Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge • Hacker News Board

Re: Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge

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Post by Kye » Mon, Sep 04, 2023, 1:22 PM UTC

Jgrubb wrote: post #39

dsgnr wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was a big reddit user, with 2 small subreddits I started and managed, and I abandoned things and havent gone back. Losing the addiction has been healthy. Going back is laughable.

I’m not sure if this is a downside yet, but I know even less of what’s going on in the world since July, having bailed on Twitter and FB years earlier and having made a conscious decision to stop purposefully consuming “news” a few years ago. Reddit was the only site I would scroll by world events to learn of their happening. (clearly I’m still here, but it’s a bit more niche)

An RSS feed for you: https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=when:24h+allinurl:apnew...

Re: Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge

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Post by TMWNN » Mon, Sep 04, 2023, 1:23 PM UTC

cimov wrote: post #57

TMWNN wrote: post #16

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> The Challenor mess should never have happened, but at least the person was fired by Reddit. I'm amazed he was hired in the first place, they must not have bothered to do any background checks at all. I think it revealed a lot ideologically about how Reddit operates, in particular this likely explains some of the more controversial subreddit bans in recent years.

> I think it revealed a lot ideologically about how Reddit operates, in particular this likely explains some of the more controversial subreddit bans in recent years.

I have no doubt that there are hundreds of Challenors who are "working" as Reddit mods. "Doreen", the /r/antiwork head mod who got embarrassed on national television, https://mashable.com/article/antiwork-subreddit-fox-news-int...> is merely a famous example.

Similarly, back when the SCP-2721 https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/protected:scp-2721> controversy https://np.reddit.com/r/SCP/comments/8ubmjp/so_they_dissable...> occurred, wiki mod Decibelles stated that a majority of (I think one dozen) SCP mods (including Decibelles), is transvestite. A majority!

Re: Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge

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Post by landmass » Mon, Sep 04, 2023, 1:28 PM UTC

markx2 wrote: post #51

drivers99 wrote: post #10

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Must be an app thing. I use https://old.reddit.com and don’t get that.

Agreed. I use old.reddit.com + umatrix + ublock + custom css with tampermonkey I now see nothing they want me to see. I am very happy to leech. Said as a previous mod who helped grow a sub from <25k users to almost 1 million.

My participation has changed since the API change. I use old.reddit and uBlock Origin as I always have. I limit myself to scanning a few sub-reddits to ensure nothing bad has happened to Bitwarden and Yubikey, I don't log in and certainly don't contribute as I used to. If/when old.reddit stops functioning I'll stop even that low level of participation.

Re: Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge

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Post by PrimeMcFly » Mon, Sep 04, 2023, 1:45 PM UTC

godzillabrennus wrote: post #32

PrimeMcFly wrote: post #28

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I use old.reddit, with ublock origin not just to block ads but to block specific reddit buttons or things they try to introduce, and with res I have my regular subs I visit added as shortcuts in a top bar. I never see anything I don't want to, and it's very useable this way. I literally never just see the 'reddit homepage', it's always a sub I specifically want to see.

Yeah, this is how I use Reddit too. I see the writing on the wall though. They are coming for our beloved old interface. It won’t be long before we are deplatformed so they can try and monetize the crazy ones who make the journey over to the confusing and ad riddled new interface.

Yeeeeeah. Honestly don't know if I will keep using it if/when they remove old.

Re: Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge

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Post by SubGenius » Mon, Sep 04, 2023, 1:46 PM UTC

nickpeterson wrote: post #9

Sort of a side question, but what is the state of the art in open source community hosting? I know a bit about tools like Zulip, but was thinking something more like forums. They feel very dated, which surprises me since Reddit seems a straightforward thing to compete against.

I'm building Shpong[0] with a fellow HNer. It's a publicly accessible Matrix server with reddit-like features. Not quite ready yet, but almost there...

[0] - https://shpong.com/shpong

Re: Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge

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Post by PrimeMcFly » Mon, Sep 04, 2023, 1:52 PM UTC

cimov wrote: post #54

PrimeMcFly wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use old.reddit, with ublock origin not just to block ads but to block specific reddit buttons or things they try to introduce, and with res I have my regular subs I visit added as shortcuts in a top bar. I never see anything I don't want to, and it's very useable this way. I literally never just see the 'reddit homepage', it's always a sub I specifically want to see.

Similar here but without any custom blocking. Could you share your filters and which interface elements they target?

Happy to share, but honestly I don't specifically remember what they block, it was just anything that annoyed me. I've had them in place for quite a while and the random IDs don't give any clue, although I did leave comments for some and others are self-explanatory.

Looking at my list I'm unsure why I have some of what I do in there. I guess just experiment and see if anything is improved.

Sorry for the lack of code formatting - didn't want to use a pastebin since it may not persevere.

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Re: Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge

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Post by PrimeMcFly » Mon, Sep 04, 2023, 1:57 PM UTC

causality0 wrote: post #44

PrimeMcFly wrote: post #20

Honestly not much has changed. Some of the big subs that did their protests had their mods replaced, that's it. I'm not on any of the big ('default') subs, all the smaller ones I'm on are operating the same as they ever did, with some doing a stupid one day a week protest. That's literally the only change.

I have the same impression. Frankly some of mine have gotten better after the replacement mods have less of a stick up their ass. A couple have even changed posting rules to be less restrictive, like allowing people to talk about ROM sites.

> Frankly some of mine have gotten better after the replacement mods have less of a stick up their ass

Very much this. A few tiny little despots got toppled, and the world goes on.

Re: Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge

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Post by cimov » Mon, Sep 04, 2023, 2:03 PM UTC

PrimeMcFly wrote: post #66

cimov wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Similar here but without any custom blocking. Could you share your filters and which interface elements they target?

Happy to share, but honestly I don't specifically remember what they block, it was just anything that annoyed me. I've had them in place for quite a while and the random IDs don't give any clue, although I did leave comments for some and others are self-explanatory. Looking at my list I'm unsure why I have some of what I do in there. I guess just experiment and see if anything is improved. Sorry for the lack of code…

Thank you, I appreciate you sharing! Will give them a try.

Re: Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge

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Post by Kye » Mon, Sep 04, 2023, 2:12 PM UTC

everdrive wrote: post #27

halicarnassus wrote: post #2

Did anybody expect Reddit to become a better place after all what happened a couple of weeks ago? I was never a big Reddit user, but I'm sure as hell not going to be one in the future.

I agree with your sentiment, but I do wonder what could replace reddit. It's true that the larger subreddits have been pretty terrible for years. However, reddit has often been the _only_ good source for useful and true user-sourced information. What vacuum should I buy? How can I get some old PS2 game to run on my steam deck? Can I disable the telematics system on a Toyota Tacoma? etc. It's easy to see this sort of…

What we're seeing is the downsides of centralizing. Replacing Reddit would require putting everything in one place again, and would likely lead to the same result down the road.

There are still active forums for most topics, and site search works just as well. What changes is a return to the old world where you can't put in one site to get it all anymore.

Re: Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge

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Post by PrimeMcFly » Mon, Sep 04, 2023, 2:13 PM UTC

cimov wrote: post #68

PrimeMcFly wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Happy to share, but honestly I don't specifically remember what they block, it was just anything that annoyed me. I've had them in place for quite a while and the random IDs don't give any clue, although I did leave comments for some and others are self-explanatory. Looking at my list I'm unsure why I have some of what I do in there. I guess just experiment and see if anything is improved. Sorry for the lack of code…

Thank you, I appreciate you sharing! Will give them a try.

My pleasure, hope it improves things somewhat :)