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Reddit moderators need to be stopped

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Re: Reddit moderators need to be stopped

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Post by TulliusCicero »

paulpauper wrote: post #2

default/top subs are terrible places, imho. find niche ones instead. moderators have too much power overall and rely too much on auto-filtering algorithms otherwise. Spam is a problem I know, but part of moderating means actually going through submissions instead of just outsourcing it to a filtering system.

I'm a mod on Reddit. Mods will be mediocre to bad, because they're volunteers. There just isn't enough time to do a good job on popular subs. And you can't fix this by getting more mods without introducing other problems.

Re: Reddit moderators need to be stopped

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Post by detaro »

samemail88 wrote: post #5
paulpauper wrote: post #2

default/top subs are terrible places, imho. find niche ones instead. moderators have too much power overall and rely too much on auto-filtering algorithms otherwise. Spam is a problem I know, but part of moderating means actually going through submissions instead of just outsourcing it to a filtering system.

I agree spam is a problem if it's actually spam. I would think the Reddit hivemind would push back articles down and good articles up. Articles like this is kinda broad; there's really no particular sub I can think of that would fit into.

I'm not a fan of them myself, but reddit has quite strict guidelines regarding submitting your own content.

https://old.reddit.com/wiki/faq#wiki_what_constitutes_spam.3...

https://www.reddit.com/wiki/selfpromotion

On that background, mods of a subreddit that agree with those rules banning you is not terribly surprising: If we ignore 2 posts from 4 years ago all you've done is post and comment on content from your own site.

Re: Reddit moderators need to be stopped

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Post by riffic »

moderators can do whatever they want, as long as they don't break site-wide content policy.

https://reddit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/205192355-What-...

You on the other hand are posting a link in light of the self-promotion guideline

https://www.reddit.com/wiki/selfpromotion

I'd avoid big subreddits like /r/technology if I were you and just post in niche subs.

Re: Reddit moderators need to be stopped

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Post by seydor »

reddit doesnt care. there are some kind of words, like proper nouns (technology, politics) and country names which simply cannotbe substituted, not only because people go there , but reddit used to auto-subscribe users to their country's subreddit. Yet they have the same moderators for 15 years. And there's a lot of incest, with moderator teams recruiting one another. It's almost a shame that so many people are wasting their time trying to fight a system run by crazy people.

I think reddit is really making itself obsolete these days and it's a good time to launch a new boards mega-site

Re: Reddit moderators need to be stopped

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Post by llbeansandrice »

Edit: You broke reddit's self-promotion rules. I'd ban an account like this too.

Oh. I was expecting more than someone getting banned from a default sub. Any large and generic sub is just going to be a garbage experience no matter what.

> Are Reddit moderators just banning people at will?

Yes. Moderators are the unabashed dictators of the subs they moderate. If you want a different approach, there's nothing stopping you (or anyone) from creating a different subreddit like /r/realtech or something. This approach has many many negatives as well as positives.

> Is Reddit not interested in blog posts about technology anymore?

I'm sure _somewhere_ on reddit is certainly interested, but any large/default sub is going to be a crapshoot at best.

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