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It's an average of less than 1 per day in a very busy subreddit. That is an impossible standard to meet. It would be trivial for a false flag operation to post

by burfog 7y ago

It's an average of less than 1 per day in a very busy subreddit. That is an impossible standard to meet. It would be trivial for a false flag operation to post that often, and there clearly is a motive for that. Meanwhile, as rhegart commented below, far worse is permitted in other subreddits. The bias is clear as could be. It's not crazy to think this has something to do with Google. Immense pressure is being applied by Google. Nobody dares risk being blacklisted from Google search. We've partially lost our ability to have public debate that might negatively impact Google.

drak0n1c 7y ago
For those interested in the source, the admin logs show that the Reddit Corporate Admins only needed to remove on average one comment per few days going back 30 days. Then they removed 9 comments on one day on a post about Oregon - a somewhat anomalous casus belli. Apparently that was enough to quarantine a subreddit of 750k subscribers. https://twitter.com/thedonaldreddit/status/1143926570408644608 https://twitter.com/thedonaldreddit/status/11439265704086446...
- weaksauce 7y ago
  That belies the point that admins are not having to do this with other communities. they simply don't need to step in unless it's overly egregious as it seems to be here. admins are not there to moderate communities; that's the mods job.
JaimeThompson 7y ago
It is one per day if we are to believe the TD mods who honestly don't have the best track record in the world of being honest or enforcing their own rules consistently.
mirashii 7y ago
> It's an average of less than 1 per day in a very busy subreddit. That is an impossible standard to meet. On the contrary, I'm a former moderator of r/science which had an order of magnitude more traffic and am unaware of an admin ever having to step in during my many months tenure. The justification also ran much deeper than the fact that they had to step in at all, and discussed the fact that the community moderators took actions which actively prevented the community from policing itself. Downvote buttons being hidden and renaming the report button increase the probability of these posts staying up and visible for longer periods of time.

by burfog 7y ago

drak0n1c 7y ago

For those interested in the source, the admin logs show that the Reddit Corporate Admins only needed to remove on average one comment per few days going back 30 days. Then they removed 9 comments on one day on a post about Oregon - a somewhat anomalous casus belli. Apparently that was enough to quarantine a subreddit of 750k subscribers. https://twitter.com/thedonaldreddit/status/1143926570408644608 https://twitter.com/thedonaldreddit/status/11439265704086446...

weaksauce 7y ago
That belies the point that admins are not having to do this with other communities. they simply don't need to step in unless it's overly egregious as it seems to be here. admins are not there to moderate communities; that's the mods job.

JaimeThompson 7y ago

It is one per day if we are to believe the TD mods who honestly don't have the best track record in the world of being honest or enforcing their own rules consistently.

mirashii 7y ago

> It's an average of less than 1 per day in a very busy subreddit. That is an impossible standard to meet. On the contrary, I'm a former moderator of r/science which had an order of magnitude more traffic and am unaware of an admin ever having to step in during my many months tenure. The justification also ran much deeper than the fact that they had to step in at all, and discussed the fact that the community moderators took actions which actively prevented the community from policing itself. Downvote buttons being hidden and renaming the report button increase the probability of these posts staying up and visible for longer periods of time.