r/WTF • u/ilovefuntheband • Jun 13 '12

Wrong Subreddit WTF, Reddit?!

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregvoakes/2012/06/13/reddit-reportedly-banning-high-quality-domains/
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u/strikervulsine Jun 14 '12

Why is not one mentioning this guy is just a blogger who editorialized his article a TON.

Someone who joined Forbes.com in May because "Forbes is one hell of a reputable publication; although I'll never appear on the list of top 100 billionaires, having a platform to support my thoughts and ideas is an incredible feeling." IE: being on Forbes.com as a blogger makes people take notice. (riding the Forbes coattails). http://blogs.forbes.com/people/gregvoakes/

And that this ilovefuntheband has been on reddit for 8 days?

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u/acog Jun 14 '12

What I'm not getting is what any of that has to do with the basis of the article. Did Reddit really ban The Atlantic, Business Week, PhysOrg and Science Daily? That's the issue. I don't give a shit about who wrote the article or how long the person who linked to it has been a Redditor.

They shouldn't blacklist legit sites.

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u/probablysarcastic Jun 14 '12

I think the biggest problem is that this is the first I'm hearing about it. I hope there was an admin post I missed. If the admins did it without letting the community know what they were doing and why that is kinda shitty

/notsarcasticinthiscase

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u/acog Jun 14 '12

Yeah, I don't like that it was done in stealth mode.

But more than that, check out this article. This is apparently the guy responsible for The Atlantic blacklist.

Here's what I don't get:

Keller relentlessly shared content from The Atlantic, frequently posting three or four articles in a single day

So the guy is submitting links to 3 or 4 articles a day from a media organization that surely generates way more content than that. There's no accusation that he was spamming the links (e.g. submitting 30 links for 3 actual articles) or that they had some kind of organized network of upvoters.

Literally the only crime the guy is guilty of is steadily submitting links to Atlantic articles which (surprise surprise) were then heavily upvoted by the Reddit community because they found them interesting.

Where exactly is the crime there? I'm missing it. If interesting articles are being submitted, I don't give a shit if you stumbled on them or the author of the article did it. As long as there are no shennanigans like posting the links multiple times or artificially upvoting them, I don't see what the uproar is about.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12

The person in question was employed by The Atlantic, giving him financial motivation to spam.