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I'm completely on the side of the mods, here. Our social networks reward mindless content. If a social network doesn't provide any tools for a content creator

I'm completely on the side of the mods, here. Our social networks reward mindless content. If a social network doesn't provide any tools for a content creator to somehow highlight, "No, really, please take an extra look at this," and / or a way for content consumers to highlight, "Ooh, yes, last time I consumed content like that, I really, really liked it, so please highlight it," then the network is failing everyone. I'm not even prescribing how that negotiation should take place. Different systems could come up with different solutions. If users have switched to /r/popular, to the exclusion of all else, then maybe reddit could offer users to flag some subreddits as having special permission to get their attention occasionally. With a Sensitivity that they could turn up or down. And then that content could be highlighted for them at the top of /r/popular.

ericschmidt 8y ago
The hilarious thing is that they already had the exact tool you describe: stickied posts. They removed the "stickied posts" feature when r/the_donald .... I wanna say "abused the feature", but the truth is that they used the feature exactly as intended and the result was a front page full of Pro-Trump posts. Reddit didn't like that. So they removed Stickied posts and forced innocent mods like this dude from r/science to come up with innovative ways to highlight posts (such as deleting other posts). I'm completely on the side of the mod here because Reddit keeps removing useful features whenever people they don't like (Trump supporters) use them too. The mod is just caught in the crossfire between the admins and Trump supporters and he's doing his best to make sure his best posts stay visible. This is just another shitty move on the part of Reddit. Steve Huffman's wife's boyfriend is gonna be so pissed when he finds out !!!

ericschmidt 8y ago

The hilarious thing is that they already had the exact tool you describe: stickied posts. They removed the "stickied posts" feature when r/the_donald .... I wanna say "abused the feature", but the truth is that they used the feature exactly as intended and the result was a front page full of Pro-Trump posts. Reddit didn't like that. So they removed Stickied posts and forced innocent mods like this dude from r/science to come up with innovative ways to highlight posts (such as deleting other posts). I'm completely on the side of the mod here because Reddit keeps removing useful features whenever people they don't like (Trump supporters) use them too. The mod is just caught in the crossfire between the admins and Trump supporters and he's doing his best to make sure his best posts stay visible. This is just another shitty move on the part of Reddit. Steve Huffman's wife's boyfriend is gonna be so pissed when he finds out !!!