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Usually, Subreddits are created by fans of the service. This is the first time I'm noticing a complete corporate subreddit. All the moderators are the staff of

Usually, Subreddits are created by fans of the service. This is the first time I'm noticing a complete corporate subreddit. All the moderators are the staff of PIA. [1] It will be interesting to see how much they accept criticisms on the subreddit about PIA. 1. https://old.reddit.com/r/PrivateInternetAccess/about/moderators https://old.reddit.com/r/PrivateInternetAccess/about/moderat...

bla3 7y ago
It's not that uncommon. The stadia subreddit mods are all Google employees as well, for example. I agree it's not an ideal setup.
- IntelMiner 7y ago
  I seem to recall the "League of Legends" subreddit having a meltdown when its mods were found to be simply compromised by the company, rather than employed by it
  - jrockway 7y ago
    Reddit was not happy with the r/Blizzard mods during the blitzchung thing. Redditors are basically never happy with anything. Their ideal world is some place with no rules except that everyone else is forced to read their comments. Unfortunately, such a place does not exist.
    - inapis 7y ago
      Most forums on the internet are like that and it’s not exactly unexpected because people who care about writing something in an Internet forum will also be pedantic about what they want. This forum is no exception (you can pretty much see this in action whenever electron is mentioned) Many people try to reduce complex multi-variate situations into simple variable situations and then lambast people on other forums if their chosen variable turns out to be different. I just saw an example of this last week in mobilereads forum. Unhappy with iBooks and the kindle apps I’ve been reliant on Marvin for quite a time. But the dev has vanished from the scene for last 2 years. I just investigated if creating a commercial replacement would be a good idea but good god, the one forum where people have been talking about Marvin can have extremely ultra specific needs for a very unreasonable price expectation. After reading that forum I’m not exactly surprised that the dev chose to abandon the goal post.
- criddell 7y ago
  I don't really have a problem with it when anybody can create /r/stadia2 and do a better job.
- slenk 7y ago
  It's technically against the Reddiquette: Please Don't ... Take moderation positions in a community where your profession, employment, or biases could pose a direct conflict of interest to the neutral and user driven nature of reddit. https://www.reddit.com/wiki/reddiquette https://www.reddit.com/wiki/reddiquette
  - tinodotim 7y ago
    Something to add though, it's informal. > Reddiquette is an informal expression of the values of many redditors, as written by redditors themselve But I guess it makes sense for Reddit to move away from that rule. That's how you get big campaigns with companies like Adobe. Not by taking away their sub-reddits. Personally I think I even prefer that though. Better than having heavily biased "community moderators", which is the case in way too many sub-reddits.
sneak 7y ago
The Peloton subreddit is full of non-disclosed astroturfing accounts.
- maaaats 7y ago
  What are they astroturfing? TdF vs Giro? Contaminated beefs? Caliper vs disk brakes? Edit: or are you talking about something else than r/peloton?
  - gerikson 7y ago
    > Contaminated beefs I’m not that into cycling, what’s this about?
    - maaaats 7y ago
      Alberto Contador initially won Tour de France in 2010, but tested positive for traces of clenbuterol. He blamed it on meat he had been eating. It has become a meme in cycling circles.
  - timdorr 7y ago
    They may mean r/pelotoncycle, which is for the in-home exercise bike.
syshum 7y ago
I thought that was against Site Rules? To have employees be the mod's
- Sebb767 7y ago
  It's tolerated but advised against as far as I know.
Semaphor 7y ago
Happens a few times. For the Endless Space/Legends series of games, we made their community manager a mod (they are essentially running the subs, but don’t have founder status and technically we could intervene if they behave in questionable way). It usually depends on who created the sub. Some of them are set up as official channels, others are community-run but with good relationship with the company (an example for the latter would be the paradox subreddits, they are independent but have a good relationship with Paradox).
donatj 7y ago
The Go language subreddit had been modded by Google employees. They lost interest and decided to shut it down and there was a bunch of hubbub. In the end they thankfully decided to give the subreddit to the community.
- mattkrause 7y ago
  Google capriciously shut something down?!
rasengan 7y ago
Whether critical or loving, we really appreciate any and all feedback from our users and the community. We accept all criticism with open arms and, furthermore, will not be censoring our subreddit as that would undermine free speech - the very thing we are fighting for.
xrftghvb 7y ago
r/bitcoin was taken over by Blockstream corporation and it's heavily moderated. Open discussion of Bitcoin is at r/btc. https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/9lfjrb/frequently_asked_questions_and_information_thread/ https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/9lfjrb/frequently_aske...
- grubles 7y ago
  This is an outright lie. In fact, r/btc is controlled by for-profit entity (bitcoin,com which has little to nothing to do with Bitcoin the project) and has advertisements blasted all over the subreddit page.
  - maxmalysh 7y ago
    The author of the comment I'm replying to is an "Editor of Blockstream Engineering Blog" (= Blockstream shill).
    - grubles 7y ago
      Verify my claim yourself. Check the sidebar. It's nearly all adverts for Bitcoin,com products. https://old.reddit.com/r/btc/ https://old.reddit.com/r/btc/ /u/memorydealers was formerly the CEO of Bitcoin,com. Now he is in some lesser role. Most of the mods are employees of Bitcoin,com. e.g. /u/BitcoinXio, /u/MagmaHindenberg is CTO, etc. Claiming r/btc is some user-run subreddit is quite literally lying.
      - mynameisvlad 7y ago
        They never claimed that. Only that open discussion can be found at r/btc. Also, please stop using a comma in the name of the site. It’s not doing you any favours, your bias is transparently clear.
      - BubRoss 7y ago
        This is meant for people who aren't familiar with the takeover of the Bitcoin GitHub and subreddit. /r/bitcoin deletes anything that goes against blockstream's narrative while /r/btc is an open discussion. /r/btc is constantly trolled with full on lies. The effort is all to keep Bitcoin constrained to never increase its throughout so that people will be forced to use blockstream's awkward and unnecessary layer in top. This is why all the original developers and more were replaced with people funded by blockstream. While there are many contributors listed on GitHub there is very little development allowed to be merged from outsiders. If anyone doubts this, go try to have a discussion of increasing the block size on /r/Bitcoin and see how fast your comments are deleted or your account banned. Make sure to look at it without your main account. At best they will tell you it is impossible even though many other cryptocurrencies have done it with no problems (and anyone can see that the resource usage is tiny). These things can be independently verified.
spilk 7y ago
the /r/pfSense subreddit also has a bunch of Netgate staff as moderators

bla3 7y ago

It's not that uncommon. The stadia subreddit mods are all Google employees as well, for example. I agree it's not an ideal setup.

IntelMiner 7y ago
I seem to recall the "League of Legends" subreddit having a meltdown when its mods were found to be simply compromised by the company, rather than employed by it
- jrockway 7y ago
  Reddit was not happy with the r/Blizzard mods during the blitzchung thing. Redditors are basically never happy with anything. Their ideal world is some place with no rules except that everyone else is forced to read their comments. Unfortunately, such a place does not exist.
  - inapis 7y ago
    Most forums on the internet are like that and it’s not exactly unexpected because people who care about writing something in an Internet forum will also be pedantic about what they want. This forum is no exception (you can pretty much see this in action whenever electron is mentioned) Many people try to reduce complex multi-variate situations into simple variable situations and then lambast people on other forums if their chosen variable turns out to be different. I just saw an example of this last week in mobilereads forum. Unhappy with iBooks and the kindle apps I’ve been reliant on Marvin for quite a time. But the dev has vanished from the scene for last 2 years. I just investigated if creating a commercial replacement would be a good idea but good god, the one forum where people have been talking about Marvin can have extremely ultra specific needs for a very unreasonable price expectation. After reading that forum I’m not exactly surprised that the dev chose to abandon the goal post.
criddell 7y ago
I don't really have a problem with it when anybody can create /r/stadia2 and do a better job.
slenk 7y ago
It's technically against the Reddiquette: Please Don't ... Take moderation positions in a community where your profession, employment, or biases could pose a direct conflict of interest to the neutral and user driven nature of reddit. https://www.reddit.com/wiki/reddiquette https://www.reddit.com/wiki/reddiquette
- tinodotim 7y ago
  Something to add though, it's informal. > Reddiquette is an informal expression of the values of many redditors, as written by redditors themselve But I guess it makes sense for Reddit to move away from that rule. That's how you get big campaigns with companies like Adobe. Not by taking away their sub-reddits. Personally I think I even prefer that though. Better than having heavily biased "community moderators", which is the case in way too many sub-reddits.

sneak 7y ago

The Peloton subreddit is full of non-disclosed astroturfing accounts.

maaaats 7y ago
What are they astroturfing? TdF vs Giro? Contaminated beefs? Caliper vs disk brakes? Edit: or are you talking about something else than r/peloton?
- gerikson 7y ago
  > Contaminated beefs I’m not that into cycling, what’s this about?
  - maaaats 7y ago
    Alberto Contador initially won Tour de France in 2010, but tested positive for traces of clenbuterol. He blamed it on meat he had been eating. It has become a meme in cycling circles.
- timdorr 7y ago
  They may mean r/pelotoncycle, which is for the in-home exercise bike.

syshum 7y ago

I thought that was against Site Rules? To have employees be the mod's

Sebb767 7y ago
It's tolerated but advised against as far as I know.

Semaphor 7y ago

Happens a few times. For the Endless Space/Legends series of games, we made their community manager a mod (they are essentially running the subs, but don’t have founder status and technically we could intervene if they behave in questionable way). It usually depends on who created the sub. Some of them are set up as official channels, others are community-run but with good relationship with the company (an example for the latter would be the paradox subreddits, they are independent but have a good relationship with Paradox).

donatj 7y ago

The Go language subreddit had been modded by Google employees. They lost interest and decided to shut it down and there was a bunch of hubbub. In the end they thankfully decided to give the subreddit to the community.

mattkrause 7y ago
Google capriciously shut something down?!

rasengan 7y ago

Whether critical or loving, we really appreciate any and all feedback from our users and the community. We accept all criticism with open arms and, furthermore, will not be censoring our subreddit as that would undermine free speech - the very thing we are fighting for.

xrftghvb 7y ago

r/bitcoin was taken over by Blockstream corporation and it's heavily moderated. Open discussion of Bitcoin is at r/btc. https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/9lfjrb/frequently_asked_questions_and_information_thread/ https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/9lfjrb/frequently_aske...

grubles 7y ago
This is an outright lie. In fact, r/btc is controlled by for-profit entity (bitcoin,com which has little to nothing to do with Bitcoin the project) and has advertisements blasted all over the subreddit page.
- maxmalysh 7y ago
  The author of the comment I'm replying to is an "Editor of Blockstream Engineering Blog" (= Blockstream shill).
  - grubles 7y ago
    Verify my claim yourself. Check the sidebar. It's nearly all adverts for Bitcoin,com products. https://old.reddit.com/r/btc/ https://old.reddit.com/r/btc/ /u/memorydealers was formerly the CEO of Bitcoin,com. Now he is in some lesser role. Most of the mods are employees of Bitcoin,com. e.g. /u/BitcoinXio, /u/MagmaHindenberg is CTO, etc. Claiming r/btc is some user-run subreddit is quite literally lying.
    - mynameisvlad 7y ago
      They never claimed that. Only that open discussion can be found at r/btc. Also, please stop using a comma in the name of the site. It’s not doing you any favours, your bias is transparently clear.
    - BubRoss 7y ago
      This is meant for people who aren't familiar with the takeover of the Bitcoin GitHub and subreddit. /r/bitcoin deletes anything that goes against blockstream's narrative while /r/btc is an open discussion. /r/btc is constantly trolled with full on lies. The effort is all to keep Bitcoin constrained to never increase its throughout so that people will be forced to use blockstream's awkward and unnecessary layer in top. This is why all the original developers and more were replaced with people funded by blockstream. While there are many contributors listed on GitHub there is very little development allowed to be merged from outsiders. If anyone doubts this, go try to have a discussion of increasing the block size on /r/Bitcoin and see how fast your comments are deleted or your account banned. Make sure to look at it without your main account. At best they will tell you it is impossible even though many other cryptocurrencies have done it with no problems (and anyone can see that the resource usage is tiny). These things can be independently verified.

spilk 7y ago

the /r/pfSense subreddit also has a bunch of Netgate staff as moderators