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Re: Removed as moderator of /r/Celebrities after over 14 years

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Post by viraptor »

johnnyanmac wrote: post #56
leoedin wrote: post #5

It's interesting seeing this situation play out across different subreddits. There seems to be 2 kinds of subreddits - the "category" kind (simple, descriptive name) and the "community" kind (have a defined purpose, could exist under a whole range of names) The moderators of all of them see themselves as somehow owning the community, but I think that's less clear to the users. To most users, r/Celebrities is a catego…

>The users don't really care about the culture, they just want someone to delete the spam for larger subs, I think users underestimate how much trouble it is to do that job. And Reddit hasn't made it easier for mods to do that. On the contrary, this move will make it more time consuming to delete spam.

It's also misunderstanding of what culture/spam really is. Outside of the actual automated link spam which is obvious, it's an extremely fuzzy area with very subjective rules. What you delete as spam defines the culture.

Re: Removed as moderator of /r/Celebrities after over 14 years

#102

Post by m-p-3 »

shyn3 wrote: post #88
sharikous wrote: post #50

This may be the place to talk about alternatives to reddit since discourse about that is banned there. So far I've heard only about Lemmy. Are there others sites redditors reading this could be redirected to?

Just found this Https communities dot win

Which is basically the migration point of /r/The_Donald, /r/fatpeoplehate, some QAnon boards and other unsavory communities.

Re: Removed as moderator of /r/Celebrities after over 14 years

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Post by SkyPuncher »

Joeboy wrote: post #100
SkyPuncher wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I modded a small programming sub for a while (at least several years). Maybe a post per day type of sub. It was basically no effort. Occasionally, someone would post spam, users would report it, and I’d go “yep, that sure is spam. Remove”. It was just another “mindless action” to take during Reddit time. I’m sure larger subs are exponential harder to mod.

> small program lying sub I'm struggling to parse this, maybe partly because of the other small sub that's in the news atm.

Sorry, I’m running iOS 17 Beta. Autocorrect is very good, but slightly different and I don’t notice some of my typos.

Meant to type “programming sub”

Re: Removed as moderator of /r/Celebrities after over 14 years

#104

Post by u801e »

neurostimulant wrote: post #87
sharikous wrote: post #50

This may be the place to talk about alternatives to reddit since discourse about that is banned there. So far I've heard only about Lemmy. Are there others sites redditors reading this could be redirected to?

Lemmy, kbin and mastodon instances can interact with each other via activitypub. People can migrate to literally any instance they want, then subscribe to any community they want regardless their origin instance. My mind was blown the first time I watch this this interoperability happen. If twitter, reddit and hackernews support activitypub, it would goes like this: if someone post a tweet on twitter that mention a s…

> Lemmy, kbin and mastodon instances can interact with each other via activitypub. People can migrate to literally any instance they want, then subscribe to any community they want regardless their origin instance.

> My mind was blown the first time I watch this this interoperability happen.

Usenet worked in a similar fashion decades ago. It's too bad we can't get the masses to go back to that.

Re: Removed as moderator of /r/Celebrities after over 14 years

#105

Post by Tangurena2 »

poulpy123 wrote: post #32

I don't even understand why they continue to work from free for people that do not even have the beginning of a care for them

The mindset is encapsulated in the phrase "Today you, tomorrow me."

https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2020/11/13/today-you-tomo...

https://youtu.be/3vzkw2zD7gE?t=210

Re: Removed as moderator of /r/Celebrities after over 14 years

#106

Post by starttoaster »

bgro wrote: post #52
leoedin wrote: post #5

It's interesting seeing this situation play out across different subreddits. There seems to be 2 kinds of subreddits - the "category" kind (simple, descriptive name) and the "community" kind (have a defined purpose, could exist under a whole range of names) The moderators of all of them see themselves as somehow owning the community, but I think that's less clear to the users. To most users, r/Celebrities is a catego…

reddit has some of the worst mods I’ve ever seen in any capacity. And they’re frequently in control of massive subreddits. I remember when hate speech was just discovered as a reason to ban people, and mods of major subreddits would find ways to use that either out of protest or complete incompetence to ban people. For example, banning users for disagreeing with a controversial decision because “I hate your take, thu…

I was banned from /r/police for mentioning Philip Brailsford, a cop and murderer that gets a lifetime disability pension for PTSD from executing someone on their knees in a local hotel’s hallway.

I guess they probably hated my speech.

Re: Removed as moderator of /r/Celebrities after over 14 years

#107

Post by notnaut »

viraptor wrote: post #101
johnnyanmac wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>The users don't really care about the culture, they just want someone to delete the spam for larger subs, I think users underestimate how much trouble it is to do that job. And Reddit hasn't made it easier for mods to do that. On the contrary, this move will make it more time consuming to delete spam.

It's also misunderstanding of what culture/spam really is. Outside of the actual automated link spam which is obvious, it's an extremely fuzzy area with very subjective rules. What you delete as spam defines the culture.

/r/conservative is a shining example of moderators defining the culture of their subreddit by deleting comments and posts with an extremely heavy hand.

Re: Removed as moderator of /r/Celebrities after over 14 years

#108

Post by kelipso »

viraptor wrote: post #101
johnnyanmac wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>The users don't really care about the culture, they just want someone to delete the spam for larger subs, I think users underestimate how much trouble it is to do that job. And Reddit hasn't made it easier for mods to do that. On the contrary, this move will make it more time consuming to delete spam.

It's also misunderstanding of what culture/spam really is. Outside of the actual automated link spam which is obvious, it's an extremely fuzzy area with very subjective rules. What you delete as spam defines the culture.

What one person defines as curating for culture, another person defines as oppressive censorship. Subjective of course, how much freedom do you want in a big sub vs some niche sub, etc.

Re: Removed as moderator of /r/Celebrities after over 14 years

#110

Post by previnder »

sharikous wrote: post #50

This may be the place to talk about alternatives to reddit since discourse about that is banned there. So far I've heard only about Lemmy. Are there others sites redditors reading this could be redirected to?

I launched an alternative a few days ago you may want to check out: https://discuit.net/. We're still in the very early stages, however.
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