Sure sure, that's true. The highly controversial subjects Reddit is not good for. I assumed he was talking about something like lawn care or something.
It's definitely not the place to go for neutral political organization.
Politics is inherently highly controversial, is what I meant. And on forums like this, even a slight majority is enough to suppress the other.
After all, think about it: if you have 5000 rabid A voters and 4900 rabid B voters, every pro A comment will be at +100 and every pro B comment will be at -100 even if everyone participates. True approval will be slightly above 49% for B comments but will end up appearing to be massive disapproval.
That's a structural problem with additive/subtractive vote counts.
If you think the reason r/theDonald got banned was for having "conservative political opinions" then you're either ignorant of the situation or being intentionally disingenuous.
Keep in mind Reddit changed their entire front page algorithm because they weren't happy with r/the_donald getting to the front page as often as it was.
Ironically, that sub wasn't banned for supporting a right-wing political candidate but for repeatedly refusing to action content calling for violence against law enforcement.
I was no fan of that subreddit but I popped in from time to time and they were ridiculously stringent about adhering to Reddit's rules.
Also, it wasn't long after that many, many, many subreddits had far worse calls for violence against law enforcement and none of them got banned for it.
> Plurality is a noun that, like majority, can mean more than half of the whole. However when it comes to voting, plurality refers to “the excess of votes received by the leading candidate, in an election in which there are three or more candidates, over those received by the next candidate.” This means that someone who wins the plurality of votes received more than any of the other candidates but not necessarily the majority. (emphasis stripped by copy-paste)
Hillary Clinton won the plurality in 2016, but since this was not a democratic election she was ultimately not elected president. Joe Biden won the plurality (and majority) in 2020.
Unless you're talking about the electoral college vote, but I don't see how you can link the word "mainstream" with an electoral college vote, as that is a vote of elites.
It's definitely not the place to go for neutral political organization.