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Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by latexr »

Kye wrote: post #126
rglullis wrote: post #113

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First: citation needed in spammers using paid accounts. Why would they pay to spam, go through credit card fraud detection and so on when a free account is (by definition) zero cost? Mind you, I am talking about pure spam and not crazy sophisticated phishing scams. Those certainly exist in Twitter. Second: scale. Twitter has millions of users, it is not profitable and is suing advertisers in a desperate attempt to ju…

Spam is not just unsolicited commercial messages. Remember: Stupid Pointless Annoying Message. The worst I see on Twitter when I peek in come from checkmarks. Cryptocurrency shills are some of the worst offenders and they seem to have taken over.

> Remember: Stupid Pointless Annoying Message.

That looks to be retrofitted, not the origin of the term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spamming#Etymology

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by latexr »

rglullis wrote: post #133
themoonisachees wrote: post #125

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All the accounts seen on the popular "ignore previous instructions" screenshots have paid for twitter. There's no reason to believe that these bots don't operate at scale and don't all spend $8 a month. On top of that, they are effectively paying per word to post through paying for tokens. This does not stop them.

Bots being paid by a state that is a misinformation campaign is not the same as spam. Assuming the Fediverse was as popular as Twitter/FB, they could simply run their own instances, no need to pay for access through any specific server.

> they could simply run their own instances

And then what? No one is going to navigate an instance that is just spam, and other instances will promptly block them.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by rglullis »

latexr wrote: post #212
rglullis wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bots being paid by a state that is a misinformation campaign is not the same as spam. Assuming the Fediverse was as popular as Twitter/FB, they could simply run their own instances, no need to pay for access through any specific server.

> they could simply run their own instances And then what? No one is going to navigate an instance that is just spam, and other instances will promptly block them.

Right, the incentive will be to create accounts on the popular instances, not on the paid ones.

There was a spam wave some months ago. The spammers were using Mastodon and Sharkey instances that had open registrations. They were not signing up to paid-only instances to become "legit".

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by firesteelrain »

nucleardog wrote: post #206
firesteelrain wrote: post #116

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It is sad. I don’t browse Popular anymore and stick to the subreddits I care about which aren’t political. Even if you run across a “news” subreddit and comment on something that doesn’t seem Left, you will get banned right now. It’s very toxic. Best to stay away from Popular

I’m kinda confused by this. You’re saying that you look explicitly for things that conform to your political views, comment things with your political views, then get banned? Do you have a link to an example?

r/politics is known for leaning heavily Left. There are a bunch of new subreddits popping up like r/inthenews that if you comment or post anything not leaning Left OR if you are a member of r/Conservative then you will be banned. If you try to use a separate account to bypass the ban then both accounts will be automatically banned by Reddit for 7 days. There is no appeal.

I was banned from r/Damnthatsinteresting, for example, because they said r/Conservative supports abortion. I have never seen that. It’s mostly just Trump leaning articles.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by grumple »

efdee wrote: post #129
grumple wrote: post #62

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The fact that you label this as "go mask off" is just showing your own bias, really.

Yes, my previous bias was that I thought antisemitism was no longer popular in Europe. I was proven wrong.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by Kye »

latexr wrote: post #211
Kye wrote: post #126

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Spam is not just unsolicited commercial messages. Remember: Stupid Pointless Annoying Message. The worst I see on Twitter when I peek in come from checkmarks. Cryptocurrency shills are some of the worst offenders and they seem to have taken over.

> Remember: Stupid Pointless Annoying Message. That looks to be retrofitted, not the origin of the term. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spamming#Etymology

I know. It's also one of the meanings.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by immibis »

grumple wrote: post #62
Giorgi wrote: post #21

I moved on reddit back in Digg exodus days. Been there more than 15 years. Got banned recently mentioning that some Palestinians are terrorists. Mods cursed at me in the PM when I reported them to admins, Admin permanently banned my account. It's just a radical left echo-chamber now, which sucks because there are lot's of interesting niche sub forums. I wish someone would actually invest in competing product, with le…

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Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by immibis »

grumple wrote: post #215
efdee wrote: post #129

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The fact that you label this as "go mask off" is just showing your own bias, really.

Yes, my previous bias was that I thought antisemitism was no longer popular in Europe. I was proven wrong.

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Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by immibis »

tnias23 wrote: post #200
hi-v-rocknroll wrote: post #23

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Well, reddit became worse than that ~10 years ago because of the inconsistent, absurd, immature unreasonableness of a sizable fraction of mods who added suck and subtracted cool from the world. Maybe this is a pattern common to most all group-oriented social media platforms where community mods skew towards being drama-oriented, elitist, and/or crazy because no one else wants the job and so, like policing, it attract…

I can see the function of mods being taken over by ai at some point. Pros might outweigh cons.

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Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by panja »

celdon25 wrote: post #185
bitcharmer wrote: post #175

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I'm from UK and it annoys me too but I can't really blame American redditors for being so engaged. Trump is an existential threat to peace and prosperity so I'll just wait it out.

How many wars did he start, or get started on his watch? Real ones, with dead children, not twitter flame wars.

He certainly continued wars, opting to increase the number of drone strikes even higher than Obama. He's no pacifist.
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