this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
432 points (90.9% liked)

Asklemmy

44145 readers
1347 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy ๐Ÿ”

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

A few examples include s*x questions on askreddit, "this" comments, nolife powermods, jokes being more frequent than actual answers

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] c0mplexx@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

im sure banning those communities will end racism

[โ€“] theceoofanarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Protecting minorities so our communities can be a diverse place makes them so much better though. No one claims it will end racism that is just a ridiculous straw man.

[โ€“] c0mplexx@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

they almost always were in their own little corner
there's no protecting minorities if they choose to go to racist places
on the typical subreddits mods or even the admins themselves were fast to remove comments or posts so they were "protected"

[โ€“] theceoofanarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean not really that's not how it was at all. Default subreddits were filled with racism. Comments and posts were not removed unless the comment was straight up saying slurs. Comments filled with less overt racism were heavily upvoted.

[โ€“] c0mplexx@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would be a lot easier for me to do if i hadn't deleted my reddit account. It is all over basically ever post muslims are demonized, the american military is not the evil it obviously is, mra's and anti-feminists infest the site, Moral police ranting against black lives matter, both siding between people wanting to live and the people who want to kill them, transphobia is the default and so many more hateful opinions were the default on reddit.

[โ€“] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

If you were lucky enough to never encounter them, then well, congratulations. That certainly wasn't my experience, or, I'd wager, a common experience.

[โ€“] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sure installing fire hydrants in cities will end structure fires.

[โ€“] c0mplexx@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

well if you want to compare people to fires be my guest