How many more of these threads do you intend to make?
This is the biggest mass shooting in recent US history, and two of the biggest and most influential websites are purposefully neglecting it, and you don't think this is worthy of attention?
This is the biggest mass shooting in recent US history, and two of the biggest and most influential websites are purposefully neglecting it, and you don't think this is worthy of attention?
Deleting comments that break a website's rules is not "purposely neglecting it".
Deleting comments that break a website's rules is not "purposely neglecting it".
That is not what is happening. Facebook is not reporting it on trending. The /r/news report has been taken off the front page. There is now a report up in /r/askreddit, but that is a sub which has nothing to do with news. /r/worldnews completely nuked their thread on it. People are being banned for simply linking to articles that say the perp was a Muslim, according to people in this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/4nq3ib/rnews_locked_the_thread_about_orlando_shooting_as/
Yup, literally thousands of posts deleted. Honestly, TSR moderation is much more hands off than some of the major Reddit subreddits. And the removal of upvotes is significant in that it removes the thread from the front page.
Shame we have to resort to the subreddit of a politician to even hear about these news stories. Any wonder the right wing is gaining popularity, since they are the only ones who will tolerate any discussions?
TBH, even I'm thinking "well crap, maybe the world does need Trump".
The only comments I ever see removed on news sites are crude and abusive ones. Most of the time it emerges as a common factor among those who complain their comments have been deleted.
It's the internet, obviously people will be making hateful comments that breaks the rules of the site. That's exactly what's going on. Oh, and check facebook you mug. It's getting reported on.
It's the internet, obviously people will be making hateful comments that breaks the rules of the site. That's exactly what's going on. Oh, and check facebook you mug. It's getting reported on.
look, i can see people complaining and yes, this is censorship. But we havent heard from the mods at reddit who could have taken them all down because of the influx of hate comments for all we know.
Censorship of reddit means nothing. I see it trending on twitter which is a bigger platform for this kind of stuff.
Deleting comments that break a website's rules is not "purposely neglecting it".
They're deliberately interpreting the rules very liberally to encourage a particular consensus on the issue. In the case of reddit it's just idiotic mods, in the case of Facebook most likely Engineers tinkering with news feeds unless Messi is somehow a more trending topic than a massacre according to their algorithm. In the case of Reddit of course no one has to use their reprehensible forum, but Facebook should be completely impartial.
EDIT: Having looked into it I don't see any evidence Facebook are skewing things. The reddit thread is a joke though.
look, i can see people complaining and yes, this is censorship. But we havent heard from the mods at reddit who could have taken them all down because of the influx of hate comments for all we know.
Censorship of reddit means nothing. I see it trending on twitter which is a bigger platform for this kind of stuff.
They're deliberately interpreting the rules very liberally to encourage a particular consensus on the issue. In the case of reddit it's just idiotic mods, in the case of Facebook most likely Engineers tinkering with news feeds unless Messi is somehow a more trending topic than a massacre according to their algorithm. In the case of Reddit of course no one has to use their reprehensible forum, but Facebook should be completely impartial.
EDIT: Having looked into it I don't see any evidence Facebook are skewing things. The reddit thread is a joke though.
On my FB it's not showing up but maybe that is just mine. The trending topics aren't based on an algorithm, they're selected by a team. A news story recently came out about ex-Facebook workers who said that the team who selects the topics deliberately cater them to suit left-wing agendas, although of course FB fiercely refuted it, so believe who you want.
On my FB it's not showing up but maybe that is just mine. The trending topics aren't based on an algorithm, they're selected by a team. A news story recently came out about ex-Facebook workers who said that the team who selects the topics deliberately cater them to suit left-wing agendas, although of course FB fiercely refuted it, so believe who you want.
If it's selected by a team I'd definitely believe Facebook are suppressing it then.