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A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator

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Re: A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator

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Post by kranke155 »

dmoy wrote: post #716
PanoptesYC wrote: post #628

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you got a source for the national flags claim? I'm not sure that is a feature on Reddit. Most subreddits have custom flairs and some will let you choose a flair for your country, but afaik Reddit mods can't autodetect a poster's country of origin.

mods definitely can't, but admins probably can. GP said admins. That said I have no idea if what GP said is true or not

Unfortunately I seem to have conflated facts. 4chan pol has flags, and spez had a bit of a tiff with The Donald users where he changed their posts without consent (removing his name I think) that led to some consternation.

There were also investigations showing Russian activity in The Donald. But somehow the flag story is something I seem to have dreamed into this story. Doesn’t seem have happened (even though I have oddly specific memories about it).

Re: A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator

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Post by kranke155 »

PanoptesYC wrote: post #628
kranke155 wrote: post #540

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are huge influence operations basically on every national sub. I found one on r/portugal, clearly coordinated network spreading political news of a certain persuasion. R/donald became famous because the admins turned on national flags for users there revealing a significant percentage was Russian IPs without even a VPN. The Russian users called it “the mark of David” and compared it to Nazism.

Have you got a source for the national flags claim? I'm not sure that is a feature on Reddit. Most subreddits have custom flairs and some will let you choose a flair for your country, but afaik Reddit mods can't autodetect a poster's country of origin.

Unfortunately I seem to have conflated facts. 4chan pol has flags, and spez had a bit of a tiff with The Donald users where he changed their posts without consent (removing his name I think) that led to some consternation.

There were also investigations showing Russian activity in The Donald. But somehow the flag story is something I seem to have dreamed into this story. Doesn’t seem have happened (even though I have oddly specific memories about it).

Re: A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator

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Post by kranke155 »

naldb wrote: post #556
kranke155 wrote: post #540

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are huge influence operations basically on every national sub. I found one on r/portugal, clearly coordinated network spreading political news of a certain persuasion. R/donald became famous because the admins turned on national flags for users there revealing a significant percentage was Russian IPs without even a VPN. The Russian users called it “the mark of David” and compared it to Nazism.

I’ve never heard of Reddit revealing the nationality of members of any sub. Do you have a source for this?

Unfortunately I seem to have conflated facts. 4chan pol has flags, and spez had a bit of a tiff with The Donald users where he changed their posts without consent (removing his name I think) that led to some consternation.

There were also investigations showing Russian activity in The Donald. But somehow the flag story is something I seem to have dreamed into this story. Doesn’t seem have happened (even though I have oddly specific memories about it).

Re: A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator

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Post by saxelsen »

michaelnovati wrote: post #45
chews wrote: post #34

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Do they though? Being a reddit mod for a sub that covers an industry you have a vested interest in with no other mods with similar backgrounds really does sound like a well traffic'd and successful bully pulpit.

My company works with a lot of bootcamp grads later on in their careers so wouldn't I have an interest in promoting bootcamps so more people go and create more customers down the road? I recommended a bunch of people go to Codesmith until February 2024, when the first signs of collapsed started.

A person with integrity would have promoted bootcamps and recused themselves from smearing competitors.

Re: A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator

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Post by vkou »

mlrtime wrote: post #886
vkou wrote: post #853

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Someone disapproving of things isn't grounds for comparing it to a cycle of vengeance that leaves everyone blind. If you think there's a better set of global rules that reddit should adopt, that's a fair observation. But until it does, it's not fair to call out other subs for mirroring the rules of a problem sub. If it can behave that way, so can they. If it can exist as a safe space for MAGAs, the rest of us are fre…

Do you think all of /r/conservative is maga, what's your definition? Should reddit just be a place only for liberal politics?

> Should reddit just be a place only for liberal politics?

I should be eating off golden plates and live in a house made of candy, and I shouldn't have to worry about the president's goon squad invading 'liberal antifa cities', or any of the other insane shit that's going on, but life isn't quite living up to my expectations at the moment.

Perhaps when they open up their safe spaces and behave in a civil manner, other communities might take their demands for access more seriously.

All-in-all, if your biggest political concern right now is that you've been banned from a few subreddits because you're a participant in another one, I'm sorry that it's causing you distress. But I'm afraid that your problems aren't ranking very highly on my list of immediate political concerns. When the ship's on fire, I frankly don't care about the poor feng shui of the deck chairs.

Re: A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator

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Post by est »

npteljes wrote: post #919
est wrote: post #428

A similar story happens to Chinese company, Xiaomi vs Huawei Turns out you only need dozens of Internet accounts to smear a Fortune 500 company.

Which one of Xiaomi and Huawei is being crippled?

Mostly Xiaomi. Huawei was notorous for its "wolf pack" saturation attacks.

Xiaomi had a very clever defence tactic. It's a long story.

Re: A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator

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Post by inemesitaffia »

noir_lord wrote: post #910
mlrtime wrote: post #885

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if /r/conservative is a sespool, what is /r/politics? You're just pointing out your bias.

Oh I’m definitely biased, I’m not a huge fan of quasi-fascist morons hiding behind a thin veneer of legitimacy while breaking the law, electing a sex offender, destroying every relationship with their foreign allies and engaging in hilariously blatant corruption. Nor am I fan of their voters/supporters. At this point if you don’t oppose them you implicitly support them, the normal rules no longer apply.

Like Taylor Swift apparently.

Your newest fascist.

Re: A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator

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Post by mr_toad »

sixhobbits wrote: post #373

FWIW, there are similar top-of-google and top-of-reddit results for all bootcamps. Try googling 'lambda school', 'hyperiondev', 'coding temple', 'le wagon' along with 'reddit', 'review' 'legit' or anything similar (or often that's not even needed. In the end, these bootcamps charge people thousands of dollars to sell them the dream of getting a high paying job after 3 months of part time work, and that's just not rea…

I’m not surprised to hear they’re struggling. For some reason programming is not seen to be the meal ticket it was just a few years ago.

Re: A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator

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Post by nerdponx »

abustamam wrote: post #866
cestith wrote: post #847

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Nuance is not a popular thing in the US in recent decades. The false dichotomy appears to be more than our collective favorite logical fallacy, but some people’s favorite avocation.

I blame the media, as well as people. People's "news" have been reduced to headlines or 30 second clips on tiktok/insta. Of course they won't convey nuance. And of course content creators / news aggregators know this so they purposely strip all nuance out of their reporting.

Nuance is the enemy when you are trying to run a propaganda campaign and push an agenda. Blaming the American people is victim blaming.

Re: A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator

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Post by mlrtime »

jonathanstrange wrote: post #398
safety1st wrote: post #226

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Reddit has a moderation problem, and it's a big one. They've now been asked to appear in front of Congress to address concerns about politically motivated violence being incited through their platform: https://oversight.house.gov/release/chairman-comer-invites-c... Personally I believe I've seen more people in the past few years wish a politically motivated death on somebody else via Reddit, than I have anywhere else…

The reason why Reddit is being "investigated" in this way is clearly and without any doubt political and has nothing to do with Reddit's moderation. There are strong anti-free-speech forces in the USA currently, and Reddit is #1 on their target list. Anyone who can't see that is blind on the right eye, which is unfortunately a common phenomenon in certain circles nowadays.

This is a common theme in the current political climate.

"If you can't see" "then you are blind".

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