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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 hilios »

Jensson wrote: post #434
hilios wrote: post #416

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

Does r/conservative ban you for posting in some other sub?

/r/conservative doesn't even allow comments of users without a user flair.

They state: "This is designed so that a couple posts per day are almost guaranteed to have conversation which is not hijacked by leftists and other non-conservatives.Who Gets Flair?

Only mods can assign User Flair, and User Flair is only for conservatives. Once you have a solid history of comments in /r/Conservative, and have been commenting in the subreddit for at least two weeks,[..]

Please understand that this is for conservatives. We do our best to vet you based on your post history on reddit. You will need some post history to qualify - ideally within the subreddit itself. If you do not have a conservative leaning post history you will likely be asked to re-apply when you do."

"Strangely" there isn't a single post on their frontpage at the moment, which doesn't require a flair to comment.

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

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Post by ycombinete »

LaurensBER wrote: post #351
safety1st wrote: post #226

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Reddit has a moderation problem, and it's a big one. They've now been asked to appear in front of Congress to address concerns about politically motivated violence being incited through their platform: https://oversight.house.gov/release/chairman-comer-invites-c... Personally I believe I've seen more people in the past few years wish a politically motivated death on somebody else via Reddit, than I have anywhere else…

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…

/interestingasfuck banned me for commenting on /asmongold at some point. Not even for the content. Simply for having interacted with /asmongold.

Edit: To be clear I wasn't picked on by anyone. It's a bot they run. This is a blanket ban that /interestingasfuck extends to anyone who has commented/posted on /asmongold, or any subreddit they consider to be right wing (by USA standards).

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

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Post by Ekaros »

LaurensBER wrote: post #376
rjbwork wrote: post #283

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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.

If I cared about it. I might want to find a set of subs which when you simultaneously post in will result in largest number of bans. Would be interesting experiment. Exactly how many posts you need to get banned from largest number of sub-reddits...

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

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Post by [deleted] »

Jensson wrote: post #468
jacquesm wrote: post #455

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/r/conservative has absolutely nothing to do with conservatives, but everything to do with the cult-of-trump. It's a great place to read up on how completely crazy the world has become, if you had posted any thread there on the onion a decade ago absolutely nobody would have believed it to be possible.

It gets that way when being pro trump gets you banned from r/politics, so all of those who are pro trump take over some other subreddit. It used to be they had their own, but after thedonald was banned they migrated to r/conservative. The more you separate people the more unhinged they become. If you went back and talked about how reddit tried to hide that Biden was demented or that Harris was unpopular so would be a…

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

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Post by random9749832 »

There is a popular subreddit for people with hair loss ("tressless" with almost 500k members) and anyone who recommends the drug Finasteride (banned in Sweden and full of bad side effects e.g. depression, erectile dysfunction, muscle atrophy) gets upvoted and anyone who recommends against it gets their post removed from the front page of the subreddit and a squad of people attacking you. It is obvious some pharmaceutical company is behind this.

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

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Post by throw-10-8 »

diogocp wrote: post #476
throw-10-8 wrote: post #358

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Remind me again how the American slaves were freed?

Your best example of a "historically efficient way to solve political problems" is a 4 year civil war that killed more than half a million people and, after all that, still left African Americans as second-class citizens for a century after? I wonder what an inefficient way would look like.

Neville Chamberlain is a perfect example.

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

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Post by lotsofpulp »

Jensson wrote: post #468
jacquesm wrote: post #455

Earlier quoted context omitted.

/r/conservative has absolutely nothing to do with conservatives, but everything to do with the cult-of-trump. It's a great place to read up on how completely crazy the world has become, if you had posted any thread there on the onion a decade ago absolutely nobody would have believed it to be possible.

It gets that way when being pro trump gets you banned from r/politics, so all of those who are pro trump take over some other subreddit. It used to be they had their own, but after thedonald was banned they migrated to r/conservative. The more you separate people the more unhinged they become. If you went back and talked about how reddit tried to hide that Biden was demented or that Harris was unpopular so would be a…

The election results were 77,302,580 votes against 75,017,613 votes, or 49.8% versus 48.3%.

I would not call that unpopular.

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

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Post by bapak »

jongjong wrote: post #471

I shudder at the thought of "striving to become a Reddit moderator." So much effort to achieve such a petty political goal. What sort of person does this? I cannot comprehend people who would spend their life doing that... Out of all the things a person could do. Do Reddit moderators get a kick out of manipulating people's beliefs and banning people discussing niche topics? I don't get it.

Power. Spending 5 hours a day spamming and commenting is extremely easy compared to actually doing something positive for society.

I think everyone here has demonstrated how a mod is objectively lying or wrong and gotten banned for it. From their point of view, they won. For a loser, winning online arguments is the best feeling in the world.

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

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Post by input_sh »

idk1 wrote: post #334
raincom wrote: post #183

That's common. A marketing company took over r/mattress in order to get rid of any unfavorable reviews and pump up any bed in box mattress company as long as these companies pay to that market company. For more, https://www.reddit.com/r/MattressMod/comments/1c28g7b/recent...

I'm not interested in doing this at all, but how does a person take over a subreddit? That sounds like a very difficult thing to do.

Mods aren't set in stone, they tend to be active for a few years and then give up. Once that happens and you notice the current mods not posting anything for a period of time, you can simply file a request to side-wide admins to take over that sub, as giving it to anyone else is better than leaving it completely unmoderated.

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

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Post by hilios »

dijit wrote: post #461
hilios wrote: post #416

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

I think the argument here is guilt by association. It's a bit like banning entry into the US because you've visited Russia. It doesn't really matter how Russia runs their own country, you might have even gone there to argue against totalitarian dictatorships. But a US border guard looking at your passport and rejecting your entry based on that alone feels like overreach. How subs choose to moderate their content is r…

>But a US border guard looking at your passport and rejecting your entry based on that alone feels like overreach.

This is at least such a common practice, that certain countries issue their entry visas in such a way, that they can be removed from the passport. I'd expect issues entering the US, if I had an Iranian stamp in my passport.

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