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Speaking of Reddit, a citizen of Hong Kong had a post this morning make it to the front page giving out a bit of info about the protest. Nearly half the comment
by hiram112 7y ago
Speaking of Reddit, a citizen of Hong Kong had a post this morning make it to the front page giving out a bit of info about the protest. Nearly half the comments were purged by the mods. Reddit had gone down hell in the last few years, but this was something else.
- ethbro 7y agoAren't all Reddit subs driven by their own moderators? Or are there core subs that are Reddit-moderated? I had a lawyer friend who liked to post in a legal advice sub, moderated by someone in law enforcement, who banned him for posting information about your rights if you're arrested.
- cwkoss 7y agoI suspect that Reddit intentionally keeps the moderators of core subs a group of "normal users" (who will follow any requests by the admins) as a level of obfuscation for any corporate-driven censorship or vote-tampering.
- ethbro 7y agoAnd I suspect there's a secret cabal of mole-men (and -women) who are selecting presidential candidates for the Democratic primaries. Are either of these claims falsifiable?
- SkyBelow 7y agoYes, their claim can be easily falsified by a full investigation.
- SketchySeaBeast 7y agoWhat is the answer if the result of said investigation is "well, we have no direct evidence"?
- burgerboy 7y agoThen the person who did the investigation is compromised obviously
- SkyBelow 7y agoThat has no bearing on if the claim is falsifiable or not.
- SketchySeaBeast 7y ago> falsified by a full investigation Unless it's a term I'm not aware of, a full investigation is still limited to human actors and limits.
- SkyBelow 7y agoThe result of the investigation isn't a factor in determining if a claim is falsifiable or not, only the question if the investigation is possible. This is confusing falsifiable with falsified.
- ethbro 7y agoA full investigation by whom? They've broken no laws. Voluntary? Ha. I realize what the parent was attempting to say, but internet rumormongering is poor form.
- SkyBelow 7y ago>A full investigation by whom? The scientist seeking to determine if it is falsifiable. That no scientist has the resources necessary to do so now does not have bearing on determining if some claim is falsifiable or not.
- ethbro 7y agoI consider claims in which there is no realistic path to falsifiability non-falsifiable.
- hiram112 7y agoI would agree with that, especially for their biggest and most influential subs like /r/news and /r/politics. Reddit's owners have shown they're not above selling out some of these subs to firms like ShareBlue. It would make sense as part of their contract, they'd ensure that the mods were 'suited' to their customers' goals.
- DEADBEEFC0FFEE 7y agoThe lion share of subs are moderated by a relative few mods. There was a post showing the graph of control recently, I found it disturbing. Unfortunately Reddit has critical mass now, I think it can survive what ever it becomes. It could lose every user who wishes it was like the first 5 years and hardly notuce. There won't be a Digg moment for Reddit.
- mc32 7y agoDoes Reddit have a system to appeal mod decisionmaking for important (and not so important) subreddits? I think Flickr had this back when they were a big property. You'd have site admins look at your complaint and follow up as necessary. It's be nice to have and if they have it that it'd be more active to keep things from going off the rails --within reason.
- Retric 7y agoMany dominate players on the internet have been kicked to the curve. It starts with complacency which lack of real competition seems to always create.
- cmonnow 7y agoThe blatant censorship situation in r/india 'official India subreddit' is similar. Any user supporting the incumbent government or speaking against Islamic terrorism gets banned. Similar scenario on r/worldnews. Anti-Muslim posts get removed and users banned, while Anti-Hindu posts get to the front-page. Reddit should make atleast the 'Official Country' subreddits from obvious bias/influence.