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A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator

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Re: A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator

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Post by Mikhail_Edoshin »

saagarjha wrote: post #51
justinhj wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your comment was balanced and respectful and yet the reply was denigrating. "All right wing, or simply non-left wing opinions are conspiracies" is the implication. This site is very left wing also.

Being balanced and respectful doesn't make you correct.

But it leads to something more important.

"If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing."

Re: A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator

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Post by analog8374 »

dang wrote: post #60
neuroelectron wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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You aren't banned.

But you could.

And you wouldn't even need a reason.

In fact, you could ban AND make the whole conversation disappear. And nobody would ever know.

That's a problem.

Re: A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator

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Post by Braxton1980 »

UltraSane wrote: post #10
A_D_E_P_T wrote: post #3

Reddit should not be considered an authoritative source. Period. At this point it's the most astroturfed place on the internet. Accounts are bought and sold like cheap commodities. It's inherently unreliable. That said, in this instance Codesmith actually has an unusually strong defamation case. That Reddit mod is not anonymous, and has made solid claims (about nepotism with fabricated details, accusations of resume…

Reddit moderation is also completely broken. Mods can ban anyone for any reason and do ban people for very stupid reasons with absolutely no recourse. It is so bad I have completely stopped posting on Reddit.

>Mods can ban anyone for any reason

Yes, they can and that's how it's set up. Each community makes their own rules and can choose who participates.

It's not Reddit. It's the sub that made the decision and I'm not sure how it would be possible for Reddit the company to deal with sub level rule complaints and appeals.

Re: A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator

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Post by simianwords »

michaelnovati wrote: post #28

I'm Michael and this was about me. This person never reached out for comment and is missing half the story. I'm happy to fill people in on the rest if this person or someone else wants to hear. I agree with one or two of the characterizations but the majority I don't and there is a lot more to this story than it seems... RE: INDUSTRY. Rithm School (their main competitor) shut down. Hack Reactor is down to single digi…

I would really like to hear both sides to the story. But from the data it seems like you have been obsessively commenting on the subreddit about codesmith for more than a full year. And almost 80% have been negative. This looks unhinged because you are a moderator of the subreddit. What's the other side to this?

Re: A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator

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Post by Braxton1980 »

blindriver wrote: post #18
voxl wrote: post #16

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You're proving my point. At least in the US half of the country is right wing. If you want an accurate crowd-sourced opinion you need to take that into account, regardless of your own beliefs.

If I need an accurate crowd sourced opinion about the Dyson v14 Portable Vacuum I need to take politics into account?

Re: A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator

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Post by elephanlemon »

Braxton1980 wrote: post #73
UltraSane wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit moderation is also completely broken. Mods can ban anyone for any reason and do ban people for very stupid reasons with absolutely no recourse. It is so bad I have completely stopped posting on Reddit.

>Mods can ban anyone for any reason Yes, they can and that's how it's set up. Each community makes their own rules and can choose who participates. It's not Reddit. It's the sub that made the decision and I'm not sure how it would be possible for Reddit the company to deal with sub level rule complaints and appeals.

I think it would be better if Reddit took more ownership. In other words, instead of hosting a platform where anyone can claim a subreddit as their little domain, and then it’s theirs forever, Reddit could say that the subreddits belong to the people that use them. For example, perhaps they could institute some sort of system where members of a subreddit could vote out moderators who abuse their power.

Re: A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator

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Post by SilverElfin »

Braxton1980 wrote: post #73
UltraSane wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit moderation is also completely broken. Mods can ban anyone for any reason and do ban people for very stupid reasons with absolutely no recourse. It is so bad I have completely stopped posting on Reddit.

>Mods can ban anyone for any reason Yes, they can and that's how it's set up. Each community makes their own rules and can choose who participates. It's not Reddit. It's the sub that made the decision and I'm not sure how it would be possible for Reddit the company to deal with sub level rule complaints and appeals.

I think the reason it feels offensive is that subreddits of common names feel like they should be more democratically managed or held to a high standard. Instead it’s a bunch of fiefdoms and if you create an alternate subreddit with a poor name it just won’t get readers. Codebootcamp2 or whatever is doomed from the start because of the importance of names.

Re: A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator

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Post by frumplestlatz »

randycupertino wrote: post #70
throwawaygo wrote: post #4

This has been happening in anthropic subreddits.

Two other recent examples: 1. The singer D4vd is sole mod of his fan subdeddit and deletes every post about the the dead body recently found in the trunk of his Tesla: https://www.tvfandomlounge.com/singer-d4vd-apparently-deleti... 2. Influencer Paige Lorenze is a mod of nycinfluencer snark and she prolifically deletes all unflattering threads and specifically all photos of her from before her numerous plastic surger…

I’m curious why you know about these cases off-hand.

I have the impression that there’s a certain type of user that likes to be a gadfly in communities to devoted to not particularly relevant or famous personalities.

Re: A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator

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Post by Slow_Hand »

analog8374 wrote: post #59

Michael reminds me of a fellow named ewk, from the zen subreddit. In his obsessive energy and poisonous tactics. It really is a thing to see. A type. There must be a name for it

What's the story there? I'm curious to know how such behavior manifests in Zen Buddhism, of all things.
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