Show HN: Reveddit.com: Improving online discourse with transparent moderation

Just tested this on my 15-year-old account and it's really well executed. Great work!

The main link here should be to reveddit, not the video at cantsayanything as it is now.

> Just tested this on my 15-year-old account and it's really well executed. Great work!

Thanks!

> The main link here should be to reveddit, not the video at cantsayanything as it is now.

I intended to share the video because it's an overview of what I've learned while building the site, which I thought might engender more interesting discussion than the tool itself.

TL;DW I think secret removals creates the toxicity it seeks to remove. See also this ongoing discussion:

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/ymeqaz/hate...

> I love reveddit.com, it's hilarious to look at the typical r/science post and see 60%+ of comments removed on average (the 'controversial' ones go 75%+).

Yeah I mention r/science at 7:00 in the linked video.

> If the moderators agree with the study there is zero dissent tolerated. This subreddit has something like 1000+ moderators and they remove any comments that doesn't fit into Reddit's very narrowly defined overton window. Not just people being off-topic or taboo... but often anyone who questions the studies being posted.

I'm sure that's true. I haven't looked at the exact biases in that group too much. For awhile I was collecting examples of biased removals in certain groups, but that was just so I could come up with relatable stories to tell. I disagree with pretty much every secretive removal. Even in cases where someone is threatening violence I wonder whether we should keep such a removal secret from the author: an extremist in a given group, whose views went unchallenged, may perceive silence as agreement and therefore believe they're part of a team when in fact they're not.

> My only critique is that it doesn't work with Firefox. I have to pull up Chrome which I only use for work. Do you have a social media profile to follow/provide feedback to?

It does work on Firefox but you have to disable tracking protection [1]. The reason is because Reddit, to which Reveddit obviously must connect, appears on an arbitrary list of domains that Firefox's partner Disconnect.me considers to be "trackers" [2]. That list breaks tons of websites that are tracked and seemingly ignored in this 8 year old bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1101005]. The bug is updated with new sites almost every day. I'm not up to date on how browsers or standards are changing, but I'm guessing the Disconnect.me list is a hack until a better solution can be found.

I don't know of a better solution. I'm all ears if you have one provided it doesn't cost me more or hurt the site's operation by putting its logic on a server [3].

[1] https://www.reveddit.com/about/faq/#firefox

[2] https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect-tracking-protecti...

[3] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.privacy/...

My focus has always been to reveal secretive removals to authors, and Reveddit has never shown author-deleted body text,

https://www.reveddit.com/about/faq/#user-deleted

Blocking trackers is a feature not a bug. Disagreeing with what belongs on the list is fine of course but it isn't a bug. IMO Reddit belongs there equally as much or as little as Google and Facebook.