Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site”
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Hey, they chose to offer free labor for a company that has proven time and time again to not give a crap about the mods or the users. I get why they are complaining but I at least hope that they aren’t surprised or expect that their complaints will do anything.
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There's a saying in my language that fits this situation perfectly: "Tja."
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If I might add also for: play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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I have negative respect for mods at this point.
I've seen too much unchecked mod abuse to ever take their decisions seriously again.
I was in the WNBA sub a while back. And there was a conversation going about fair pay. I wasnt too into it, but I commented "Is the league profitable now? I thought it was still needing investment from the NBA?" Got instantly banned, and a rather nasty message from a lesbian woman, who was also non binary and "2S". Why was any of that relevant to the conversation? Fuck knows. But she made a point of telling me anyway, while calling me a troll for saying that the WNBA was shit... which I didnt, as you can see from the comment. During the discussion of her inserting what she thought I was saying, I got the back story. I was then reddit banned for "harassment". Thats right, she reported me to reddit for asking why I was banned, and saying that I never did what she said I did.
That was the last interaction I had with a mod, the first was about 20 years ago in an xbox forum. Somehow, a playstation fanboy had got into the mod team and started banning people for saying that they prefer xbox to playstation... on an xbox forum... I have hated mods for as long as Ive been on line. They have nothing been anything other than power hungry bullies.
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Good. We already saw the abuses of certain mods who were basically running a reddit mafia, with power over multiple subs and abused the every living fuck out of that power. Reddits mods, I cant think of anyone more deserving of having their power striped away. Ideally, it would be 1 sub, as 5 is still too many.
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Fuck Reddit basement dwelling mods and fuck Reddit in general, so glad I'm done with that shit app, I say something a little mean and I get perm banned, fucking losers
The echoes in the chamber get louder every day.
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Limiting the power mod reach is a good thing, but still, this will break Reddit. Ordinary users will not be lining up to step in as small time moderators. Especially if Reddit Inc is going to remove them if they do anything they don't like.
Reddit Inc will just go "what the hell, we'll throw more AI shit in the Automoderator. It's not like it'll do worse than the current arbitrary quagmire of moderation rules - or maybe it will be, who can tell the difference anyway".
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Holy shit, they are finally doing something about karmawhores! Not in a particular effective way, they can just alt themselves to kingdom come, but they are doing it.
It was sometimes very telling where those mods were participating in, and given that they've also recently implemented features to make that more difficult (anonymized moderator replies, hidden mod lists, hidden user histories) but haven't really addressed the alt issue, it may have to do more with those embarrassments. Bye bye to the last vestiges of self-incrimination Reddit provided for.
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Breaking news: Reddit is on fire again. In other news, rain contains water and Twitter is full of Nazis. More at ten.
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First picture I found on Google for each because I'm lazy but there they are with pictures attached.
Piefed
Lemmy
Mastodon
Pixelfed
Most of these names are absolutely atrocious.
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putting limits on the number of subs a user can moderate is like putting limits on the number of articles a wikipedia editor can edit.
typically moderation is an opt in job and you want people who actually want to do it to keep things going smoothly. all this will do is make the pool even smaller which will lead to subs becoming more toxic.
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Another easy way is to use a VPN like Mullvad. They block you and you can't see anything.
I DO use Mullvad! It's only $5 a month. I love it.
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There's a real sunk cost fallacy going on when you've been on Reddit for, say, ten years - until you realise that karma, reputation, and awards and stuff are just bollocks.
When I was on Reddit I use to nuke my account completely every 12 months or so, so I cannot relate...
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Most of these names are absolutely atrocious.
To be fair, are there any social media platforms that don't have a kind of stupid name?
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Hope one of them is the fuckwad that banned me years ago
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One the one hand I can understand the issue that one person wielding mod power in many subs is a problem, especially if that mod is prone to abuse of the mod position.
On the other hand, some subs, especially smaller ones, might go modless.
What I would have done differently is that I would not align this rule on the number of subs alone. The size of a sub should also be a factor, as well as overall number of mods in those groups. A good solution would be not as easy as what they propose.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Tbh, I'm active in some modless subs, and apart from the occasional spam or lost redditor it mostly works. r/Arduino (iirc) for example is unmoderated and not exactly small.
People downvote garbage content and it gets hidden fast.
Compare that to e.g. r/showerthoughts which is so heavily moderated that you need a masters degree just to manage to post there without getting your content deleted or r/WiiUHacks where the mods ban you for mentioning the wrong Wii U hacking project (e.g. Pretendo) even though you broke no rules.
The AI moderation is crap as well, but the upvote/downvote system is robust enough to work as a makeshift automoderation system.
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Hope one of them is the fuckwad that banned me years ago
did you get banned from r/kangaroo for posting a wallaby?
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Limiting the power mod reach is a good thing, but still, this will break Reddit. Ordinary users will not be lining up to step in as small time moderators. Especially if Reddit Inc is going to remove them if they do anything they don't like.
Reddit Inc will just go "what the hell, we'll throw more AI shit in the Automoderator. It's not like it'll do worse than the current arbitrary quagmire of moderation rules - or maybe it will be, who can tell the difference anyway".
wrote last edited by [email protected]"Worse" only being "less engagement in the next quarter."
AI mods are probably pretty good in that respect. Random bans don't really matter, they can stick to the party line, and letting a bit more controversial or ragebait disinformation through is a plus. In the short term.
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Limiting the number of large subs a user can moderate is a good way to a) limit their power b) reduce misinformation campaigns.
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I got banned for criticizing billionaires.
