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That's what make reddit great. Certain reddit are heavily moderated and you get great content. If you don't like how moderation done, go start your own reddit.

• SkyMarshal 5y ago
  > go start your own reddit. This is actually what makes reddit great, that anyone can start their own subreddit, mod it however they want, and compete with all the others based on the merits of its own content, community and moderation style.
  • pageandrew 5y ago
    Untrue... reddit pushes some subreddits to the front page and bans other subreddits on the basis of spreading "disinformation".
  • Blikkentrekker 5y ago
    However the platform lacks namespaces. It is impossible to compete with the first one that claims the obvious name for the subject, such as, say r/startrek The competing ones also censor heavily, so all it does is that one can now choose what particular opinions one can't express. Competing on the merits of moderation style is insignificant compared to having the most straightforward name that everyone will try first; the subreddit with such name will always be the largest.
  • mytailorisrich 5y ago
    Yes and no. That's great for niches but not for general, high profile topics, a country subreddit for instance.
    • whimsicalism 5y ago
      Disagree - most city subreddits are pretty hands off and they get overrun by people coming from alt-right subs who don't even live in the city talking about crime. Moderation often improves quality. It can also be bad, but is not universally so.
  • SilverRed 5y ago
    I think the worst part is how things are silently removed. On many sites you get a message saying 'your content has been removed for violating rule x'. On reddit you almost always get nothing. Often you don't even get a ban message and will just be added to a shadow ban list so you end up wasting your time commenting but no one can see it. There is a site that shows you your deleted comments[1] and its pretty shocking. I found out every single one of my comments in one sub had been auto deleted with the reason being I did not have any link karma (because I only comment). What a waste of time and it turns me off from the platform. [1] www.reveddit.com
• pageandrew 5y ago
  "Great content" === what are you referring to exactly? The left-wing propaganda that dominates the front page, passed off as "news" or "science"?
  • buu700 5y ago
    Offhand, /r/legaladvice, /r/AskHistorians, and /r/AskScience stand out as being heavily moderated to the benefit of overall content quality. I don't see how any of those would be political propaganda (left-wing or otherwise).
    • Blikkentrekker 5y ago
      I have never tried the latter two, but the first one is a very good example of a notoriously bad advice subreddit that almost all lawyers dislike for spreading constant misinformation, and often even seeing people that say the correct thing be banned by the moderators. There are almost no actual lawyers on that subreddit for two reasons: A) actual lawyers would like to see compensation for their expertise; B) in many jurisdictions, lawyers are not allowed to give legal advice without establishing a formal attorney–client relationship.
      • mustacheemperor 5y ago
        The latter two subreddits really do have excellent content, they are worth checking out. /r/legaladvice is so bad there is actually a subreddit dedicated to discussing what's posted there, /r/bestoflegaladvice. There's more attorneys in that sub than the actual legal advice sub, where a surprising amount of advice is either blatantly wrong or essentially "just tell the police everything, they'll help." /r/audiophile and /r/wine are two other well moderated subreddits, where the discussion has remained relatively focused and high quality even as the communities have grown, because the moderators aggressively prune low-effort and unrelated content. There was big drama, once upon a time, when /r/audiophile banned anything headphone related.
      • buu700 5y ago
        Interesting, this is the first I'm hearing about that. Typically users will state whether or not they're lawyers, and if so the degree to which they're familiar with the OP's jurisdiction, and threads will often be locked and/or littered with removed comments for the reason "bad advice". Often, the only advice users will receive is to go see a lawyer. Based on all that, it seemed pretty solid to me. I'm not saying you're wrong, but if I had to guess it's probably more a case of being hit-or-miss than entirely bad. Even a minority of bad advice would stand out to a lawyer in the same way that >=1% of wrong information in a tech publication would stand out to most of us here, particularly if the victims of said bad advice were in serious situations. (IANAL or an active user of /r/legaladvice. I just pop in every so often when an interesting thread hits my front page, so whatever I'm exposed to is presumably better quality and more actively moderated than what's average for the sub.)
• bserge 5y ago
  No no no, first you need to find several admins. Otherwise you'll get banned along with your subreddit lmao