Oh wait, that’s not true at all.
These are just empty lies and niceties that don’t stand up to scrutiny. Reddit has weaponized information and is just another tool of propaganda.
Sad that anyone would cheer any of this.
It's definitely not the place to go for neutral political organization.
https://www.dictionary.com/e/majority-vs-plurality/
> Plurality is a noun that, like majority, can mean more than half of the whole. However when it comes to voting, plurality refers to “the excess of votes received by the leading candidate, in an election in which there are three or more candidates, over those received by the next candidate.” This means that someone who wins the plurality of votes received more than any of the other candidates but not necessarily the majority. (emphasis stripped by copy-paste)
Hillary Clinton won the plurality in 2016, but since this was not a democratic election she was ultimately not elected president. Joe Biden won the plurality (and majority) in 2020.
Unless you're talking about the electoral college vote, but I don't see how you can link the word "mainstream" with an electoral college vote, as that is a vote of elites.
Keep in mind Reddit changed their entire front page algorithm because they weren't happy with r/the_donald getting to the front page as often as it was.
I was no fan of that subreddit but I popped in from time to time and they were ridiculously stringent about adhering to Reddit's rules.
Also, it wasn't long after that many, many, many subreddits had far worse calls for violence against law enforcement and none of them got banned for it.
After all, think about it: if you have 5000 rabid A voters and 4900 rabid B voters, every pro A comment will be at +100 and every pro B comment will be at -100 even if everyone participates. True approval will be slightly above 49% for B comments but will end up appearing to be massive disapproval.
That's a structural problem with additive/subtractive vote counts.