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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 ivape »

neilv wrote: post #84

I don't know about this particular case, but, generally... bad actor subreddit moderators have been an occasional thing for well over a decade. And it's also been widely known for that long that Reddit is an influential venue in which to take over a corner -- for marketing or propaganda. What's an equal concern to me is how insufficiently resilient Reddit collectively appears to be, in face of this. A bad actor mod o…

Reddit has a serious abusive moderator issue. I suspect they will all be demoted to "VIP community member" soon enough and have that entire layer handled by AI. There's just too much ego involved for a human to do a job like that.

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

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Post by weard_beard »

SilverElfin wrote: post #107
neilv wrote: post #84

I don't know about this particular case, but, generally... bad actor subreddit moderators have been an occasional thing for well over a decade. And it's also been widely known for that long that Reddit is an influential venue in which to take over a corner -- for marketing or propaganda. What's an equal concern to me is how insufficiently resilient Reddit collectively appears to be, in face of this. A bad actor mod o…

> A bad actor mod of a popular subreddit can persist for years, visibly, without people managing either to oust the mod, or to take down the sub's influence. This happens because the regular users have no power. I remember seeing some article that said a small number of mods control most of the popular subreddits. Many of them put their own bias into the system by banning users, banning sources, deleting content base…

Dang. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX5ahM24o8A

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

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Post by sowbug »

darksaints wrote: post #124
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 hope he sues you.

https://www.google.com/search?q=intentional+interference+wit...

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

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Post by jonahx »

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

The behavior described here, if true, is psychopathic.

A chilling read.

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

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Post by LilBytes »

cap11235 wrote: post #121
michaelnovati wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I'll I'm going to say for now is that if all your competitors (that I spoke positively about) are shutting down and shrinking and laying people off... there's more to the story. A sad story about an industry dying that should be told.

Great, then give us more to the story.

With sources.

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

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Post by dimgl »

I'm permabanned on Reddit for saying stuff that the mods didn't like on /r/games on multiple accounts. That website is beyond gone and it's depressing, because it was my favorite site. But the mod situation is seriously out of control. I used to buy Reddit Gold (when that was still a thing) so I found it to be incredibly stupid that this source of revenue was shut off.

And yet Reddit still lives on. Somehow.

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

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Post by 4bpp »

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…

Your post does not really do much to dispel the negative picture that the opening article paints of you. You say their decline is "predominantly an industry problem". Is this also the case for your own company, Formation? You went on the record comparing Codesmith to a sex cult and accusing it of deceiving and exploiting its students and evidently consider criticising them to be a mission worth years of near-daily dedication, and the only example you have to offer to justify this in a thread where people question your motives for this is... some random anecdote about them having an IT fuckup?

This doesn't read as if you have a coherent case that Codesmith is bad to an extent that justifies your single-minded effort to spread this message, but as either an attempt to throw more FUD at the wall in the hope that something sticks even in this forum, or an indication that you are not quite well.

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

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Post by masklinn »

jaggederest wrote: post #100
analog8374 wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it any different here? Is this not the standard setup for all forums and considered perfectly right and normal?

Dang and the other moderators here are incredibly scrupulous. If you browse with show dead on, and find an account that is posting regularly but banned, and go back through their history, you'll almost always find multiple warnings and a public statement about their banning. HN has problems but moderation being arbitrary isn't really one of them.

What you mention has nothing to do with their capabilities.
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