Due to deliberate manipulation by the forum's moderators and active users, the algorithm that dictated what content reached the r/all page of Reddit resulted in a significant portion of the page being r/The_Donald content. Meanwhile, r/news lost more than 85,000 subscribers. On that day, r/The_Donald was featured in 13 of the top 25 posts on r/all, and gained over 16,000 subscribers during the weekend of the shooting. On June 12, 2016, the day of the Orlando nightclub shooting, moderators of the r/news subreddit began to remove many comments from its megathread pertaining to the shooting, leading to accusations of censorship. Byrd had severed ties with the Ku Klux Klan in 1952. The image was accompanied by a photoshopped picture of an aged Byrd in Klan garb, which was meant to dishonestly portray Clinton and Byrd as Klan supporters. For a period of time, the subreddit repeatedly posted an image of Hillary Clinton kissing Robert Byrd, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan. Furthermore, users on the site referred to Trump as " God Emperor". The subreddit grew to be known for frequent posting of memes, especially Pepe the Frog, and frequent uses of slang terms such as " centipede" (a reference to a much distributed Trump highlight reel featuring the Knife Party song " Centipede"), " MAGA", "nimble navigator", "no brakes", " cuck", "4D chess", and " SJW". On June 27, 2015, shortly after Donald Trump announced his campaign for the presidency at Trump Tower, the subreddit was created as a place for "following the news related to Donald Trump during his presidential run". 5.2 Seth Rich murder conspiracy theories.After the subreddit was quarantined and placed in restricted mode in early 2020, moderators of r/The_Donald created and moved to the site thedonald.win, and after Biden's inauguration moved again to patriots.win to continue supporting Donald Trump and a potential political party he would create, the " Patriot Party". On June 29, 2020, Reddit banned the subreddit for frequent rule-breaking, for antagonizing the company and other communities, and for failing to "meet our most basic expectations". The subreddit had a lengthy documented history of hosting conspiracy theory content that was racist, misogynistic, and Islamophobic. Moderators of r/The_Donald created a backup website outside of Reddit in response to the quarantine. Additionally, ads could not be run on the message board and certain features such as custom CSS were not available. A quarantine of the subreddit was imposed in June 2019, which required users to click an opt-in button to view the subreddit and prevented the subreddit from appearing in Reddit's search results and recommendations. Īctivities by members and moderators of the subreddit were controversial, and site-wide administrators took steps, including an overhaul of the Reddit software, to prevent the subreddit from having popular content displayed on Reddit's r/all forum, which the company's motto describes as "the front page of the Internet". It was ranked as one of the most active communities on Reddit. The community was banned in June 2020 for violating Reddit rules on harassment and targeting. Initially created in June 2015 following the announcement of Trump's presidential campaign, the community grew to over 790,000 subscribers who described themselves as " Patriots".
R/The_Donald was a subreddit where participants created discussions and Internet memes in support of former U.S. Banned (since June 29, 2020 2 years ago ( )).“The field is in its infancy and computers simply are not capable of understanding unstructured human language with competence,” Fernandes writes. The study’s author Aakil Fernandes also acknowledges the pitfalls of sentiment analysis, warning users to “be skeptical of the results.” Gizmodo points out the methodology used for the study isn’t exactly airtight, seeing as it only analysed 20,000 Reddit comments – a very small sample size, and those comments dated back to November last year. That community is joined by the happy people at r/gonewild, r/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon, r/Minecraft and scarily, r/guns. Other communities to make the naughty list include r/TalesFrom Retail, r/MensRights, r/Science and, as a nod to Commonwealth unity, r/canada.Ĭonversely, the study shows Pokemon enthusiasts are the most happy-go-lucky people on Reddit with the r/poketradereferences subreddit topping the most positive list. The r/australia subreddit comes in at number two on the most negative list, bested only by the MMA community, where users are probably venting pent up aggression. GetRedditAlerts has this week undertaken a sentiment analysis study by reviewing and analysing 20,000 comments on Reddit and categorising them to form the top 10 most positive and top 10 most negative subreddit communities.