So glad to see some mods gone. They are power hungry petty people.
Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site”
Submitted 6 months ago by vegeta@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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coffee_nutcase207@lemmy.world 6 months ago
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Can’t kill a reanimated corpse, reddit is already dead.
july@leminal.space 6 months ago
Can’t scroll mainfeed there without some soft core porn from sippintea pop up
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Bros are living in a fantasy, site was broken wide open years ago.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 months ago
seems like they are testing how to consilidate control of the subs, into 1 or a few person, or under AI.
Surp@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Lol fuck reddit cuck mods anyways.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Working for free for a major company should be considered a mental illness. If your going to volunteer your time do it to an actual good cause.
Not fucking reddit.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 6 months ago
Cmon. I deeply respect /r Eevee mods. What do they do, other than serve Eevee fans and have fun?
shades@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Being a bass aggregator myself, its less likely they’ll bite the hand that feeds them first,The exposure for my friend’s accounts have been phenomenal though.
sqgl@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
average of over 60,000 daily active moderators” that month, which, at the time, would mean that 0.1 percent of all mods equals 600 people.
No, it equals 60 people.
TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
lol of course power mods would say that.
Fuck that dumbass site.
StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Every few months I check back and see if there’s any news on awkardtheturtle rearing his ugly head, and every few months im satisfied they were totally obliterated
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
I kibd of agree.with this one, on the other hand reddit is not my circus and those mods are not my monkeys.
Hell, I never understood why anyone worked for free to make the owners richer ? Here I get (and thank you), like an old school BBS but reddit makes zero sense as a mod.
Cocopanda@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Fake importance.
deczzz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
'member when redditors would ALL leave because of the API restrictions? This will have no real effect whatsoever. I’m glad that most redditors didn’t move to lemmy.
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Some did leave, just not nearly as many compared to the numbers that claimed they would.
Thats when I left and made a Lemmy account instead.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
That’s when I left. Haven’t turned back
Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Same
eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
I mean, I did. This is my 3rd account, after beehaw and then blahaj.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 months ago
remember since this election, they have purging like crazy, up until may. people are still addicted to reddit, but lemmy also gained like 10k+? people from tha tpurge.
StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Strong words from a former reddit refugee, my man, we were the redditors that moved to Lemmy
ebolapie@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Nobody here Reddit more than redditors.
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 6 months ago
Yep, I’m a redfugee myself
Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I still have a Reddit account that I use to follow NBA news and discussions, but I found myself going there less and less over time because most of the content is just so damn repetitive. The bots are really going into overdrive as of late, and it’s making most of the big subs unusable. A lot of the small subs aren’t any better because they’re either controlled by some terminally online powermods or they’re some extremely unhinged echo chamber. That being said, Lemmy isn’t any better, but at least it’s more private and less corporate.
Scrollone@feddit.it 6 months ago
Some subreddits have become completely impossible to post to. Your posts get deleted right away.
Plus, the option to default to Old Reddit doesn’t work anymore. So fuck them.
k0e3@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
I started going there way less after the API restrictions because my favourite client stopped working. Then, I got banned and found out there was a better alternative — Lemmy.
SparroHawc@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
I jumped ship to Lemmy once they instituted the ‘upvotes can get you banned’ policy.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I mean, I sure did
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Fuck Reddit. It needs to die, along with discord.
selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I got banned for updooting Luigi stuff.
And I’ll fucking do it again!
BeefandSquints@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
I got banned for implying someone should give him a call. Reddit can lick my taint, it’s not even worth making another account, I can talk to AI bots anywhere these days!
TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I only got a warning, they said if I did it again I could face a site-wide ban though. Pretty disturbing that they’re tracking upvotes to a post… they said I also upvoted a Luigi comment… but in both cases, they wouldn’t tell me specifically which post or comment triggered it.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 months ago
oh you have no idea, the AI moderation they are using was going to ban you after that warning anyways. the moment your account is flagged with warnings or temp bans, it makes you susceptible to a shadowban down the line.
nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
This is the way.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I have very little sympathy for reddit mods. Too many of them are petty little tyrants with no checks on them. I hope the door hits them on the ass.
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 6 months ago
Tbf that’s often the issue with mods. I’m a mod and I’m power hungry and reign with terror.
bountygiver@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Most of the good ones have left since they locked off the API and make most of the tools stopped working anyways
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 months ago
many of us were forced out because reddit decided they were going to start purging accounts months on end.
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Ha… Ha… HA
Trevita17@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Caught a permaban for calling someone a coward. No big loss, honestly. Reddit wasn’t doing anything for me except raising my blood pressure.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 months ago
people caught shadowbans seemingly as a new or old inactive account. apparently reddits filters is now sensitive, that new accounts look like bots, if they suddenly have alot of activity.
Trevita17@lemmy.world 6 months ago
God forbid anyone make an account and decide to use it.
LoafedBurrito@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
It made me doom scroll for hours. My life has been notably less stressful since i left reddit. What a shithole that place is.
Trevita17@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah, I didn’t realize how much trouble it was causing me until I was gone.
pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
I got my 15 year old account permanently banned for filing one report against a user who was stalking my profile to call me slurs. (This was “abusing the report button”, apparently.) Everyone in my household got their accounts banned alongside mine. It’s very strange how the site is being run now.
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yes because they IP ban people
ThePrivacyPolicy@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
IP banning in this day and age is crazy. Years ago I opened my app on hospital WiFi and instantly both of my accounts in there were banned for “ban evasion”. Clearly someone used that IP address to get banned and now everyone using the public WiFi there is just getting banned.
It also made it clear that a big part of shutting down third party clients was so they could track us better. Made evident the minute my personal and work reddit accounts were banned together even though I never switched to the other login at all. With that move they could tie everyone’s throwaways back to their real accounts.
OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Reddit has a whole metagame on trolling users in these ways. I don’t think corporate cares at all. If anything spez probably welomes it.
PonderousParrot@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Obligatory fuck Spez.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 6 months ago
“Let’s get rid of our longest running users, that should help the site move forward.”
NotKyloRen@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
In a fucked up way, yes. As in I think it’s intentional/logical on their part. The culture of reddit has been changing for a while. I think they would want the “old heads” to leave, but also leave behind their posts/comments for others (and Reddit) to benefit off of.
That’s why people use those web apps that overwrite their comments with garbage. But I always think about how Reddit controls the servers, data, and backups.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah. When my 12 year old account got banned I stopped caring about that site and started creating new accounts every week and just posting whatever the hell I wanted without feeling like I needed to censor myself anymore. So their ban happy culture tends to have the opposite effect of what they want.
There’s a browser script out there that auto-adds all your subs back from your old account, so it really wasn’t even inconvenient for me other than the 2 minutes it takes to create a throwaway email account and create a new throwaway Reddit account.
And yeah, their methods for preventing you from coming back end up preventing others using the same computer or in the same household from coming back, so they just lose users. Their methods aren’t very sophisticated though, so it’s pretty easy to avoid them.
Shit site.
TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The problem with that is that it’s so locked down now you need an account of X age with Y karma, so the majority of the site isn’t something you can participate in. And I get it, lots of spam accounts and whatnot, but still shitty that they’re a hair trigger away from destroying years worth of built up karma over nothing.
BanMe@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah my 10+ yr account was like #340 in comment karma or some shit, I was clearly a contributor, but they banned me for nothing. Wish I would have sold it now.
AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.world 6 months ago
So how does a person sell their account !?
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Woah… what’s this? I had no idea reddit accounts hold value!
LoafedBurrito@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
How much karma was that? I lost 3 accounts and one had over 100k comment karma, so they lost another good user here as well.
I loved to post solutions to problems that never got solved on several subreddits, oh well.
StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world 6 months ago
[deleted]DarkFuture@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Don’t forget /r/cuckservative. That shithole radicalizes so many low IQ incels.
ronl2k@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Allowing volunteer mods was dangerous enough. Allowing those mods to have unlimited subreddits was a magnet for agenda-driven operatives. The changes don’t really do enough to get rid of mods with an agenda.
BTW, once a Reddit mod permabans you, there’s no way to appeal their ban. The mods can simply ignore your request for a review. Also, after you are banned, Reddit doesn’t decrement the membership count. You must unjoin on your own. So its membership numbers are inflated for each subreddit.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Mods should be forced to indicate what rule was broken when banning. All bans should be appealable on reddit and addressed by a human being. Mods who have a history of frequent ban overturns should be suspended or banned.
ronl2k@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Mods who have a history of frequent ban overturns…
Reddit mods don’t even have to answer your request for an appeal. So their bans are never overturned.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 6 months ago
Do you realize the same thing applies here on Lemmy? Lemmy mods can just make up any reason or give no reason for your ban, and can ignore your messages and you have no way to appeal.
willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
I think the concept of moderation by an individual needs more scrutiny. Why not build a software algorithm to allow for subscribers to vote on moderation actions?
In other words, instead of vertical top heavy moderation, privide a more level, more horizontal process, where our peers play a significant role, or even act as co-moderators.
We are recreating in software all the top down vertical hierarchies we tend to be sceptical of in the real world. Why?
Imagine if there was no jury trial? How much worse would thing be?
So why do we build an online world with a lower standard than we use to build the physical world. That’s just sloppy.
BilboBargains@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Got banned from the stims community after satirically commenting ‘I’m 14 and what is this?’
The moderator demanded that I submit identity documents. I pointed out that the account was twelve years old but they couldn’t back down at this point. I think they were trying to do a good job and were at least active but it was another nail in the coffin. In theory, an unpaid mod could be more objective because there’s no profit motive but the reality is that many are ideologically biased or dumb or controlling and none of them are trained. That any single individual wants to be in charge of the narrative is suspicious. Scale that ambition up to hundreds of thousands or millions of people it’s a red flag. Reddit is completely cooked these days, I haven’t returned since finding Lemmy.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
To be fair the account could be 9000 years old. You could be a 14 year old on their parents old account.
This one ain’t the mods being dumb. This is just liability requirements. Which is its own kinda dumb but it’s a whole different problem.
BilboBargains@lemmy.world 6 months ago
We can claim anything we like and also retract any statement except when a user claims to be 14. That person remains at age 14 for all time. Is this the logic? What about all the ‘damage’ that was done before they discovered the underage user? Somebody should look into that, they might find themselves face to face with a 51 year old who takes a prescription stimulant every day.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 6 months ago
Reddit has been dead since February, when Spez met with The Goblin, and then permabanned thousands, maybe millions of highly active accounts, including me. I was permabanned for repeating a post I had made many times with no issues. After 12 years, and almost a million Karma, I was suddenly too dangerous to allow on the platform, along with thousands of others.
We high volume posters built Reddit, but we shifted from being assets to problems after Trump was elected again.
DNS@discuss.online 6 months ago
I was permabanned for saying fascists need to get curb stomped like one forefathers did.
I like how Reddit hosts the most hateful, vile, racist subreddits and bans people like me for not condoning it. That doublespeak is chefs kiss
KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Reddit died for me the moment RIF went down.
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Soon as they fucked over the Apollo dev…re, redd who?
JawnZ@lemmy.today 6 months ago
I still use RIF with a Revanced patch- the few weeks before I figured out how to do that I was zero time on reddit. That’s probably healthier for me.
I’m trying to shift over to Lemmy more and more it’s just difficult with some smaller/niche communities. But it’s worth the effort given how much spez is on his knees.
HuskerNation@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
“subreddits will stop displaying subscriber counts and instead show their “unique number of unique visitors over the last seven days, based on a rolling 28-day average,” Reddit’s rep said. Notably, old.reddit.com will not get these new stats but will still lose subscriber counts”
They are hiding,for stock purposes, their declining numbers from everyone they have banned. 12 year user I never said anything outlandish just dark humor that I always have. Stuff that would have been easily ok 10 years ago. Nope no more
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 6 months ago
Unique visitor numbers are much, much more important than total subscriber numbers though. Total subscriber numbers include accounts that have been inactive for years.
PonderousParrot@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I joined after getting some weird warning about upvoting comments reddit didn’t like. That left a sour taste in my mouth.
surph_ninja@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s definitely Reddit attempting more censorship and manipulation of the front page, but I’m still happy the powermods are being fucked.
rarsamx@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
How is no one mentioning the abuse on r/conservative where spewing all kinds of falsehoods, and xenophobias and you are gold, but trying to provide factual information gets banned?
I think there are more things to worry about than the number of groups someone helps moderate.
And alsothere is no recourse against improper bans. I was banned from my corresponding country sub because a moderator misinterpreted something I said.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
I got a lifetime ban after 12 years on Reddit. I still have no clue why, and I really, really don’t care.
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 6 months ago
If /r/wallstreetbets would just move to Lemmy, I’d have no reason to ever look at reddit at all. Wallstreetbets has been pretty solid on giving me tips to make money recently. The rest of the site is trash.
MaxPow3r11@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I got banned for criticizing billionaires.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Limiting the number of large subs a user can moderate is a good way to a) limit their power b) reduce misinformation campaigns.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Hope one of them is the fuckwad that banned me years ago
DiskCrasher@lemmy.world 6 months ago
And yet they still shadowban. Fuck Reddit.
dontsayaword@piefed.social 5 months ago
Any mods that are still on reddit are bootlickers who have whatever happens coming to them.
The god mods were all evicted back in the API blackout.