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Reddit CEO Digs In Heels As User Outrage Engulfs Website (www.huffpost.com)

submitted 3 years ago by halo5@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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Wow. Front page of huffpost.com right now. Interesting...

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[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 years ago (4 children)

The_donald had pretty heinous mods.

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[–] stinkypoopsalot@kbin.social 7 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Some pretty heinous members too as I recall.

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[–] aegisgfx877@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago*

Seems to me a simple fix for that would be, he more the mods abuse the ban hammer, the shorter he bans are. Problem solves itself.

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[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

Yeah I mean it was pretty much the whole community but the mods existed to shield their worst members.

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[–] IncognitoErgoSum@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago

And frankly, reddit shielded the_donald when they were openly breaking the rules about vote manipulation in such a huge way that they dominated /r/all.

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