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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reddit is very left-leaning in general. I remember seeing one of those political compass memes that was like “My state’s politics in reality” with a dot in the center of the compass, and “my state’s subreddit” which was way to the left. It’s a known phenomenon - my personal opinion as a long time Reddit user is that since the site relies so much on unpaid volunteer moderators, these people are largely younger and under-employed and thus more likely to be very far left and dogmatic on the political spectrum.

I think the best thing you can do is ignore/downvote all the extreme content - just don’t let it get traction at all. [/quote]

OP here. Your interpretation makes sense about the &quot;under-employed + free time =&gt; left-leaning&quot; part.
I'm also thinking that since NoVA suburbs are ~65% blue, it is natural that r/nova is also blue. I accept that, but it is sad to see that the people in this sub are so intolerant to any political view that is not left-leaning (that includes centrists). Maybe this phenomenon is indeed correlated with age.

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I mean, you were downvoted for being wrong.[/quote]

This is purely based on your point of view. I won't go into the details on why I think you are wrong because this thread is going to be derailed, but I respect your opinion.[/quote]

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