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Re: My Favorite Software Subreddits

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Post by devwastaken »

armchairhacker wrote: post #48
devwastaken wrote: post #38

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.

Its hard to tell. The design of Reddit is heavily favored towards mods. If something happens the mod will simply remove the post(s), squash the reports, and it will all look like nothing ever happened. A single mod can do whatever they want on a subreddit and effectively hide it from other mods. The "hide the mod list" feature prevents users from appealing to other less active mods.

What is considered "politically incorrect" is not universal. Software has plenty of its strong opinions and people whom want to squash opinions. Over time some subreddits get taken over and used for personal benefit. Lots of crypto schemes and people looking to sell things. The bans generally don't happen over technical disagreements, they happen when a mod themselves gets inflammatory with users and users push back.

Simply what I'm saying is reddit is designed against communities, don't get invested. There's useful stuff but underneath it's not any different from boards of old.

Re: My Favorite Software Subreddits

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Post by riffic »

devwastaken wrote: post #38

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…

> Reddit corporate does not enforce their rules on subreddit mods.

There are absolutely no rules concerning moderation. As long as content policy is being followed, mods have free rein and full discretion to apply their own standards.

edit: there are mod guidelines (https://www.redditinc.com/policies/moderator-guidelines-for-...), but these are mere suggestions for healthy communities. You won't get de-modded for acting outside the guidelines.

Re: My Favorite Software Subreddits

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Post by atombender »

Is there a good sub or discussion board for the design and implementation of complex backend app architectures that need to operate at scale? By complex I mean something beyond just CRUD. I'm thinking of consensus systems, transactional systems, queuing systems, distributed locking, sharding techniques — but also just practical engineering stuff, like which off-the-shelf tools to pick for certain problems. For example, recently I ran into something where an app needs to send a certain volume of telemetry data to BigQuery, but buffering the outgoing data in memory isn't possible, because BQ ingest is slow enough that the processes would OOM; but also, because it must be possible to kill the app without losing the data. Turns out even Google Pub/Sub can't handle the volume. Writing to Postgres would work, but now we're talking about writing a whole little app with a schema just for some short-lived linear data. Must be a solved problem? But the best solution I found was to send the data to RedPanda and then have a simple little consumer ingest it into BQ asynchronously. When I had this question, I realized I had nobody to bounce ideas back and forth with. Stack Overflow doesn't have the right people (in my experience), and "Ask HN" doesn't get any replies because people don't seem to watch that space for new threads. Another problem I ran into the other day, which I still don't have a solution to, is spinning up end-to-end integration tests on Kubernetes. There must be some orchestration tool that can let us reuse all our existing Kustomize manifests for our apps so that I can say "this test requires apps A, B, C, please boot them and their required databases in a new empty namespace, then wait for them to get ready, then run the tests and then tear down everything, and then report all the results somewhere l, and also plug this into the GitHub PR status checks and log outcomes to Slack". Again, I don't know where to go for this. I tried the CNCF Slack community, but it was all tumbleweeds. I asked on "Ask HN" and got a reply from a CircleCI person that misunderstood my question. Surely this is a common problem? We use ArgoCD for deploys, but it doesn't have a solution to this problem, and Argo Workflows (which we currently use for e2e, but we are unhappy with it) curiously has no synergy with Argo app definitions.

Re: My Favorite Software Subreddits

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Post by kzrdude »

devwastaken wrote: post #38

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…

There are some good stories too. For example, some time ago /r/chess had a "protest" against the prevailing mod, the subreddit was turned over to a new mod and there were community mod elections, and it's been much better since. So far so good, some people really care about the community (and some mods are good enough to step aside, also commendable!).

Re: My Favorite Software Subreddits

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Post by yen223 »

Jtsummers wrote: post #27
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why should everyone have to spend time formatting code for reddit that looked perfectly fine in whatever editor it was copied from? Why can’t reddit just display code properly?

Even HN requires some minimal effort if you want to post code in a way that looks decent. Prefixing lines with 2-4 extra spaces is easy in most decent text editors, and if you don't have a decent text it's not hard to do manually.

I found it interesting that Reddit supports

``` triple backtick-style code blocks ```

and `inline code`, but HN doesn't.

This is particularly interesting because Reddit has less of a reason to support those than HN does. Code-related markdown generally don't see a lot of use outside of programming subreddits.

Re: My Favorite Software Subreddits

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Post by devwastaken »

riffic wrote: post #52
devwastaken wrote: post #38

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…

> Reddit corporate does not enforce their rules on subreddit mods. There are absolutely no rules concerning moderation. As long as content policy is being followed, mods have free rein and full discretion to apply their own standards. edit: there are mod guidelines ( https://www.redditinc.com/policies/moderator-guidelines-for-... ), but these are mere suggestions for healthy communities. You won't get de-modded for a…

Reddit admins will ban and shadowban users for behavior. They will not do so to mods whom have the same behavior.

Here's the moderator report form that Reddit says they read https://reddit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form...

Reddit acts as if they care, as if there are rules that are applied equally and as if these are "communities". They are not.

Re: My Favorite Software Subreddits

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Post by riffic »

devwastaken wrote: post #58
riffic wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Reddit corporate does not enforce their rules on subreddit mods. There are absolutely no rules concerning moderation. As long as content policy is being followed, mods have free rein and full discretion to apply their own standards. edit: there are mod guidelines ( https://www.redditinc.com/policies/moderator-guidelines-for-... ), but these are mere suggestions for healthy communities. You won't get de-modded for a…

Reddit admins will ban and shadowban users for behavior. They will not do so to mods whom have the same behavior. Here's the moderator report form that Reddit says they read https://reddit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form... Reddit acts as if they care, as if there are rules that are applied equally and as if these are "communities". They are not.

I'll assume that 99% (probably closer to 99.999% but this is a gut feeling and I don't have raw stats) of Moderator Complaints sent in through that particular form are garbage and non-actionable.

I'll agree that there are a lot of bad moderators on the site, but there are also a lot of bad users.

Re: My Favorite Software Subreddits

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Post by menmob »

actually_a_dog wrote: post #31
tomschlick wrote: post #30

/r/homelab will lead you down a dark path for your wallet of buying used enterprise gear and self hosting tons of docker based services. I regret nothing.

r/DataHoarder is practically guaranteed to take you down a similar path, as well. You have been warned.

Can confirm, after acquiring a 42U rack and a costly power bill.
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