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

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Post by bart__ »

rowanG077 wrote: post #251
jeroenhd wrote: post #233

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I often go against the flow in thenetherlands and I haven't gotten banned. You get downvoted to oblivion if you dare go against the progressive, young, left-leaning narrative of the sub, but the same is true on any network. I don't think the "tiny things" will get you banned from the Dutch subreddits, though; it's mostly broad strokes (just post that you've considered voting on one of the "wrong" parties once and you…

The reason I'm shadowbanned is because I replied to someone who was describing every "FVD" voter as egotistical nazi fascists, that this opinion was toxic, helping no one and he should consider why people actually vote for them. This was just after they won or nearly won some part of an election. I think I'm still shadowbanned for, I think, quite a reasonable comment. Besides I think you cannot compare shadow banning…

I always wondered why /r/thenetherlands was so left and (very?) progressive and I never saw any comments giving counter weight. But now I know the mods are so quick to shadowban I am not sure I should even bother with the subreddit anymore, it's mostly bullshit anyway.

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

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Post by Qub3d »

barbacoa wrote: post #267
exhilaration wrote: post #220

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I will not engage in a community that shadow-ban people even if they have inflammatory or abusive behavior I just wanted to point out that hacker news shadow bans...

Do shadow bans show up as dead comments? I have noticed comments from new (green) users sometimes immediately show up as dead, is that related?

Yes: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#shadow...

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

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Post by djkivi »

victords wrote: post #188
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?

This post collects some "evidence":

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/hnfx0r/not_conf...

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

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Post by intended »

chakkepolja wrote: post #168
intended wrote: post #151

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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.

Hah, thank you for the consideration, but you weren’t offensive in the least.

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

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Post by pope_meat »

I deleted all my accounts.

The non-stop ads disguised as content, and the consorship of posts critical of xi and ccp were the final nails in the coffin. I recall a story breaking about China and human rights, and it was chilling to watch shit disappear every second as I refreshed the comment thread.

I do not miss it, in the rare case of quality content/discussion that's relevant to my interests is often posted to here or some other aggregate.

10+ years I spent in that place, watched it get worse and worse. I quit reddit 2 years ago, and I do not miss it, at least not what it is now.

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

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Post by ecmascript »

zibzab wrote: post #259
ecmascript wrote: post #246

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Hate speech is not illegal in Sweden, but ok. They have, at least when I used to be a regular, deleted tons and tons of threads because they had an political incorrect opinion stated. They banned a lot of users for no real reason and revamped the rules many times in order to silence peoples opinions that were widespread on the sub. Now afaik there is only people like themselves (and presumably yourself) left, I wonde…

> Hate speech is not illegal in Sweden, but ok. Not ok: https://lagen.nu/1962:700#K16P8S2 > because they had an political incorrect opinion After complaining some years ago, the mod team was rearranged and now contains people from a wide political spectrum. > specific political opinions and removed a lot of subs that I was subscribed to Maybe Reddit is not your private echo chamber and resits your extreme ideas? http…

I hate that law and consider it to be a violation of free speech but I do not consider it to be hate speech. You can hate disabled people how much you want for example.

> After complaining some years ago, the mod team was rearranged and now contains people from a wide political spectrum.

Yeah.. that is just a load of bs.

> Maybe Reddit is not your private echo chamber and resits your extreme ideas?

This is just the thing. As soon as you have deviating opinions, now you're instantly extreme. Do you know that I consider the Reddit rules and ideas extreme?

What people like you doesn't seem to understand is the wind is only blowing in your direction for now, it will not stay like that forever. It's sad that people have forgotten the importance of free speech and that censorship has been popularized.

Sometimes it really feels like people read 1984 and brave new world as instruction manuals.

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

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Post by aqouta »

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

Comment or post karma? I have 200k comment karma just because I have a 9 year old account and post semi-frequently.

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

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Post by charwalker »

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?

It's social media, the judging drives clicks.

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

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Post by a_f »

_-david-_ wrote: post #234
qmmmur wrote: post #20

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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

NIH says ivermectin is effective. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8248252/

That appears to be a meta review done by Newcastle Uni (amongsth others), rather than any endorsement of Ivermectin by the NIH? PubMed is a resource for scientific publications hosted by the NIH, and is a repository of work. It is not the publishing arm of the NIH. Unless I am missing something?!
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