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Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by d3vmax »

Reddit banned my 17-year-old account as I was reporting all the scammy/crypto ads as misinformation. I didn't comment or post anything that would be considered a TOS / Policy violation, but they still banned my account under that. I asked for a review from the admin, and they replied that their decision is final and that I should look at the Content Policy and not violate it but never giving me the exact reason / policy violation.

Why invest your time/effort into any ecosystem which doesn't have a proper redressal mechanism?

I am not contributing to reddit anymore, I think as with all entities/companies/empires they are past their prime and they are on the down. I remember when a lot of users jumped ship from Digg to Reddit, I wish another entity comes along which is better than reddit.

Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by GaggiX »

deminature wrote: post #15
hn_thrwn wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Getting rid of moderators turns reddit into 4chan. If you want that, fine, but there's already a website for unfiltered hate speech and spam.

Even 4chan has moderators (the janitors).

Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by Krutonium »

detrites wrote: post #10

I tallied (roughly) the number of subscriber accounts, across all these reddits. It's around 1 billion. Obviously, it's not conservative as many will have subscribed to multiple. But, I see MAU (monthly active users) is about 1b. So, this is huge. EDIT: Seems the source for MAU I found was way high, making this potentially even bigger. Every other source I've found is 400-500m range for MAU on reddit (as another poin…

I got around 1.5b, not filtering for one user subbed to multiple subreddits.

Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by jeltz »

gorbachev wrote: post #25
fernandotakai wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what puzzles me the most is that reddit's reasoning for charging money for their API is that "it's bad that other people are profiting from our work and it's too expensive to maintain without someone paying it". hey, guess what? reddit "profits" a LOT from unpaid work from their moderators. if you wanna charge for API access, you should also pay your moderators since you are profiting from their work.

The pre-IPO process often involves all kinds of fun short-term profit maximizing activities.

Yeah, I have personally seen companies inflicting hundreds of millions worth of damages to themselves of not billions as part of pre-IPO work. Extra hilarious and sad to watch when the IPO has to be aborted.

Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by dmichulke »

d3vmax wrote: post #31

Reddit banned my 17-year-old account as I was reporting all the scammy/crypto ads as misinformation. I didn't comment or post anything that would be considered a TOS / Policy violation, but they still banned my account under that. I asked for a review from the admin, and they replied that their decision is final and that I should look at the Content Policy and not violate it but never giving me the exact reason / pol…

I got banned twice for using abbreviations like SQL or JS because the mods assumed I must be shilling shitcoins.

It was in a crypto-related reddit but in a thread about programming algorithmic trading bots.

Looks like the wrong sword cuts both ways, too.

Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by silisili »

deminature wrote: post #3

Pissing off the people doing thankless free labor to keep your subreddits moderated and site functional seems like a poor choice. This is going to be quite an event when it kicks off Monday.

The context most of Reddit seems to be missing here is that Reddit will do whatever it wants and has many times before in anything they find unsavory.

When the speech police benefits the mods, they are all on board with it. Now that it doesn't, they seem so suddenly shocked.

These free power tripping mods standing up for themselves can be steamrolled by employees, and probably will be.

It happened to more than one sub I was in. They installed their own mods to 'keep the peace', and despite warnings that bad actors were at play, shut down the subs anyways.

Curious to see how this plays out.

Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by Parcle »

chris_wot wrote: post #30
gymbeaux wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s incredibly frustrating when you take the time to write something out- something that benefits others and does nothing for you, like sharing your experience or knowledge- only to have the comment removed for one bullshit reason or another. I have never written hate speech or anything racist or in that vein on Reddit, yet I’ve been censored and banned so many times by what I can only assume are children (or childr…

All badly moderated communities tend to turn to shit. Just look at Wikipedia.

What's wrong with Wikipedia?

Re: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

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Post by thih9 »

gymbeaux wrote: post #24
deminature wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Getting rid of moderators turns reddit into 4chan. If you want that, fine, but there's already a website for unfiltered hate speech and spam.

It’s incredibly frustrating when you take the time to write something out- something that benefits others and does nothing for you, like sharing your experience or knowledge- only to have the comment removed for one bullshit reason or another. I have never written hate speech or anything racist or in that vein on Reddit, yet I’ve been censored and banned so many times by what I can only assume are children (or childr…

> when you take the time to write something out - something that benefits others and does nothing for you, like sharing your experience or knowledge

Sharing your experience or knowledge is not a completely selfless act. Some enjoy the feeling of being an expert, others use this as an opportunity to push their point of view, some just like to help but even that is a benefit for them.

https://xkcd.com/386/

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