Gotta love Reddit. Almost 10000 comments in an hour? Welp, better remove the post.

I think they did this to create a megathread for it. I dont think they have a function to move all comments from one post to another though.

Also, given how left leaning Reddit is nowadays (or maybe more accurately, how much Redditors hate Trump specifically), I would imagine there were probably a lot of comments that violated the rule about "don't wish death or harm on anyone else," which is honestly a rule that all humans should have the basic decency of applying to everything.

Reddit?! Left leaning?!?!

Not in the subs I used to frequent. The lemexodus seemed to turn the place into a right wing dumpster fire.
- i remember reddit was mostly pro lgbtq and stuff
- Yes!
  
  r/politics is the exception.
  
  But what’s left on reddit is usually far left russian propagnada surrogate subs, and centrist - far right content. The “social democratic left” demographic has severely shrunk.
Fine, then offer a megathread, but to remove posts that people have already started back-and-forth comment chains on is an authoritian attempt to control the conversation.

I don't doubt that we'll see just a handful of new users on the Fediverse as a direct result of this.
- Yeah I really hate that bullshit. megathreads always kill the discussion.
I agree. Does Lemmy have any such rule, or is that instance specific? I've seen a lot of questionable comments on the political communities here.
- There was a post saying it's too bad they missed, and I said "That's not the way," and got a mess of downvotes. People were arguing that me saying we shouldn't advocate for political assassination means that I'm enabling fascism. I don't even know what to say to that.
I was just over there by accident (not logged in) and yes they had the mega thread but literally every other post on that front page was about it. And many of them were not left leaning at all.

I'm sure the reasoning for it was "glorifying violence." I got a permanent site wide ban (that was overturned after appealing) for about 2 weeks for just saying "I so would" in response to a picture of a girl in a shirt that said "punch a Nazi in the face." The post itself wasn't removed, BTW; just a lot of the comments that agreed with it. That, along with the appocalypse, are why I stopped using Reddit. Can't view it the way I want, and it's full of Nazis/Nazi sympathizers in the admin staff. Fuck that site.

There is no place for facts in a politics sub on Reddit:-P

"The fact is, you're either with us, or you're wrong and will be banned." -some mod somewhere
- Do they still have mods, I thought they were all robots at this point? Especially for those large ones... Then again, this is so big it could even be an admin decision.

Reddit bias is real. There is no way the Trump shooting isn't the biggest story on the internet at this moment and reddit is pretending that it isn't trending!

Reddit is 100% Biased!!!

Oh, yay, they're wagging the dog.

i never seen that news before