Post by Worst CasePost by Di am curious about "reddit must be destroyed"... any particular
reason? reddit content is moderated by moderators just like any
1. Reddit's karma scheme promotes mee-too content.
You get karma by posting innocuous drivel that everyone can (and does)
up-vote.
You need karma to have your meaningful posts (the content that you
painstakingly author and care deeply about) seen, the content that
anyone can (and does) down-vote.
Thus, most of the content that can be seen is innocuous drivel. This
is by design. It looks like traffic, provides an ad-delivery
framework, and is unlikely to offend politicians, the politically
connected and the politically inclined.
This is a big change from early days. Reddit is no longer a useful
forum to read from or post to about politically controversial topics.
2. Reddit won't tell you why (or if) your posts are being banned.
This is shadow-banning. You can post to your heart's content. No one
will see anything you post. Neat, huh?
If you have karma, you are endowed with a certain amount of grace
(leverage) you can use to argue against being banned by moderators of
various subreddits - human and robot. Without appreciable karma, you
are a non person. You can beg, but nobody - human or robot - will
respond to you. Suggestions about what to do about this abound, of
course, but they are all generally irrelevant because policies vary
among subreddits.
Likewise, in the absence of karma, you cannot speak with a Reddit
administrator (paid employee or robot). I won't say it's impossible
to appeal a shadow-ban. I've done it successfully - once, but
shadow-bans are likely to be reinstated without any transparency
whatever by human administrators and robots. Suggestions about what
to do about this abound, too, but they are all out of date because
policy is evanescent and obscure.
If you really want to know, I believe in my case I was banned for
self-promotion from not just one but a couple of accounts in perhaps a
Moreover I'm convinced that Reddit must be destroyed.
Worst Case
yet another case in point that unmoderated newsgroups are the only
public forum for plain text free speech to reach a global audience;
social media is moderated no matter what they call it, but "karma"?
politics and religion are veritable black holes of malefaction, so
if there really is karma in the sense of gehennam (stagnum ingitus,
"lake of fire" etc.) then nothing has changed; angels returning to
the earth are born tethered in chains prisoners of gravity in time
same as it ever was (east of eden) . . . would discussions such as
this be tolerated in their vast roman empire of "bile entendement"?
social media is censorship-central, "vanitas vanitatum"; they make
aliens of the dead ... and since we're discussing reddit and karma,
spelled with two t's, redditt's main street was called highway 666:
(using Tor Browser 13.5.2)
http://www.ruralroutes.com/6528.html
Post by Worst CasePop. 157. In Redditt T., Kenora Dist. on the CNR and Hwy 658, 30 km.
NE of Kenora.
The place was named in 1912 after the T., which had been named five
years earlier for Rev. John J. Redditt, president of the Toronto
Methodist Conference.
In 1913 the railroad changed the name of its station to Macfarlane,
but restored the name Redditt in 1925.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redditt
Post by Worst CaseUntil 1985, the main street of Redditt was called Highway 666. In 1985,
an Evangelical Christian church located on the road nearer to Kenora
asked for the highway to be renumbered, as there was a highway sign
directly outside the church and they 'got a lot of comments' from it
being the number of the mark of the beast.
Subsequently, the main street of Redditt and the road into town were
renumbered to Highway 658.[6] Members of the church had argued to the
Ministry of Transportation of Ontario that it was inappropriate for
their church to be located on the "Highway to Hell."
https://www.reddit.com/r/ontario/comments/gu1ru5/in_far_west_ontario/
Post by Worst CaseI took a train from there one time. It was at night, there was one
streetlight. The cab driver who drove me there said he'd wait with
me until the train came. ( About 1hr) I was so thankful.... Bears
are very common.
Black bears can be easily chased away with a shovel , of course if
take the opposite aproch of running they may decide you are food...
Did you get to meet the CEO of Reddit?
http://www.thekingshighway.ca/Highway666.htm
Post by Worst CaseSecondary Highway 666 was a minor collector highway in the District of
Kenora, which existed during the 1970s and early 1980s. The highway once
connected the small community of Redditt to Highway 17 in Kenora. The
highway itself was first established in 1956, when the Redditt Road was
designated as Highway 128. In November 1973, the Ministry of
Transportation and Communications (MTC) decided to re-designate three
minor King's Highways in Northwestern Ontario as Secondary Highways by
the end of 1974. The three affected highways were Highway 116 near Sioux
Lookout, Highway 119 near Dryden and Highway 128 near Kenora. The common
practice at the time was to number Secondary Highways in consecutive
order, and the MTC simply picked the next three route numbers that were
available for assignment. Those three numbers were Highway 664 (assigned
to former King's Highway 116), Highway 665 (assigned to former King's
Highway 119) and Highway 666 (assigned to former King's Highway 128).
Highway 128 was formally re-designated as a Secondary Highway by an
Order-in-Council, effective August 7, 1974. Route markers along King's
Highway 128 were subsequently changed over to Secondary Highway 666
route markers. At the time, little thought had been given to the
significance of the highway's new route number. However, the notoriety
of this route number quickly began to be noticed. Facing mounting public
pressure, compounded by the predictable problem of route marker thefts,
the Ministry of Transportation decided to change the highway's route
number to Highway 658 in 1985. Highway 666 was mostly paved when it was
created in 1974, except for a gravel-surfaced section from Highway 598
to Highway 659. This portion of Highway 666 was paved in two sections
during 1977 and 1979. At the time of the highway's renumbering in 1985,
Highway 666 was 29 km in length.
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