Have r/India always been like this?

I don't use my main there, it's super visible so they have a very low threshold for bans. Actually, I don't use my main on any of the India subs, they're all messed up, including the one you linked.

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That's about as political as I'm willing to get.
 
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rsaeon said:
I don't use my main there, it's super visible so they have a very low threshold for bans. Actually, I don't use my main on any of the India subs, they're all messed up, including the one you linked.

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That's about as political as I'm willing to get.
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I, too, remain clear of all Indian Political subs for a very basic reason - it is either totally left (r/india) or totally right (r/indiaspeaks)
There is no point in delving in meaningless long debates as nobody is there to discuss but only to profess.
 
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Yeah noticed they don't wanna discuss they just want to argue. Mods are just paid to go on a power trip. The post says 36 comments and I could only see 1 that too from OP.
I'm gonna mute all of them and will keep my reddit purely for gaming purposes.
 
NikhilSingh25 said:
You guys see for yourself what is going on .
https://www.reddit.com/r/indiadiscussion/comments/1ho2ift/behold_the_official_subreddit_of_my_country_where
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It's a fake subreddit made by either Paks or Banglas masquerading to be Indian.

That is the only reasonable explanation for the behavior you see there.
lockhrt999 said:
indiadiscussion is run by IT cell. What do you expect?
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How do you know that?
mayank11280 said:
No Indian subreddit appreciates nuance.
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That means they are run by kiddies. Of course you won't learn anything because they know nothing
 
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blr_p said:
It's a fake subreddit made by either Paks or Banglas masquerading to be Indian.

That is the only reasonable explanation for the behavior you see there.
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I think we are better than this.

It is already bad enough that a person thinks that extra judicial killing of another over some suspicion of animal smuggling is justified.

All the Indian subs have become polarised. IndiaSpeaks and IndiaDiscussion clearly align with one party’s ideology, r/India aligns with another. They tow the party lines, their mods ensure that. The ban comes to no surprise that they don’t tolerate person from another political ideology participating.
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That means they are run by kiddies. Of course you won't learn anything because they know nothing
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Ideologues suffer from intellectual dwarfism.

They don’t and can’t learn.
 
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Assuming your title is an actual question, I remember that sub was a pretty diverse place before 2014 or so. At that time politics was mostly boring and the sub was mostly 30% politics and rest memes, discussions, basically all of current Indian reddit scene compressed into one sub. That sub was the only place you could find Indian people on reddit, so politics was not able to take centrestage. After 2014 we all know that polarisation in Indian politics has increased slowly, and overall political discussion in day to day life, both offline and online has surged. Turns out the guy who was the top mod of /r/india was left wing, and they started banning BJP supporters. By 2016, there were enough banned people that they created their own sub /r/Indiaspeaks and from that point there was no going back. For a year or two. /r/indiaspeaks tolerated both left and right wing and could actually claim to be better, but it wasn't long before the loudest people there won and they started banning even more egregiously than /r/india. And the sub where this is posted (/r/indiadiscussion) is laughably bad, anything short of hating /r/india and muslims there will get you banned.

People who wanted non political stuff created new subs as the number of Indian people increased on reddit. And so /r/india sub became effectively the Indian left wing subreddit. It's not "official" in any way though, anyone can create a sub and the guy who took the India sub name just happened to be first to claim it.

I am banned from all three subs btw.
 
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NikhilSingh25 said:
he was Shot with a pellet gun. I don't know how much damage it does but surely not enough to kill someone.
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Well, that is just semantics. The point is that a guy is dead. The commentator is making fun of a human’s death.
roadrash99 said:
Assuming your title is an actual question, I remember that sub was a pretty diverse place before 2014 or so. At that time politics was mostly boring and the sub was mostly 30% politics and rest memes, discussions, basically all of current Indian reddit scene compressed into one sub. That sub was the only place you could find Indian people on reddit, so politics was not able to take centrestage. After 2014 we all know that polarisation in Indian politics has increased slowly, and overall political discussion in day to day life, both offline and online has surged. Turns out the guy who was the top mod of /r/india was left wing, and they started banning BJP supporters. By 2016, there were enough banned people that they created their own sub /r/Indiaspeaks and from that point there was no going back. For a year or two. /r/indiaspeaks tolerated both left and right wing and could actually claim to be better, but it wasn't long before the loudest people there won and they started banning even more egregiously than /r/india. And the sub where this is posted (/r/indiadiscussion) is laughably bad, anything short of hating /r/india and muslims there will get you banned.
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Same experience.
roadrash99 said:
I am banned from all three subs btw.
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I just started ignoring these subs after getting heavily downvoted for slightly disagreeing with the dominant view of the sub.
 
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roadrash99 said:
Turns out the guy who was the top mod of /r/india was left wing, and they started banning BJP supporters. By 2016, there were enough banned people that they created their own sub /r/Indiaspeaks and from that point there was no going back.
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Typical leftie behavior is controlling either by bans or censorship

roadrash99 said:
For a year or two. /r/indiaspeaks tolerated both left and right wing and could actually claim to be better,
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That would have been when they had proper right wingers either running or influential.
roadrash99 said:
but it wasn't long before the loudest people there won and they started banning even more egregiously than /r/india. And the sub where this is posted (/r/indiadiscussion) is laughably bad, anything short of hating /r/india and muslims there will get you banned.
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So the right wingers got fed up and a bunch of pseudos took over
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And so /r/india sub became effectively the Indian left wing subreddit.
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Opposition posts, haters and whiners. Wrong place to be
roadrash99 said:
I am banned from all three subs btw.
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I was going to suggest DFI but to my surprise it closed six months back
 
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mayank11280 said:
I am very curious as to what do we mean by left winger and right winger here?

Specifically, what do they mean to you?
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Same as it means everywhere and not that hard to get if you follow politics

Democrats, Congress - leftie (particularly their progressive beliefs which derive from Marxism)
Republican, BJP - right

Left typically meant the commies but they are irrelevant since over a decade
 
blr_p said:
So the right wingers got fed up and a bunch of pseudos took over
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You have too much faith in right wing it seems. The real reason is in any internet community eventually the extremist and loud people will come out on top. The guys who spend all day on the internet and are full of hate for the other side are the most motivated and they are the ones who become mods in these subreddits. Soon the whole mod team is full of such people. Anyone who tries to disagree with them starts getting seen as too soft or secretly a traitor. So polarisation is the natural law of such internet communities. What happened on /r/india and /r/indiaspeaks is exactly the same thing. But due to your own views, one looks to you as a typical behaviour of left wing people and the other you see as not "true" right wing behaviour.
 
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blr_p said:
Same as it means everywhere

Democrats, Congress - leftie (particularly their progressive beliefs )
Republican, BJP - right

Left typically meant the commies but they are irrelevant since over a decade
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Those are examples. What are the qualitative differences between the two to you?
roadrash99 said:
You have too much faith in right wing it seems. The real reason is in any internet community eventually the extremist and loud people will come out on top. The guys who spend all day on the internet and are full of hate for the other side are the most motivated and they are the ones who become mods in these subreddits. Soon the whole mod team is full of such people. Anyone who tries to disagree with them starts getting seen as too soft or secretly a traitor. So polarisation is the natural law of such internet communities. What happened on /r/india and /r/indiaspeaks is exactly the same thing.
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Simply: Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Poles apart yet the same.
 
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