I feel like this article may be a bit unfair. It sounds like organically a community wields a large number of votes, and they aren't getting the same treatment as other communities on Reddit?
Especially if it's polarizing content that might drive a significant volume of traffic that didn't sign up for that content away.
Members of other subreddit don't collude to upvote everything and try to get into /r/all. They also don't go and attack other subs.
Also, the racist and sexist nature of the posts makes it inappropriate. Reddit has already taken a stance against this sort of content when it banned a bunch of subreddits a few months ago.
Is censorship of "inappropriate" speech the right precedent?
turning the volume down on one tv because they are purposely boosting it to drown out other tvs is not censorship.
I actually wonder why the subreddit isn't shut down yet.
U/spez has declared the_Donald as a problem and is trying to penalise it under the table, and failing.
Unlike F.P.H. they can't just declare the_Donald as against the secret rules and pull the plug, or will they...