Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site”
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I have very little sympathy for reddit mods. Too many of them are petty little tyrants with no checks on them. I hope the door hits them on the ass.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Most of the good ones have left since they locked off the API and make most of the tools stopped working anyways. They were already kicked off when they did the strike back then so the remaining mods are pretty much the power mods that taken over after said strike.
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Reddit has been dead since February, when Spez met with The Goblin, and then permabanned thousands, maybe millions of highly active accounts, including me. I was permabanned for repeating a post I had made many times with no issues. After 12 years, and almost a million Karma, I was suddenly too dangerous to allow on the platform, along with thousands of others.
We high volume posters built Reddit, but we shifted from being assets to problems after Trump was elected again.
I was permabanned for saying fascists need to get curb stomped like one forefathers did.
I like how Reddit hosts the most hateful, vile, racist subreddits and bans people like me for not condoning it. That doublespeak is chefs kiss
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Mods get to control the political narrative of their subreddits by banning those with opposing views. That makes them more powerful than admins. As an example, Reddit has been so flooded with pro-trans mods that it's almost impossible to make an anti-trans agenda post in most subreddits without being banned.
You may or may not be right, but that example is apocalyptically bad (and probably betrays that you're not worth talking to, if it reflects your "opinion"), because, ya know, most people with even a slither of empathy within them realize that "making an anti-trans agenda post" is just being a despicable piece of shit.
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'member when redditors would ALL leave because of the API restrictions? This will have no real effect whatsoever. I'm glad that most redditors didn't move to lemmy.
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Yeah my 10+ yr account was like #340 in comment karma or some shit, I was clearly a contributor, but they banned me for nothing. Wish I would have sold it now.
Woah... what's this? I had no idea reddit accounts hold value!
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'member when redditors would ALL leave because of the API restrictions? This will have no real effect whatsoever. I'm glad that most redditors didn't move to lemmy.
I mean, I sure did
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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.
Then how do you manage the type of people who just want control over as much a possible to stroke their own ego while doing a terrible job or pushing their own agenda?
Surely it's better for unmoderated pages to prune themselves, leaving only ones with enough interest to survive.
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I kibd of agree.with this one, on the other hand reddit is not my circus and those mods are not my monkeys.
Hell, I never understood why anyone worked for
free to make the owners richer ? Here I get (and thank you), like an old school BBS but reddit makes zero sense as a mod. -
Because we live in a world where it's easy to block offensive words, so much so that the powers that be like to pretend that blocking talk about the 'cest is somehow an effective tool in combating it. (When instead it just coins an endless stream of new words that act as synonyms for 'the bad words'. 'Cause funk you. Funk you to heck!)
I think the technical term is like 'fauxcest' or something? It's the 'I can't belive it's not incest' thing. Stepfamily, fictional rp and meme subs. It's like a whole brand. They all walk the line but the incest ones especially do.
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Don't forget /r/cuckservative. That shithole radicalizes so many low IQ incels.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Don't get me started on /r/fuckingfascists and all it's little variants.
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lol of course power mods would say that.
Fuck that dumbass site.
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that's the point, when people got a dead end when looking for answers on reddit for the nth time, they will stop clicking those results
Also though running an ad blocker makes them have to serve the web request and not get ad revenue
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Yeah my 10+ yr account was like #340 in comment karma or some shit, I was clearly a contributor, but they banned me for nothing. Wish I would have sold it now.
So how does a person sell their account !?
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I kibd of agree.with this one, on the other hand reddit is not my circus and those mods are not my monkeys.
Hell, I never understood why anyone worked for
free to make the owners richer ? Here I get (and thank you), like an old school BBS but reddit makes zero sense as a mod.Fake importance.
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I got banned for updooting Luigi stuff.
And I'll fucking do it again!
This is the way.
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I got banned for updooting Luigi stuff.
And I'll fucking do it again!
I only got a warning, they said if I did it again I could face a site-wide ban though. Pretty disturbing that they're tracking upvotes to a post.. they said I also upvoted a Luigi comment.. but in both cases, they wouldn't tell me specifically which post or comment triggered it.
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Yeah. When my 12 year old account got banned I stopped caring about that site and started creating new accounts every week and just posting whatever the hell I wanted without feeling like I needed to censor myself anymore. So their ban happy culture tends to have the opposite effect of what they want.
There's a browser script out there that auto-adds all your subs back from your old account, so it really wasn't even inconvenient for me other than the 2 minutes it takes to create a throwaway email account and create a new throwaway Reddit account.
And yeah, their methods for preventing you from coming back end up preventing others using the same computer or in the same household from coming back, so they just lose users. Their methods aren't very sophisticated though, so it's pretty easy to avoid them.
Shit site.
The problem with that is that it's so locked down now you need an account of X age with Y karma, so the majority of the site isn't something you can participate in. And I get it, lots of spam accounts and whatnot, but still shitty that they're a hair trigger away from destroying years worth of built up karma over nothing.
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Mods should be forced to indicate what rule was broken when banning. All bans should be appealable on reddit and addressed by a human being. Mods who have a history of frequent ban overturns should be suspended or banned.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I think the concept of moderation by an individual needs more scrutiny. Why not build a software algorithm to allow for subscribers to vote on moderation actions?
In other words, instead of vertical top heavy moderation, privide a more level, more horizontal process, where our peers play a significant role, or even act as co-moderators.
We are recreating in software all the top down vertical hierarchies we tend to be sceptical of in the real world. Why?
Imagine if there were no jury trial? How much worse would things be?
So why do we build an online world with a lower standard than we use to build the physical world. That's just sloppy.
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I got banned for updooting Luigi stuff.
And I'll fucking do it again!
I got banned for implying someone should give him a call. Reddit can lick my taint, it's not even worth making another account, I can talk to AI bots anywhere these days!
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Reddit died for me the moment RIF went down.
Soon as they fucked over the Apollo dev…re, redd who?
