{"id":6290,"date":"2012-07-28T12:23:45","date_gmt":"2012-07-28T17:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=6290"},"modified":"2012-07-28T12:23:45","modified_gmt":"2012-07-28T17:23:45","slug":"boycott-reddit-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/28\/boycott-reddit-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Boycott Reddit? (Again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago I asked <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/should-we-just-stop-using-reddit\/\">Should we just stop using reddit?<\/a>  (For those of you following the Freethought Bullies discussion, I&#8217;ll note that one of my frustrations with Freethoughtblogs, which I overall think is a great blog network, is that so many bloggers there uncritically involve themselves in Reddit to the point that they are by default defending the widespread and offensive misogyny there.)<\/p>\n<p>Lots of people showed up on that post to hate me for hating the hate at Reddit.  Whatever.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, Jim Hines, the author, has written this post:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimchines.com\/2012\/07\/why-i-cancelled-my-reddit-qa\/\"> Why I Cancelled my Reddit Q&#038;A [<strong>trigger warning<\/strong>]<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What Hines notes in his post is even worse than what I had encountered. It is a very good argument for leaving Reddit off your social networking list of things to do.  <\/p>\n<p>Unless, of course, Reddit does the right thing.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago I asked Should we just stop using reddit? (For those of you following the Freethought Bullies discussion, I&#8217;ll note that one of my frustrations with Freethoughtblogs, which I overall think is a great blog network, is that so many bloggers there uncritically involve themselves in Reddit to the point that they are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/28\/boycott-reddit-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Boycott Reddit? (Again)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1Ds","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6291,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6290\/revisions\/6291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}