Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site”
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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?
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I still use RIF with a Revanced patch- the few weeks before I figured out how to do that I was zero time on reddit. That's probably healthier for me.
I'm trying to shift over to Lemmy more and more it's just difficult with some smaller/niche communities. But it's worth the effort given how much spez is on his knees.
What's two feet long, and hangs between Sam Altman's thighs?
Spez's tie.
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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 started going there way less after the API restrictions because my favourite client stopped working. Then, I got banned and found out there was a better alternative — Lemmy.
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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 still have a Reddit account that I use to follow NBA news and discussions, but I found myself going there less and less over time because most of the content is just so damn repetitive. The bots are really going into overdrive as of late, and it's making most of the big subs unusable. A lot of the small subs aren't any better because they're either controlled by some terminally online powermods or they're some extremely unhinged echo chamber. That being said, Lemmy isn't any better, but at least it's more private and less corporate.
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Being a bass aggregator myself, its less likely they'll bite the hand that feeds them first,The exposure for my friend's accounts have been phenomenal though.
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lol of course power mods would say that.
Fuck that dumbass site.
Every few months I check back and see if there's any news on awkardtheturtle rearing his ugly head, and every few months im satisfied they were totally obliterated
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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.
Strong words from a former reddit refugee, my man, we were the redditors that moved to Lemmy
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At the risk of agreeing with Reddit:
Under new rules rolling out over the coming months, a small number of users will be required to leave some of their moderator posts so that they aren’t moderating more than five subreddits with 100,000 monthly visitors.
That sounds perfectly reasonable. Reddit has a massive powermod problem.
This was desperately needed.
But I'm not convinced they aren't just going to make alts.
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Lol fuck reddit cuck mods anyways.
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Lol fuck reddit cuck mods anyways.
Working for free for a major company should be considered a mental illness. If your going to volunteer your time do it to an actual good cause.
Not fucking reddit.
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Got banned from the stims community after satirically commenting 'I'm 14 and what is this?'
The moderator demanded that I submit identity documents. I pointed out that the account was twelve years old but they couldn't back down at this point. I think they were trying to do a good job and were at least active but it was another nail in the coffin. In theory, an unpaid mod could be more objective because there's no profit motive but the reality is that many are ideologically biased or dumb or controlling and none of them are trained. That any single individual wants to be in charge of the narrative is suspicious. Scale that ambition up to hundreds of thousands or millions of people it's a red flag. Reddit is completely cooked these days, I haven't returned since finding Lemmy.
To be fair the account could be 9000 years old. You could be a 14 year old on their parents old account.
This one ain't the mods being dumb. This is just liability requirements. Which is its own kinda dumb but it's a whole different problem.
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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.
I don't want more Nazis at ten tho
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I still have a Reddit account that I use to follow NBA news and discussions, but I found myself going there less and less over time because most of the content is just so damn repetitive. The bots are really going into overdrive as of late, and it's making most of the big subs unusable. A lot of the small subs aren't any better because they're either controlled by some terminally online powermods or they're some extremely unhinged echo chamber. That being said, Lemmy isn't any better, but at least it's more private and less corporate.
Some subreddits have become completely impossible to post to. Your posts get deleted right away.
Plus, the option to default to Old Reddit doesn't work anymore. So fuck them.
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So how does a person sell their account !?
Yeah, I'm also interested. Why not? Better to sell it now that has value than just getting banned.
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I joined after getting some weird warning about upvoting comments reddit didn't like. That left a sour taste in my mouth.
Also, it's creepy that they check upvotes.
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Nice. I got banned from AmITheAsshole for telling a poster to break his friends kneecaps over $20.
Deserved everyone knows you break toes for 20 bucks knee cap for 40 and elbows at 60!
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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.
except it ultimately falls to the admins which institute all these changes, and filters to the site. mods are just patsies, yea there are problematic mods, and this at the behest of spez too.
