Posted on 06/16/2016 3:28:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Reddit has announced a change to its algorithm on /r/all, the page that is meant to rank the most popular posts trending across the site’s user-run communities. According to Reddit, the algorithm will be changed to promote more “diversity” on the subreddit. The change is an explicit response to the Islamic terrorist attacks in Orlando, Florida. In their aftermath, /r/all was dominated by posts from /r/The_Donald, the primary community for Trump supporters on the site.
/r/all collects and ranks posts on Reddit according to how many “upvotes” they receive from users. A post typically requires several thousand upvotes to reach the front page of the site.
In the aftermath of the Orlando shootings, mass censorship on /r/News, Reddit’s main forum for discussing breaking news, led to a massive user exodus to /r/The_Donald, a community known for its commitment to free speech. According to The Daily Beast, more than 11,712 subscribed to the Trump-supporting subreddit on Sunday alone, making it the most successful day in the community’s relatively short history.
As concerns about censorship mounted, users began to use /r/The_Donald as their primary source of news about the shootings. At one point, 18 of the 25 highest-rated posts on /r/all were from /r/The_Donald....
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
No wonder that French man is suing Twitter for aiding ISIS>
that site is run by liberal homofags. Whaddaya expect. All Bernie all the time.
I’ve been following the reddit subgroup called The Donald for a couple of months now. It’s a very different crowd from Free Republic, probably average age several decades younger, and they look at things differently. But compatible, in my opinion.
A muslim murders humans. Trump says we should not let any more in. The left acts out of outrage to censor Trump fans, not jihadi supporters.
Promote more “diversity” means block conservatives.
Their site they can do what they want. Not that anyone pays attention to them anyway.
Like when C-Span went to separate Repub/Dem call-in lines.
I didn't like it then either.
That’s a good point..,if they are taking it upon themselves to curate content then Twitter, Facebook et al have some liability when terrors use their apps to plan attacks...
Inch us closer to civil war. That’s gonna be the result.
“I actually had an admin [confirm] this over Skype” said CisWhiteMaelstrom. “The admin I spoke to sounded extremely emotional and downright unstable. It was honestly a bit uncomfortable just to be talking to someone who was in such a bizarre state of mind.”
Donald is driving the Rats insane.
12,600,000 visitors a day.
It ain’t small beans.
Fine with me. Let's get it over with.
Imagine that, a forum for followers of the next Hitler has the most freedom.
The same kind of censorship killed Digg.
Yup, I’m there, too.
I’ve never been to that site and I will never visit it.
Reddit - the place to go to find drugs on the Darknet
The liberals are already dhimmi.
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