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What’s the background on that? Mod abuse?
Yeah. The mod of Seattle would ban anyone and everyone for the littlest things. Iirc, he was early on Reddit and had created the sub, and as the community grew his abuse got worse until there was a mass migration.
That's common. A marketing company took over r/mattress in order to get rid of any unfavorable reviews and pump up any bed in box mattress company as long as these companies pay to that market company. For more, https://www.reddit.com/r/MattressMod/comments/1c28g7b/recent...
I'm not interested in doing this at all, but how does a person take over a subreddit? That sounds like a very difficult thing to do.
If the sub has an inactive or no mod, its as simple as making a post.
Reddit has problems with moderation being too easy and too difficult. It is very easy to ban someone. Making the ban permanent and combining this with the moderator blocking the person (so they can't send messages), there's no appeal process. Another part is that for any sub of reasonable volume, trying to actively moderate and shape beyond banning the most egregious actors is difficult. Deleting and locking posts fo…
And wealth is extracted out of all that volunteering. Ads and tokens for AI training.
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The irony of your post being downvoted for stating facts (i.e. what personally happened to you).
Some times you can state facts and still be wrong in other ways. Example: If one side says "Hamas dresses as civilians" to excuse killing civilians, they're factually correct and criminal. If someone then goes online and drops "Hamas dresses as civilians" they're factually correct and reinforcing a criminal's defense. Anyway, the morality of IDF behavior is apparant to an impartial behavior by just considering the th…
I’m really supposed to take people that celebrated October 7th in good faith when they celebrate Jewish civilians getting killed.
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Your comment was balanced and respectful and yet the reply was denigrating. "All right wing, or simply non-left wing opinions are conspiracies" is the implication. This site is very left wing also.
Being balanced and respectful doesn't make you correct.
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I might. I have hordes of documents. It's a really sad situation and very sad that he characterized this this way without even talking to me whatsoever.
I have hordes of documents. Funny enough, one of my attorneys taught me a lesson a long time ago around this. Simplified, she said "only and idiot claims to have lots of documents" to support their action. Sure, it's the easy/lazy way to try and intimidate people with the lowest amount of knowledge about how things work. But anyone with the slightest clue knows 1) talk is cheap, 2) you don't need a lot of docs, you j…
As our lawyer told us: "It does not matter what is said, what matters is what your can proof in court".
That life lesson has helped out multiple times in life, against people who made grand claims, and threatening legal action. But they all vanished when we pointed out some of our evidence. Its funny how fast opposing council tell their clients to drop it when evidence shows up.
What is the expression, the louder the bark, the lesser the bite? People who have proof, do not need to bark around on social media platform. They simply sue and get big fat settlements.
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Moderation on Reddit has been questionable for a long time and its killing the site. To give some examples: - /r/energy used to ban everyone in favour of nuclear energy - If you post on /r/conservative you can expect to receive a bunch of bans from unrelated (popular) subs. Doesn't matter what you posted, being associated with that subs "taints" your account enough for some moderators. - /r/UnitedKingdom banned me fo…
Try suggesting on /r/MichaelJackson that he was maybe a little weird about kids, instant ban
> Appreciation subreddit dedicated to the life and art of Michael Joe Jackson
Criticism of Jackson would be off-topic.
Plus it's not like anybody who is a fan of Jackson doesn't know about those allegations and some of the weird things he did. People who feel the need to say he was weird about kids in that subreddit are probably just trying to troll Jackson fans. It's not going to make the subreddit better for fans who are there to celebrate the art and music of Jackson.
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I don't think they're as bad as snake oil. I taught at one for a year and a good number of my students (it was above 50% last time I took a pulse) had life-changing career switches. I think what people don't realize is that the student is really the difference maker, and that it really takes a lot of effort, dedication, and interest to succeed. I think it's possible some of these folks could have "self-taught" their…
Did you teach in 2021? That kind of ratio seems unthinkable now. Hope I'm wrong though!
Edit: Well, that said, I still mentored recently, and the numbers for the one bootcamp I mentored for are about 50% over the last couple of years, which honestly seems pretty good considering the state of things, but that bootcamp has also skipped a couple of cohorts because of market conditions.
It is most definitely less rosy now, but I think the "the student is the main driver of success" aspect is still correct, IMO.
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Ghislaine Maxwell was maybe one of these powerful mods. But it is another contested conspiracy theory. Evidence pasted: The Name “Maxwellhill” The username directly references “Maxwell,” which is not a common surname. Ghislaine Maxwell grew up at Headington Hill Hall, which was nicknamed “Maxwell Hill” after her father, Robert Maxwell, bought it. This isn’t a vague reference it’s oddly specific and personal. It’s lik…
It's best if you reserve the term "conspiracy theory" for grand conspiracy theories, which require secret coordination on implausible scales. The theory here is merely that an influential socialite (what Maxwell was regularly described as before her arrest) was a reddit addict powermod, that some people running reddit were aware of her identity - not necessarily knowing anything about Maxwell's wider social network o…