The problem I have is with bringing her views up as part of it. That's the bit where I'm seeing a particular mentality. So far the bans have not been skewed towards a particular political view unless hating fat people is now a political thing. I also never said you were of a particular view, I said I could see where people may guess it.Josh123914 said:Oh, sorry I didn't mean to attribute "dangerous" to you. It was a mod on reddit when someone asked them about why some subs were banned and others weren't:Secondhand Revenant said:LOL. Right after you show me where I said that XDJosh123914 said:Please explain in detail how me opposing the site's new shift in policy against a less tolerant administration is now "right wing".Secondhand Revenant said:So who started with calling it 'dangerous'?Josh123914 said:I think a lot of people are in limbo right now. Voat can't handle the strain of all the new users at the minute and so most users are hanging around waiting for either that or further admin action before making another move.Alterego-X said:I'm not saying what YOU should do, but if some people hear about fatpeoplehate getting banned, and their first thought is that they might be next, and migrate to voat, that's still better for reddit than them staying there, given what kind of people would think "wait, our politics are more similar to FatPeopleHate's than to Pao's!"Josh123914 said:Besides, the new landlady has expressed her distaste for the people in /r/TumblrinAction & /r/Kotakuinaction for having different political views than her. Should we as tenants stand by if / when they are evicted?
Worst case scenario, if sub bans become ideologically motivated, poli-reddit will become dominated politically leftist ideologues, while voat becomes a landfill for reactionaries and bigots. That would still affect an absurdly small fraction of reddit's overall audience, as most people are simply not there for the political circlejerks, and it would very likely save the site from a Digg-like ruination through right wing brigading.
Hang on? Are you implying the only people who would have issue with a Left wing authoritarian stance taken by admins would be reactionaries, bigots and members of the right wing?
Because I'm left wing (European Left at that), and take serious issue with the crackdown on supposed "dangerous" thoughts. The FPHaters are gonna hate anyway, so rather than contain it, Pao has opened the floodgates and now I don't think support for the group has ever been higher.
I wouldn't be surprised if people suspect you're right wing because there's a large hint of red scare mentality
As for the Chairman Pao poster above, that's a parody I saw last week. The iconography and everything is getting pretty popular on the site. Repeating it doesn't make me right wing, and neither does opposing the admin's double standards.
You are exuding red scare mentality all over. Y'know the bit about bringing up her politics and all. Ahhh she's a scary radical leftist and all. And the 'dangerous' ideas bit, trying to make motives up like that says it all. You're trying to pin a particular 'scary' set of political motives on her.
http://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/39bpam/removing_harassing_subreddits/
It's in there somewhere.
And I don't even mind what her political views are. The leader of the Westboro Baptist Church could be an admin as long as they did their jobs properly.
The problem I have is that some of her comments regarding the site contradict what previous CEOs have said (keep in mind Pao is still currently listed as "Interim CEO"), and gives off this idea that she doesn't know what she's doing;
http://www.reddit.com/r/rulefollower/comments/39fzyd/mfw_reddit_ceo_ellen_pao_doesnt_know_how_to_use/
If I was getting into the same level of concern if a far right republican started banning subreddit would you be criticizing me for being leftist?
And be honest, I want to know how far I should be going with this.
As for a far right Republican, my thoughts would depend on if it appeared their political views were relevant. The subs do not look like political targets.