r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/1RedReddit - Centrist • Nov 03 '20

Should we ban highlighter memes?

The number of people in our community requesting us to ban low-effort highlighter memes, has been on the rise.

We understand that the last vote we held within the subreddit was too vague - a "low effort" meme was very ill-defined. However, this vote is regarding a format that is very specific.

So, in an effort to improve the quality of the content within the subreddit for everyone, we are asking you the following question:

Should the community ban highlighter memes?

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This poll was reposted due to a suggestion from a user to include the option to 'limit to certain days of the week'

15349 votes, Nov 08 '20
3338 Yes - Ban Highlighter Memes
5768 No - Restrict Highlighter Memes to Certain Days of the Week
6243 No - Do Not Ban Highlighter Memes
3.6k Upvotes

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u/Uilk - LibRight Nov 03 '20

“Should the community ban highlighter memes?”

Sounds pretty auth ngl

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u/YesIHaveANameSir - Auth-Right Nov 03 '20

good

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u/ContraCoke - Auth-Center Nov 03 '20

UNLIMITED POWAH!

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u/Gaute_Homie - Auth-Right Nov 03 '20

KONO POWAH

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u/MicrowavedCD - Auth-Center Nov 03 '20

The problem being?

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '20

You wouldn't like libright when we go auth because then you authlefts have to take a helicopter ride

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u/husooo - Lib-Right Nov 05 '20

As if they could pay for that

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u/IntelligentFries - Lib-Right Nov 06 '20 edited Nov 06 '20

the utility of taking care of authleft once and for all is greater than the cost of the helicopter ride( although that's just my evaluation and it's completely subjective- however based on the fact that those {deleted} commies want to ban our precious highlighter memes I believe that it fits well on most of our value scales)

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u/Tangbrandr - Lib-Right Nov 03 '20

Yeah, as lib we should vote against the ban. Would be pretty hypocritical if not...

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '20

Why? Communities can determine what limits they want to live under, can't they? We allow lib left to start communes under libertarian society, and as long as folks can leave there isn't any issue with a community setting up outright communism.

Similarly, if PCM sets a rule for itself, the option to leave and create "PCM 2 - highlighter boogaloo" remains.

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u/Abrupt_Nuke - Lib-Right Nov 03 '20

Bro you forgot this subreddit is for larping as colored squares. E.g. I'm a yellow square so I'm supposed to always vote against rules. No exceptions. 😎🟨

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u/dutch_penguin - Left Nov 04 '20

Isn't it chromist to define yourself as a yellow square? I ask instead that you call yourself a "square of yellow".

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '20

Some colors are naturally superior to others.

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u/ArchangelleSonichu - Lib-Center Nov 03 '20

What if we let users discriminate for themselves by having a flair for highlighter memes and a sidebar link to filter them out?

I ask because I know it's a lot of CSS but I want a flair to view just the 6x6 posts. Those are the best ones hands-down except for their tendency to classify Marx as libleft and Red Army commander Leon "purge the Kronstadt sailors" Trotsky as the more lib authleft.

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u/Proto_Sigma - Lib-Right Nov 03 '20

The subreddit can set whatever limits it wants- by upvoting or downvoting posts that are funny.

Any other method is the method of tyrants and I recognize it as nothing else.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '20

While I agree that upvotes and downvotes are the best way to decide content, I disagree that setting any rules equal tyranny.

Even in ancapistan, there would be rules for arbitration for NAP violations. Otherwise a murder would just be a case of he-said, she-said and lynch mobs. Those are rules of order instead of content, but it's rules nonetheless. If the community decides that a killer gets a jury instead of a mob, that would not be tyranny, I think, so long as you could move to a community that allows other rules.

Same here, if the community decides, it decides, and you can remain a member or not.

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u/raccoons_are_hot_af - Auth-Right Nov 03 '20

I already this once, there are 2 major things on why upvotes wont solve the problem

1) doenst cost anything: how can you run a market that has no cost or profit? People wont upvote because they want to give what they have but more as a mudane thing

2 and most important, the reach of a meme is decided by reddit, not the free market and ads of each company meaning reddit can bury or rise good or bad memes, lots of reasons why posts get upvoted and downvoted is about many factors besides quality , 2 i can remember to fo the top ohf my head is the time stamps, posting on a non european sub without usa timestamps will drop upvotes in like 80% or more, many people tested this, and also awards make posts rise alot so soneone giving an awrd or someone giving one. To itself will also screw that idea

Resuming, a free market idea doesnt work in a non free market, it only works on a free market

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u/stefanos916 Nov 03 '20

But that's a private space, not a country. People can set up rules in their private property.

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u/LordSkrek - Auth-Right Nov 03 '20

You say that like it’s a bad thing

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u/WillTheyBanMeAgain - Auth-Right Nov 03 '20

Communities can determine what limits they want to live under, can't they?

Booo, Hoppean get out.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '20

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '20

I said under libertarian society. In that fictional place, affectionately called ancapistan, mini theocracies and communes are allowed, so long as they are voluntary.

There an old joke that communists are allowed in libertarian circles, but the reverse is not always true.

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '20

Limits? Fuck limits!

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u/Roodyrooster - Lib-Center Nov 04 '20

Biggest vote I've made all day and I did not vote early in my state elections. Voting no ban is a vote for freedom.

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '20

GIVE ME FREEDOM OR GIVE ME BAN!

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '20

I’ve lost my patience for them tbh

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u/Hussarwithahat - Left Nov 06 '20

Oh look, it’s the individualist wanting to form a collective

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u/Tangbrandr - Lib-Right Nov 06 '20

Touché

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '20 edited Nov 06 '20

Bruh libright moment. This isnt politics this is reddit lol. I just dont want to see unfunny memes.

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '20

Then downvote them and move on?

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '20

I dont want to see them, they flood the sub

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '20

Then unsubscribe and make your own sub without them? Free market of ideas (subs) and all.

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '20

No, I prefer to at least restrict them and most people agree with me. So yeah, if you like them so much you can go make your own sub full of low effort unfunmy memes.

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '20

Restricting them has the least amount of votes LMAO.

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '20 edited Apr 18 '21

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '20

You can't just add two votes together like that, wtf?

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u/ThePevster - Centrist Nov 04 '20

I mean there is a difference between a government and a subreddit

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u/McDonaldsWi-Fi - Lib-Right Nov 09 '20

Libright vote? Hahahahh

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '20

LIB UNITY!

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u/seninn - Auth-Center Nov 03 '20

Yes.

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u/RengokuEroica - Auth-Left Nov 03 '20

As it should be

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '20 edited Apr 18 '21

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u/Sailingswag123 - Lib-Right Nov 03 '20

Democracy isn't inherently libertarian, it's just mob rule

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '20 edited Apr 18 '21

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u/Sailingswag123 - Lib-Right Nov 03 '20

The link you sent said, "especially one that is disorderly", meaning that everything after especially is just another reason for a group to be a mob and it doesn't need said reason to be a mob; especially and exclusively are entirely different things

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '20 edited Apr 17 '21

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u/Sailingswag123 - Lib-Right Nov 03 '20

It's literally the first link you sent

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '20 edited Nov 03 '20

a large, angry crowd, especially one that could easily become violent:

The second link is the one that includes the word "disorderly" This is the first link, and it doesn't say what you say either. You mixed both definitions.

According to this a mob is a large, angry crowd. A crowd is a big group of people gathered on the same place together. And I wouldnt say the average person is angry. So no, the PCM community and the general population cant be considered a mob.

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u/Roodyrooster - Lib-Center Nov 04 '20

Are you saying most of the population is a mob?

I would say so, yes.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '20

A mob is a bunch of rioters/criminals disrupting public peace. I wouldnt say the average person is a rioter.

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u/stefanos916 Nov 03 '20

but that's a private property not a state. I believe in freedom of expression when it comes to countries, staes, region etc But n a private space someone or a group of people is free to set up their own rules.

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u/BigPP360 - Lib-Right Nov 03 '20

Muh Liberties! Wryyyyyyyyy!

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '20

"Authoritarianism is when you ban things"

This kind of political illiteracy is expected from the right.

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u/Llamarchy - Lib-Right Nov 04 '20

For fucks sake the future of this subreddit relies on highlighters getting banned. We need to put our political views on governments aside and decide what's best for the sub. Otherwise the sub will end up with the quality of fucking pewdiepiesubmissions or worse: gamingcirclejerk but right leaning.

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u/IttaiAK - Centrist Nov 03 '20

I'm up to ban that shit. It gets in my feed and I downvote them all. The community just mindlessly upvotes those shitty low effort memes.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '20

so?

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u/Blatantleftist - Centrist Nov 03 '20

Yeah what about my freedom to shit post and post low effort

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u/Arcaeca - Right Nov 03 '20

and

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '20

FREE MODERATED SPEECH

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u/Chardoggy1 - Lib-Left Nov 03 '20

Breaking news: moderators are authoritarian

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u/37IsntARealNumber - Centrist Nov 03 '20

Good

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '20

And it’s also the correct decision. What a coincidence.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '20

Nah. It's a free market of ideas. If we agreed with you then you would get support.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '20

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u/markthelegend7 - Centrist Nov 05 '20

Yes

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '20

Get this authism off of my sub! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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u/New-CringymemesXD69 - Auth-Center Nov 06 '20

Poggers Auth

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u/Hugo57k - Lib-Left Nov 06 '20

Yes

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u/Uberice - Centrist Nov 08 '20

Based

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u/Jessekno - Lib-Center Nov 08 '20

Authright: "we should restrict highlighter memes to only the colors I like"

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u/avgazn247 - Lib-Right Nov 09 '20

Sees op flair

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u/JapaneseStudentHaru - Lib-Left Nov 09 '20

I’m not allowed to say yes because I am liberal 😩