What would happen if I block the mods? I won’t see anymore stuff from their subreddit or anything?
Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people
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Re: Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
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!
Sometimes, if you're very, very lucky, the moderators will take a look at the posts automod deleted and then manually approve them, which still lets them through. When verifying this, make sure you use an incognito browser tab to see what's actually been deleted. It's all very user-hostile, but should be noted that HN does similar.
Re: Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people
#93You'll be happier if you just don't use Reddit.
People sure love to generalize their experience. No, I wouldn't. I've gotten plenty of value out of it without incurring whatever costs you did which make you so sure your experience is universal.
Re: Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people
#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bit strange to do it under your actual name though.
Sometimes the best place to hide something is in plain sight.
Yes, hiding in plain sight worked masterfully in this case. Nobody suspects anything about socialite Maxwell's secret reddit-moderating account that she named after herself. It's never even come up as a daft conspiracy theory.
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm convinced the political subs are run by people employed by the two large US political groups
A more pychonesque* idea would be that the political subs of whatever colour are run by only one US government agency to give the illusion of freedom and dissention. "The party is over". *E.g. Inherent Vice. A more believable idea as it's based on fact is that Reddit is the playground of paid PR and marketing firms. Makes sense for a PR firm to have moderation powers too. (I suppose this might also be later Pychonesq…
*Pynchon
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would you be banned by a moderator of /r/China_Flu for calling it China flu?
From the subreddit sidebar: > The name r/China_Flu was created at a time when SARS-CoV-2 had not been named and was only affecting China. Subreddit names cannot be changed after they are created. This subreddit is a place to discuss the 2019 Wuhan-originated novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and the disease it causes, called COVID-19.
They assumed it started in China? That’s racist! /s
Re: Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people
#97Funny that the post is deleted. THAT will convince people that there is no conspiracy going on.
Re: Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people
#98I highly recommend unsubscribing from all the default subreddits and only subbing to the programming related subreddits. It'll make your Reddit newsfeed more programming-oriented than HN and completely changes your experience with the site.
Do you have a list of good programming related subs? Most of the ones I've joined seem to be dead or nearly dead.
r/experienceddevs is good for career advice etc.
Re: Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people
#99(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)
Somehow I doubt a 60 year old woman with the job title of “socialite” accumulated 15 million karma on Reddit. Call me crazy.
Re: Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people
#100Also 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
Maybe you should not go into details¹. Because if you presented that evidence to specialists disagreeing with you, they would have their say. And this thread is unlikely to lure them specifically. Here, you are just making statements that cannot be tackled directly. But for the "there exist people who do not clearly appear as non-«quality people» and nonetheless disagree on some points".
(Just to give an example: I have heard about a plausible argument about that «manufacturers say it[']s ineffective», and I do not think the matter should not be discussed in this context, but arguments exist. Good or bad: that is for the analysis table, not the "I just had two minutes available". If matters were clear-cut, the whole problem would not exist.)
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¹Edit: for clarity: with «go[ing] into details» I meant that I invite the poster against introducing statements like «people who believe [whatever is controversial]», and especially because this thread is not here have us stuck in those controversies, and because they would not be solved with two sentences, surely, since there are apparent non-lunatics defending those positions.