• soft_frog@kbin.social
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    Even if they just came out and said “we don’t want third party apps like Apollo anymore, we want one Reddit experience” it would have been at least honest. There would still be an uproar but not ugly like this.

    Instead everything Steve has done has been duplicitous and in bad faith. Then he drops that memo and pokes the bear, does a couple rounds of interviews going “I’m so strong, mods are spoiled, I’m like daddy Elon, make me rich”.

    I genuinely don’t know what he thinks he’s going to get out of this. He should have just sat this out quietly and let subs go dark until they got bored and alternatives formed and the system fixed itself.

    Side note: I’ve been disgusted watching redditors lick his boots and hate on the mods. In 13 years of using Reddit I only ever got banned from /r/conservative, so I don’t get all these people complaining about power tripping mods. That got me to delete all my accounts.

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      The part of the memo where Steve talks about wearing Reddit swag out on town really hit. Like, we love Reddit, but hate you, not your employees. Why would users want to harm Reddit employees?

      I mean, it’s not unfathomable, but it wasn’t imperative to mention it as it only serves to stoke fear among his employees and tries to frame this as an “us against them” thing.

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        Why would users want to harm Reddit employees?

        Realistically, because some people are dumb. It’s the same reason people harass actors for playing characters they don’t like.

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      I’m still bitter about a great post I made, which had a great discussion going, being removed on r/fitness for some obscure BS, just inane illogical reason. The mods in that sub were notoriously terrible, and is why there were a bunch of spinoff subs.

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      @soft_frog I was a mod on Reddit for a bit. As far as bans go, permabans were rare. There were a few people, however, that I or another mod banned that would play this “I was just joking” or “all I said was x and they banned me” game, but we would use a mod tag on these people so we quickly remember why we banned them. And it’s like dude, you told the dev who’s promoting their game to kill themselves.

      There are some shitty people out there, and mods have to clean up their shit (hopefully before anyone else sees) so the users have a good experience in our community.

      Yeah, there are some bad mods out there too, but it’s the ones that care that are going to have to work double time without these third party tools, and the site is going to lose some of those with this change.

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      1 year ago

      Only outright corrupt mods I ever experienced wad Amos on the conspiracy sub, and the mod of r/pitbullhate.

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        They totally exist, but the community tends to build around them when it’s bad.

        Someone posted https://subredditstats.com/ and it became so clear how reddit had changed in the last 3 years. All my subs have expanded 3-5x in size, and over that same period the quality declined a lot.

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          Oh there are plenty of shitty mods on certain subreddits, but the biggest issue is that often the community doesn’t realize it. Some person gets banned for some stupid reason, the community doesn’t know. That’s one of the biggest issues with community moderation especially on Reddit: it is entirely too easy for moderators to act invisibly and absolutely no one would be any the wiser because the only person that could point out the abuse of power can no longer post.

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      The mods for r/guitar were (are?) pretty bad. The guys at r/guitarcirclejerk made a sport of seeing how stupid a post they could post on r/guitar without getting banned. Of course, actual noobs with stupid noob questions sometimes ended up getting banned for trolling, so they’d end up at r/guitars asking wtf.

      It was kinda funny, kinda tragic. Dunno if it’s still there.

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        The rise of circlejerk communities was the beginning of the end, their only purpose was to harass members of a community and create a gathering place for trolls.