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Re: Reddit ‘antiwork’ forum booms as millions of Americans quit jobs

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Post by dang »

uejfiweun wrote: post #54

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Please keep this sort of insinuation off HN. It's against the site guidelines, because our consistent experience has been that these perceptions almost never hold up under investigation. They're almost all pure imagination.

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Re: Reddit ‘antiwork’ forum booms as millions of Americans quit jobs

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Post by gruez »

uejfiweun wrote: post #54

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>Almost like these troll farms know about HN as well...

I checked every reply to koheripbal's comment, and everybody there looks like they have a consistent comment history prior to this thread. I suppose russian troll farms could also be keeping accounts "warm" to prevent this sort of suspicion, but that starts to get into "unfalsifiable claim" territory.

Re: Reddit ‘antiwork’ forum booms as millions of Americans quit jobs

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Post by dang »

koheripbal wrote: post #14

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Please don't post this sort of evidence-free insinuation to HN. They're against the site guidelines, and have been for years, because they almost never amount to anything, but do have a poisonous effect on the ecosystem as users get each other riled up about them.

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Re: Reddit ‘antiwork’ forum booms as millions of Americans quit jobs

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Post by aahortwwy »

BoboDupla wrote: post #3

Some posts in that subreddit are genuine and I support them, but some others and mainly the comments, man, that is basically an edgy teen's communist era playground. One of the mods even said, that the subreddit is for socialists and communists and everybody else is just conservative.

> One of the mods even said, that the subreddit is for socialists and communists and everybody else is just conservative.

While the growth of the subreddit has somewhat polluted the term on the Internet, "antiwork" referred for years before the subreddit to a particular line of socialist thought that often rejects labor outright.

Texts like The Right to be Lazy (1883), Labor and Monopoly Capital (1974), and Willing Slaves of Capital (2014) are all decidedly Marxist and indicate that this line of thinking has a pretty long lineage in socialist circles.

Re: Reddit ‘antiwork’ forum booms as millions of Americans quit jobs

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Post by gruez »

throwntoday wrote: post #8
phoronixrly wrote: post #2

I've come accross many posts from this subreddit that hit the front page. Let's just say I hope reddit is keeping an eye on foreign and domestic troll farms as many of the most popular posts seem suspiciously like fiction to me...

I'm still convinced reddit's userbase is heavily composed of GPT-3 bots. There was a poster here that identified a large amount of accounts as bots by sending them a DM with a link and seeing how fast they opened it. Reddit opinions/posts tend to be predictable enough and most users don't notice the repetitive comments, or just don't care.

>There was a poster here that identified a large amount of accounts as bots by sending them a DM with a link and seeing how fast they opened it.

source?

Re: Reddit ‘antiwork’ forum booms as millions of Americans quit jobs

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Post by dang »

phoronixrly wrote: post #2

I've come accross many posts from this subreddit that hit the front page. Let's just say I hope reddit is keeping an eye on foreign and domestic troll farms as many of the most popular posts seem suspiciously like fiction to me...

Please don't post this sort of evidence-free insinuation to HN. They're against the site guidelines, and have been for years, because they almost never amount to anything, but do have a poisonous effect on the ecosystem as users rile each other up about them.

"Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data."

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Re: Reddit ‘antiwork’ forum booms as millions of Americans quit jobs

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Post by dang »

inetknght wrote: post #52
xqcgrek2 wrote: post #9

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> some kind of effective geo-lock With the sorry state of security that is consumer electronics... you're nuts. You'd have to completely rework the entire legal liability system with regards to electronic devices and also put real teeth on enforcement. Otherwise... you just have bots/vpns/tunnels/etc on the devices within the geolock.

Please omit personal swipes and name-calling from your comments here. They're against the site guidelines: .https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Your comment would be fine without the "nuts" bit.

On the plus side, thanks for using italics instead of allcaps :)

Re: Reddit ‘antiwork’ forum booms as millions of Americans quit jobs

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Post by fivea »

martythemaniak wrote: post #30
truculent wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is more vacation time really radical? Don’t US workers have much less than other Western countries?

He is saying it went from "we should have more vacation" to "we should send mangers to gulags"

> He is saying it went from "we should have more vacation" to "we should send mangers to gulags"

I've been following /r/antiwork for a while and I never stumbled upon anything remotely similar to the story you've made up. Practically all comments are in the line of "good for you for quitting", "you should have done it sooner", "why even put a two weeks notice?", "You should talk to a lawyer to not get screwed over". But feel free to link to posts that support your personal assertion.

Re: Reddit ‘antiwork’ forum booms as millions of Americans quit jobs

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Post by dang »

koheripbal wrote: post #15
BoboDupla wrote: post #3

Some posts in that subreddit are genuine and I support them, but some others and mainly the comments, man, that is basically an edgy teen's communist era playground. One of the mods even said, that the subreddit is for socialists and communists and everybody else is just conservative.

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Please don't do this. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29869127 for more explanation.

Re: Reddit ‘antiwork’ forum booms as millions of Americans quit jobs

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Post by gruez »

tjs8rj wrote: post #6

That sub has changed so much in the last year. Used to be more light-hearted, rallying around crappy bosses and laughing at the gall of an employer. Now it’s been taken over by more radical takes, going from “screw my boss”, “we should get more vacation time” to straightforward Marxist talking points and desires to abolish work. There’s a place for those discussions and they’re interesting to have, but it’s ruined th…

>to straightforward Marxist talking points and desires to abolish work.

Seriously? snapshot from jul 2019: https://web.archive.org/web/20190703081543/https://old.reddi...

looks like it was always like that. Looking at the sidebar:

>Links

>Bob Black - The Abolition of Work

>Abolish Work - An Exposition of Philosophical Ergophobia

>Related Subreddits

>r/marxism_101

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