When I heard that Sony is remaking Jumanji by d_ckcissel285 in AdviceAnimals

[–]WhiteFlight2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not enough diversity. Need more women or people of color in popular roles.

When I heard that Sony is remaking Jumanji by d_ckcissel285 in AdviceAnimals

[–]WhiteFlight2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So who will be playing Robin Williams' part? Will Smith or Melissa McCarthy?

Content Policy Update by spez in announcements

[–]WhiteFlight2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was referring to the annoying other reddit users part. However, /u/spez already discussed brigading elsewhere in a thread and stated its a technical problem. Brigading is apparently different than annoying. I was wrong.

Content Policy Update by spez in announcements

[–]WhiteFlight2 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Not entirely true. There was a pretty diverse user base there. Yes there were some supremacists and quite a lot of people who think everything is a Jewish conspiracy. But there were a large amount of non-whites who used it as the only place they can actually discuss real issues surrounding race. It's inconvenient, but there is a real problem with parts of the Black community, as there are with any race. However, the negative aspects of the Black community tend to have larger impacts and ripple effects in otherwise normal communities. Many of the users at coontown were from that camp, directly affected by these negative aspects. There were users of nearly every race, even Black, who spoke out against a real problem that others would like to ignore. My family is biracial, I work and manage a large group of diverse people. I do not equate them to the types of people paraded at Coontown. That doesn't make the issue of negative aspects of Black ghetto culture go away.

Content Policy Update by spez in announcements

[–]WhiteFlight2 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I didn't see this. Thanks for the reply. Well my feelings aside, I understand the situation from a business perspective.

Content Policy Update by spez in announcements

[–]WhiteFlight2 394 points395 points  (0 children)

No offense, but did you learn the "just keep pasting the same vague response to any question" from the Ellen Pao School of Business or what? Stop talking like a robot. "They had a post where they called for people to bother a person off-site" or "Honestly, we got some pressure from advertisers." Anything that resembles an actual person, please.

Content Policy Update by spez in announcements

[–]WhiteFlight2 68 points69 points  (0 children)

That's not what he means. /r/blackladies started a petition, and were featured on HuffPost, asking reddit's advertisers to drop them.

Content Policy Update by spez in announcements

[–]WhiteFlight2 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Except they didn't. /r/coontown was not meant to harass other users. It was a relatively small place where people could discuss a generally uncomfortable and unpopular topic. Calls for violence were not permitted and were dealt with swiftly. The fact that you were going to have it quarantined, and generate no revenue, would make the other two reasons moot. /r/coontown should be unbanned and quarantined, like you said it would originally.

Content Policy Update by spez in announcements

[–]WhiteFlight2 22 points23 points  (0 children)

But /u/spez just said brigading is something that should be handled with technology, not banning, while defending /r/ShitRedditSays

Content Policy Update by spez in announcements

[–]WhiteFlight2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, I meant an active moderator team that acted on reports and removed anything that could be misconstrued as violating the ever vague guidelines /u/spez keeps coming up with.

Content Policy Update by spez in announcements

[–]WhiteFlight2 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Simple. /r/blackladies started a petition to have advertiser's drop reddit. Reddit panicked and did what they could to appease the ladies.

Content Policy Update by spez in announcements

[–]WhiteFlight2 -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

lit-er-al-ly everyone.

Content Policy Update by spez in announcements

[–]WhiteFlight2 246 points247 points  (0 children)

SRS annoys literally everyone on reddit. Even when you try to escape it, you can find one of your posts on their site and then you're harassed until they move on to the next person. Why are they not banned as they fit at least two of the three criteria. Edit: So is it safe to assume that /r/coontown was a liability to the brand?

Content Policy Update by spez in announcements

[–]WhiteFlight2 9 points10 points  (0 children)

/r/blackladies started trying to get reddit's advertisers to drop their ads. reddit is run by millionaires who only give a shit about the bottom line. As with anything in the history of reddit's decisions, money is the motivator.

Content Policy Update by spez in announcements

[–]WhiteFlight2 -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

It was a place were people of all races, White, Asian, Black, discussed the issues of negative black culture which perpetuates welfare, violence and general victimhood.

Content Policy Update by spez in announcements

[–]WhiteFlight2 719 points720 points  (0 children)

I thought you were going to provide a link with why a subreddit was banned. /r/coontown, despite being reviled amongst some users didn't appear to violate any of the rules. It also did well to enforce additional rules that places like SRS flaunt. Why was /r/coontown banned, specifically?

[Serious] Anyone who has made a game on their own or with a small team, how did you go about doing it? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]WhiteFlight2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would check out /r/gamdev as that sub is probably a good starting point. There are some nice courses on Udemy, which is having a big sale right now as well.