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Offline Ptarmigan

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Reddit bans comments from global warming skeptics
« on: December 18, 2013, 12:04:37 PM »
Reddit bans comments from global warming skeptics\
http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/18/reddit-bans-comments-from-global-warming-skeptics/

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A content editor on Reddit’s science forum wrote Monday that the site has banned climate-change skeptics, and asks why more news outlets haven’t done the same.

“About a year ago, we moderators became increasingly stringent with deniers,” Reddit content editor Nathan Allen wrote in grist. “When a potentially controversial submission was posted, a warning would be issued stating the rules for comments (most importantly that your comment isn’t a conspiracy theory) and advising that further violations of the rules could result in the commenter being banned from the forum.”

Allen explains that climate change became an ironically heated topic among commenters on Reddit’s science forum, /r/science, which he described as “a window into the Ivory Tower” for “non-scientists” to connect with experts like himself.

Seen Reddit. The place is rather clunky. Global Warming is no different from religion.
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Re: Reddit bans comments from global warming skeptics
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2013, 12:18:45 PM »
Here is Nathans extended explanation...

Reddit’s science forum banned climate deniers. Why don’t all newspapers do the same?

http://grist.org/climate-energy/reddits-science-forum-banned-climate-deniers-why-dont-all-newspapers-do-the-same/


Edit: had to correct the website.
« Last Edit: December 18, 2013, 12:21:39 PM by EagleKeeper »
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