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Reddit is the wild wild west. Bots are everywhere, power mods sell their services to companies, admins editing comments without anyone kn0wing, it's just a big
by socrates1998 10y ago
Reddit is the wild wild west. Bots are everywhere, power mods sell their services to companies, admins editing comments without anyone kn0wing, it's just a big shit show.
I would be very skeptical of anything I read on there.
- rdtsc 10y agoRemember seeing in subreddit drama section a situation where the CEO went into the database and apparently changed one of the comments from Trump's subreddit. It was probably something insulting or taunting as usual. What was interesting to me is one of the admins then leaked internal Slack chat logs talking about the fallout of it and such. In there one of admins boasted getting paid by Correct The Record which I understand Democrats contacted with to control the narrative online. And I thought that's pretty brilliant - focus on admins and moderators of a popular site or subreddit is more effective than just picking any old Joe from the street.
- socrates1998 10y agoYeah, that's what I was referring to. Reddit is just a very strange place where they sort of let users and mods do what they want, then step in randomly when they get too much bad press or the admins (like the CEO) disagree with the content. It really does feel like Lord of the Flies