Even if you took away all controversy and politics, I hate Reddit. The search function sucks. They shoved their own harebrained video player down everyone’s throats and it constantly plays by itself without opening. And when you do open it it doesn’t fucking play half the time. They also foisted their eye-bleeding updated user interface upon our innocent souls and forever corrupted us. It can only be described as Fischer price from hell. And also the idea of Reddit sucks on a structural level. There are tons of subs that are cool but too narrow to gain a large following. They can’t fill in the template subreddit community. You see overly specific subreddits like “praise the camera man” or “public freak outs” or “woah dude” and they invariably all cycle through the same videos and pictures, the ones getting the most traction, violating the whole premise of having specific communities. It should have been something like you can tag a post “woah dude” or “videos that end too soon” and just submit it to the universal page. People could still track tags of interest and do everything without the whole mess and insanity of subreddits and also without assholes turning subreddits into little fiefdoms.
Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people
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#132On 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.
> just seems like a lot of unpaid mundane and never ending work.
Some subs like /r/politics and /r/news appear to be ran by the Democratic Party... Would it public be public data if they used party funds to moderate them?
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#133The online platforms that were supposed to provide us a democratic free space to communicate are in fact governed by a tyrannical and unaccountable minority. We see the same situation on Facebook with group moderators and on Twitter (albeit less so) with high follower count blue-check accounts. Not to mention the companies themselves having the power to ban any speech they want.
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#134Old news, unfortunately: https://old.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/gk0w4c/t...
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#135Power Law is everywhere, even where you least expect it.
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#136We live in a power law universe
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#137Earlier 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.
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 -…
Meta drama started here too..
seriously both sides in Indian politics are so infantile.
Re: Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people
#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm convinced the political subs are run by people employed by the two large US political groups
I am convinced that r/conspiracy is also run by the same folks...
Although not officially proven, it was ran by either trump's team or people very close to them for a while: https://thisinterestsme.com/r-conspiracy-reddit/
Re: Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people
#139There'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…
Social networks rediscovering society. Isn't that pretty
(Social) Nature is healing...?
Re: Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people
#140There'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'm suspecting that PR firms have understood for some times now how influential those social networks were to reach people that traditional in-your-face propaganda works ineffectively on. If you want to touch the heart of geeks, artists, activits and passionate people, you need to do it in a format that they will accept, and because they are very active on the world, those are important targets.
For things like HN or imgur, I assume there is a way to pay them to get the com you want in a way that appears to be organic. That's the best way to make money for those kind of sites after all. Want to make a billionaire a hero? Suddenly, comments everywhere say how much the guy is great, links to articles of his achievements raise to the top and critics are down voted, or/ and counter answered elaborately by what has all the signs of a long time user account. Want to sell a new movie or a political program? How about some "fan-made" memes or technical article that everybody seems to love?
Even better for those firms, why pay if you can avoid it? In reddit, work patiently to have a lot of accounts that are mods in topics you care about, and you basically own the system for free. Even better, now others will pay you to do com targeting those communities.
In that sense, I think facebook and twitter are at least more honest about how they influence society because they are explicit about their paid communication offers.