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Post by musingsole »

mam2 wrote: post #203
esja wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree, but a minor nitpick: Aimee was forced out not just for being connected to pedophiles, but also for lying about and/or endorsing them (among other issues). A massive failure of safeguarding from the Greens and Lib Dems, and now from Reddit. It's astonishing to me that a person like this can become an admin on a website used by millions of teenagers. We already know that admins can access private messages and…

I am 100% convinced that the rate of pedophile is higher in: - positions of power (we have had a few in france who were judges / party representatives etC...) - any job close to children, which includes in particular schools, but also.. - church Why ? Because if you woke up tommorow as a pedophile, without any morals, and wanted to maximise the "chances" to satisfy your sexual attraction, where would you go ? Exactly…

> - any job close to children, which includes in particular...

Schools! Oh...you went a different route. Right, we don't acknowledge the widespread sexual misconduct and cover-ups in the schools for another 5 years in this timeline because the church story was just so juicy.

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Post by unethical_ban »

heterodoxxed wrote: post #84
unethical_ban wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not that it relates to the article (the blackout is a very transparent action) but I agree. The manipulation of content to the front page and /r/all is more and more blatant and without repercussion. And more and more subreddits are becoming "safe spaces" where challenging a narrative gets you banned - See /r/conservative, /r/LateStageCapitalism, /r/OurPresident, /r/BlackPeopleTwitter, etc. The refrain of "just creat…

| commondreams.org is behind the /r/AOC and /r/MurderedByAOC subreddits entirely. Do you have evidence of that?

Not at the moment, no. I recall reading it on another reddit and being sufficiently convinced, for what that is worth.

The mod of those subs is /u/IrlOurPresident, and the submissions are restricted to pretty much only that account. That is where to start to trace down the claim.

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Post by slg »

dannyw wrote: post #226
slg wrote: post #121

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That old reddit was also a haven for near child porn and other sorts of immoral or illicit content. Reddit needed strong moderation to become a functioning business and probably for the good of society as a whole. Maybe their current approach to moderation is overzealous, but let's not look at "old reddit" through rose-colored glasses.

There's a huge difference between banning jailbait and banning the Donald.

I have come to the conclusion that there is no real way to discuss The Donald in a politically neutral way so I think it is best left out of the conversation for the moment. There are plenty of less politically charged examples of Reddit's moderation or the lack thereof.

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Post by Zeratoss »

lettergram wrote: post #271
BitwiseFool wrote: post #18

Reddit feels very Soviet lately. Everything is heavily manipulated and it seems like users are aware of that fact but are powerless to change anything.

There is the ".win" community - https://patriots.win/ https://communities.win/ Which does have a more classic feel.

It certainly has a more bigoted feel.

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Post by Rebelgecko »

jefftk wrote: post #195
Rebelgecko wrote: post #52

Reddit has addressed the situation here, in a mealy mouthed sort of way: https://www.reddit.com/r/modsupport/comments/mbqgx2 However they seem to be denying the accusations that admins (possibly including the individual in question) were manually editing contents containing her name. This whole situation is incredibly bizarre to me. In the first place, why would reddit hire a 23 year old admin whose greatest accompli…

> However they seem to be denying the accusations that admins (possibly including the individual in question) were manually editing contents containing her name. Are you talking about replacing contents / titles with "[Removed by Reddit]"? That's the "Content Removed by Reddit Admins" category in https://www.redditinc.com/policies/transparency-report-2020-...

According to the r/UKpolitics moderator that got banned, one of their comments was manually edited multiple times (first to change the content of the comment, then to fix typos in previous edits)[1]. Reddit hasn't refuted this.

From context I've seen elsewhere, my guess is that the mod posted the text of the Spectator article in its entirely as a comment on their submission. Then, someone edited out the sentence which contained a passing mention of Aimee, but in a nongrammatical way. Then someone went back to fix the edit, and a little while later the comment was full-on deleted (so now it shows up as [ Removed By Reddit ]) [2]

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/mbytxw/_/gs0wor...

[2]: Visible from the mod's user page but not on the submission itself

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Post by notahacker »

nonplussed wrote: post #180
duxup wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit administration seems pretty ad hoc, undisciplined, at times weirdly disconnected from the community, and uncoordinated as it could possibly be. Then again so are all its subreddits, and the volunteer mods are about as opaque and strange as the admins, with the added excuse that they're doing it for free. The fact that the ecosystem has survived seems more like happenstance.

It'd be interesting to see demographics on moderators. My perception is that they must skew young because who else has time to do all that work for free? Volunteer moderation is one of those things that must baffle economists. Here you have people putting in a lot of work for free for a profit seeking enterprise.

> Volunteer moderation is one of those things that must baffle economists

They do the same thing for the same reasons when it comes to peer review...

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Post by Accujack »

Rebelgecko wrote: post #52

Reddit has addressed the situation here, in a mealy mouthed sort of way: https://www.reddit.com/r/modsupport/comments/mbqgx2 However they seem to be denying the accusations that admins (possibly including the individual in question) were manually editing contents containing her name. This whole situation is incredibly bizarre to me. In the first place, why would reddit hire a 23 year old admin whose greatest accompli…

> Does reddit have any audit trail or safeguards when admins edit comments?

No, and despite being told multiple times over the years they have not made any attempt to develop anything like this, despite it being an obvious step to prevent admins from controlling group think on the site.

My theory is that the company is worried that if they start letting people see under the covers that all the users will realize how much the site is used to manipulate them... deletions of "wrong think", bot posts, etc.

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Post by Shorel »

andrewzah wrote: post #58
ryandrake wrote: post #26

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They can always just stop using Reddit. Digg went this way, too, and it ended badly for them.

Was digg as big as reddit is now? The issue for me is I don't know of other good places for long-form discussion and good link aggregation in general. Most of the time in smaller subreddits there aren't really any issues. What alternative is there to /r/AskHistorians? Etc.

It was destined to be as big, yes.

There is no popular alternative now, but something could appear eventually.

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Post by kkoncevicius »

standardUser wrote: post #62
BitwiseFool wrote: post #18

Reddit feels very Soviet lately. Everything is heavily manipulated and it seems like users are aware of that fact but are powerless to change anything.

The subreddits I frequent seem utterly unchanged. Reddit is a big place. I understand that people refer to some ambiguous cross-section of "Reddit" as a shared space we are all aware of and can generalize about. But I don't relate to that concept at all.

I thought this too for a while but ... one small subreddit I read is "DermatologyQuestions". Here is the top post of this month: https://www.reddit.com/r/DermatologyQuestions/comments/m9ndf... And to get a better perspective - read the comments too.

Maybe there are some more niche more secluded "better" subreddits. But as far as unpopular goes DermatogoyQuestions is pretty niche, and is oriented towards doctors and patients. And yet the worst parts of reddit still get here, and are upvoted straight to the top.

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