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Remember when an engaged worldnews moderator got sent to federal prison, because she was Ghislane Maxwell?
Is this actually true? Edit: appears the answer is no.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/comments/1lxvajq/has_anyone...
Remember when an engaged worldnews moderator got sent to federal prison, because she was Ghislane Maxwell?
For anyone else who was entirely unfamiliar, here's a low-effort search "Incoherent Conspiracy Suggests Ghislaine Maxwell Is a Powerful Redditor" https://www.vice.com/en/article/incoherent-conspiracy-sugges...
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I'd argue it's more true on Reddit than anywhere. Subreddits are fairly self contained. Other social media sites I feel like I'm fighting off a wave of whatever the site wants / momentum of all the users is. Granted that doesn't mean they're completely isolated, a lot of smaller subs I was a part of have fallen into a mess of spam and engagement bots and so on so my total subs I'm interested in has fallen off.
It used to be the case Reddit itself would run spambots, and if you reported them you'd be banned. Also they have a habit of, if a subreddit isn't moderated how they like, finding excuses to ban the moderators and then either ban the subreddit for being unmoderated or replace the moderators. There were also times they just replaced a moderator list because they didn't like how the subreddit was moderated if there was…
Is it really the moderators that make a community special? They are vital no doubt but I have never came here for the moderation . For me the magic of a niche community like a subreddit or HN is when a 99th percentile expert in the subject shows up and gives everybody a brilliant lecture on the actual truth of things. These are not 99th percentile in Reddit use or post count or any of those things.
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It used to be the case Reddit itself would run spambots, and if you reported them you'd be banned. Also they have a habit of, if a subreddit isn't moderated how they like, finding excuses to ban the moderators and then either ban the subreddit for being unmoderated or replace the moderators. There were also times they just replaced a moderator list because they didn't like how the subreddit was moderated if there was…
>It used to be the case Reddit itself would run spambots, and if you reported them you'd be banned. Wow, do you have a link to where I could read more about that stuff? I tried doing a quick search, but couldn't find anything. Banning users for reporting bots is a crazy moderation decision...