Don't get invested in subreddits. Most of the original mods that cared about their subreddit are gone or have put modlords in their place. A modlord being one that lord's over many subreddits, typically for a financial or social gain, of which you will be banned at the sign of any criticism. Reddit corporate does not enforce their rules on subreddit mods. It's a show. You can have mods harass you and they'll do nothi…
This is very sad to hear. I haven't been on Reddit much in the past few years, but I still appreciated the unique, often well-moderated communities I knew of back in the day.
/r/beneater is a nice companion to Ben Eater's YouTube channel. It's mostly people helping others build their 8-bit CPUs and others showing off their improvements and extensions.
Don't get invested in subreddits. Most of the original mods that cared about their subreddit are gone or have put modlords in their place. A modlord being one that lord's over many subreddits, typically for a financial or social gain, of which you will be banned at the sign of any criticism. Reddit corporate does not enforce their rules on subreddit mods. It's a show. You can have mods harass you and they'll do nothi…
This is very sad to hear. I haven't been on Reddit much in the past few years, but I still appreciated the unique, often well-moderated communities I knew of back in the day.
For what it's worth, I do not share GPs experience. I shared this list because these are good, quality subs period.
I find Reddit to be insufferable when dealing with code, simply because of how terrible a job it does with code. But many of the communities are vibrant and helpful, despite the less than ideal venue. Discord on the other hand is phenomenal.
It does a poor job with code... but I would contend that most of the terrible job that it does is because people don't know how to (or refuse to) pay reasonable attention to what the format of their code is when one looks at the page. A lot of it is a "copy and paste the code and walk away" - not really caring about how it looks when the page is rendered. With Discord (and slack and even teams) the ability to paste a…
Reddit has 2 ways of formatting code (4 spaces and triple backticks) but for some reason the triple backtick only works on new-reddit and each reportedly have spotty results on mobile.
It's a literal trap: you can format the code correctly per reddits documentation, but inadvertently fail to format it for old-reddit users.
For this reason most coding subs recommend the 4 spaces even though it's a pain-in-the-butt to format it that way manually.
If people are looking to find more niche subreddits related to their other interests I've found this page https://anvaka.github.io/sayit/ to be quite useful.
Don't get invested in subreddits. Most of the original mods that cared about their subreddit are gone or have put modlords in their place. A modlord being one that lord's over many subreddits, typically for a financial or social gain, of which you will be banned at the sign of any criticism. Reddit corporate does not enforce their rules on subreddit mods. It's a show. You can have mods harass you and they'll do nothi…
This. I have tried reporting mod ban abuse, which you can do if you look hard enough through the help pages. I gave them all the evidence needed to show the mods were violating Reddit’s own policies around arbitrary bans. However I only ever got a form response that shows Reddit doesn’t care. At this point I am convinced Reddit just needs to die and get replaced by something better.
Don't get invested in subreddits. Most of the original mods that cared about their subreddit are gone or have put modlords in their place. A modlord being one that lord's over many subreddits, typically for a financial or social gain, of which you will be banned at the sign of any criticism. Reddit corporate does not enforce their rules on subreddit mods. It's a show. You can have mods harass you and they'll do nothi…
This may be true for top subreddits but definitely not all. Especially the ones mentioned in the website. Like I doubt there are any powermods on r/ProgrammingLanguages.
Also it's not like you're saying anything remotely politically incorrect on those subs either.
Don't get invested in subreddits. Most of the original mods that cared about their subreddit are gone or have put modlords in their place. A modlord being one that lord's over many subreddits, typically for a financial or social gain, of which you will be banned at the sign of any criticism. Reddit corporate does not enforce their rules on subreddit mods. It's a show. You can have mods harass you and they'll do nothi…
This. I have tried reporting mod ban abuse, which you can do if you look hard enough through the help pages. I gave them all the evidence needed to show the mods were violating Reddit’s own policies around arbitrary bans. However I only ever got a form response that shows Reddit doesn’t care. At this point I am convinced Reddit just needs to die and get replaced by something better.
I have had subreddit mods openly call me all manner of inflamatory names, stalk me, and harass me in general. Sometimes those powermods get removed by contacting the lead mod if they're still around, but powermods know this and will hide the mod list, remove the post(s), and handle all the reports. So to other mods and users it looks like nothing happened at all. Reddit is the least transparent platform, it's designed for censorship and abuse, even.