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Re: Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people

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Post by CyberShadow »

krono wrote: post #16

There's a network of Dutch subreddits, 99% of which are managed by the same clique of mods. Recently I noticed comments I had posted in those subs over the last few months had completely been ignored. It turns out I have been shadowbanned, and not just on the primary /r/thenetherlands sub, but on every single one of the communities they manage. There is no apparent reason for them to have done this to me. My messages…

I was under the impression that shadowbanning was a moderation technique reserved for the admins, and unavailable to subreddit moderators; IIRC, it also applied to the entire website.

Re: Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people

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Post by technofiend »

ddalex wrote: post #3

Also see https://old.reddit.com/r/The_Cabal/ I also filter, using RES, all posters and commenters with over 100k karma, and it's like taking a trip back in time when the internet wasn't tuned to inane content and advertisers

Yes! It's entirely too easy to karma farm by either posting me-too or deeply controversial comments because if people disagree you might get downvoted slightly past zero for a given comment, but if you hit a winner you'll get hundreds or even thousands of upvotes. Detecting and blocking every one of those high noise low signal people would really help. At least until they adapt.

Re: Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people

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Post by dgellow »

swiley wrote: post #15

You'll be happier if you just don't use Reddit.

Just avoid the main subreddits, and use an alternative client like teddit.net (no ads, fast to load, no tracking). Reddit still has lot of niche communities that are interesting to follow.

Re: Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people

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Post by ecmascript »

krono wrote: post #16

There's a network of Dutch subreddits, 99% of which are managed by the same clique of mods. Recently I noticed comments I had posted in those subs over the last few months had completely been ignored. It turns out I have been shadowbanned, and not just on the primary /r/thenetherlands sub, but on every single one of the communities they manage. There is no apparent reason for them to have done this to me. My messages…

The same is true for swedish subreddits. /r/sweden for example is also heavily pushed by Reddit as all new users from swedish ips automatically is subbed to that subreddit.

I stopped using Reddit because of the increased amount of censorship and bans for thinking the incorrect stuff and as someone else said my life is better for it.

Reddit was once a beacon of freedom of speech and today it is a tool to supress freedom of speech and thoughts that go against the mainstream.

Re: Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people

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Post by swiley »

hellbannedguy wrote: post #52
swiley wrote: post #15

You'll be happier if you just don't use Reddit.

I refuse to have it bookmarked, but I do end up there once a day. It's a mindless escape. I did enjoy the Wallstreetbets drama with the short. And there's the boobies. (I still have testosterone?)

Again, you'll be happier with real ones rather than images. Also the more I look into it the more some of the WSB stuff looks fake. Some was certainly real but there was a lot of manipulation going on there.

Re: Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people

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Post by Leparamour »

huibf wrote: post #24
krono wrote: post #16

There's a network of Dutch subreddits, 99% of which are managed by the same clique of mods. Recently I noticed comments I had posted in those subs over the last few months had completely been ignored. It turns out I have been shadowbanned, and not just on the primary /r/thenetherlands sub, but on every single one of the communities they manage. There is no apparent reason for them to have done this to me. My messages…

I don't know why you're going through all that effort instead of just creating a new account.

> I don't know why you're going through all that effort instead of just creating a new account.

I think there is some kind of IP or cookie based identification going on.

One of my accounts was permabanned on the German /r/de subreddit for publically questioning a mod decision. At the next login I found that ALL of my accounts that I used for serious and professional subreddits (netsec, python, learnmachinelearning) and never once used on /r/de had also been permabanned.

I wrote to the helpdesk but they only told me to contact the mods of /r/de which is impossible if you're permabanned.

Re: Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people

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Post by code_duck »

CyberShadow wrote: post #61
krono wrote: post #16

There's a network of Dutch subreddits, 99% of which are managed by the same clique of mods. Recently I noticed comments I had posted in those subs over the last few months had completely been ignored. It turns out I have been shadowbanned, and not just on the primary /r/thenetherlands sub, but on every single one of the communities they manage. There is no apparent reason for them to have done this to me. My messages…

I was under the impression that shadowbanning was a moderation technique reserved for the admins, and unavailable to subreddit moderators; IIRC, it also applied to the entire website.

Some moderators do a soft shadowban where they simply delete every post you make in their sub with no notification. The is functionally like a shadowban - you can see the post in your history and have no way of knowing it was deleted without signing out or using a different account, other than a suspicious lack of votes or replies.

Re: Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people

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Post by aixi »

SquareWheel wrote: post #60
UncleSlacky wrote: post #11

(In)famously, the account widely believed to belong to Ghislaine Maxwell is a moderator of several major subs: https://www.reddit.com/user/maxwellhill (moderator of r/worldnews, r/environment, r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut, r/cyberlaws, r/enviroaction and r/greed)

Is there any actual evidence of this? Sharing a similar name is, of course, not proof of anything.

not really, but the account did become inactive right around the time she was imprisoned

Re: Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people

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Post by code_duck »

rowanG077 wrote: post #58
krono wrote: post #16

There's a network of Dutch subreddits, 99% of which are managed by the same clique of mods. Recently I noticed comments I had posted in those subs over the last few months had completely been ignored. It turns out I have been shadowbanned, and not just on the primary /r/thenetherlands sub, but on every single one of the communities they manage. There is no apparent reason for them to have done this to me. My messages…

Same. The dutch subreddit mods will ban anyone that doesn't align with them on tiny things. So if you want to keep contributing to that community you must swim with the majority or they will ban you.

/r/portland is like this too. You have to adhere to their politics precisely or they might just start deleting everything you post with no warning.

Re: Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people

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Post by read_if_gay_ »

qmmmur wrote: post #20
ddalex wrote: post #3

Also see https://old.reddit.com/r/The_Cabal/ I also filter, using RES, all posters and commenters with over 100k karma, and it's like taking a trip back in time when the internet wasn't tuned to inane content and advertisers

Nice to see the usual suspects on The Cabal. People who believe ivermectin is some kind of miracle covid drug (even the manufacturers say its ineffective) and those who deny COVID even exists. Quality people. https://ebm.bmj.com/content/early/2021/05/26/bmjebm-2021-111... https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02081-w

> Quality people.

A bit trigger happy with the ad hominem there considering you probably think of yourself as the rational side.

> ivermectin

From the first link:

> The use of ivermectin, among others repurposed drugs for prophylaxis or treatment for COVID-19, should be done based on trustable evidence, without conflicts of interest, with proven safety and efficacy in patient-consented, ethically approved, randomised clinical trials.

But there are over 30 RCTs with positive results.

Second link is about one particular study. Again there are over 30 RCTs.

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