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The note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen

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Re: The note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen

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Post by ramesh31 »

LordDragonfang wrote: post #427
lordloki wrote: post #404

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>the rules used to curate a specific community Or ensure group think.

Same question, what specific "group think" are you so concerned is happening on reddit? (Also, you are now banned from /r/pyongyang)

> Same question, what specific "group think" are you so concerned is happening on reddit?

Try posting literally anything contrary to the party line on any noteworthy sub, and see how long it takes you to get banned. Particularly with a new account.

I haven't bothered posting anything on that site in years because it's a 50/50 crap shoot whether it will even be seen, or that the post I just spent 5 minutes of my life writing out will be instantly auto-modded for containing the wrong keyword.

Re: The note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen

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Post by burnished »

post-it wrote: post #278
EA-3167 wrote: post #174

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I feel like the crazies ranting about "white erasure" are making it harder to criticize these race-reboots on the grounds they should be criticized for: laziness. Mediocre products where the selling point is, "we swapped races, give us points," remain mediocre and are unbelievably lazy compared to what we should see... which is new and interesting things with diversity baked in. Unfortunately the hysterical racists a…

It's like calling a song lazy because it uses the same chords as another song. Gender/race-bent remakes are still entirely original works with new scripts and new shots. Even if they were to keep the script the same and make a shot-for-shot remake with new actors and a new crew, that's still 99% new work that's being done. I'd watch a shot-for-shot remake of something like Star Wars with a gender-swapped cast, that s…

Its lazy on the plane of 'what kind of show should we hire some one else to make'.

Good shout on bringing it up though

Re: The note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen

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Post by s1artibartfast »

jonathankoren wrote: post #428
s1artibartfast wrote: post #289

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Strikes can't stop people from crossing the line and becoming scabs. I think that sets this situation apart in an interesting way. Subs didn't vote on if they wanted to keep posting/moderating. They essentially voted on if dissidents or the minority can keep posting/moderating

They voted on making their subs private. Everything you wrote is a gross misrepresentation of the stituation.

I think it perfectly accurate but maybe I'm missing something.

If I want to participate in a protest by not creating content, I don't need a vote or moderator permission to do so. I can just do it.

Going private means that people who want to post can't.

In terms of a strike, it wasn't some people walking out. It was a vote to walk out and then prevent everyone else who wants to work from doing so

Re: The note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen

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Post by slim »

alexjplant wrote: post #202
sickcodebruh wrote: post #91

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Add drum mixes panned from the audience perspective instead of drummer perspective and you’ve got my vote.

I always mix audience perspective because I usually stand in front of the drum kit when I see bands live. Do most people stand behind them? Am I doing something wrong?

yes, you are doing it wrong. drummer is not drumming from the audience perspective

Re: The note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen

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Post by krainboltgreene »

mattmaroon wrote: post #236
krainboltgreene wrote: post #176

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> would be interesting. In what way would it be interesting?

You might get a lot better mods and more participation with profit motive. It certainly had that effect with YouTube. There would, of course, be some downsides too.

Content moderators do not get paid on Youtube unless you're talking about employees, which do not share in the profit but get paid a salary.

Re: The note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen

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Post by fluidcruft »

parrellel wrote: post #429
fluidcruft wrote: post #426

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Things I deleted are still [deleted]. Sounds like a bunch of FUD and rdrama.net trolling.

Well, a decent number of people have been hit by it, from the looks of it. I just got to spend a bit of my morning re-deleting things. How much have you deleted, an odd post, or do you have an auto-deleter?

I haven't deleted anything recently. Delete not working temporarily could just be denial of service or the scripts may not work anymore. Reddit made it a lot more difficult for autodelete scripts a while ago, it's not something new or some recent intervention.

Re: The note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen

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Post by parrellel »

fluidcruft wrote: post #436
parrellel wrote: post #429

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Well, a decent number of people have been hit by it, from the looks of it. I just got to spend a bit of my morning re-deleting things. How much have you deleted, an odd post, or do you have an auto-deleter?

I haven't deleted anything recently. Delete not working temporarily could just be denial of service or the scripts may not work anymore. Reddit made it a lot more difficult for autodelete scripts a while ago, it's not something new or some recent intervention.

Are the posts you deleted currently still deleted? Were they deleted within the last 5ish years?

Re: The note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen

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Post by pseudalopex »

mardifoufs wrote: post #421
p_j_w wrote: post #242

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>And the vote or not does not adress my point about forcing users who don't want to participate to have to. They're always free to go start their own subreddits.

The same is true for the mods. Mods don't own subreddits, the community does. If they want to close down communities that aren't theirs, why not just quit Reddit? They are free to stop moderating.

> Mods don't own subreddits, the community does.

Reddit's practices until now said the opposite.

Re: The note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen

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Post by ipaddr »

sangnoir wrote: post #172
ipaddr wrote: post #111

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Different subs have different rules and different formats on what they expect. Casually posting as you would in one thread might get you banned in another. Here is a good example. As a new user signed up for an account and posted in a sub got a lot of replies but didn't come back for a few months. Tried replying and was forbidden because of low karma points. Never came back.. The reason why you as a long term reddit…

> Different subs have different rules and different formats on what they expect This is a core feature that distinguishes Reddit as a "Community of communities". It's not a bug, it's a feature

It's false barriers that setup this tribal mentality where you think you have ownership in a community that someone else owns. Many are discovering this week that their ownership is fleeting

Re: The note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen

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Post by PrimeMcFly »

TMWNN wrote: post #430
PrimeMcFly wrote: post #37

Inevitable that this was going to happen. I have no issue with it. Most mods have an issue because they want to mod from their phones. There are mods like me who use desktop exclusively and don't care about third party apps in the slightest. More importantly, most users seem to want the subs reopened, and it isn't fair or just to punish the users because the mods can't mod the way they want to anymore. The mods that…

>Most mods have an issue because they want to mod from their phones. There are mods like me who use desktop exclusively and don't care about third party apps in the slightest. Same here. Not a mod, but have always used Reddit from the desktop (with the new UI turned off), so zero interest in third-party apps. It's one thing to do messaging or email while out and about, but why would I want to intentionally use a text…

I know spez said he is going to let mods be voted out, that's already a huge improvement. One sub I'm in with about 300k people has the mods punish anyone who expresses an opinion they disagree with, and it's a majority opinion. They also let rampant bigotry go unchecked. I don't think they would last long.
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