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Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by nearbuy »

Klonoar wrote: post #560
nearbuy wrote: post #316

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What information do you want to know about them, and why? Their name? Address? How many children they have? The main thing I might want to know about them is their history of actions on Reddit. That is who they are - at least as far as we're concerned with respect to their role as a mod.

I dunno, maybe some kind of idea of who they're affiliated with, etc.

Unless they're a celebrity outside of Reddit, you're not going to be able to get a list of their in-person (non-Reddit) friends.

Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by MarcellusDrum »

bottlepalm wrote: post #779
hughesjj wrote: post #142

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its the death of reddit, just like digg before it. And google circles or whatever it was called its been so long. and myspace and friendster and orkut and aol and msn and Usenet and Dubsmash and vine and literally more sites than Wikipedia fits on one page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Defunct_social_netw...

This is more like the death of Twitter - highly exaggerated and no alternatives. Nothing changes.

Lemmy is relatively thriving. I doubt this will be the "Great migration", but if Lemmy was able to hold enough users, the next time Reddit makes a big mistake, Lemmy will be a viable alternative by then.

Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by skyyler »

aprdm wrote: post #886
kulahan wrote: post #837

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Kanye is suffering from mental illness and was off his medication while simultaneously having millions of dollars, adoring fans, and cameras in his face 24/7/365. I think most of us would do something stupid in that situation. I don't really get why you would "despise" someone for being ill.

I doubt most of us would support exterminating people if we were sick, but who knows

You'd be surprised at how easily otherwise intelligent people can get swept up into violent ideologies.

Bobby Fischer is just one example of a bright mind corrupted by ideology. There are countless.

Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by wombat-man »

coffeebeqn wrote: post #872
wombat-man wrote: post #640

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Well they just had to build out this completely ridiculous chat room feature and the sorta nice looking but slow redesign.

And the.. avatars with micro transactions and possibly some NFT nonsense

Yeah thank god the avatars are NFTs somehow.

Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by Sparkyte »

ryanbrunner wrote: post #924
Sparkyte wrote: post #444

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True, but old data is not what companies want since it is readily available and probably already in models. Reddit produces more data than any other social media website in the text and picture format. I think Tiktok is relatively close but with videos.

Reddit is still also open to indexing, so the data is still currently available with no authentication required to anyone interested in crawling it. The training data for AI theory doesn't hold water.

The other thing to also consider is that Reddit funding is partially attached to investments. Investments for Reddit and many other investment based companies dried up over the government pulling back interest rates to deal with inflation.

Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by kulahan »

aprdm wrote: post #886
kulahan wrote: post #837

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Kanye is suffering from mental illness and was off his medication while simultaneously having millions of dollars, adoring fans, and cameras in his face 24/7/365. I think most of us would do something stupid in that situation. I don't really get why you would "despise" someone for being ill.

I doubt most of us would support exterminating people if we were sick, but who knows

I'm not sure you've got a solid grasp of mental illness and how it affects the way you think.

Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by drngdds »

Loveaway wrote: post #128

This is so sad honestly. Like wtf is going on, no apology, no good will, doubling down on the complete moral suicide of Reddit. To push an app no-one ever liked, you know that, but whatever. No-one likes “new” Reddit either, you know that, but whatever. Who’s even gonna use the site after this? Social media zombie sheeple is all that's going to be left. Congrats on your dumb little site, from the front-page of the In…

What's a social media zombie sherson (is that the singular of sheeple?) and how are they worse than a hardcore redditor?

Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by matheusmoreira »

traverseda wrote: post #879
tarentel wrote: post #859

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I've seen this argument a lot on here and I don't really get it. I go to specific hobby subreddits to talk about specific hobby subreddit things, not to see other people make irrelevant comments or something that might mildly offend someone else. As far as I am concerned mods are well in their rights to shut that kind of stuff down.

One moderator (who has since been removed) would regularly remove anything critical of gnome or systemd, and would hand out bans to anyone they considered to be "bullying" either of those groups. I think their standard for bullying were pretty low, it was more that they wouldn't tolerate any criticism at all, but your mileage may vary.

Stuff like that is the reason plenty of people browse anonymous imageboards instead.

Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by Stephen_0xFF »

iaw wrote: post #786

I think Huffman is falling into a trap that Kanye and Mark Zuckerberg have fallen into: trying to prove he's special. Kanye rose to fame as a young genius rapper/producer/designer and was acclaimed repeatedly. Zuckerberg rose to fame as a brilliant business twenty-something (according to the world around). They spent half their life being praised and told they're important, brilliant, special, prescient, etc. So they…

Eh, it’s working out for Musk.

Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by rjbwork »

isaacremuant wrote: post #658
rjvir wrote: post #146

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Spez is CEO because the board and investors deem him to be the best person for the job. Of course, he founded Reddit, so he has a strong case on merit for why he is the #1 person on the planet to run the company. The process for selecting moderators is way less meritocratic or democratic than this. They merely got there first, finders keepers. The analogy for landed gentry is accurate.

> The process for selecting moderators is way less meritocratic or democratic than this. They merely got there first, finders keepers. The analogy for landed gentry is accurate. This is all, of course, a distraction to divide and conquer. Many mods polled their communities before going dark and there was a lot of support in general. Hell, very often when mods are too much against the communities interests they migrat…

>Hell, very often when mods are too much against the communities interests they migrate to another sub or sabotage it and then mods cave in.

Yup. See /r/marijuana and /r/trees or /r/worldpolitics and /r/anime_titties for examples.

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