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![VIDEOS ASKREDDI T-AWW-MUSIC-FUNNY-NEWS-MOVIES-BOOKS - HISTORY-FOOD-PHILOSOPHY- TELEVISION -JOKE AR ALL hot new risingcontroversial ilded want to join? sign in or create subscribe to our newsletter get the best of reddit, delivered enter your email SUBSCRIBE 个 Ellen Pao's career (self,Jokes) submitted an hour ago by notelephantpoop to /r/Jokes 672 comments share Reddit in uproar after staff sacking Business(bbc.com) 2 8435 submitted 3 hours ago by World_Globetrotter to /r/technology 1801 comments share oat.co right now (regmedia.co.uk) submitted 2 hours ago by zlex to /r/pics 270 comments share 3 4520 We need to be more tactical in our approach (imgur.com) submitted 3 hours ago by Silkyz to /r/pics 81 comments share 4 5206 Reddit's new business strategy (imgur.com) submitted 4 hours ago by NinjaEarl to /r/pics 1249 comments share 5 7119 I see your Pitchforks, and raise you some Torches (i.imgur.com) submitted 3 hours ago by happydayzinoffice to /r/pics 113 comments share 5207 Reporting live from Reddit" (i.imgur.com) submitted 4 hours ago by linesreadlines to /r/pics 268 comments share 7 6015 Google Trends "Reddit Alternative (google.com) submitted 4 hours ago by OberynMart3ll to /r/dataisbeautiful 1158 comments share 8 6200 Reddit upper management (imgur.com) submitted 4 hours ago by mybustersword to /r/AdviceAnimals 371 comments share 9 6430 of the AMA mods (i.imgur.com) Rare pic submitted 3 hours ago by Magniras to /r/pics 152 comments share 10 4468 1 5230 WOW!!! 10,000 Subscribers in around 11 hours Discussion (self.Blackout2015) submitted 4 hours ago * by Noticemenot [M] to /r/Blackout2015 213 comments share The Glorious Leader leaving the Reddit offices (i.imgur.com) submitted 3 hours ago by lecherous hump to /r/pics 4 comments share 12 4791 Number of People who want Victoria to replace Pao Poll submitted 5 hours ago * by ANDYVDL to /r/Blackout2015 562 comments share 13 7900 < (self.Blackout2015) The cake is not a lie. (i.imgur.com) 4 5134 submitted 3 hours ago by Sparksman91 to /r/pics 283 comments share](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/987/233/cd6.png "Front Page of Reddit, as of July 3rd, 2015, 1:40 pm")
![TPP related articles are not showing up in the r/news feed. I feel like this needs to be 888 known. [META] Aa submitted 15 hours ago * by Halfwayhome22 193 comments share sorted by: best ▼ you are viewing a single comment's thread. view the rest of the comments → H LuckyBdx4-809 points 9 hours ago The user used an alt account to whinge/whine His main account /u/creepyteepee was banned by reddit admins, not by us at Ir/news. FWIW the TPP is politics, we don't allow Politics in Ir/news. Regards the "d---" Ir/news moderator permalink embed parent H Commander2x2 395 points 9 hours ago FWIW the TPP is politics, we don't allow Politics in Ir/news. you're not fooling anyone. Almost every topic on the front page of Irlnews right now is about politics permalink embed parent H smashing3000 37 points 2 hours ago" Why don't you allow politics to be discussed or posted about in news? The two often go hand in hand permalink embed parent H siccoblue 7 points 27 minutes ago Because it doesn't count as politics if it's politics for his side permalink embed parent LuckyBdx4-746 points 9 hours ago In your humble opinion Ticket closed permalink embed parent wellnhoferia 385 points 7 hours ago What a f------ idiot. permalink embed parent H TrustworthyAndroid 108 points 4 hours ago I want to know how an Australian got put in charge of an american news subreddit. permalink embed parent H BiscuitEatingCookie 42 points 3 hours ago In all seriousness probably because he'd be awake to watch the sub when other (american) mods are sleeping permalink embed parent](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/983/368/0fe.png "Censorship on Reddit, everyone!")
![UNDELETESHADOw ot new risin controversial ilded wki promoted [#201 Lewis Black Endorses Bernie Sanders, Tells Bill Cosby to F Himself [politics] 1 comments (reddit.com) 8 submitted 7 hours ago by amProbablyPooping comment share 6] "The vote today-pushed by multi-national corporations, pharmaceutical companies and Wall Street-will mean a continuation of disastrous trade policies which have cost our country millions of decent 2 6 paying jobs," said Sanders, who voted no [politics] 6 comments (redlit.com) Submitted 6 hours ago by amProbablyPooping comment share ↑ #19 EL15: why IS the US concentrated on eliminating ISIS when there's drug cartels right in their back yard Mexico that kill more Americans annually than ISIS? expanlikeimfive 1017 comments ( 3 submitted 10 minutes ago by amProbablyPooping m) comment share ↑ #10 Net neutrality's biggest enemy now owns TechCrunch, Engadget and HuffPo: Verizon completes $4.4B acquisition of AOL technology 1021 comments ( 4 3 submitted 6 hours ago by amProbablyPooping ) comment share ↑ 5 [#12] A simple retort to the Pizza delivery guy.. AdviceAnimals 113 comments (reddit.com) submitted 35 minutes ago by amProbablyPooping comment share [#30] An overly modest friend of mine drew this entirely freehand. Can we show him some love? [Starwars 58 comments (reddit.com) 6 submitted 48 minutes ago by amProbablyPooping comment share 个胖24 I gave my cat a worm pil today and 30 min later he started hacking on the couch. I grabbed him and ran to the kitchen where he projectile vomited this up. W-- 1100 comments ( 7 om) submitted an hour ago by amProbablyPooping comment share [#2] Senate PassesTPA (TPP is now fast tracked) [worldnews] 118 comments (reddit.com) 8 6 submitted 10 hours ago by amProbablyPooping comment share ↑ [#14] Confederate Flag? AdviceAnimals] 629 comments (reddit.com) 9submitted an hour ago by amProbablyPooping comment share ↑ 9 #97] "oeRent a Crowd ◆ Company Admits Politicians Are Using Their Service [nottheonion 1004 comments Not Deleted (reddit.com) 10 submitted 13 hours ago by amProbablyPooping comment share #62] Reading a bookis interpretting ink stains on shreds of a dead tree and hallucinating about t. [Showerthoughts 123 comments (reddit submitted 2 hours ago by amProbablyPooping comment share ) 11 1 [#69] Dodgin that s--- BlackPeopleTwitter] 54 comments (reddit.com) 12 1 submitted 2 hours ago by amProbablyPooping comment share #15 Today WikiLeaks began publishing Espionnage Elysée", a collection o TOP SECRET intelligence reports and technical documents rom the NSA concerning targeting and signals intelligence intercepts 132 of the communications of high-level officials from suc [worldnews] 5 comments (reddit.com) submitted 9 hours ago by amProbablyPooping comment share [#7] The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Has Already Bought off Washington worldnews] 26 comments (reddit.com) 14 19 submitted 19 hours ago by amProbablyPooping comment share [#5] GCHQ and NSA broke antivirus software so that they could spy on people, leaks indicate [worldnews] 97 comments (reddit.com) 15 4 submitted 11 hours ago by amProbablyPooping comment share [#77] Artist makes a beautiful picture then changes it next comment to pulverize your good feels [bestof] 46 comments (reddit.com) submitted 4 hours ago by amProbablyPooping comment share 16 1 16 Former red light camera CEO pleads guilty to bribery, fraud in Ohio politics 1 comments (reddit.com](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/983/069/6c6.png "Thiongs that get deleted on Reddit")
![[Meta] This subverse represents the anger stage in the natural grieving process (self.MeanwhileOnReddit submitted 1 hour ago by SuperConductiveRabbi 12 I've seen a lot of comments in /N/meanwhileonreddit from confused users, who ask "why don't you just ignore Reddit? Can we please just stop talking about them now?" I want to reply and explain why I think this subverse has value, but I decided to do it in a self post instead Reddit is dead. Many of us loved Reddit, and were with it for a long time. When the recent changes started happening, perhaps you were like me, and had trouble letting go. You reasoned that the changes Ellen Pao announced could just as easily be reversed once some better leader steps in, and that the leader could also work to resolve the cancer that has infested even the crevices of that site and which has been left unchecked for a year or two. We saw the disease in Reddit and speculated that it could be excised, leaving Reddit as it once was--that Reddit was alive and healthy underneath the festering bits, and if someone in power could just cut them out, it could once again thrive and be the site we once loved. This was the denial stage I believe that /v/meanwhileonreddit is the anger stage. A person who is wholly unconcerned with the fate of Reddit would not care to poke fun at them, or observe them and shake their heads. They would already have moved on; they would already spend their Internet time elsewhere on Voat, participating in fledgling communities and rarely giving a thought to the site they came from. You might argue with this, and say that you're doing it just in good fun (and don't get me wrong: I like v/meanwhileonreddit--I find it cathartic). However, consider this: if you came from Slashdot before Reddit, did you ever try to find an Ir/meanwhileOnSlashdot, or r/MeanwhileOnFark, or Ir/MeanwhileOnStumbleUpon? I'm guessing no. I'm guessing your transition to Reddit did not require grieving, and your old site drifted out of your daily experience naturally For many of us, however, Reddit was taken away from us, when we considered ourselves among the core users. Even with the awareness of its decay (which certainly predated Ellen Pao by a good year or two) no one can say that Pao's killing blow to Reddit's unique value proposition wasn't sudden and alarming. She was suddenly the nurse of a patient that needed an intensive course of treatment, and, instead, she only made the sickness worse. She ignored the illness of powerusers, censorship on the frontpage default mods using the delete button like a downvote button, and, instead, she deleted legal content she found personally distasteful and made public appearances that flew the whole plane towards censorship, "safe space" free-speech chilling, and the tyranny of thought-terminating political correctness. I'm confident I'm not alone when I say that Reddit's primary value proposition was that it was an open discussion forum that promoted free speech on any (legal) content. To have the CEO claim that this value was worthless was sudden and alarming Thus, given the unpredicted and distasteful way in which we were made to transition from Reddit to another discussion platform, we were left with something of a grieving process. I think /v/meanwhileonreddit represents one of the final stages before we accept that it's gone and stop thinking about it at al the stage of anger. Seeing how SJWs act on Reddit, how they claim that anyone who doesn't support censorship must support child p---------- or racism, or how Ellen Pao can continue to lie to the website and agree that only people from "a toxic s-------" (FPH) are the only ones who were upset by the censorship--these things piss me the f--- off I think this is a natural part of the transition to Voat, and why /v/mor is actually valuable Conclusion, TL;DR: So, when you see posts in v/meanwhileonreddit, and you want to comment "I don't get it, can we just ignore Reddit already?" that's great. It means you're further along in seeing Reddit as just a site that lost its value, and you're ready to use Voat as it was meant to be used: without being constantly compared to a dysfunctional, damaged site. Not all of us are ready to bury Reddit, however, and need more closure than what Ellen Pao's coup de grace was able to give us. So l say there's value to be had in making fun of Reddit, getting angry at how it's being flown into the ground, and brainstorming ways we can prevent the same thing from happening here. The anger stage of dealing with the death of Reddit has value to Voat and to Voaters.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/983/056/465.png "Censorship and reddit")
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