Its like a microcosm of US media in general.
Lemmy has that same problem, maybe even worse since our user base is way smaller
No because almost all the accounts here are people and it is unlikely there ate many psy-ops going on here unlike Reddit.
Were you here for US election season? Because there were piles of astroturf comments pushing a don’t vote narrative, with activity vaguely correlated around Moscow’s time zone. And they all shut up and disappeared right after the election.
And you could tell the difference between the psyop trolls and the genuine tankies, because the tankies are still here doing their tankie stuff.
Peak reddit
I had a bizarre run-in with a mod who harassed me in DMs. It was the mod to a TikTok group and this was around the TikTok ban.
Other than that, I got banned for three days multiple times for telling conservatives to go fuck themselves in as many words and as great detail as I possibly could.
If you assume they don’t have multiple accounts
I would love to see a Reddit stylometric analysis
Me: This video of a POS attacking a sleeping person (literally drop elbowing him in the head with the potential of snapping the neck) on the NYC subway with malicious assault says more about all of the people watching and filming while doing nothing about it than the attacker.
Reddit: You are permanently suspended from Reddit.
3 days ago.
Well, you referenced the potential death of a human which their advertisers definitely do not approve of. Luckily for them, the mods caught your horribly violent comment before it could reach the masses. The fact you were only permabanned, and not charged with a crime against humanity, is a blessing indeed!
Please be careful in the future when using words that might make someone else feel something, especially if that person (who you don’t know) might have to face an uncomfortable reality. It’s only fair that we censor genuine human expression in the name of brand image. After all, the advertisers are what’s keeping the lights on around here. If we stopped listening to their demands, god knows what kind of horrible society might emerge.
This happened to me about a week ago
And then somehow my account got banned for 3 days
And then once the ban was up Reddit let me know that they’d looked into it and found nothing concerning
Hey dude, he’s an attorney threatening to shoot people on the internet. If you legitimately know who he is, go see an attorney. He’s fucked and you can get some money. I am literally the only person in my immediate family who is not an attorney, and I worked in a legal-adjacent field for a long time.
🤣 ssshhhhhsh hunny, adults are talking.
Gotta love automated banning
I’d be curious to see what their AI permaban tag words are. So many words must be listed since they will ban you for violence if you even mention Luigi or say the word “dead.”
I’d also love to be a fly on the wall for those conversations to see their thought process for how they deny the first amendment and how many bots they need to replace the one person they banned to make the site seem full.
oh i can help with this one! calling gina curano a cunt is definitely one! now i cant have an account for more than 24 hrs without it being permabanned. they just ignore my appeals and requests to answer why i am permabanned over something as pathetic as that.
The fucked up thing (well, one of them) is that, with whatever new AI auto-moderation sentiment analysis thing they’ve employed in the past year or so, you receive absolutely no indication that action has been taken against your comments. Unlike shadowbanning, which has been around for donkey’s years, you still see your comments in-thread and can even get replies from certain users. It’s difficult to explain, even harder to prove, but they’re employing something such that certain tiers of users see your comments, while others don’t. Think skill-based match-making from the gaming world, but applied to thread-based social media. I hung on for quite a while after the writing was applied to the proverbial wall, but once I realized this I erased every trace of Reddit from every corner of my life. Now I’m here!
probably just an algorithm that groups users in accordance with known traits or interests or styles, furthering that ‘in group’ alignment feeling that comes from people who care about reddit comments lol
i’ve been banned twice the past two years… for talking about my cat killing rabbits. once on a local sub and another on a cat sub.
apparently animal on animal violence is now too controversial for reddit.
i was also constantly blocking people the past year because i go sooo many harassing DMs. Never used to get those until like '23. i remember using reddit for like 12 years without every having to block anyone.
SRS was the original DM harassers like over 10 years ago.
Just a point in all this. They can deny free speech all they want, they’re not a gov org. Only the 1st applies to the gov stifling free speech, a private org can do it all day long with no repercussions.
You are very smart
A link to source or some alt text would be cool: this image lacks both.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjUcfSVuU1A will help - Upper Echelon’s video on the 'Reddit Mafia" concisely explains the current Power Mod situation.
Reddit have pushed out what I consider knee-jerk reactionary responses to the growing issue of ‘power mods’ - https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1myjrgz/reddit_announces_how_many_large_subs_one_can_mod/ - which was brought about due to this: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1mwnoq2/addressing_questions_on_moderation_limits/
It could have even started to originate from this: https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-ceo-will-change-rules-to-make-mods-less-powerful-2023-6
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says the site’s mods are too powerful. In an interview on Thursday, he told NBC that he planned to change the rules so users had the power to vote the moderators of subreddits out.
He said the current system — where mods can only be removed by themselves, higher-ranking mods, or Reddit itself — was “not democratic” and compared it to a “landed gentry.”Power mods have been an issue for many many years, possibly even before this. This may have been the tipping point for Reddit to finally stop sucking their thumb and do something about it. Either that or potential negative feedback to hurt their bottom line (and the shareholders pockets…)
While that’s cool, I meant that OP should make the posted image accessible, because right now no blind person can read that or follow a link to a source they can read. It’s also not fault tolerant (in case the image breaks) or searchable, so it makes the web less usable. A link to the source of the image or alt text would fix all that.
Perfection.
I think it is also just not true. Otherwise, please name the 4 and we’ll take a look at the top 500 subreddits.
Checkmate, cause it’s real difficult to operate multiple accounts at the same time!
*Someone who used multiple Reddit handles simultaneously for 15 years.
You kinda needed to in the later years. Some communities would auto-ban you for posting in other communities.
One of the funniest things you could do was find a moderate in an auto-ban community and just kinda post their name in passing conversation in a hostile community to bait them into responding. Then… POOF! Mod gone.
by the time i left i recognized gallowboob and a handful of others who dominated all the defaults and quite a few big subs.
I remember that you used to see all tye mods name of a subreddit. The past three years you can’t anymore or not by default.
i actually knew one of these powerusers in the early 2010s. he had leukemia, and i signed up to donate spinal marrow for him. i visited him in the hospital a bunch. he hasn’t acknowledged me since. that was a real bummer, but, i tend to see friends where they don’t exist so that might be on me.
i am a little bummed that i got permabanned just because i was so close to all of the reddit founders and early employees. i personally prevented alexis from getting arrested for trying to openly smoke weed on the street in pittsburgh when it was still the kind of thing that got you put in prison for a few years if your skin is darker than popcorn.
steve huffman in particular is a shitter and always has been. think of that kid you knew growing up who would make up that his dad worked at SEGA and that Goku was going to be in the next Sonic game — that’s spez, still, to this day. he is “mr. namedropper.” steve, genuinely, i do not care that you saw Beyoncé at the airport.
he had leukemia, and i signed up to donate spinal marrow for him.
if you had actually donated bone marrow, you would know that’s not how this works.
i had signed up to see if I am a match, which i would have donated if i had been selected. please show me where i mentioned actually donating bone marrow.
That sounds quite different. Wording matters, especially in times of bot posts and clout posts.
Also, no one signs up to be tested for a match with a specific person, not at those odds. So your new wording still doesn’t reflect how typisation (not sure about that word) is done.
The fuck? Yes it does, I lost a close friend to leukemia, and a ton of us went in to see if we would match with him. I don’t know where you got your info from but you %100 can do this. It works the same damn way with organ donating as well.
That sounds like it must’ve been rough. I’m sorry for your loss.
I don’t wish that shit even on people I don’t like, watching him go from a big happy guy who was 3 years from retirement to a skeleton in like 4 months was devastating. Adult leukemia is such a fucked up thing. He didn’t even know he had it until it was to late. Any time my wife and I, and his wife go out to our favorite Mexican restaurant, it’s like a nice little reminder he is with us still joking and eating the hottest salsa they make. I really miss him, but do remember the fun years we had with him. Really sucks he’s gone though.
Get your blood tested on a regular people, it might save your life.
I am sorry but you misunderstood the process. You do not check whether you match with a specific patient, but rather typisation is done to add potential donors to a larger database, from which hopefully a donor match is already available even before, because the chances for a match are so low that you can have a couple million people checked until you find a match. This is not blood groups.
Not even close, we worked with his doc and all had HLA tests done to see if we were a match for him. They also did the larger registery match list as well, but saying we didn’t is bullshit.
It seems the doc validated your feelings that you wanted to help your friend then, but also set you up for disappointment by not telling you the odds, and that you were much more likely to be a match for some complete stranger.
your continued effort in this conversation is admirable and also an admission…
Jesus fucking christ, shut the fuck up.
The hell you on about? People do that all the time.
I’m part of a big group now that is in a pool doctors all over the US can check to see if they can find a match for people, because a friend of mine died from leukemia a long time ago. They couldn’t find a match for him, but maybe I can match with someone else someday.
BTW, gonna shamelessly plug NMDP. They do good work.
See you mentioned the important bit: we get checked to be in a large database pool for potential patients. Not to match with a specific friend, because as nice as that would be, it is very unlikely to ever happen.
So? There’s no harm in trying anyways. Why are you so against a small test on the off-chance it could save a friend’s life? It’s not as if you’re being asked to submit a whole kidney for testing or something.
I’m not “against” it per se, but I would think - given the odds - it would be shitty to get tested without participating in the huge database.
Interesting… Can anyone verify one way or another?
Yes, those people who know how bone marrow type matching works, and what the odds are. Also, OC has confirmed in their response that they didn’t get to the point of a donation. And found better - albeit not entirely correct - wording for the process they allegedly signed up for.
Stop doubling down on stupid shit and admit that you fucked up. It’s not that hard.
Who fucking cares?
Idek what reddits target audience is anymore seems to be chronically online teen girls typically on snark/fanfic social media pages are becoming the majority, all they talk about is random drama and reality shows so they arent getting banned for saying stuff lol
believe me or don’t
It doesnt really matter either way but I’m inclined to believe you because you aren’t exactly going to get kudos for being close to reddit founders on the fediverse so this is more like a confession than a brag. FWIW I enjoyed the context.
Didn’t that group fell apart some time ago? Or at least their accounts vanished? I can’t be bothered to go to that shitty site to check. I am referencing one of Upper Echelons newer videos talking about them.
I don’t know, but I did see an article recently that reddit is capping how many big subs one person can moderate. I feel like it’s too late though, as political, corporate, and government accounts are probably all over and coordinating. They could easily just hand off to each other or alts.
Lemmy is the same EXACT SHIT 🤣
I know there’s at least one admin that also moderates r/news. That’s how I got permbanned a second time. They don’t like it when you point out obvious bots.
You’d think Spez’s “landed gentry” would have better things to do.
So thats why Ibwas perma banned too
Hmph. As a one time mod or top mod of several “default” subs I can confirm that the image is true.
I’ve been a mod of several niche subreddits and entire reddit is absolute 100% gamed and astroturfed. Being a mod is incredibly lucrative to the point that’s full career for many mods.
In all fairness it was bound to happen and it’s similar on all social media groups. The power and lack of transparency makes it incredibly easy to start profiting of your positions even when the goal is noble at first. There’s this great podcast on cat drug black markets which perfectly illustrates this.
I find it funny seeing people complain about LLM hallucination and inaccuracy turn around and prefix
site:reddit.comto their search queries in pure, blissful ignorance.I remember there was a guy making 6 figures in the CSGO community by posting ads for gambling sites disguised as memes.
This is how Digg fell.
Which explains why the Tetrarchs are so hardcore about deleting messages about it. Digg’s death brought Reddit to prominence; they don’t want the inverse to happen.
The tighter you hold onto sand, the more it falls through your fingers.
Nobody suggested it was a good idea.
No that happened because they rolled out a completely new method of submitting posts where paid partners could have direct access to the front page.
That rollout further cemented the superusers dominating the front page issue, who were likely already being paid to promote certain sources/topics. Half the front page was dominated by mrbabyman.
It just made it more official.
Ha! I had forgotten about mrbabyman, thank you for that reference!
I think we are kind of splitting hairs, myself included.
I believe we kind of all collectively share an understanding that Reddit is controlled and users are shown what the powers behind the curtain want the users to see.
Something about the way Digg went about announcing how the front page was literally for sale, as a good thing, seems like a very quaint memory. From a naive time when somebody at the c-level literally thought it was okay to broadcast to the entire user base that now the site is for advertisers and whatever messaging was bought & paid for.
I mean…
I’m deleting this message with this edit because it was ill-conceived and hastily dashed together and submitted without appropriate thought and care
Your message just killed my parents.
