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Re: Reddit

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Post by embolalia »

kyro wrote: post #9

Exciting news. One thing I sincerely hope reddit will do with the new injection is to increase the level of quality of content and discussion across the board. Often the advice given is "you've got to find the smaller subreddits" and while that's true, I think having the first few layers filled with terrible content and hive-minded, often racist/sexist discussion is incredibly detrimental to both the site's image and…

> increase the level of quality of content and discussion across the board.

Would this mean I couldn't launch this unintended pun into a long thread of puns that eventually winds up at "I did Nazi that coming"?

Re: Reddit

#202

Post by photoGrant »

companyhen wrote: post #80
ehaughee wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These are some of my favorite subreddits: http://reddit.com/r/hiphopheads http://reddit.com/r/frugalmalefashion http://reddit.com/r/javascript/ http://reddit.com/r/snowboarding/ I find these subs to be on topic, relatively positive, often receptive to the new and uninitiated, providing a wealth of FAQ/just starting out information and have interesting weekly events. I especially enjoy the header with album release da…

As the founder of r/hiphopheads, thanks fam. :)

One of the only subreddits I enjoy visiting. Thank you.

Re: Reddit

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Post by peanutbatter »

silencio wrote: post #93
kyro wrote: post #9

Exciting news. One thing I sincerely hope reddit will do with the new injection is to increase the level of quality of content and discussion across the board. Often the advice given is "you've got to find the smaller subreddits" and while that's true, I think having the first few layers filled with terrible content and hive-minded, often racist/sexist discussion is incredibly detrimental to both the site's image and…

I'm a default (twoxchromosomes) mod. I would love to see better moderation tools. Most of the shitty content I've had to deal with are from newer/multiple accounts, as well as the older accounts that are sick of the trolls. Our AutoModerator shadowban list and our ban list is so ridiculously long I can barely scroll it. It'd be amazing if we didn't have to rely on a bunch of other tools (toolbox, RES, AutoModerator)…

your subreddit is a piece of garbage

Re: Reddit

#204

Post by sliverstorm »

arrrg wrote: post #190
drzaiusapelord wrote: post #144

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>"I'm a male and why is this on my reddit page" and people that just barge in without reading rules to post things against our rules I think its asking way too much of someone who wants to join a casual site known for cat pics and meme jokes to read through the couple dozen default sub rules. There's no practical educational solution here. The volume of new users and the labor of understanding all these rules is huge…

Yeah, exactly, it all circles back to this basic issue: Most users of reddit are racist and sexist and absolutely disgusting in every way. That’s why bullshit like this happens. Reddit delenda est.

Not being a feminist doesn't make you sexist, last I checked.

Re: Reddit

#205

Post by fourstar »

lambda wrote: post #198
silencio wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a default (twoxchromosomes) mod. I would love to see better moderation tools. Most of the shitty content I've had to deal with are from newer/multiple accounts, as well as the older accounts that are sick of the trolls. Our AutoModerator shadowban list and our ban list is so ridiculously long I can barely scroll it. It'd be amazing if we didn't have to rely on a bunch of other tools (toolbox, RES, AutoModerator)…

I'm just somewhat puzzled that twox is a default. It seems like a prime candidate not to be just due to these sorts of inevitable problems. Lots of people new to discussion boards tend not to understand there may be different rules, sets of expected behavior, or the like on different sub-boards, so making something a default is likely to attract lots of people who are new and don't understand the rules. Once you coup…

Mods don't decide to make a subreddit a default, admins do.

Re: Reddit

#206

Post by zethraeus »

sliverstorm wrote: post #204
arrrg wrote: post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, exactly, it all circles back to this basic issue: Most users of reddit are racist and sexist and absolutely disgusting in every way. That’s why bullshit like this happens. Reddit delenda est.

Not being a feminist doesn't make you sexist, last I checked.

Not identifying as a feminist or not being a feminist?

You can identify however you want, but if you're truly not sexist, you're a feminist as far as I can tell.

Re: Reddit

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Post by lambda »

fourstar wrote: post #205
lambda wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm just somewhat puzzled that twox is a default. It seems like a prime candidate not to be just due to these sorts of inevitable problems. Lots of people new to discussion boards tend not to understand there may be different rules, sets of expected behavior, or the like on different sub-boards, so making something a default is likely to attract lots of people who are new and don't understand the rules. Once you coup…

Mods don't decide to make a subreddit a default, admins do.

I was under the impression that the admins consulted with the mods before doing so, but I could be wrong; how the front page has worked has changed many times over the years, and I haven't been keeping very close track.

Re: Reddit

#208

Post by untog »

peanutbatter wrote: post #203
silencio wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a default (twoxchromosomes) mod. I would love to see better moderation tools. Most of the shitty content I've had to deal with are from newer/multiple accounts, as well as the older accounts that are sick of the trolls. Our AutoModerator shadowban list and our ban list is so ridiculously long I can barely scroll it. It'd be amazing if we didn't have to rely on a bunch of other tools (toolbox, RES, AutoModerator)…

your subreddit is a piece of garbage

I see that you are a new user here. Good. Leave. Now.

Re: Reddit

#209

Post by MattHeard »

freehunter wrote: post #140
[deleted] wrote: post #107

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I was a founding moderator of /r/gamernews, which was founded with a seriously different mindset than that of r/gamingnews or r/gaming. When we started, we had a lot of people coming from the other communities trying to force in memes, rumors, blogspam, and other things that were against our founding principles. It took a few months before the submitted content matched the community we were looking for. Trolls realiz…

> Although with that community, I seriously have to wonder why reddit would want it to be a default, or why the moderators agreed.

I assumed that reddit admins made /r/twoxchromosomes a default because it was a good subreddit and wanted to expose better content to the default users.

Also, I thought that subreddit moderators don't have input regarding whether the subreddit is made default.

Re: Reddit

#210

Post by VLM »

lambda wrote: post #198
silencio wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a default (twoxchromosomes) mod. I would love to see better moderation tools. Most of the shitty content I've had to deal with are from newer/multiple accounts, as well as the older accounts that are sick of the trolls. Our AutoModerator shadowban list and our ban list is so ridiculously long I can barely scroll it. It'd be amazing if we didn't have to rely on a bunch of other tools (toolbox, RES, AutoModerator)…

I'm just somewhat puzzled that twox is a default. It seems like a prime candidate not to be just due to these sorts of inevitable problems. Lots of people new to discussion boards tend not to understand there may be different rules, sets of expected behavior, or the like on different sub-boards, so making something a default is likely to attract lots of people who are new and don't understand the rules. Once you coup…

"I'm curious why the mods decided to let it become a default."

Seeing as reddit is just usenet of the 80s and early 90s on a web page in 2014, both in application, discussion topics, and more or less in culture, one lesson from usenet readers of the dark ages was there are or should be no default groups.

I don't remember any default usenet groups in nn, tin, gnus... The same social pressures that lead to no defaults then, most likely apply now, even if the tech is slightly different.

"a sub that's supposed to be by and for women."

I lurked there and read a lot. Interesting to see their opinions vs mine. Eventually it got boring. Encouraging half or more of the new user population to lurk before posting was another usenet thing. So looking at it that way, it might be a good idea to force noobs to read, at least till they learn how to remove a default subreddit.

So I've presented two arguments, one for and one against. I think the argument against is slightly stronger although I could appreciate a good alternative interpretation.

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