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You won't get a response from them. A famous list revealed that almost all top subreddits are moderated by the same people: https://www.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsane/comments/pbloje/almost_...
I bet those very same people, without awareness of the irony, promote the outrage about concentration of wealth or income inequality.
edit: I vouched the reply comment, don't know why it got flagged.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I bet those very same people, without awareness of the irony, promote the outrage about concentration of wealth or income inequality.
ah, there's a way to wealth by being a subreddit janny? edit: I vouched the reply comment, don't know why it got flagged. https://imgur.com/a/0UOVV7q
Edit: What the heck? I just explained the parallel, in response to a low-effort, uncurious comment that totally missed it, and I'm flagged? Sheesh.
Edit2: Thank you.
MI5's David Shayler gave an insight into what he was required to do which was write articles for newspapers before he fell out with them, this was pre-internet days. Using the media to control the population is a valid tool.
Asch Conformity Experiment explained. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyDDyT1lDhA
David Shayler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shayler
The MI5 recruitment hook "Godot is not coming" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_Godot#Sexual
Kompromat is something the security services of many countries engage in, which gives you an insight into their blackmail techniques of business execs, politicians and anyone else who is outspoken. Its also why this stuff is not taught at school because the govt would lose control of outspoken people. You'll be surprised at the criminality in the state in general and democracy is that perfect tool to keep the idiots coming back to vote for moar!
I had a similar experience after posting a design focused article in a UI design sub Reddit: https://www.imkylelambert.com/articles/designing-for-mode-co... It had comments and engagement, but the moderators took it down because it was considered `self promotion`
There's some clues here about how to go about submitting your own off-site stuff:
https://www.reddit.com/wiki/selfpromotion
I don't read r/technology but I checked it out and it looks like they're one of the subreddits that have rules in detail on old.reddit.com and tell people to go read there. The don't seem to have a rule against self-promotion, but there is a rule against linking to "social media" and I dunno if they would consider a personal blog to violate that rule.
I did wonder whether there were trackers or anything but I think OPs site looks pretty clean from what I bother to check (Privacy Badger, uBlock).
Note that this is unrelated to the Reddit Content Policy. This policy refers to site-wide rules such as no hate speech or covid misinformation. Violations of content policy often are handled directly by Reddit admins (Reddit employees with red usernames) instead of subreddit moderators.
"Reddit moderators", your issue is with the /r/technology moderators. While there are some moderators who are over many subreddits, for the most part it's per-subreddit. These people don't work for or at "Reddit", they are just the people who originally created the subreddit or the people who were added later to help with moderation (by the people who originally created it). Looking at the /r/technology rules I don't…
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.
Let me start by saying I don't think your article was spam or an issue but I do want to refute this point.
I understand how that statement seems correct and that the "invisible hand of the hivemind' will solve all things. Unfortunately this is far from reality. Upvotes != Good content/On-topic content. A very extreme example would be something like porn. You might get quite a few upvotes for pornographic content that is semi-related (or not at all) to the subreddit in question, that doesn't mean it fits with what the subreddit moderators are trying to create/maintain.
People want to think that subreddits are democracies or the sum of the people who submit/vote on content, they are not, in a lot of ways they simply can't be. You have to have moderation if you want a good community (Nowhere is this seen better than here on HN, thanks dang), moderation takes time, energy, and skill. Because of this it's really up to the moderators what they want the subreddit to be.
Reddit is better thought of as a loose collective of fiefdoms where the moderator's word is law. You are at the whim of the moderators and different moderators/subs do a better or worse job at this. Unfortunately there doesn't appear to be a better system available to us (again, simple up/down votes and reports on their own cannot substitute for a moderator).
You violated Reddit's self promotion rules by only posting your own content to that subreddit multiple times and are railing against the mods for doing their job? https://www.reddit.com/wiki/selfpromotion And you're posting the complain on HN which also has a rule against it: >Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curios…
> This page is no longer updated.
> For more up to date information go here: https://www.reddithelp.com
This is all I can find there:
https://www.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043504051-Wh...
That would be about admin and not subreddit mods. The general problem with subreddit mods is they can do whatever they want and there's no possibility of accountability or ensuring the rules are applied fairly. Admin don't care what mods do unless it blows up on the news.
"Reddit moderators", your issue is with the /r/technology moderators. While there are some moderators who are over many subreddits, for the most part it's per-subreddit. These people don't work for or at "Reddit", they are just the people who originally created the subreddit or the people who were added later to help with moderation (by the people who originally created it). Looking at the /r/technology rules I don't…
https://www.reddit.com/wiki/selfpromotion says quite otherwise.
You violated Reddit's self promotion rules by only posting your own content to that subreddit multiple times and are railing against the mods for doing their job? https://www.reddit.com/wiki/selfpromotion And you're posting the complain on HN which also has a rule against it: >Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curios…
Oh nice. > This page is no longer updated. > For more up to date information go here: https://www.reddithelp.com This is all I can find there: https://www.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043504051-Wh... That would be about admin and not subreddit mods. The general problem with subreddit mods is they can do whatever they want and there's no possibility of accountability or ensuring the rules are applied fairly. Ad…
Mods have full discretion though, that's the gist of this entire thread. As someone with a 16 year old reddit account I've seen a lot of bad moderators though.