Not exact duplicate of earlier post, since this one points to the reddit discussion involving u/spez

Many comments bring up the fact that administrators punished a subreddit called r/waterniggas, which featured posts with the running gag of people taking water extremely seriously, to the point of humor. Here's an example of the kind of content there:

https://ia802908.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/21...

In retrospect, naming the subreddit r/waterniggas was a poor choice, but many agree that it was harmless and that there was no hate speech propogated by it. This supports the notion that the administration does not actually care about hate speech, but rather the optics and superficiality of caring about it, winning "brownie points" to the general public. This is so that Reddit as a business can make it seem like a safer platform for advertisers and earn more dollars because the advertisers feel like it is a safe place to park their brand.

Furthermore, any time the administration makes public posts like these, they tend to come at very convenient times. This kind of post has happened before and no actual change ever occurred as a result of it. It is clear that the recent George Floyd protests encouraged them to make this post decrying hate speech, but again, if they were really concerned about hate speech, they would have acted on r/The_Donald faster than r/waterniggas.

The first two sentences of the post begin with this. "TL;DR: We’re working with mods to change our content policy to explicitly address hate. u/kn0thing has resigned from our board to fill his seat with a Black candidate, a request we will honor." Oh my lord, there are so many things wrong with this that I want to claw my eyes out. Congratulations, once we hire you to the board, know that the main reason we decided to hire you is that it's because you're black! If they were going to take this road, they could have at least lied about how they care about inclusivity and that they would hire someone who was equipped and experienced to deal with sensitive racial issues, and then hired someone who happened to be black. I did not expect them to just outright say that they would motivate their hiring process with racist intentions!! "We believe that hiring a black person is going to make a big difference in how racist we are!" To me, this really screams out how superficial the administration's concerns are, how surface-level those concerns reach, and how they could not care less deep down, despite protestors and police officers dying. All of this just so they could generate more ad revenue.

I am highly concerned with the way social media is going. While I understand that it is 100% in the right of private companies to police their platform, we were brought up with notion that we were participating in more-or-less, "public" forums, and that we would enjoy the benefit of having varied discussions on them. I did not particularly like r/The_Donald, but I liked that if you did like that content, you could go there. It's not like anyone was forced to go to r/The_Donald. I really do not want a future where Facebook or the Reddit echo chamber decides on what kind of opinion I should have. I would rather be on a platform where the only things I cannot post is illegal content or spam. I want to be on a platform where everything else should be permissible. If not, then I want the administration to explicitly tell me that they want to be thought policing, so that I don't feel deceived and I can go somewhere else.

Reddit articles, posts, and comments have drained in quality so much that I barely visit it nowadays. All of the stupid meme parent comments and lowest common denominator banter chain "jokes" (haha 69420, haha <insert tireless joke that isn't funny>) make me roll my eyes so hard that I immediately give up on trying to look for an insightful comment on the article's topic and close my browser.

Also, I want to slip in how much I hate how slow the mobile interface has gotten. No, I do not want to install the Reddit mobile app, leave me alone!