Comment on Reddit tracking upvotes for mod actions

misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• ChairmanMeow@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What Reddit believes to be “bad content” has historically been a little dubious. So I can understand people are apprehensive about this.

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  • x00z@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    A little dubious

    I once got permabanned for sharing that the Chinese eat eggs boiled in the pee of young boys.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_boy_egg

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    • a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      This is really really disgusting, thanks for sharing; i know who to send this information for some laughs.

      I don’t think it’s a bannable offense tho

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      • x00z@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It was as a response to a post about how the Chinese eat centipedes. I replied something along the lines of “yeah they eat some weird stuff, like virgin boy pee eggs”. The permaban stated “hate based on identity” and linked to the post. I made an appeal and linked the wikipedia page. Denied.

        Fuck that platform anyways.

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  • misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What Reddit believes to be bad content is often calls for violence or homophobia too. What they’re trying to fix now is that subreddits could be easily taken over by a brigade that could change the culture very quickly and mods are powerless to stop it because it’s a whack-a-mole when votes are not public.

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    • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Reddit let trumps subreddit stay up for years, not to mention all the other vile and bigoted places

      I do not put much faith in that reddit actually cares about homophobia

      And calls for violence has always been selective. Has reddit ever banned anyone for supporting a state to kill people? For example, supporting death penalty, supporting cops shooting people, supporting Ukraine/Russia to kill Russians/Ukrainians, or supporting Israel killing Palestinians?

      The whole subject of “calls for violence” has always been biased, because we see state actors being violent as justifiable, but non-state actors as not, so it’s not right to say they don’t support calls for violence, they only don’t support selective ones that they are not entirely clear about. They don’t support the people

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      • misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It doesn’t matter what Reddit’s policy is when they outsource decision making to India where decisions seem to be taken without context or at random. It’s usually up to volunteer moderators to set the rules and tone for a community.

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    • ChairmanMeow@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Admins and mods have other tools to deal with those issues. But given that Reddit is a corporation it will likely also remove content that are in a murky area rules-wise, or given the current political climate selectively apply the rules. That creates a risk for redditors who try to use the site legitimately as well.

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      • misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Mods don’t and mods do 99% of work.

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• Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Eh, I don’t think reddit’s idea of “bad content” is wrong, nor do I think a blanket “don’t upvote bad content” is going to do anything for the site except make it so people are more wary about upvoting anything that might be “bad,” like, eventually, calls for protest, calls for justice, calls for things like the rule of law to be followed for traitors.

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  • misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I had a misfortune of posting this to technology community on Lemmy.world and my inbox is hammered with replies from accounts created on the same day - they do not instil me with confidence. Plenty of people brag that they got banned for calls for political assassinations.

    Reddit people are too incompetent to be truly evil like Meta is. I’m sure they’re mostly concerned about remaining profitable hence some cautious moves to monetise porn subreddits over the last 2 years.

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• Resurectra@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m a reddit refugee because I see Luigi I upvote.

  I’m sure there are a lot of people in my situation.

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