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

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Post by llm_nerd »

user34283 wrote: post #535
llm_nerd wrote: post #529

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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 That's a pretty hilariously one-sided example, given /r/conservative is one of the most comically moderated subs on Reddit. Like, you were so close with that example, but no, it turns out it's all the o…

That's a bit rich to say while complaining about the moderation in /r/conservative specifically. Per the subreddit description it is a place for conservatives to discuss "from a distinctly conservative point of view". I am getting the feeling that you may in fact not be a conservative. That's fine. You don't need to participate in /r/conservative any more than I need to participate in /r/progressive. It simply does n…

To repeat, as you seemed to miss it, the conservative subreddit has little to nothing to do with conservatism the political philosophy. It is an echo chamber for MAGA, and people get banned for actually conservative views if they don't service the agenda/image of Dear Leader.

But ultimately I don't particularly care. I'm not a whiny little baby, and if people need to create such an echo chamber in the service of a child rapist, so be it. That is their prerogative, and all the more power to them. You hilariously replied as if I'm licking my wounds and stomping my feet demanded my voice in that sub, when all I was doing is pointing out that bringing up that extreme example of moderator overreach, but then not using it was a bit comedic.

>The problem is default subreddits handing out permabans over political opinions.

Sounds tough for you. I can see why you are getting banned. But, you know, any sub can ban people for their own policies, even just that they don't like the energy you bring to a sub. There is a bizarre subtext to your comment that is a sort of "/r/conservative is ours, stay away, but also we are entitled to our views in other subs...because, default or something". Pretty telling.

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

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Post by user34283 »

hilios wrote: post #481
Jensson wrote: post #434

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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 i…

You're not a conservative.

Why are you so concerned about participation criteria for the conservative subreddit, one of the only distinctly right wing places on the whole platform?

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

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Post by jacquesm »

user34283 wrote: post #531
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.

If you think "any thread there" is that absurd, you are clearly not a conservative at all. You are another liberal ranting about /r/conservative, are you not? It is in my opinion a very weak argument to point at /r/conservative specifically as an example for how the mainstream censorship on Reddit is not overwhelmingly liberal.

No, I'm not a conservative. But I know some and they are not represented by the MAGA cultists.

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

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Post by Uptrenda »

Yeah, I don't doubt this story for a minute. Wish we could pin this thread to the top of Hacker News for an entire year, its that important. In the old days if you were rich you would just buy a paper or radio station. Now you become a Reddit mod... Crazy statement, but many use it to crowd-source info on products. That's powerful if you control it.

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

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Post by user34283 »

llm_nerd wrote: post #541
user34283 wrote: post #535

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's a bit rich to say while complaining about the moderation in /r/conservative specifically. Per the subreddit description it is a place for conservatives to discuss "from a distinctly conservative point of view". I am getting the feeling that you may in fact not be a conservative. That's fine. You don't need to participate in /r/conservative any more than I need to participate in /r/progressive. It simply does n…

To repeat, as you seemed to miss it, the conservative subreddit has little to nothing to do with conservatism the political philosophy. It is an echo chamber for MAGA, and people get banned for actually conservative views if they don't service the agenda/image of Dear Leader. But ultimately I don't particularly care. I'm not a whiny little baby, and if people need to create such an echo chamber in the service of a ch…

You can see that I am getting banned for no other reason than liberals like yourself disagreeing with my opinions.

I never even participated in /r/conservatives, I am merely pointing out that it is hardly relevant whether /r/conservatives has anything to do with conservatives.

You, and I imagine many other complainers, are obviously disqualified from participating there from the start. That is not a problem.

What is a problem is that many moderators, just like you, seem to think default front page subreddits or country subreddits are a place for liberals only where you should get to ban conservatives.

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

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Post by 63stack »

user34283 wrote: post #542
hilios wrote: post #481

Earlier quoted context omitted.

/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 i…

You're not a conservative. Why are you so concerned about participation criteria for the conservative subreddit, one of the only distinctly right wing places on the whole platform?

The way HN and public forums work is that people can ask questions and others can answer. The post you are replying to is an answer to a question. You need to scroll a bit up to see the original question.

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

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Post by marcuskane2 »

Karrot_Kream wrote: post #244
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…

Think about a Reddit mod's incentives. They: - Don't get paid - Spend time having to do some really thankless work - Don't really have a regular work schedule So what kind of person is going to do it? Someone who is willing to do the work for no pay. For smaller subreddits and areas where the work of moderation isn't that heavy, you'll find passionate individuals. Mods that moderate more time consuming content or the…

There should be a public service campaign telling users something like "Even in the best case scenario, the moderators are weirdos. Most likely they're shills".

People with careers, families, friends and hobbies are mostly not going to spend their limited free time being a digital janitor for an anonymous online community.

People sitting alone in their apartment with nowhere to go and nothing to do and no one to spend time with, however, might find that being a Reddit moderator gives them a hobby, a sense of purpose, and feelings of power, importance or significance that they otherwise never get in real life.

Someone should make a social media site with inverted dynamics- users who only spend a few minutes per day on the site and post once every few weeks should be treated as the influential power users, while the people lurking and scrolling for 10 hours per day are deprioritized.

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

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Post by llm_nerd »

user34283 wrote: post #545
llm_nerd wrote: post #541

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To repeat, as you seemed to miss it, the conservative subreddit has little to nothing to do with conservatism the political philosophy. It is an echo chamber for MAGA, and people get banned for actually conservative views if they don't service the agenda/image of Dear Leader. But ultimately I don't particularly care. I'm not a whiny little baby, and if people need to create such an echo chamber in the service of a ch…

You can see that I am getting banned for no other reason than liberals like yourself disagreeing with my opinions. I never even participated in /r/conservatives, I am merely pointing out that it is hardly relevant whether /r/conservatives has anything to do with conservatives. You, and I imagine many other complainers, are obviously disqualified from participating there from the start. That is not a problem. What is…

>it is hardly relevant

The entire basis of your argument was that it is for conservatives, so non-conservatives should be banned. And FWIW, I am classically a conservative. An actual conservative, not the cult of personality sort. In this new era suddenly I'm some weird liberal.

>many moderators, just like you

Like me? LOL, I'm not a moderator on Reddit, and can't fathom wasting my time like that. But, eh, people have their own hobbies.

And I've been banned on a number of "liberal" subs like worldnews, because of the aforementioned conservative foundations of my views. And...eh...I sob into my pillow a bit and move on. There are numerous other news subs, and I can make a /r/conservativeworldnews or something and compete for hearts and minds. Whatever.

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

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Post by trilogic »

sph wrote: post #511
trilogic wrote: post #470

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Made this one for you: https://vimeo.com/1125804680 My clients (which are most the Gov, Uni, Med, are not happy for it but they got over it. My proposals for funds/contracts suddenly get denied unless I explain what is really happening. This is not only damage to reputation but also to business. I repeat this has to stop. Now the competent Authorities are investigating properly but as always they get off with a fine…

I can replicate by googling "sverken.se" But also: what google shows here is what's being indexed on your website. It shows "porn and prostitution" because at one point that's what your website served. Was sverken.se ever in the hand of shady domain parking services that advertised porn services? Strangely enough, the Internet Archive only saved the safe-for-work version (records start in Jan 2025, so the misdeed mus…

My website never served any of that. You got to stop using this very well known techniques by associating further names (knowing perfectly that HN comments get indexed very fast). The domain in question Sverken.se was always used for science or respectable business. Please refrain mentioning otherwise as I repeat, at any point my company website did such thing. Whoever keep associating them further is doing so by malicious intentions.
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