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

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Post by johnnywasagood »

hajile wrote: post #141
johnnywasagood wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I would say it more like site that has some sort of glare of anonymity. That sort of anonymity ables person to be a bit of antisocial (e.g. not everyone would be happy to connect their real life identity to reddit account) but still it is social network.

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

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Post by jldl805 »

Tenoke wrote: post #127
mdp2021 wrote: post #118

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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 g…

The audience and types of conversations vary wildly between subreddits and the issue you are experiencing is likely due to where you have subbed.

Or due to the emotional context and baggage you bring to the website.

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Post by throwaway0a5e »

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.

Damn near every sub is like this with the exception of some joke/meme/video subs that are too small and who's mods DGAF about anything.

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

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Post by intended »

throwaway6734 wrote: post #89
adar wrote: post #75

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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

VPNs dont matter anyway. Just make a new account. Unless you have some topic you constantly focus on, or have a tag line you repeat, you will be invisible.

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Post by throwaway0a5e »

zibzab wrote: post #124
brigandish wrote: post #115

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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 justi…

You are reading this completely wrong! I don't agree with much of the discussion on r/sweden. But it has an open discussion without any bullying or hate speech. There are other subs that promote hate and ban everyone not agreeing with their narrative. What do you feel about them?

>But it has an open discussion

I wouldn't call any discussion where wrongthink gets you excluded to be open.

With Reddit's voting mechanism there's really no great need to censor anything unpopular since the system fudges consensus and anything that even the slightest subset of users finds disagreeable winds up downvoted into oblivion unless there's an equally large subset voting for it.

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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Post by chakkepolja »

intended wrote: post #151
chakkepolja wrote: post #137

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Meta drama started here too.. seriously both sides in Indian politics are so infantile.

Tell me about it. I feel bad for even sharing this forum drama here. If you hadn't responded, I would have just deleted my comment.

Sorry if that was offensive. I cringe every time I see either side with their arguments.

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Post by cblconfederate »

captainmuon wrote: post #97

Funny that the post is deleted. THAT will convince people that there is no conspiracy going on.

Funny thing is there is actually no conspiracy, it 's just the way people behave when they have the power to do so. It's impossible to have power and be mother Teresa at the same time, yet people irrationally believe in wise leaders.

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

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Post by throwaway0a5e »

zibzab wrote: post #116

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?

Beware of the Murray Gell-Mann amnesia effect. Based on my experience with the subjects I know intimately my experience is that Reddit advice is roughly equivalent to asking a teenager to Google something for you.

I fully agree that any sub that's core content involves shitting on people has terrible inhabitants and all the quality of commentary that follows from that. Some of the more lighthearted ones are a little better (e.g. holdmybeer vs idiotsincars) when the content is conducive to such but only in the sense that someone with a crippling mental illness might have a good-ish day here and there.

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