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

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Post by kevinmchugh »

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.

I'm a mod on a moderately big sub, just one. We've got one of the power mods in the mod group. He's extremely effective as a mod, doesn't mind doing it, cares and is knowledgeable about the topic.

It's a little like picking up litter while out for a walk. Not exactly fun, but can be fulfilling in a way.

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

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Post by JohnWhigham »

lloydatkinson wrote: post #112
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?

View the thread in a new private window. If you don't see your post, now you know why.

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

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Post by throwaway6734 »

intended wrote: post #164
throwaway6734 wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This is not true (speaking from personal experience)

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

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Post by k4c9x »

pembrook wrote: post #99
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)

Somehow I doubt a 60 year old woman with the job title of “socialite” accumulated 15 million karma on Reddit. Call me crazy.

Would you have guessed a 60 year old woman with the job title of “socialite” would be involved in sex trafficking?

No matter who it is, I'd like to know what reason someone might have to abandon 15 million karma.

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

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Post by uniqueid »

pembrook wrote: post #99
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)

Somehow I doubt a 60 year old woman with the job title of “socialite” accumulated 15 million karma on Reddit. Call me crazy.

...and that sort of thing is why I block reddit.com. For any one accurate fact that a redditor learns, there's at least one other that is wrong. The site is like a game of telephone, and what's more half the participants are teenagers, propagandists, attention-seekers, crackpots or pathological liars.

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Post by [deleted] »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #22
qmmmur wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Astonishing that you didn't know, unless you live under a rock. I applaud you if you manage to escape the news cycle that long.

I’m under a rock more than most but I’ve heard the name! Curious about surname I checked and yes she is Robert Maxwell’s daughter, who killed himself in the 80s or 90s was all over the news

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

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Post by nicbou »

kevinmchugh wrote: post #201
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.

I'm a mod on a moderately big sub, just one. We've got one of the power mods in the mod group. He's extremely effective as a mod, doesn't mind doing it, cares and is knowledgeable about the topic. It's a little like picking up litter while out for a walk. Not exactly fun, but can be fulfilling in a way.

That wasn't my experience. The janitorial duties were nice, but some users made our life hell. They would hound some of us around over perceived slights and even spread false rumours about us. Throwaway accounts made rules unenforceable.

There are frequent calls for a change of mods, and a long list of grievances about the current moderators. However, nobody ever volunteers their own efforts to fix anything.

I still see such drama spring up here and there. I'm just glad I'm not the target of it anymore.

"Moderation wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the fucking users"

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

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Post by dilippkumar »

fho wrote: post #160
mabub24 wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still like some parts of Reddit. I can only do so, though, because I exclusively force old.reddit styling instead of the new repulsive design, and I only visit 4ish subreddits with generally smaller subscriber numbers and more niche interests. All of the main/general subreddits are just endlessly repeating the same thing over and over again. Once the subreddit gets too big or seems to be annoying, jump ship or try…

I tried to get of my reddit addiction several times now ... going "cold turkey" or easing it of over time. I did that with 9gag a decade ago and never went back since, but with reddit it's hard because there is actually good content on there. Especially in the niche communities with small subscriber numbers. (very evident in the /r/battletech subreddit that just got overrun by a recent games workshop exodus. Subscrib…

> I did that with 9gag a decade ago and never went back since...

Other than HN, 9gag is the only place on the internet that I still regularly visit. Most people posting and commenting have stuck around for a decade and it has been really nice to age together with an online community.

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