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The preferences of HN in recent months have also changed in some hard to pinpoint way, but I suspect it is now gamed to a degree that is hard to fight due to all the tools for writing AI bots.
Definitely. The Overton window on Reddit is tightly managed. Anything outside of it is shadow banned at admin level and whatever is inside is amplified by bot comments. Been going on for years.
Definitely. The Overton window on Reddit is tightly managed. Anything outside of it is shadow banned at admin level and whatever is inside is amplified by bot comments. Been going on for years.
I only subscribe to about 15 mid-sized niche hobby subreddits and one location subreddit. I haven't noticed any issues with shills/bots/trolls.
(A couple of the location subreddits i follow have seemingly shifted political allegiance over the past 3-4 years. Changing demographics, perhaps. Pandemic-related sanity level changes, possibly. Maybe the mods have found they've got more engagement by encouraging this.)
> last year I dunno, a bit before that my only account of 10+ years got sitewide shadowbanned without warning or explanation, with everything I ever wrote (and all replies to it) vanishing from public view. I used their appeal page, got a message saying it was an error and my appeal was approved ... and then it stayed broken and and appeals won't work because it says the account is normal . I resurrected an ancient c…
You see the themes everywhere. Similarly worded comments and posts made at the same time and upvoted in order to manipulate thoughts and emotions.
Definitely. The Overton window on Reddit is tightly managed. Anything outside of it is shadow banned at admin level and whatever is inside is amplified by bot comments. Been going on for years.
Not to mention rando control freak mods can get you cast out for posting in other subs even because they "banned" you from theirs (even if you never joined or even posted there) and reddit has no way to see if you are "banned" in a sub other than a one time notice that's easy to forget. I have sent in a few requests notifying how fking dumb that is, but haven't heard a peep. If you are banned from a sub, then you sho…
There's more to this. If you see traffic that comes from reddit it inexplicably dropped off a lot (like over 30%) after the US election, even in totally unrelated areas. The preferences of HN in recent months have also changed in some hard to pinpoint way, but I suspect it is now gamed to a degree that is hard to fight due to all the tools for writing AI bots.
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>Anything outside of it is shadow banned at admin level source? What's the range of the supposed overton window?
This is one of those threads where everyone is just gonna air their perceived gripes with Reddit with little relevance to the OP. There may be biases from supermods, and that's an issue, but there's dozens of examples of diametrically opposed subreddits with thriving communities.
Very little has changed on Reddit since the protests. A few tight knit communities went to discord. But tons of people loooove to complain.