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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 LaurensBER »

hilios wrote: post #416
LaurensBER wrote: post #351

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Moderation on Reddit has been questionable for a long time and its killing the site. To give some examples: - /r/energy used to ban everyone in favour of nuclear energy - If you post on /r/conservative you can expect to receive a bunch of bans from unrelated (popular) subs. Doesn't matter what you posted, being associated with that subs "taints" your account enough for some moderators. - /r/UnitedKingdom banned me fo…

/r/conservative is probably the most heavily censored echo chamber on Reddit, yet somehow you only take issue with other subreddits flagging participation.

Could you be as kind as to point out where I'm _only_ taking issue with the moderation of other subreddits?

As you can see in my comment I'm merely listing a few examples.

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

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Post by LaurensBER »

elktown wrote: post #405
LaurensBER wrote: post #351

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Moderation on Reddit has been questionable for a long time and its killing the site. To give some examples: - /r/energy used to ban everyone in favour of nuclear energy - If you post on /r/conservative you can expect to receive a bunch of bans from unrelated (popular) subs. Doesn't matter what you posted, being associated with that subs "taints" your account enough for some moderators. - /r/UnitedKingdom banned me fo…

Confusingly one-sided post given the point it's seemingly trying to make.

Could you point out what exactly you find confusingly one-sided? Happy to update the list of examples if it enhances the quality of my post but when writing it I could only draw on personal experience.

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

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Post by LaurensBER »

djxfade wrote: post #403
LaurensBER wrote: post #351

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Moderation on Reddit has been questionable for a long time and its killing the site. To give some examples: - /r/energy used to ban everyone in favour of nuclear energy - If you post on /r/conservative you can expect to receive a bunch of bans from unrelated (popular) subs. Doesn't matter what you posted, being associated with that subs "taints" your account enough for some moderators. - /r/UnitedKingdom banned me fo…

It goes both ways. If you try to post anything remotely criticizing Donald Trump or his government on /r/conservative you'll also get banned. Even if you try to keep it objective.

Fair point, I barely comment on that sub so my experience is limited.

I guess the ratio of well moderated subs compared to poorly moderated subs heavily skews towards the poorly moderated. Irrespective of their political viewpoints.

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

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Post by nkrisc »

extr wrote: post #333
SilverElfin wrote: post #323

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Example?

r/sandiego. The mods are political and territorial. I posted once about the suggestion to create a discord for the sub and they removed my post and DMed me this: > What experience do you have modding such channels and the reddit community? > Managing city subs are among the most difficult on the site... these are not single topic communities and discord is not organized in the same way so that bad actors can creep in…

You can just do it yourself if you want. You don’t have to listen to them.

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

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blahblah12334 wrote: post #407

Regardless of Michael's issues with Codesmith, I will say as someone who looked into bootcamps before, Codesmith is infamous for having people misrepresent their job experience to get swe jobs (even getting hired as seniors!). This is also why they used to have some of the highest job salary outcomes. I'm not going to link anything but this can be confirmed by just searching "Codesmith" in Linkedin and seeing how man…

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

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Post by Ekaros »

belter wrote: post #393

So the moderator of this Reddit group, has a company who directly competes with Bootcamps. What are Reddit policies on moderators competing commercial interests? Could one person moderate r/azure while working for aws ?

Thinking of actually being moderator. Who outside industry would want to moderate such place? Probably for free... And I mean who would be such actually independent person.

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

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Post by vintermann »

wahnfrieden wrote: post #122
SilverElfin wrote: post #107

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> 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…

Ghislaine Maxwell was maybe one of these powerful mods. But it is another contested conspiracy theory. Evidence pasted: The Name “Maxwellhill” The username directly references “Maxwell,” which is not a common surname. Ghislaine Maxwell grew up at Headington Hill Hall, which was nicknamed “Maxwell Hill” after her father, Robert Maxwell, bought it. This isn’t a vague reference it’s oddly specific and personal. It’s lik…

It's best if you reserve the term "conspiracy theory" for grand conspiracy theories, which require secret coordination on implausible scales.

The theory here is merely that an influential socialite (what Maxwell was regularly described as before her arrest) was a reddit addict powermod, that some people running reddit were aware of her identity - not necessarily knowing anything about Maxwell's wider social network or the activities she was convicted of.

Nothing here is especially implausible. It may or may not be correct, but it's not a grand conspiracy theory, just a theory of everyday shady non-public coordination. It's no more a conspiracy theory than it it's a conspiracy theory that some people in your town sell drugs (yes, they do, and technically they have to engage in "criminal conspiracy" to do so, but we don't call people conspiracy theorists for believing it happens).

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

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Post by elktown »

LaurensBER wrote: post #422
elktown wrote: post #405

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Confusingly one-sided post given the point it's seemingly trying to make.

Could you point out what exactly you find confusingly one-sided? Happy to update the list of examples if it enhances the quality of my post but when writing it I could only draw on personal experience.

All your examples are hand-wavey and and follows a stereotypical right-wing grieviences pattern, while still somehow trying to discuss polarisation in a neutral manner. You also suggest in another comment in this thread that Twitter is somehow a better place, suggesting a pretty significant lack of nuance.

I don't expect to see any, but I'd certainly be curious to see what posts that got you banned or admonished so I can form my own opinion on them.

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

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

michaelnovati wrote: post #157
simianwords wrote: post #74

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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?

I was being threatened by anonymous Reddit accounts a few weeks ago so I made some defensive PR docs but I need to sleep on it to decide what to do. This is what I do all day: https://github.com/mnovati But yeah two sides to every story and if this has been going on for years, "1000 posts", there's clearly more to the story, and it's irresponsible to not reach out for comment if you are going to try to summarize that…

> This is what I do all day: https://github.com/mnovati

You showed me yours, I'll show you mine[0]. It’s all organic. A pretty significant part of that is open-source, or source-available, so it’s easy to verify. I think I may only have two or three private repos (but one of them is where I do a lot of work).

I’m retired, and work on code all day, most days. I’m just a wee bit obsessive, being “on the spectrum.” I average about 1,900 checkins per year. Some of the days that I do the most work, have 1 or zero checkins. I will sometimes shitcan a whole day’s worth of work, if I find myself in a rabbithole.

Here’s a fun GitHub tool[1].

I have no opinion on the article, or the responses, other than there’s a lot of ugly going on, and it isn’t really making my life any richer, reading it.

[0] https://github.com/ChrisMarshallNY#github-stuff

[1] https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

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