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

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Post by yourusername »

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.

They will shadowban your new account unless you only use the new account through a VPN (and possibly take other steps to prevent them associating the two accounts).

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

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Post by lloydatkinson »

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…

How do you check if you are shadowbanned?

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

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Post by lloydatkinson »

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…

I’ve started using saidit

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

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Post by brigandish »

zibzab wrote: post #90
ecmascript wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 prom…

It sounds like they dissent from those opinions and you don't so you're fine with it and they're not. As Chomsky said "Everyone is in favour of freedom of speech for speech they agree with".

Since I'm quoting people, J.S. Mill wrote down what the problem is for all of us when this happens:

> If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. Were an opinion a personal possession of no value except to the owner; if to be obstructed in the enjoyment of it were simply a private injury, it would make some difference whether the injury was inflicted only on a few persons or on many. But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

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

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Post by zibzab »

What I really want is a big list of subs with actual useful stuff. No memes, no hate or soft-hate [1] but useful things like electronics or how to play the piano.

[1] have you noticed that many of top subs are about either watching others humiliation or judging people? idiotsincar, iamatotalpieceofshit, maliciouscompliance, etc. Do I actually become a better person by following these?

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

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Post by [deleted] »

arvinsim wrote: post #45
tsjq wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Absolutely well said about the stewarding traffic and influence. For eg mods of country level subs like eg r/India are known to be super overtly biased towards one side and the mods known to be siding with India's archenemy Pakistan. Same collusion is seen on India-relates news in r/Worldnews sub . It is insane levels of so called moderation.

We don't even know if the country level subs are moderated by their respective actual citizens.

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

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Post by mdp2021 »

Tenoke wrote: post #93
swiley wrote: post #15

You'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.

Surely that place has value: in the posted material, if you can scavenge. On the human side, it can be a mess - extremely difficult to have a proper and mature discussion there.

In places that entice emotional participation it is sheerly consequential that gut behaviour is effectively promoted. But this excludes «proper and mature discussion» as a consistent plan. It is very different from "[scope: ] «anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity»".

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

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Post by supperburg »

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…

This is the most un-dutch thing I’ve ever heard of. How could actual dutch people behave like that?

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

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Post by intended »

tsjq wrote: post #10
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.

Absolutely well said about the stewarding traffic and influence. For eg mods of country level subs like eg r/India are known to be super overtly biased towards one side and the mods known to be siding with India's archenemy Pakistan. Same collusion is seen on India-relates news in r/Worldnews sub . It is insane levels of so called moderation.

Oh story time. You should know, India meta verse drama on reddit is the most infantile stuff around, if it weren’t for the death threats and harassment. And the rabid islamophobia. And the misogyny. And the multiple essentially hate subs which want to have this content on the main subreddit.

I’ve been on that forum for many years, and I’ve seen it all evolve.

Here’s one example of the dumbest things that go around - a troll account called crimsondot, came up with a copy-pasta Where he claims all sorts of things, including that one of hte mods was of Bangladeshi descent.

For years this claim went around, and it morphed into the general claim that one of the mods was Bangladeshi.

Then in the past few years, since Bangladeshi was insufficient, it became changed to Pakistani.

All of this, set up by a troll account, and now a claim repeated on HN.

Frankly people have forgotten the fanatical support you found on r/india for then CM Modi.

I take it as healthy that the sub has been able to constantly find itself at odds with the ruling party. IT suggests that opinion is driven by grumbling users, not by any cabal.

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