Largest Pro-Trump Community Gains 10,000 Members After Reddit ‘Quarantine’

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After social media platform Reddit put restrictions on its subpage r/The_Donald—the largest fan club of President Donald Trump—the page grew by about 10,000 subscribers in 24 hours, compared with a growth of about 11,000 a month during the preceding year.

As of the afternoon of June 27, the subscriber count stood at 765,000.

Reddit put the page in “quarantine” in the afternoon of June 26, which means the page doesn’t show up in search, recommendations, or general Reddit feeds, such as the r/Popular. Ads are also no longer placed on the page–which had been the case already—and users are shown a warning before they can access it.

“The reason for the quarantine is that over the last few months we have observed repeated rule-breaking behavior in your community and an over-reliance on Reddit admins to manage users and remove posts that violate our content policy, including content that encourages or incites violence,” a message the The_Donald’s voluntary content moderators received from the company reads.

One volunteer moderator, shadowman3001, who manages the official Twitter account of The_Donald (@thedonaldreddit), dismissed the argument.

Rule violations are relatively common on Reddit, or on social media in general. But the moderator calculated that since April 1, Reddit administrators only had to take action on 57 pieces of content on The_Donald, while the voluntary moderators took action on nearly 160,000. That appears to contradict Reddit’s argument of The_Donald’s “over-reliance” on the administrators.

“Fairly few” of the actions by the moderators deal with “calls to violence,” shadowman3001 said in a Twitter message.

“Let’s say there were a dozen legitimate calls to violence, just for argument,” the moderator said. “There are 2.3 million prisoners in America. That’s about 0.6% of the population. Out of the reported 750k members of The_Donald, a dozen people makes up 0.0016% of The_Donald’s population. What a cesspool, huh.”

Oregon Situation

Reddit’s message referred specifically to “encouragement of violence towards police officers and public officials in Oregon.”

That remark most likely refers to the way some Reddit users reacted to the reports earlier in June that Oregon Gov. Kate Brown deployed the state police to round up Republican state senators. The senators staged a walkout to block the Democrat-controlled legislature from voting on the so-called “cap-and-trade” bill. read more