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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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This is has to stop right now as it has gone on long enough. Reddit, Google, ProductHunt, Youtube and friends are continuously using their dirty, unethical even illegal techniques driven by profit. I have experienced all myself and I can confirm that the writer is 100% correct. He forgot to mention though that all this is driven by the same agenda, the same people that want to control the narrative. I Wrote about it…

Competition is for losers!

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

#372

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Well at least we can all agree violence is efficient way to create political problems

Remind me again how the American slaves were freed?

by creating new problems

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

#373
FWIW, there are similar top-of-google and top-of-reddit results for all bootcamps. Try googling 'lambda school', 'hyperiondev', 'coding temple', 'le wagon' along with 'reddit', 'review' 'legit' or anything similar (or often that's not even needed.

In the end, these bootcamps charge people thousands of dollars to sell them the dream of getting a high paying job after 3 months of part time work, and that's just not realistic.

In addition, in order to survive and sell to consumers, most bootcamps are 90% sales and marketing, and 10% education. They use their own students to teach the next generation, and increase their job placement rates (if you hire your own grad you can claim that that grad got a job!).

I used to work in the industry, and in theory I think it's great to have alternatives to universities which can be elitest and out-of-date with new tech, but I left because it felt kinda like the used-car market of CS, and I don't think it's a great model overall.

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

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Hello. It's nice to be able to interact directly with the subject of the article, so thanks for coming on. It's a shame you're being downvoted, because it would definitely be interesting to hear your perspective. This can't be a pleasant experience for you. I have a couple of questions for you. Firstly the article really didn't hold back about you in a way that you don't usually see. But he makes very specific and ve…

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.

You keep saying that there’s more to the story but then won’t say what that ‘more’ is. If the article is truly not a truthful accounting of events, you have the opportunity here to set the record straight. That you are not doing that only reinforces everything the article is claiming.

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

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There are some big wins that they've never taken care of, despite spez talking big about fixing them, e.g.: stop allowing mods to pre-emptively ban you. I don't know anyone who uses Reddit that isn't banned from r/pics simply because they posted somewhere else on Reddit. The list of subs they ban for is huge.

That's pretty crazy. I've been on reddit since its inception and have never been banned from pics despite having posted on all kinds of unsavory subreddits over the decades.

Try posting in /r/conservative, I replied to a comment there once and received a bunch of bans from other subs shortly afterwards.

It doesn't matter what you post, just the association with that sub is apparently enough.

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

#377

I'm going to focus on the MODERATION ACCUSATION first since that seems to be the main issue. What moderating r/codingbootcamp actually looks like: I don't own the sub - I report to the owner who asked me to help after I'd been one of the most active and helpful contributors. The coding bootcamp industry is absolutely infested with astroturfing. Brand new accounts, manufactured conversations, fake testimonials. It's c…

Thanks for your side.

I hate fake reviews by competitors. But I read the article myself, and it seems exaggerated. It did read like a hit piece, and did feel ironic. This was before I even read your response.

I don't know who's saying the truth, but it's never too late to better one's self. So that's the advice to myself and you.

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

#378

This is has to stop right now as it has gone on long enough. Reddit, Google, ProductHunt, Youtube and friends are continuously using their dirty, unethical even illegal techniques driven by profit. I have experienced all myself and I can confirm that the writer is 100% correct. He forgot to mention though that all this is driven by the same agenda, the same people that want to control the narrative. I Wrote about it…

> Yesterday Huggingface Deleted the account of a talented User @BasedBase which was creative in open weights (threatening the big techs).

I looked it up it found a pretty clear reason they'd delete it themselves?

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1o0st2o/basedba...

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

#379

This is oddly a case to signify there is value in an AI moderation tools - to avoid bias inherent to human actors.

They still have bias. Not sure its necessarily worse but there is bias inherent to LLMs https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/do-language-mo...

The big advantage of LLMs is that we can test on the biases and attempt to correct them.

We'll never get it 100% right but having something more sensible and neutral than the average Reddit mod is not a high bar ;)

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

#380

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a judge would def consider the extreme nature that’s occurred here. the number of posts is astounding, and the SEO damage could be monetarily accounted for.

FWIW those posts that show up in search are not my posts and I don't have control over that. I don't "post" that much about Codesmith. I comment a lot about them.

A comment about them is still a post about them. This comment I'm writing, for example, is _also_ a post about what an unethical person you are and how your inability to understand or apologise for your behaviour says EVERYTHING we need to know about you. Or would you say I didn't post what an unethical person you are, I only commented about it?
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