The Subreddit "r/worldpolitics" Is Currently a Huge Mess

May Eight 2020, Updated 3:52 p.m. ET

One of the most popular communities on reddit, "r/worldpolitics," is instantly spiraling out of control, customers claim. 

The page, which touts itself as a "free speech 'political' subreddit" with "no agenda" and "few rules," has not too long ago turn into a breeding flooring for NSFW posts that includes porn and hentai (aka anime and manga pornography) — and individuals are blaming the moderators.

What happened to r/worldpolitics?

On Wednesday, a user on the subreddit r/OutOfTheLoop asked if someone knew what was going on with r/worldpolitics, which has over 1.2 million participants. "It seems everything is a 'mods asleep post' yet it’s a massive subreddit that I wouldn’t expect this from," the commenter noted.

In the responses, maximum customers agreed that the moderators weren’t doing their jobs, which allowed for every type of strange and beside the point posts to acquire traction. "The top few posts are mostly the exact same image with the exact same title which are posted by karma farmers along with other obviously bait posts that gain thousands of upvotes," one individual remarked. 

"People are pissed that the mod team is doing absolutely nothing to combat these posts and in response are just s--tposting because the mods don't care."

According to some other consumer, the channel’s steep decline started a few days in the past when a image of President Donald Trump used to be steadily being reposted with the textual content, "upvote this picture of trump looking dumb."

"These posts, aside from not being world politics, angered the users as they break reddit rule number four, which states that 'asking for votes or engaging in vote manipulation' is strictly prohibited," the commenter defined. 

"Despite demands from users to mods to remove these rule-breaking posts, the moderators refused. In retaliation, the users determined that if the mods aren’t going to do their job completely, they may as well not do it at all."

That began a pattern of members posting random and every now and then vulgar content just to spite the moderators, like one user sharing a photo of a potato with the title, "Since the rules apparently don't matter anymore, upvote this potato."

The commenter added, "It appears that the mods have now accepted their fate as mere bystanders as the sub devolves into flames." Can you are saying dumpster fire?

Past reddit controversies come with the platform's stance on racism.

In 2018, reddit’s co-founder and CEO, Steve Huffman, won backlash over his response to a query concerning the site’s insurance policies on hate speech. When a consumer asked, "Is obvious open racism, including slurs, against reddit’s rules or not?" the entrepreneur spoke back, "It’s not."

He added, "On reddit, the way in which we think about speech is to separate behavior from beliefs. This means on reddit there will be people with beliefs different from your own, sometimes extremely so. When users’ actions conflict with our content policies, we take action."

Huffman concluded, "Our approach to governance is that communities can set appropriate standards around language for themselves. Many communities have rules around speech that are more restrictive than our own, and we fully support those rules."

But following intense grievance, Huffman doubled back on a few of his remarks. "To be perfectly clear, while racism itself isn’t against the rules, it’s not welcome here," he said. 

"There exist repugnant views in the world. As a result, these views may also exist on reddit," he continued. "I don’t want them to exist on reddit any more than I want them to exist in the world, but I believe that presenting a sanitized view of humanity does us all a disservice. It’s up to all of us to reject these views."

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