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

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Post by hajile »

johnnywasagood wrote: post #106
float4 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

/r/thenetherlands is a joke. So many comments are being removed in order to "maintain community standards". I once posted a genuine question there: "Do you think /r/thenetherlands is an echo chamber?" "[Your post was removed for being off topic]" Oh well. Now I just don't use reddit anymore. My life is better because of it.

It is funny to read this because of so many redditors will comment on every facebook related post how good their life become after ditching that social network. And they are immediately forgetting about other social network (reddit) they currently use.

Reddit seems more like an antisocial network.

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

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Post by im3w1l »

josephwegner wrote: post #48
fnord77 wrote: post #9

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I'm convinced the political subs are run by people employed by the two large US political groups

Just as an anecdote, I used to moderate one of the more popular political subreddits. It was a difficult task and burnout on the team was common. I can say that the mod team was not just shills for a particular party (unless they were undercover even to me). The entire mod team, even to this day, is there for altruistic reasons - we felt we were doing a service to our fellow Americans by fostering healthy political d…

> unless they were undercover even to me

Yes I would expect undercovers to be undercover to other mods. Like imgaine some random guy starts some subreddit adds a few friends as moderators right. Then it blows up, so some influence group decides they need to get in on it. They would certainly not be open about their strategy of gradual take over.

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

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Post by dijit »

zibzab wrote: post #101
aixi wrote: post #68

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

I wish reddit and others would archive and preserve accounts of people convicted of various crimes. It would be extremely enlightening to follow radicalisation and communication of, say, an incel terrorist.

Radicalisation is actually very interesting and I (ashamedly) nearly succumbed to the same thing myself.

There's a really good youtuber called "Contrapoints" that attempts to deconstruct with low judgement the kind of environment an Incel lives in and what the worldview is.

Empathy is always at the root of deradicalisation, so I always plug her videos when I can.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD2briZ6fB0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPhrTOg1RUk

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

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Post by mdp2021 »

qmmmur wrote: post #108
mdp2021 wrote: post #100

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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 h…

It's actually pretty simple to read the evidence and come to the conclusion its not suitable to be used in the treatment of COVID. Unfortunately the issue is plagued by misinformation and those who profit from peddling it.

Which evidence do you find simple - those two links you posted? (Non rhetorical question - in case of doubt.)

People who will read that evidence without full contextual intellectual preparation will not be able to be certain of their evaluation; they are not competent to review it ("review" as in the expression "peer review").

On the other hand, yesterday I started exploring the material of a medical doctor who publishes interesting conferences - found as I was looking for other material, and to my surprise, from what he practices on himself I am sure he would disagree with your previous post. Who to trust?

On the other hand, if I see censorship, few exceptions aside it will be very clear that the censorship will help approaching truth. And for this, one name I will give: Lex Fridman, who denounced the matter a few weeks ago, while interviewing for this podcast one of the notable censored voices.

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

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Post by jmuguy »

MrPowers wrote: post #31

I 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.

Except for r/ProgrammerHumor unless you like the same 3 jokes about javascript and awkward screenshots from Tinder showing that a developer somehow, against all odds, got a date with the opposite sex.

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

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Post by socram2k »

elzbardico wrote: post #25
asutekku wrote: post #19

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That screenshot is from /pol/ so I'm curious if the complaints about "censorship" were that people couldn't call it a china flu.

Of course, because for some reason this is suddenly unacceptable but it is ok to have an Indian variant or a Brazilian variant.

Spanish flu...

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

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Post by detaro »

socram2k wrote: post #146
elzbardico wrote: post #25

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Of course, because for some reason this is suddenly unacceptable but it is ok to have an Indian variant or a Brazilian variant.

Spanish flu...

is an excellent example of why that kind of naming is stupid, given that it likely first appeared in the US and primarily became known as "spanish" because Spain (not being at war) was actually talking about it instead of censoring reports about it.

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

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Post by dartharva »

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.

Eh, if you look at the other refugee subs that propped up for people who were banished by the main r/india sub you'll see they feature the kind of toxic content that would anyway get banned in any kind of country-specific sub context. The bias existing in r/india comes from the overall general left-leaning tendency of redditors, not from any sinister conspiracy.

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

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Post by slightwinder »

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...

Fascinating. Not sure whether this is good or bad. German subreddits are usually either trashy or dead. The german community already did something similar some years ago, and created a dozen localized subs of english topsubs and some localized cultural subs. Most of those did not grew very well IMHO.

I think a major problem for this was the limitations of german community. It's seems most are very young with very specific interessts and culture, so naturally they end up with content that caters to just those people, while the rest just hangs out in the better international subs.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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.

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