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/r/science sidebar rules said:Please ensure that your submission to r/science is :
- a direct link to or a summary of peer reviewed research with appropriate citations. If the article itself does not link to these sources, please include a link in a comment. Summaries of summaries are not allowed.
- based on recent scientific research. The research linked to should be within the past 6 months (or so).
- not editorialized, sensationalized, or biased. This includes both the submission and its title.
- not blogspam, an image, video or an infographic.
- not a repost. If an alternate report based on the same research has been submitted, please submit your article as a comment to one of the current submissions.
Please ensure that your comment on an r/science thread is :
- on-topic and relevant to the submission.
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We will eventually follow Europe's lead and those that expose government lies, and lies perpetuated by TPTB will be arrested and imprisoned.
This is really a misunderstanding of Reddit by the person writing the article and people complaining.
Reddit is broken down into subreddits, which /r/science is one. The subreddits are moderated just like a web forum. As much as there is free speech each subreddit has its own rules for posting content, and it's always listed across the top or along the right edge of the subreddit. The rules for posting in /r/science are as follows:
This particular subreddit is quite picky about its posts and heavily moderated. I would say that a majority of daily redditors are very familiar with this concept.
It is free speech, but within individual subreddits it is moderated. If you come into a forum and type something off-topic it will be removed or moved (in Reddit mods cannot "move" posts to other subreddits). It's no different than you coming into my house, saying something I dislike, and me throwing you out. You're free to have those thoughts, but not in my moderated space (house). There are other more appropriate subreddits for pretty much any type of discussion."Reddit's reputation as "passionately dedicated to free speech," the self-described "PhD chemist" decided it was time for the skeptics to go."
It is free speech, but within individual subreddits it is moderated. In the USA we have free speech, but if you come into a forum and type something off-topic it will be removed or moved (in Reddit mods cannot "move" posts to other subreddits). It's no different than you coming into my house, saying something I dislike, and me throwing you out. You're free to have those thoughts, but not in my moderated space (house). There are other more appropriate subreddits for pretty much any type of discussion.
You could do it easily in /r/AskReddit if you posed the question properly. There are some subreddits linked in the sidebar of /r/Conservative, but they seem more political than scientific. You could request/discuss information generally on the topic in /r/AskScience too.So somewhere on REDDIT there is a place to argue both sides of this fear mongering that used to be called global warming LOL? If that's the case then thanks for setting it straight.
To be fair, once you've learned how to read peer reviewed research it can be applied to many fields. E.g., I am better at shooting a rifle than I am a pistol, but I can still recognize the I forgot to close bolt on the pistol and that's why my shot did not fire; I understand how a gun works at a basic use level.Anyone else noticed that the moderator mentioned is a chemist?
Climatology is not exactly his area of expertise.
To be fair, once you've learned how to read peer reviewed research it can be applied to many fields. E.g., I am better at shooting a rifle than I am a pistol, but I can still recognize the I forgot to close bolt on the pistol and that's why my shot did not fire; I understand how a gun works at a basic use level.
Most subreddits see divergent topics as trolling, because attempts at trolling are very, very common in Reddit. For example, if I posted in /r/mensrights something about feminism, or a picture of a "cute pug" in /r/corgi they'd be removed as trolling.
I am not saying this person in the article was trolling. I am explaining that subreddits are topical groups that intentionally moderate. The site as a whole is free speech, but you still have to follow each subreddit's rules. I do not think /r/science would remove something for dissenting, but would remove something for not meeting their predescribed (in the sidebar) criteria.
It's free speech as much as anywhere else is online. If there are moderators then there are obviously rules. Speak freely, but please pay attention to your whereabouts/category (subreddit). If there was zero organization I don't think it's be as popular. Subreddits are just a way to organize the chaos.