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

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Post by radicalbyte »

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.

I find that quite amusing, since The Netherlands was for much of its (short) history the place where everyone with non-standard opinions fled to.

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

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Post by pzumk »

TomGullen wrote: post #4

On the face of it seems strange why anyone would want to moderate popular subreddits, just seems like a lot of unpaid mundane and never ending work. Younger me might of been excited to do it from the perceived status perhaps. I do wonder how many off-site deals are done with moderators and third parties. There’s a lot of traffic these people are able to steward and influence I imagine.

Reddit launched an International Ambassador Program a few months ago[1] and they are paying German power users 20 EUR per hour to create German niche subreddits + 250 EUR bonus for each launched subreddit[2]

[1] https://reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360060476592-Intern...

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/n8g2om/redd...

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

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Post by aixi »

pzumk wrote: post #83
TomGullen wrote: post #4

On the face of it seems strange why anyone would want to moderate popular subreddits, just seems like a lot of unpaid mundane and never ending work. Younger me might of been excited to do it from the perceived status perhaps. I do wonder how many off-site deals are done with moderators and third parties. There’s a lot of traffic these people are able to steward and influence I imagine.

Reddit launched an International Ambassador Program a few months ago[1] and they are paying German power users 20 EUR per hour to create German niche subreddits + 250 EUR bonus for each launched subreddit[2] [1] https://reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360060476592-Intern... [2] https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/n8g2om/redd...

so that's why I've been getting notifications about joining German niche subreddits such as theSimsDE. I'm not proficient in the language yet, but I assume it's because of my location

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

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Post by Tenoke »

TomGullen wrote: post #4

On the face of it seems strange why anyone would want to moderate popular subreddits, just seems like a lot of unpaid mundane and never ending work. Younger me might of been excited to do it from the perceived status perhaps. I do wonder how many off-site deals are done with moderators and third parties. There’s a lot of traffic these people are able to steward and influence I imagine.

Does anyone pay you to post here or elsewhere on the internet? I assume no but you still do it. At the end of the day moderation is similar to frequent commenting except it comes with more prestige and power.

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

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Post by nmeofthestate »

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #49
tome wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bit strange to do it under your actual name though.

but it's not under her own name, it is a name that is close to her name. The account is suspected of being hers but as I understand it not proven to be hers. So that seems a good practice to me - use a name that could be arguably yours so that you are not hiding anything if caught out but enough not yours so there is plausible deniability. Then make a bunch of deeper cover names that you run that are harder to pin on…

> but it's not under her own name, it is a name that is close to her name.

Bit strange to do it under a name that is close to your name

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

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Post by krono »

oauea wrote: post #71
CyberShadow wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Mods can set up automoderator with a shitlist of users whose messages are deleted the very moment they're posted, as the moderation system is built into reddit now. So it's not a true shadowban, but any posts you make on subreddits who have shitlisted you will get deleted instantly. And of course when a post of yours is deleted on reddit by a mod, reddit does not tell you this or indicate it to you in any way.

Some of the posts that I made post-shadowban were let through, and some were only removed after they had been up for several hours and gained replies. So it looks like they were manually deleting my posts.

I've long since stopped caring about the ban itself, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't curious to learn the reason for it!

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

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Post by throwaway6734 »

adar wrote: post #75
read_if_gay_ wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

True, but they are the ones with all the power. I think you’re fighting not just an uphill but an impossible battle. With very little upside to you if you win.

It takes about 10 seconds to create a new Reddit account so it's the moderators who'd be fighting the uphill, impossible battle to keep someone banned.

Reddit provides tooling to identify people on new accounts that have been banned in the past. I think you'd need to couple this with a VPN

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

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Post by zibzab »

ecmascript wrote: post #64
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 freed…

Not sure what your issue is. I find r/sweden pretty okay, not perfect but tolerable. They don't allow outright hate speech which is btw illegal anyway. Misinformation is usually not deleted but often called out and down voted by members. I am 100% okay with that.

r/sverige on the other hand is run by a really angry uncle who probably doesn't like most people.

r/okpolarncp is basically incels and nazis. It is too promoted to front page...

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