- Joined
- Apr 19, 2016
There's a theory that Ghislaine Maxwell ran one of the most popular accounts on the site, u/maxwellhill. Whoever ran that account was a supermoderator involved with nearly all the biggest subs. It's been three months since her arrest and no new posts have come from that account since then, even though it used to post almost daily.Honestly, reddit is a huge threat to our society. It's a propaganda machine. The people that run reddit are absolutely ABHORRENT people and they know full well what they are doing. Reddit is deliberately shaping public opinion, and they did this in '16 by modifying algorithms and what gets displayed to the front page.
They realized they fucked up when Trump memes were hitting the front page. Earlier that year, the same thing was happening with Bernie, which was not a problem.
The reddit administrators outright lie about many things, about why they ban communities. I won't say what communities I was involved in but the story was always the same. They'd complain to the moderators, give them warnings, but the admins would not respond with requests for assistance. The admins would not respond to questions, clarifications on rules, anything. They would deliberately remain silent--it got to the point where you could foresee they were planning on banning a community by how they would ignore the moderators of that community. SJWs would go into communities on fake accounts, make threats, and the admins would ban the communities because the moderators couldn't keep it under control. Reddit refused to update their mod tools, The admins knew all this was happening and very likely this was organized on Slack, where the admins would communicate with their favorite community leaders.
When they removed upvote/downvote totals they did it under the guise of stopping spam bots or whatever, but it was such an incredibly horseshit excuse. Ready to have your mind blown? What if I told you it's very likely that reddit did that so they could make their algorithm harder to reverse engineer, and so not all upvotes or downvotes are weighed the same?
Reddit is one of the biggest propaganda threats on the internet and while people make jokes about it and memes, it doesn't receive a fraction of the amount of scrutiny it deserves for manipulating discussions and misleading the public over current events.
And that's ALL by design.
Also, tencent owns a stake in reddit. I'm sure glad a Chinese company is helping shape America's dialogue!
Yeah, Reddit seems super corrupt.