If it's anti-rich people, pro-gay, pro-drugs, anti-corporation, anti-government, anti-religion, anti-foxnews, socialist etc etc then it'll get upvoted endlessly.
The worrying thing is that people who constantly moan about how misinformed and biased fox news viewers are, are on a website with a ridiculous bias, which also often carries untrue stories because they fit the agenda.
There's a reason why news sites are still very very popular. We need editors. If you allow people to upvote what they want, you end up with complete rubbish and endless circlejerking. The front page is often (When you remove the funny pictures) lots of "We all obviously agree with this. Who agrees with me?!!"
I find it amusing that so much anti-Fox News stuff gets posted, because they are the secondary target market, and they're just doing exactly what Fox wants them to do.
Fox trolls, Reddit gets offended, posts links. It's not like any of the Fox hosts believe what they're saying - They just say more and more absurd things until they get a reaction. It's on the same level as those "Alien woman gives birth to Werebaby" tabloids. The crazy people who watch it only feel legitimised if someone engages them in a serious argument about whether Werebabies even exist.
It's only pro-gay when it's trying to be anti-religion/anti-government. Any other time, the site is hostile to the LGBT community (and women, and people of color, and ...).
There are regular posts and plenty of white knights that defend opposing views. The problem is that most people, as I find with many anti-gay, anti-drug, pro-government people in my day-to-day life, lack the ability to articulate a mature thought supporting their view.
On the weird case that there is a good discussion, the opposing view is upvoted. There were several discussions yesterday stemming from gay marriage and there were several posts that basically said "I'm disgusted purely by the thought of homosexual acts, thus I'm opposed to gay rights" in a more eloquent tone and they were upvoted to foster the discussion.
The frontpage yesterday had a very balanced discussion regarding how MJ does not affect MS in some of the ways that people had hoped. The comments were full of discussion back and forth and first hand accounts from MS sufferers.
If it's anti-rich people, pro-gay, pro-drugs, anti-corporation, anti-government, anti-religion, anti-foxnews, socialist etc etc then it'll get upvoted endlessly.
The worrying thing is that people who constantly moan about how misinformed and biased fox news viewers are, are on a website with a ridiculous bias, which also often carries untrue stories because they fit the agenda.
There's a reason why news sites are still very very popular. We need editors. If you allow people to upvote what they want, you end up with complete rubbish and endless circlejerking. The front page is often (When you remove the funny pictures) lots of "We all obviously agree with this. Who agrees with me?!!"