Democratic Underground Banned From Reddit/Politics Forum

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108. Reddit users are younger

I am 65 and use reddit every day. I have never much visited DU.

It is not that reddit doesn't think that DU is new and popular enough. This is specifically about the r/politics subreddit and the quality they want a subreddit with 3 million subscribers to have. I understand some of the choices that were banned—some are constant blogspammers, many like thinkprogress.org and alternet.org are sites which barely have any original content and simply use content from other sites to "compose" a story with an eye-catching headline, something of which HuffPost is also quite frequently guilty, and apparently so is DU. I certainly agree with banning sites like breitbart.com and infowars.com but not nationalreview.com or reason.com and certainly not MoJo or Salon.


I am very unhappy with the latest shenanigans regarding r/politics and have let my feelings be known to the moderators, some of whom are equally unhappy and want to keep working on the list to have it more accurately reflect the goal of making the subreddit a quality one without censoring. But it appears all this emanates from the boys upstairs.