RE: Reddit censoring all steemit links
Sounds to me like Reddit doesn't want to advertise its most threatening competitor, i.e. Steem. I wonder if using a link shortener would circumvent the issue? Or as @demotruk mentions, an alternative explorer such as busy.org (@busy.org, which I prefer anyways).
The censorship on Reddit is out of control. Two Steem posts that further document the problem are:
- Censorship gone awry on Reddit: the aftermath of our r/science AMA by @dhimmel (me)
- r/science admins admit routinely deleting top posts by @simoxenham.
Regarding the quote by @bitcoinxio:
We have in our automod scripts though to auto-approve Steemit posts. So the fact that Reddit still blocked it and ignored our automod script is concerning.
It's interesting to learn about the two layers of censorship on Reddit, once from the subreddit automod and a second time from Reddit Inc. Note that I use the word censorship rather than spam prevention because the policies are so indiscriminate they have an incredible rate of false positives (assuming the aim is to remove spam and nothing else).
``Sounds to me like Reddit doesn't want to advertise its most threatening competitor, i.e. Steem.''
Exactly my thoughts when I heard about this just now. This type of behavior will get worse.
``It's interesting to learn about the two layers of censorship on Reddit, once from the subreddit automod and a second time from Reddit Inc. Note that I use the word censorship rather than spam prevention because the policies are so indiscriminate they have an incredible rate of false positives.''
We need to create Reddit on Steem. And didn't somebody here make a very similar looking front end with similar to Reddit features?
Censorship will be on the rise; why would they make it easy for their competitors? (And everybody in this space are basically competitors. For the budget of user time.)