Reddit Gets New Second Life Group to Escape Downvote Drama in Original Second Life Group

/sl is a new subreddit for Second Life users on Reddit which is a direct outgrowth of drama from the original Second Life Reddit group which has effectively become useless (despite having 1300+ subscribers) due to aggressive downvoting of nearly every new submission. This is the darkside of the upvote/downvote mechanic: typically, only a small minority of an online community uses that feature (I believe it's under 10% on Reddit), so it can become very easy for an even tinier minority to negatively impact the overall ecosystem. The new SL group on Reddit warns users not to downvote submissions which fit the guidelines, but it will probably be difficult to surface high quality content without encouraging at least some downvoting; it'll be interesting to see how well /sl does on that front. Anyway, here's the new Second Life group on Reddit, which also comes with thumbnail pics!

Comments

[Danko Whitfield]

Reddit sucks

[Pussycat Catnap]

You know I have NO RESPECT for reddit due to their past shielding of a pedophile with the whole 'upskirt' scandal a few years back.

That's only gotten worse as I've watched their bias shape up in the politics group: where they now ban any liberal sources from being quoted.

Reddit is a cesspool, best avoided. Those are just two reasons, one can find many more.

[Hamlet Au]

You're actually mistaking individual user-run subreddits with Reddit as a whole. That's like blaming age play in Second Life on the whole SL community.

[Arcadia Codesmith]

I seem to recall having this "reputation system" debate before. I have been vindicated again. I shall be insufferably smug for the next few hours.

[Pussycat Catnap]

@Hamlet: No I'm not. Policy Reddit set created those situations. As Reddit as a COMPANY backed and defended a pedophile who was one of their moderators posting upskirt nude images of underaged girls...

They as a company have now censored out non-conservative sources from their politics feeds.

These are two examples, more can be found. They put in place toxic moderators and toxic policies on a regular basis.

The company is poison.

Your own experience with the SL group should be warning you - and I have to wonder why it doesn't.

Its policies need to change, its heads need to roll.

[alottahotair]

They also censored conservative news sources..so it's balanced in that sense. You strike me, Pussycat, as someone who doesn't 'get' reddit anyway.

[Hamlet Au]

However, again, that confuses the non-company user moderators of a sub-reddit with Reddit the company.

"These are two examples, more can be found"

Do you have credible cites for either of those claims?