the front 2 pages.

[–]Pirlomaster 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

https://www.reddit.com/r/NeutralPolitics/ is great (until the shills come)

[–]benaugustine 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Is there a second of all coming?

[–]pxp920 21ポイント22ポイント  (5子コメント)

You've got a point but the overlords of the sub have their own agenda and as far as Reddit goes they're perfectly entitled to do so. You're better off jump starting a new sub like 'Political_discussion', ''Neutral_Politics' or likewise to promote political discussion.

[–]Bernie_Brewer 11ポイント12ポイント  (1子コメント)

Tangential but stay away from r/politicaldiscussion. Six months ago it was a pretty solid, medium sized sub with lots of room for various views. Try saying anything now that isn't "Hilary is the chosen one" or "Trump is literally Hitler" and you'll get downvoted to hell.

[–]VolvoKoloradikal 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Lots of warhawks on that sub I've noticed.

[–]thebrightsideoflife 13ポイント14ポイント  (2子コメント)

Or join us over in /r/americanpolitics/

[–]Entrarchy 5ポイント6ポイント  (1子コメント)

good idea. Unsubscribe from /r/politics too

[–]VolvoKoloradikal -2ポイント-1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I got banned from there for saying Bernie should commit suicide like a year ago lol

Meanwhile, every other poster says Trump should be killed. No bans.

[–]Varian 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

You'd have greater progress educating North Koreans on democracy.

That sub has been a circlejerk for ~6 years.

[–]tinge_of_ginge 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Exactly, everyone I've talked to says just unsubscribe but it's not enough. I want another option, idk why you have to just ignore the issue or go to Voat. Maybe that's why I'm considering third party in the first place, while others would rather go the lesser of two evil route.

[–]cavelioness 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yeah, but after the DNC was over the Bernie supporters lost steam and abandoned, it's lost to CTR now. There aren't enough people who feel passionately to combat those who are getting paid.

[–]bryz_86 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Theres no organic enthusiasm... its been dead since the dem convention... if you want an idea of what people are really posting go to r/all and click on rising

[–]rsaahhuul0 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

True, but we should promote /r/The_Redacted as a viable alternative.

[–]Caseycrowe 8ポイント9ポイント  (1子コメント)

Which is ironic given how fanatically they hated hillary before Bernie buckled like a belt and endorsed her.

[–]nenyim 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

He said he would endorsed her if she got the investiture before his campaign even started and kept saying it all the way through his campaign.

[–]liberty2016 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

I imagine it's gotten worse in the past few months, and that there is substantial bias in terms of which articles make it to the top of the subreddit, but I've had reasonable discussion about Johnson on /r/politics with the actual commentors throughout the election, haven't had too much difficulty with trolls, and have never been banned for bringing up pro-Johnson or pro-Libertarian viewpoints.

[–]bwohlgemuth 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

I unsubscribed last night. I don't even bother going in there anymore..

[–]jelgre165 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

You can still go on it you just can't visit only that sub for politics.

[–]flooddaga7 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Which is nuts since they were all lambasting her a few months ago in favor of their favorite socialist.

[–]Rindan 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

It isn't covered in "shills". I'm sure they exist, and I'm sure they make up 0.001% of the people defending Hillary. Like it or not, Reddit on the whole prefers Hillary over Trump, and it isn't because they are paid. They do it because an authoritarian nationalist like Trump are generally hated by the intellectual elite, and Reddit with its high rate of tech workers is that.

People defending Hillary and especially those trashing on Trump are not getting paid. They just really don't like scapegoating, authoritarian, nationalist, xenophobic, narcissists. Stop trying to bring this sub down to the dumpster level of political discourse that is /r/The_Donald. Not everyone who disagrees with you is a shill. The polls are not all rigged. Trump isn't a fucking god king who will make everything the best and great with his bold plan to, uh, do it better, but with more pants pissing terror of <fill_in_current_scapegoats_here>.

[–]Busybyeski 48ポイント49ポイント  (7子コメント)

Now you understand why "third parties aren't around" in the off-season. The entire fucking system forces them out.

[–]Bulldog65 70ポイント71ポイント  (12子コメント)

r/politics is an illegal undisclosed paid advertisement for Hillary Clinton in collusion with Reddit Admins.

"it doesn't matter what the friggin legal and ethics people say, we need to win the motherf*%#er".

[–]brotato48 8ポイント9ポイント  (0子コメント)

Try posting that video- you'll be redirected to a post, saying it's been posted, with maybe one upvote.

[–]zeeeeera 0ポイント1ポイント  (10子コメント)

What's illegal about it?

[–]Juz16 8ポイント9ポイント  (9子コメント)

You need to disclose that you're being funded by a political campaign or super PAC if you are

[–]zeeeeera 0ポイント1ポイント  (8子コメント)

So, considering no disclosure has taken place, why do you think they are being funded by them? People can be dicks with agendas without being paid.

[–]Juz16 -1ポイント0ポイント  (7子コメント)

Because it's relatively obvious that they're being paid. Most of the mods on that sub have been there less than a week. Once the primaries ended, they immediately switched gears to banning anything anti-Hillary. The censorship around the democratic convention was insane. Most redditors dislike Clinton and still support sanders, but you can't tell that because CTR deletes and downvotes posts contrary to the narrative

When something big happens, like Clinton fainting and getting thrown into a van, then CTR leaves briefly. They're in their focus groups trying to figure out how to spin the news. Meanwhile, /r/politics briefly returned to its normal self. Criticizing Clinton, Trump, the electoral process, and generally being cynical of everything. Then CTR came back and deleted the posts about it.

Reddit is the 9th most visited website in the United States. /r/politics is the largest political subreddit on this site. Reddit has huge viewership in a very specific demographic that Hillary desperately needs to show up at the polls for her, millennial men. It really isn't that crazy to think that her campaign wouldn't spend a lot of money on securing an open channel to that group.

[–]JeffMarrion 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

Because it's relatively obvious that they're being paid. Most of the mods on that sub have been there less than a week. Once the primaries ended, they immediately switched gears to banning anything anti-Hillary. The censorship around the democratic convention was insane. Most redditors dislike Clinton and still support sanders, but you can't tell that because CTR deletes and downvotes posts contrary to the narrative

Honestly it just sounds like SOP if the person who runs the sub supports Clinton. Obviously they don't want their main account(s) tied, just throwaways.

It really isn't that crazy to think that her campaign wouldn't spend a lot of money on securing an open channel to that group.

Why does the person running the sub have to be paid? The kind of person that would run r/politics is probably very involved in the election anyhow.

[–]Juz16 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'm pretty sure BritishEnglishPolice was just a very early redditor who subreddit squatted a bunch of simple subreddit ideas that grew to prominence

[–]zeeeeera 0ポイント1ポイント  (4子コメント)

Most of the mods on that sub have been there less than a week.

Wasn't that because the sub was taken over briefly and all the mods removed? Looking at an archive of the sub before that, the mods seem to be the same.

As for the normalising of /r/politics when something big Clinton happens. It looks more like that's something big enough that they can't suppress, rather than CTR just leaving. Why would they leave? It isn't crazy to think that her campaign spends money on PR, but it does seem to be jumping the gun a bit to say that reddit mods are being paid.

[–]Juz16 1ポイント2ポイント  (3子コメント)

Then why are the subreddit mods directly defending the shills by banning people who call them out?

[–]zeeeeera 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Probably the same reason as mods ban people on other subreddits when they do nothing wrong. For shits and giggles. People can be dicks.

[–]Rindan 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

Because people accuses each other off being shills all the fucking time. I have been accused of being both a Trump and Hillary shill, despite the obvious billion years worth of posting history in non-political subs. Hell, this stupid thread accuses the mods to be shills because they obviously are pro-Hillary. Just because someone disagrees with you, doesn't make them a shill.

[–]Juz16 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

But there are a lot of shills. /r/politics is full of 3-6 month old accounts that are all firstname_lastname and do nothing but post pro-Hillary stuff. And Correct The Record has admitted to AstroTurfing on Reddit.

The problem is that when one side is doing this stuff, it makes anyone who sides with them look terrible.

[–]hblask 17ポイント18ポイント  (1子コメント)

In another sub, I addressed the slanted moderation. They basically said "yeah, it's a liberal sub. If you don't like it, leave".

[–]Afrobean 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

That's not even it. They're fully in the tank for Clinton and ban people just for posting things which are damaging to Clinton. I was permanently banned from r/politics during the primaries for talking constantly about the massive election fraud Hillary relied on to "win" the nomination. Not only is it flooded with sockpuppet CTR trolls who use coordinated vote manipulation to control what topics can even get to the front page, but mods also delete content that isn't favorable to Clinton and ban people for posting such things. It's not "a liberal sub", it's a sub that's completely controlled by a SuperPAC of paid trolls for Clinton.

[–]bfhurricane 34ポイント35ポイント  (4子コメント)

Be careful! The reddit mods forced r/the_donald to cease referring to r/politics in posts and text. Don't want to upset them now.

[–]Tipsycowsy 9ポイント10ポイント  (0子コメント)

Which is complete bs.

[–]brotato48 2ポイント3ポイント  (2子コメント)

Do they remove the posts? I posted /r/politics in /r/The_Donald and haven't seen anything happen..

[–]bfhurricane 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

They put in a flagging algorithm two or three days back, not sure what it does to the post though.

[–]ePants 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yeah, any comment that refers to /r/politics in /r/The_Donald gets handled with an auto-mod now.

[–]Anarchorenegade 32ポイント33ポイント  (1子コメント)

r/politics is a fucking joke.

[–]hazeyindahead 26ポイント27ポイント  (0子コメント)

This is why I unsubbed and filtered out /r/politics.

[–]deflateddoritodinks 12ポイント13ポイント  (0子コメント)

I tried to post something, and they said it was already posted and the example was nothing to do with what I was posting. What a bunch of fucktards.

[–]ReginaldLADOOJohnson/Weld 2016 13ポイント14ポイント  (3子コメント)

LMAO I came in here expecting some misleading post. Nope. That's pretty fucking ridiculous. I posted a link to Trumps website earlier just to see if it would go through and it did so I figured they do allow linking to candidates websites and there was no problem here. Now I see this. What a joke. When I clicked the Hillary website earlier I too got that screen gobbling pop up. That's amazing they literally just bullshitted two separate reasons for removing it out of thin air.

Edit: /u/34679

Now it says "unacceptable title" as the reason for removal. So now they've come up with 3 separate reasons. Try submitting it with the bold text as the title: "End the War on Drugs. Reduce Recidivism. Support Law Enforcement." and see what happens ths time.

[–]ePants 0ポイント1ポイント  (2子コメント)

I posted a link to Trumps website earlier just to see if it would go through and it did

I strongly doubt that.

/r/politics is pro-Hillary and anti-everybody else.

One of their mods is even also a mod for /r/EnoughTrumpSpam.

[–]ReginaldLADOOJohnson/Weld 2016 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

Why the fuck would I make this up?

It's right here: https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/57w241/trump_campaign_announces_polish_american_advisory/

It wasn't removed, just heavily down voted.

[–]ePants -1ポイント0ポイント  (0子コメント)

My comment a reasonable response, with evidence supporting my opinion.

Why respond with that bad attitude and downvote me?

You should have included that link in your original comment.

Honestly, I've been treated better in the Hillary sub.

[–]norcalguy747 9ポイント10ポイント  (0子コメント)

/r/politics isn't the target market. People are won over in one on one conversations, friends on social media and in person when approached in a non-threatening way. Steer clear of that sub and focus where it counts.

[–]GregariousWolf 9ポイント10ポイント  (2子コメント)

Some candidates are more equal than others.

They aren't even really trying to hide it any more. r/politics is a high-visibility political chatroom, and the Clinton campaign super-PACs are going to hammer it with threads and votes until the election is over.

The only question is whether the reddit admins are unable or unwilling to stop it.

[–]Lyxh 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

You have to admit, it's probably working for her. She probably has a team of social media marketing specialists who crunched the numbers and figured out that you can win an additional X% of the popular vote by astroturfing online. She wouldn't be doing it if it wasn't effective.

[–]GregariousWolf 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

She wouldn't be doing it if it wasn't effective.

Oh yeah. If nothing else it divides the opposition. It keeps anti-Clinton messages off of the highest-visibility forum, and spread them around to different subs.

[–]BigBiggest 30ポイント31ポイント  (4子コメント)

I was just banned from that sub. I responded to the mods "You guys are a joke. A rotten stain on democracy. When your master is charged with high treason, we'll be looking for you next."

[–]funkmon 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

Lol

[–]Juz16 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

I was banned from there today too!

[–]Tipsycowsy 9ポイント10ポイント  (0子コメント)

I feel bad for the people who aren't aware that r/politics is just run by mods who want to brainwash anything anti democrat out of peoples heads.

[–]cliche_alias 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

/r/politics is a fucking shit show. I'm positive it is already bought by the Clinton campaign just like everything else out there.

Suppression, suppression, suppression... that's the name of her game.

Fuck her and her cronies.

[–]TryingToFindZen 5ポイント6ポイント  (1子コメント)

Absolutely absurd.

Can we not report this to head Reddit mods? Nice work documenting the evidence.

[–]rspeed 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

They can run their sub however they want.

[–]batchyoce 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

/r/politics is the official Hillary Clinton subreddit.

[–]heytheretim 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

The mods on r/politics are kinda like the biggest pussies ever imaginable

[–]RMaximus 11ポイント12ポイント  (11子コメント)

At this point anyone supporting Gary Johnson that votes for Hillary is a moron.

[–]poppymelt 6ポイント7ポイント  (5子コメント)

Anyone that votes for Hillary is ignorant on what is going on in this country. Unfortunately most of them are willfully being ignorant.

[–]red1dragon588I Voted Johnson/Gray 2012! 3ポイント4ポイント  (3子コメント)

I don't think they're ignorant. They know how terrible she is. They just convince themselves it isn't true or isn't relevant to overcome their cognitive dissonance in supporting her.

[–]poppymelt 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

They just convince themselves it isn't true or isn't relevant to overcome their cognitive dissonance in supporting her

Doesn't this count as being willfully ignorant?

[–]Lyxh 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

As someone who identifies with libertarian politics and somewhat likes Gary Johnson, I held my nose and voted for Hillary just because I don't perceive her as having a particularly ambitious agenda and I felt she would be capable of keeping the wheels on the bus for another four years. I also voted for a few conservatives down ballot because I want Congress to continue to push back on the president. It wasn't a very ideological choice, more of a practical one.

I'm not sure yet if I regret that decision. We'll see how it works out.

[–]mackenzieb123 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I understand your position and I think it's one a lot of people are going to make this election. I don't see a lot of open support for Hillary outside of anonymous social media like Reddit and news sites. More of my FB friends like Johnson than Hillary. I am a former democrat (converted to L about 8 years ago) and I have A LOT of friends that are democrats, so it's not selection bias on my part. It's an election cycle where people are picking a shit sandwich. Gary didn't make it to the debate, and he's not going to win, so pick a shit sandwich. I'm still voting Gary, but I totally get it.

[–]RMaximus 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Couldn't agree more. Most redditors are a perfect example of that. They pretend to have never heard wikileaks all of a sudden.

[–]Indiancheese 3ポイント4ポイント  (3子コメント)

At this point, Anyone who votes for Hillary is a blind moron. I don't understand how people don't see through her shady and underhanded politicking

[–]RMaximus 1ポイント2ポイント  (2子コメント)

I agree and that doesn't mean you need to like or vote for Trump.

[–]kamakazi152 7ポイント8ポイント  (1子コメント)

I agree completely. I hate them both equally. They are both abhorrent candidates.

[–]RMaximus 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

That may be true but one is far more abhorrent than the other. You are entitled to your opinion, however.

[–]olov244 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I say the same thing about bernie supporters, she did everything she could to squash his voice, and he still almost won. win fair, ok, I'll give it to you, but the way she did it, bridge burnt

[–]breddy 6ポイント7ポイント  (0子コメント)

Unsubscribing from /r/politics is one of the biggest reddit upgrades you can make

[–]JamesRednob21 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

I posted in r/politics saying that it was a Hillary Clinton circle jerk. Got downvoted... a lot...

[–]DEATH-BY-CIRCLEJERK 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

If there's not a rule for that then why the fuck do they have the "Unacceptable Domain - Do not use candidate..." flair set up.

It's because they're full of shit.

[–]TotesMessenger 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

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[–]SigmaNOC 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

They have at the same time politically motivated moderators and rules which make politically motivated moderation easy.

Libertarians have no chance.

Republicans have even less.

[–]feelthejohnson69I Voted Johnson/Gray 2012! 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Anyone surprised?

[–]SilverTryHard 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

I keep seeing posts about the politics thread being hard pro Hillary which is a thread that starts on all new accounts. Has anyone made a thread over the corrupt politics thread?

[–]Wilky323 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

shocker. /r/politics might as well just be an extra arm of the DNC.

[–]thebigstrongman2 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

I was just over in r/politics because, knowing their reputation, I was curious about their reactions to the wikileaks archive. Lo and behold basically every post about anything negative in the emails was at zero.

r/politics.. you'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy

[–]Mr_Salty_Peanuts 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

r/politics is bought and owned by the Hillary campaign.

It's sad and disturbing that Reddit allows this!

[–]itsrattlesnake 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

If you like mocking the /r/politics kids, /r/shitpoliticssays is for you.

[–]thehonbtw 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Is there any way one can get this into something like subreddit drama? Because this is plainly unacceptable and it'd be nice to showcase this hypocrisy on a larger stage.

[–]ScarpaDiem 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

No shit Sherlock. The sub is nothing but r/hillaryclinton2.

[–]jsm11482 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Please continue in this effort to find the truth and expose them.

[–]dasvootz 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Is that sub run by CNN too?

[–]neopunisher 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

r/politics is liberal... What would you expect?

[–]Recamen 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I always thought of it as Liberal Circlejerk. I mean, r/circlejerk itself has said in the past that the politics sub does it better than they do. I'm not around there anymore for some reason, but they were right.

[–]DrPhibes412 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Did you post this in that sub?

[–]pm_me_a_funny_jokeLibertarian Bernie Bro 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Nothing good had come out of /r/politics in a while unless you agree with their point of view. They're not interested in discussion or debate and will make up whatever reasons they want to push their preferences. At least they're not a default sub anymore.

[–]2112xanadu 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

/r/politics is beyond a joke.

[–]VolvoKoloradikal 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Send in the coordinates to JSOC, we need a few JDAMs immediately.

[–]iamatfuckingwork 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

That's just the record being corrected, don't worry about it.

[–]homfri 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Record successfully corrected

[–]Zeeth 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

r/politics should be called r/Hillary

Every post on there is Hillary Clinton. I used to think Fox was the most corrupt news station in the USA...god was I wrong.

[–]TOWLie127 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

It's pretty crazy that Fox has been the most unbiased MSM this election cycle.

[–]somanyroadsJohnson/Weld 2016 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Its a failed subreddit...only anti-Trump discussions are encouraged, the rest tends to be marginalized. Its a great symbol of the problem our politics: we have to have the ability to converse freely in a free society. /r/politics simply doesn't allow for that: accept the Democrat agenda (and the establishment candidates they front) or GTFO, it seems.

[–]xxNICKxx401xx 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Centipede checking in here, we called out r/politics so much over at r/the_donald that the admins made us stop. We already know that sub is cucked beyond all recognition.

[–]TutsMcgree 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'm impressed. They straight up ignore any question/clarification I ask for. I'll politely give them information showing a post actually obeys their strict and arbitrary rules only to get no response.

[–]olov244 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

she controls corporate media, why are you surprised that she can get some overzealous mods on her side too

[–]plentyoffishes 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

/r/politics seems to be all-in for Hillary. If I post anything even slightly negative about her, EVEN IF it contains negative info on Trump, the downvote brigade comes out strong. Sad place.

[–]tme001 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Campaign websites are definitely allowed and we've clarified that with some of our newer mods. However, submissions do still have to use the exact title.

[–]stormelemental13 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

They just changed the reason for removing it....https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/57xphv/how_is_it_that_the_united_states_the_land_of_the/d8x9ebj

Anyone got an archive shot of it?

[–]Envii02 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

r/politics has been completely sold out for months. Nothing really surprising here, this is day to day for them.

[–]Pannra -2ポイント-1ポイント  (0子コメント)

r/politics will be one of the main reasons for the downfall of reddit. The admins have fucked themselves on this one.

[–]PrivateShitbag -2ポイント-1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Ever since the EnoughTrumpSpam mods took over Politics it's fucked up.

[–]cannabiscrusader710 -5ポイント-4ポイント  (0子コメント)

Am i in /r/the_Donald

Wah wah wah the election is rigged....

No shit it has been before most of you were ever even thoughts in your parents loins