It’s precisely what everyone said would happen. Spez and the Reddit team seem not to realise how important mods and users were to their business! The number of people who will do the thankless task of dealing with the internet’s undercurrent of horrendous behaviour are few.
It’s not recognizing as such, but refusing to admit someone not directly under the magnificent leadership of the CEO can do anything important or have good ideas on how to run things. Toxic Techbro culture.
To techbros, people doing voluntary work for them is something to be exploited, not rewarded. They see the mods as saps as they would never do anything for free.
I wonder if their plan was to use chatgpt or some AI to pick up the slack with moderation but set things into motion before realizing that AI isn’t quite there yet and would need human eyes to verify actions otherwise the AI would have banned everyone or not enough people.
I don’t know which scenario is more amusing, the one where they had a plan that failed or the one where they just thought everything would work out fine and what we saw was the plan.
Hah! I can’t wait for the next devaluation to drop.
The incompetence of Reddit staff in recent years has especially impressed me.
The incompetence of Reddit staff in recent years has especially impressed me
Tell me about it, I just got a 7 day ban of promoting hate on a samsung sub and my comment had nothing to do with it lol. Some guy decided to randomly abuse and harass me, I reported him and he obviously reported me. I notice he got banned right away but days later so did I for nothing? Lol shows how incompetence and in shambles that the new mods are in.
Ooooh yes. Something similar happened to me out of the blue back in January. I commented, verbatim:
Random fact that I recently learned and thought was kind of cool. One of the very first responses of your body when you get a cut or infection is to synthesize hydrogen peroxide in the area that signals your white blood cells to rally to that area.
I then linked to Science Daily and Harvard articles about it.
Temporary ban for “Harassment,” citing this comment.
Later on I incurred another infraction and my account was permabanned, citing my previous strike as justification for the permanent ban. Smfh. 250 characters to appeal…
Meanwhile these idiots excused cesspools like The_Donald for years. Meanwhile I report a person being objectively racist (Calling them “out of control” and “absolutely feral savages”) and… They reviewed it not once but twice and found nothing wrong. LOL.
I wrote this all up in a medium article in more detail but I’m half-tempted to send all my screenshots to Fidelity and some news outlets for shits.
Wow. I’ve had other ridiculous bans in the past too.
Best one was banned for sexual harassment and being ‘toxic’.
It was back when u/theawkwardturtle was blowing up a storm and some feminist banned me for the word ‘ok’ because she said anyone who would oppose me and awkwardturtle by commenting are going to get a permanent ban and a harassment violation from reddit.
Next mine I was banned from that sub and I got a temp ban from reddit for the word ‘ok’ lmao.
Tried to appeal for the hell of it months later and the mod denied me instantly and said what i done was atrocious and I deserve my ban, called me a horrible human being and said I was a sexualising predator etc.
I’ve always hated reddit mods but man I’m glad I’m not that active on that sespool of hate anymore.
Somehow I missed all that controversy. Looking it up now, wow what a shit-show. Just to clarify for anyone else reading this, it was the user AwkwardTheTurtle not theawkwardturtle.
I was permanently banned from r/militaryporn for pointing out that MRAP was the name of a family of vehicles and not of a single particular one. Some former marine took strange emotional offense at this and spewed a lot of personal insults at me as I linked details a few times to the history of the program. The person commenting at me got extremely vile and an uncalled for, while also being confidently wrong. I just linked facts and didn’t insult in response.
Then I was perma banned. Tis a silly place.
I just don’t care about Reddit anymore. Or Twitter, for that matter.
I just like to watch them burn at this point
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He made sure to ban that group.
Spez has truly gone geriatric, otherwise, what other explanation exists to how he can manage to go from someone that was so good at covering his his utterly piece of shit side to someone that for news that should have blown over already keeps reaching mainstream publications?
He was never good at it. He used to have handlers, when Musk fired all his own Captain Copycat did the same thing. He’s not a smart man… either one.
Reddit Mods were never good. They were some of the worst people on Reddit. The admins are the only people worse than the mods.
For a lot of the big subs, sure. But every mod I encountered in the hobby/food/gardening subs were good and ran good spaces.
I was a good mod my users said :)
you’re cool :)
What I said applies to big subreddit mods. I think most niche or small subreddit mods were great.
Maybe they were Scotsmen.
lmfao - may a well just reach out to ol’ Hitler Murdoch over at Fox to help him fill his holes
well at least they got rid of some of the hungry powermods, i couldnt care less about reddit moderators though
That was the best?!?
Are you asking?!?
That’s actually a very good article!
I generally like Ars.
and why should i care?
