Democratic Underground Banned From Reddit/Politics Forum

[Xithras]

48. Reddit is for posting and discussing articles. Freeperville doesn't post articles.

DU Journals act like blogs and are citable references to articles posted elsewhere. In fact, you can write posts here on DU, post them to your journal, and use it just like any other blog if you really wanted to. While most DUers only post on the discussion boards to chat about politics, a number of people here do use their Journals to publish and centralize many of their writings. These get cross posted to Reddit now and then.

Reddit isn't used to continue discussions from other discussion boards, because "discussions" aren't really citable "articles". DU Journals provided a way around that limitation and were the source of DU content they are now banning. Free Republic, on the other hand, has no equivalent blogging or journaling capability and is simply a pure, old fashioned (very, very old fashioned) discussion board. Because of their format, they've never had a presence on Reddit, and there's no need to ban them.