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

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Post by throwaway98797 »

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?

the world of reaction is bigger than the world of action.

any sub that’s practical is inherently less active. There’s only so much good base knowledge.

Reacting to base knowledge is endless low value content.

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

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Post by CompMan411 »

josephwegner wrote: post #54
fnord77 wrote: post #8

I wish there were more transparency in who the moderators of news and political subs, what their day jobs are and who pays them.

This could only happen if Reddit actually took some responsibility for the safety of their moderators. Death threats are commonplace for mods of political subs. They're mostly empty threats, but it'd be a much more significant risk if names/employers were public.

I was a mod and drew the line when I got a death threat.

Most mods work as volunteers to keep a sub clean of spam and porn. When the only ‘thanks’ you receive is, ‘we know where you live, watch your back’ I’m done.

The cherry on tip is when you notify the admins that there is nefarious activity and they literally don’t return a response for 3 weeks.

Reddit’s voting system enforces group-think, the users think it’s a ‘democracy’ in that they get to make the rules and mods should just follow orders, then mods need help due to an uprising, admins are no where to be found.

The meme subs aren’t funny any more, pics of cats and dogs are tired. The anti-mask, anti-vax, the_donald, and so much more all incubated in Reddit under the watch of the mods, the admins, and Condi Nast themselves for nothing more than advertising dollars.

I understand Reddit serves a purpose for some but it, in part, is assisting in the downfall of society. By allowing people to downvote without thinking critically, without thinking about the affects of polarizing endlessly until right and wrong don’t matter as long as everyone is in agreement. And if someone isn’t in agreement, downvote them in to oblivion.

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

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Post by the_only_law »

supperburg wrote: post #131

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 Fis…

> They shoved their own harebrained video player down everyone’s throats and it constantly plays by itself without opening

I can’t even listen to music anymore while browsing Reddit because some goddamn ad or post I scroll past will hijack audio thanks to this stupid auto polar, which I’m pretty sure I disabled in the settings.

Prior to a recent update, I couldn’t even find a pause button to press while viewing comments.

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

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Post by CompMan411 »

elevenoh wrote: post #57

reddit tends to moderated by folks who've been wearing a mask around the clock for 1.5 years & rarely leave their comfort-zone. the comments are slowly reflecting the result of this^ sjw-ish, anti-capitalism, anti personal growth etc.

I wore a mask and don’t leave the house, but other wise agree with you, Reddit is mostly an echo chamber for the worst aspects of both the left and right socio-economic ideas.

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

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Post by swader999 »

qmmmur wrote: post #20
ddalex wrote: post #3

Also 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

The manufacturer of ivermectin, Merck, has in trial a patented and very similar formula that is doing quite well. Ivermectin is off patent.

IVM cured my long covid and r/ivermectin was helpful when my regular doctor said to just wait it out. Much of that sub is real people describing their success with it.

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

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Post by engineeringwoke »

radicalbyte wrote: post #81
rowanG077 wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I find that quite amusing, since The Netherlands was for much of its (short) history the place where everyone with non-standard opinions fled to.

Polder culture is very much about swimming with the majority, doesn't surprise me that the subreddits would reflect this

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

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Post by victords »

UncleSlacky wrote: post #11

(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)

Why is it even suspected to be her? Just because of the account name?

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

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Post by effingwewt »

None of this is new, we tried telling people this what 8-10 years ago? Someone not too long ago even made a diagram showing this. This has been since before the first ban wave, when I quit the site.

No one cared, nor did they care about the China astroturfing/censorship, but every so often someone raises the points, makes a stink, a few people leave reddit and it continues with business as usual.

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

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Post by h0h0h0h0111 »

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?

>have you noticed that many of top subs are about either watching others humiliation or judging people

This is something I've noticed too! I occasionally browse /r/all and it's awash with judgemental holier-than-thou material. Echoing many posters here, there is a lot of great content on reddit if you dig a bit, but it doesn't often seem be the stuff that gets pushed to the top for me.

Even on subs that do have good content, low effort posts seem to get the most upvotes (perhaps low effort = less effort to read = quicker to upvote?). A concrete example for me is on the /r/unresolvedmysteries subreddit - 2 line updates about a case (e.g. "Police announced no new evidence") are top of the front page daily, while longer insightful breakdowns of cases are often buried.

Perhaps a system for weighting upvote value to content length or complexity could be worth exploring?

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