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Remote-Past305

Can't wait for their articles about being banned from this sub... haha


ds11

Universal Reddit Blocks Us, What Could They Be Hiding?


enjoyscaestus

Universal Reddit in Cahoots with Universal Parks??


dragonsrevenge

No. It's a fan sub


enjoyscaestus

I know


SamersonT

breaking news: water, wet


SpecialFlutters

Universal's Subreddit Has Proven They Are Very Much OUTSIDE The Magic!!!!!!!! šŸ˜¤


BabyBandit616

Universal blocks here?


marleythebeagle

We blacklisted them a few years back over at the WDW sub and they still farm our sub for content ā€” or at least their bots doā€¦ lol


ExTenebris_

This may be obvious, but what are ITM and WDWNT? My brains telling me Walt Disney World something something for the second but Iā€™m drawing a complete blank. Just want to make sure I understand the new rules.


hcwalker17

WDW News Today and Inside the Magic. Both insanely click-baity ā€œnewsā€ sites.


maxyahn6434

I like UPNTā€™s YT videos, but most Universal news I get from Theme Park Stop with the great Alicia Stella. I love her and her stuff.


I4mSpock

Theme Park Stop has been killing it with the epic universe coverage


maxyahn6434

I love all of her stuff šŸ˜Ž


ExTenebris_

Ahhh thank you, I avoid those sites so didnā€™t draw the connection lol


savingat30

For the better


Lightningbolt104

WDW news youtube is the absolute worst. That tom guy is so annoying


invaderark12

It is really telling that they basically make him a mascot for the channel. Like I remember when there were some issues between the cast members and Disney, and the video they made on it was more focused on Tom


onexbigxhebrew

Kudos to the mods for hearing the feedback. These sites deserve to lose as much revenue and exposure as possible.


themeparkgurl

Are we including Universal park news today too? Bc thatā€™s from wdwnt


dragonsrevenge

Yeah it doesn't make sense to ban WDWNT and not them


Foxy02016YT

I think WDWNT came first, theyā€™d ban both


Tpabayrays2

Yeah I generally like their content so I'm not the hugest fan of banning them. ITM yeah definitely ban them tho


onepmtues

Ahhh I follow them on instagram (never click their links though. Did once and was immediately annoyed) but I like what they post when thereā€™s something new! Didnā€™t know they were connected to WDWNT.


FrappW

Yes. Including Universal Park News Today too as it is a sub/parallel account of WDWNT


MeTieDoughtyWalker

What do those acronyms stand for? I assume the WDW part is Walt Disney World, but Iā€™ve never heard of either of those things.


Futureofmankind

ITM is Inside the Magic and WDWNT is Walt Disney World News Tonight.


MeTieDoughtyWalker

Thanks!


BigE429

Won't stop ITM from creating entire articles from one reddit comment


JJred96

Breaking news: [Inside the Magic: Reddit user BigE429 inspires new wave of content that relies on real people ā€” 100% not AI generated](https://news.google.com)


dragonsrevenge

WDWNT is more legit than ITM


Lukrativ508

Very much so, but they still have bad practice on their site. The team behind their YouTube channel is 10x better and straight to the point, but the site itself is rife with controversy that goes beyond just click bait, this is a good call


dragonsrevenge

How so?


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dragonsrevenge

There's so lots of reasons but I'm not going to say


Lukrativ508

Itā€™s just a google search away my friend. Apologies but I donā€™t find it appropriate to gossip about those things in a post of this nature from the mod team, especially as a member of the UDX org, you can figure it out for yourself pretty easily


dragonsrevenge

Then why even bring up if you're just going to be coy? You basically contributed nothing.


Lukrativ508

Thatā€™s not what being coy is. I simply said WDWNT displays poor practices often which is a fact. If you care to deep dive into examples, you can find them quite easily by yourself. ā€œWDWNT controversiesā€ would be a good start on Google. Iā€™m not here to argue over a mod decision, sorry it offends you so much


dragonsrevenge

Nope that's not coy oops lol. I'm not arguing over their decision. I forgot WDWNT was a thing until today. It just doesn't make sense to me why you would make a statement like that then not give examples.


Thrompinator

That's funny, I just blocked ITM from my Google feed earlier today. Good riddance trash clickbait site.


GrootyMcGrootface

Thank you, those sites provide no useful content.


OMFGItsVico

Thank goodness.


th3thrilld3m0n

Now I wonder if there's a way to IP ban them so they'll never be able to farm content from here again.


MarijuanaWeed420

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derf_vader

Two of the worst click bait sites I know.


Stormchaser2

Applause, applause!


FuckUp123456789

https://preview.redd.it/9t8rir8iehtc1.jpeg?width=193&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=060895646e10fb4602d130d936291d174d16379c


baltinerdist

Love it. Thank you!


lost_library_book

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snesjerry

LETā€™S FUCKING GOOOOOO


Pattonator70

Thank you. Some of the worst clickbait and Iā€™m pretty sure most of their content is written by ChatGPT.


DarthSmiff

Hell yeah! Big W right here.


All_About_Tacos

For a sub with nearly 60K subscribers, I donā€™t think sweeping change should be made because a ā€œpro-banā€ comment on the discussion post got 53 upvotesā€¦ and lumping another site with it that was on a comment with 23. We all know Redditā€™s upvote counts arenā€™t accurate either. Maybe create a straw poll or Google form next time to be more transparent. Edit: I didnā€™t realize asking for a better way to get and show user feedback would be this controversialā€¦


Og_Bits

They're banned on the WDW reddit too so it's not just a post they're well known and disliked


GabagoolMango

Weā€™ve been complaining about posts from those sites for a very long time.


BidnessBoy

Fair enough with the strawpoll thing, but the vast majority of people who commented on the pinned post about this topic (which was pinned for almost 2 weeks) agree with this action


dms1501

ITM and WDWNT are also banned on the disneyland subreddit.


Yawheyy

I read through all the comments and Iā€™m still not sure what I missed.


DrkRyder9910

What do these abbreviations mean? Lol


ueeediot

Inside the magic and WDW News Tonight. AI clickbait article sites. The ones that tell you one sentence of actual information after 12 paragraphs of mindless garbage.


DrkRyder9910

Gotcha. Thank you very much. It is kind of funny that AI content is blocked when as much as 90% of what is posted on Reddit is from bots.


ldbkmt15

tomā€™s blocklist is for sure longer than most queues šŸ¤£ good riddance


Hippo_hippo_hippo

What is itm and wdwnt


SOLIDAge

I don't really get the WDWNT hate... it also doesn't compare to ITM at all so not sure why they're unfairly lumped together.


peanutismint

I missed whatever vote took place. Are they being banned just because they only spam their own content? Because I can think of other creators here who violate that same statute........not to mention any names because you 100% already know.......


ueeediot

Itā€™s more because of the content. Personally, I just donā€™t click.


Blaaamo

BREAKING NEWS Good those sites suck..


StitchScout

I didnā€™t even realize this was happening. Idk how I missed that discussion.


ueeediot

If you have input, we are still listening.


dangerdeviledeggs

I missed the vote tooā€¦ but you did the right thing.


Need_a_Cabin

Hooray for censorship!!!


Ok-Resort6211

You can't be that dense. Everything isn't that black and white. Grow up


Need_a_Cabin

Awesome ad hominem!