Doing other people's schoolwork for them (at least for free) is idiotic!

This would be helpful because most redditors are idiots who downvote the best posts and comments.

See above

I know that Reddit's recently launched the AMA app, but I was wondering what's happening with the main app for the site? I still can't find the official app in Google Play or the iPad store! Seems strange that they'd launch a niche app first!

Just curious because it has been brought up recently in /r/battlefield3. Currently the community of Battlefield 3 (a gaming subreddit dedicated to Battlefield 3 talk) has been discussing the future when the next version of the game comes out, Battlefield 4.

Currently a trolling website is up with the name /r/battlefield4 and is in place it seems to simply preempt any future gaming discussion to be had in a civil manner for the new game.

Are there any avenues setup where the subreddit name can be reclaimed and properly re-utilized in proper context to it?

It currently seems like so many subreddits can be made of famous people and commercial ventures that any real association with said people or ventures is hard to imagine.

What steps are put in place to help with these issues?

Thanks...

For what it's worth, GameOfTrolls is holding an AMA.

Accoding to their text, it was an academic exercise carried out by someone named "maggie", and a sociopath.

Take it with a grain of salt.

http://www.reddit.com/r/self/comments/xmwyj/i_am_half_the_team_that_created_the_banned_sub/

I've been hearing a lot of people mention cakeday while i was lurking, but now that i have an account i do not know what cakeday is. what is it?

If people are censoring themselves, then we've really lost. Reddit is a remarkable place. I've seen many jokes about what a time-waster it is; but the truth is most people's jobs are the time-wasters and writing honestly about what one believes on Reddit is probably the noblest and most productive activity the average Redditor accomplishes in an average day. This is a precious place. If people start self-deleting out of fear that they may be targeted for their opinions, then it seems to me this will prove a self-fulfilling prophecy. People came online and began sharing their lives and personal information with the world in good faith—you could say out of love. The fact that we're all suddenly feeling suckered and are now belatedly trying to cover our tracks plays right into the hands of the powers that be. Right now there are way too may people online admitting to illegal behavior for law enforcement to do jack shit. Let's keep it that way. Let's take it further even. Let them try to fire or jail everyone who smokes pot or thinks for themselves. There'd be no one left to exploit. Rant over.

Like in topic, wtf is this? I already despise the "hot" tab, im absolutely not interested in mainstream content picked out by the hive mind of reddit and i always move into "new" tab (feature requirest, have reddit setting to default me there or other predefinied category at every log in??).

And now this, "best" tab (lets forget for a moment that no such thing as "best" exist) that shows me excatly same stuff as on "hot". Another useless tab for me, trying to force feed me with content choosen by reddit hive mind.

Neat little trick, saves a lot of time

Hello,

Before I invest myself any further in this forum, I need to clarify an interrogation early on.
Is it possible to get banned on reddit, just for having expressed an opinion ?

I am obviously not talking about anything illegal to say. Most countries will have limits on the general concept of freedom of speech and I obviously abide by these laws at all times.

But, some forums will practise a form of "censorship" (which is how you call restricting the freedom of speech any further than what the law dictates, even if it is legal to do so because a forum is private and you can do how you please at home. I also respect that). I encountered this problem a few times. I like debating. I like creating arguments that I don't even know if I support but find they are logical.

Sometimes this leads to mildly controversial opinions, and on some forums, mildly controversial opinions like "we should to more about the covid crisis" or "we should do less", or "there is a problem with police brutality in our country" or "the police should do more to protect the citizens against the violent protesters" will get me banned.

After years of stupidly accepting this (I started talking on a particular forum when I was 12, so I guess my mind was formatted to think this type of behaviour was normal) I decided it would no longer be the case. Even if I have to resort to a VPN or leaving the concerned forum altogether, and find any other leisure.

To describe more precisely, there were two forums that I used. The first one had omnipresent moderators, who would randomly delete opinions that they did not share. They also banned randomly, but more rarely. On this forum, there was a relatively low trafic, and both its culture and rules made people write very extensive messages. I sometimes took several hours of my time to construct a single message (in Word before copy/paste). On the plus side, there was a limited amount of text to read because there were relatively few people and they all spent much time constructing their messages just like me. I got banned for saying France's police was too brutal overall, because we heard about it too much. But I said that to a policeman moderator..

On the other one, single line answers are commonplace. So there is much to read and you can't even read some hot topics except if you spend all your day on it. One comment which was somewhat ironic was not perceived as so by the moderator, and he did not liked my previously expressed opinions so he had a bias to misinterpret the post : I got banned, only for 5 days, but I'm no longer a kid that you send to the corner of the room for 5 minutes.

So how is it on reddit then ?

Is it possible to have a debate within the limits of the law without any more restriction ?

How does the moderation work, and how do they differentiate between outright trolling and someone simply playing with facts and arguments, even if it does not support the politically correct opinion ?

Thanks

I just entered Reddit to lurk and Reddit made an account automatically for me that is linked to my Google-email. I did not click anything. No prompt or anything. This was done without my consent. I assume that they were able to collect my e-mail because I am logged into my browser.

I will delete this account in due time, but how can I stop this from happening in the future? The site aquired my email from my browser and made an account. I am livid that they would steal my personal information like this.

I guess I am just curious if there are general mods that oversee top subs and handle issues of mod overreach.

For example, there's been one particular sub I've noticed a MULTITUDE of complaints about and I agree with the majority of folks who are unhappy with it; /r/music

If a post is made there talking about something an artist did or said, or something relating to an artist's life, it's not breaking sub rules. It IS about music. Music is that person's career and thus just about everything they do and say is an extension of that.

These posts not only follow the rules but have led to some open conversations about serious issues within society. They haven't turned into comment wars or any type of arguments, yet they've been getting locked one after another for being "off topic" and "not about music."

Except if that was the case, why are they able to be posted to begin with?

I guess my question is, in cases like this where there is obvious mod-overreach, is there anything the average reddit user can do to change it? Can a mod be turned in and removed from modding?

How does that work, if at all, with any subs?

Is it just me or is it sometimes difficult to figure out if up-voting or down-voting a post is agreeing or disagreeing? The poster should make it clear. Doing so to this one should be easy but upvoting means you agree that it can be confusing to determine.

So. Half a month here. Down to 97 negative karma. 95% out of this from comments on a dog video.

Need I say more? I'm not asking for anything. I'm just saying that once upon a time the internet was about finding out interesting, new stuff that you did not necessarily agree with.

Sites like Reddit and services like RSS do the opposite.

A little rant but I think that it holds merit. This shit is killing the web. Hail the new web.

Why are there no previous/next buttons for browsing messages in .compact view? Safari/iOS

I remember reading in a rage comic that yes, this does happen.