r/Politics doesn't even try to pretend, ever. 🏆 2

123    25 Jan 2021 10:40 by u/[deleted]

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You have the most votes, but RES is telling me that your comment is being forcefully held to not be at the top of the page.
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I doubt it's going to get better, reddit admins seem to want the most popular subs to be echo chambers for their preferred narrative.
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Yeah - we just need to keep calling it out IMO. People will find the truth, we just have to present it to them. Unfortunately, the second a sub like this one gets popular enough, they will shut it down too. Parler has shown that you don't get to "make your own" either - they will chase you away, and they're not done yet.
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Yeah I've noticed that there seems to be a concentrated effort to mischaracterize all of these subs designed to expose censorship and terrible moderation as far right / white supremacist subs. It's pathetic how desperate some people are to control the narrative.
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The fact that shadow-deleting comments is the go-to by default also sucks really hard. Most casual users on the site probably aren't even aware that nobody hears their dissent. I can always tell when my comments are deleted on r/Politics because my downvotes will freeze 😑
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Mod response: >Your comment was removed because it is uncivil. If you see other rule-breaking comments, please use the report button to alert us. My reply: >>Your comment was removed because it is uncivil. If you see other rule-breaking comments, please use the report button to alert us. >How is saying "spreading vitriol is bad" "uncivil"? >"Fuck you fascist" is literally a quote by Seth Rogan. >Link to the tweet I was referencing: >https://twitter.com/sethrogen/status/1352120180332118016 >I even censored the word "fuck" and tweaked the word "fascist" to make sure that I wasn't just getting caught up in an auto-filter. >Are you really going to tell me that my comment is uncivil with a straight face? >It took me 45 minutes to post that comment since the first two were not as kind. >Each time I edited it to be kinder than before and waited 15 minutes in between my comment throttle threshold. >This is an absolute joke and a travesty - you and the people who moderate the sub should be ashamed at what you have become. No reply so far but I'll edit if that changes.
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But they literally deleted an anti ted cruz post right below yours
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Fuck Ted Cruz!