Speaking as a former mod of "the new r/politics" (for approximately a week, that week including the week they decided to ban Mother Jones), there's absolutely no upside to Reddit for this.
That's pretty damned funny. Thanks for the laugh.
Lol. Just have to put razor sharp dots on the end of each of those blades and we are set.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/01/reddit-guns-assa... It's a link to this article.
I don't see it either, though it is in the html.
This is the link: "http://www.reddit.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.motherjone..." and the title is "Anatomy of an Internet Pissing Match: Mother Jones, Reddit and GUNS". EDIT: this is not showing in the comment either. My theory would be something to do with hubski removing html from comments, because of the html escape codes maybe. Would that work?
www.reddit.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.motherjones.com%2Fpolitics%2F2014%2F01%2Freddit-guns-assault-rifle-ar15-logo-conde-nast
The issue, of course, is that bicycle apparel was not designed and manufactured by the military-industrial complex for the express purpose of killing people. Not to say every AR-15 is intended to shoot someone in the face, but it's not exactly the weapon you use for deer hunting. The other issue being that when /r/politics decided that Mother Jones wasn't journalism, Mother Jones was perfectly free to decide that Reddit wasn't the cute, cuddly one-antennaed savior of Lucas and provider of hospital pizzas. This isn't like the /r/creepshots mess where liberals will finger their worry beads while muttering something about first amendment rights - lovely quotes like …really play to Mother Jones' base. I'm just delighted to not be in the middle. That whole "yeah, we know you have a Pulitzer but we're a bunch of well-meaning nobodies on the Internet and it's our way or the highway" thing was pretty much a low point for me.
I have a title:Anatomy of an Internet Pissing Match: Mother Jones, Reddit and GUNS