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Not to mention spam. There's lots of bots posting just avalanches of garbage upvoted by click farms. It's like these people are coming in driving cars and Reddit management is offering a sturdy pair of walking shoes to try to keep up with them.
Reddit found the one real solution for dealing with spam (human workers) for FREE and pissed it down the drain.
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> by trying to damage the company A lot of the voices and mods that are most prominent are saying that it is Spez that is actively damaging the company. Christian, Apollo's author, gives a good write up of the recent developments: https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/14dkqrw/i_want_t... One thing missing from this is that obviously reddit is seeing OpenAI and others training AIs on their data and taking the wr…
The community sees ‘the damage Elon has done to the community’. Corporate sees a company bleeding money being turned around. Regardless if it’s going to work out, investors aren’t going to be happy if their investments have turned into a great community and a monetary loss. It’s not a charity. So they appreciate someone coming in and putting a stop to the charity work and trying to start making money.
That’s why the people that matter, the people with a lot of money, put literal billions of dollars on the line so Musk could buy Twitter. While the people that don’t really matter, the people that block ads, the people that don’t pay, the people that don’t want to play along with the plan to make money, are ignored.
Money talks, bs walks.
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They were expressing their loyalties by saying they want to keep working for free for the company … as long as their tools aren’t deliberately broken by the company. Moderators can’t moderate without the API.
We’ll see if they are so irreplaceable as they claim.
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I was banned at r/beer because I critize Bud Light marketing, also the mod told me he did not like my Reddit Avatar.
>ciriticize bud light marketing Lol Yeah, I'm sure THAT'S what you were banned for. What particular aspect of their marketing did you take issue with? Maybe you let slip some of your obvious-to-everyone prejudice in your "criticism".
And I doubt that mulvany was the issue. People don’t want politics in their beer. I guarantee you that both a pro-choice and an anti-abortion marketing campaign would have negative effects on their sales.
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The alternatives are crap right now and they might move on but unless the masses jump onto Lemmy or Mastodon, Reddit will continue to dominate. I tried those two other sites and they are just terrible.
Do you really want an alternative? Everybody is different, but for me, the return on my time spent there was way too low. Rarely when I closed the window did I feel good about how I spent the previous 20-30 minutes. And I say that as someone with a very low bar for when time is well spent. Like John Lennon, I believe that time you enjoy wasting isn’t wasted. Reddit wasn’t clearing that bar for me. It felt like a slot…
If the information located within had been posted on discord, it would have been lost. Forums with their own file hosting are often the last documentation we have of something, as file hosters die off.
Ever noticed how google will say 600k results but only show you 1.5 pages? The mass knowledge of the internet is being lost.
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>ciriticize bud light marketing Lol Yeah, I'm sure THAT'S what you were banned for. What particular aspect of their marketing did you take issue with? Maybe you let slip some of your obvious-to-everyone prejudice in your "criticism".
To be fair, their advertising was objectively bad. As can be seen by the results. And I doubt that mulvany was the issue. People don’t want politics in their beer. I guarantee you that both a pro-choice and an anti-abortion marketing campaign would have negative effects on their sales.
>both a pro-choice and an anti-abortion marketing campaign would have negative effects on their sales
Ok? I wasn't commenting on the efficacy of various political themed advertising campaigns, I was challenging the notion that benign lamentation of advertisement quality was what got him banned.
If I had to put money on it I'd put a 3-4 digit sum on what that guy actually got banned for. And it rhymes with ransphobia. Anyone who cares that much about an ad only cares about that ad for one reason. And I'd bet his phobia leaked out in his totally benign criticisms.
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I don't think ownership is the right descriptor for how most mods feel about "their" subreddit. I would hazard a guess that most mods feel more like stakeholders, having already done a large amount of unpaid labour should entitle them to have some say over the future direction of that subreddit.
So because they did things voluntarily they are owed something? You describe the very mentality that is persistent among all corrosive human efforts that go by many different labels, but all share a common element of imposing demands through violation, i.e., “we freely agree on one thing, now you demand another under threat of violence.”
That’s just on the admin level, mod to mod, generally users who are active and willing to do the work are more likely to be promoted to mod and less likely to be kicked from the mods.
But in short, yes your willingness to do unpaid labor is absolutely part of what entitles you to be a mod. It’s not always sufficient but it’s often required.
I don't even understand why they continue to work from free for people that do not even have the beginning of a care for them
Looking back though, it’s odd to me how much I could personally benefit myself at this point if I abused moderation powers for self-promotion because of the sheer reach that Reddit has and the extraordinary powers Mods have. But that was never the intention.
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You could not be more wrong. The work is mostly invisible to end users.
Not really. Sort by new and take a look yourself. Nonsense posts get downvoted before a moderator has to do anything. People who sort by top or whatever never see it.
The general point you are making IS correct though, upvotes/downvotes are the primary moderation mechanism on Reddit. Moderators are the second layer of moderation, and admins are the third. In my experience the users did an absolute majority of the moderation work except on weird heavily modded communities.
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Not really. Sort by new and take a look yourself. Nonsense posts get downvoted before a moderator has to do anything. People who sort by top or whatever never see it.
>Sort by new and take a look yourself. ignoring the autoamted tools mods created, distribtued, and customized themselves to capture certain keywords or websites before it even hit /new >People who sort by top or whatever never see it. nope, just low effort memes, reposts, and unhinged rants,depending on the community. Or just porn. If mods have rules against those, then there's your moderator work right there. Congra…