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While I wouldn't sign the petition and I don't care about her lawsuit or the recent subreddits that were banned, I'm turned off from reddit by their reaction to the fallout, particularly their fudging of the front page and /r/all and blocking comments mentioning an imgur alternative. I'm back to reading funnies from fark.com and now looking at voat.co. It's been a long time coming, longer than Pao has been CEO, and I'm not sure how many people realize that

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Yeah I'd love to see the evidence there is any 'fudging' of the frontpage or blocking comments. I seriously doubt there is.

I believe he's referring to the admins banning all the new subreddits that were created after the announcement to spam /r/all, for ban evasion.

Last week /r/all/rising was mostly swastkas and dick pics with most of them going to a site called slimgur which they then supposedly shadow blocked.

Sources? That all sounds interesting.

There are no sources, it's the same garbage people keep repeating with zero evidence.

The fudging of /r/all is from what I saw, the troll posts disappeared from the front page after about 4 hours but they were all there if you checked /r/all/top. After a few hours, they were all contained in /r/all/rising, every day they're still there. I actually didn't even know subreddits had been banned until I missed a touch on my phone and instead of hitting the reddit front page I hit /r/all on my phone, these are next to each other on the reddit is fun app on android.

The imgur alternative I mentioned is apparently slimgur.com. Here's a post with the story, this is where I read it from: http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/39nang/reddi.... As of now, it has over 4k points, a mod presumably sharing the details (comments with slimgur links have to be approved by moderators). It was at the top of /r/all/rising when I saw it a few days ago

Interesting. I noticed that the "sympathy" posts disappeared from my front page (mostly from /r/pics) within a few hours.

Did they rig things? That would make sense.

Frankly it's fine with me. I was worried I'd have to stay off Reddit for a few days until the juvenile hate-mongering died down. I've had to do it before.

I'm with the GP. Every time one of these things happen I get more and more uneasy about Reddit. This, the jailbait thing, Boston Bomber witch hunt. Every time 'the community' speaks up I end up disgusted and a little sick.

Most of the subs I'm in are too small for this garbage, so it often passes me by, thankfully. But then some event reminds me of the putrid filth just out of sight.

Stay on /r/babyelephantgifs. Always.

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