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Fully agree. The reddit model of moderation has been broken from the start. The sub-land grabs and fake internet points imply a sense of authority, which itsel
by brodouevencode 5y ago
Fully agree.
The reddit model of moderation has been broken from the start. The sub-land grabs and fake internet points imply a sense of authority, which itself is fundamentally wrong. Then the lack of appeals process/nuance in arguments is more along the lines of a Soviet-style purge. And honestly I'm not so sure there's ever going to be any "coming back".
- ddtaylor 5y agoProbably no better example of this than /r/bitcoin
- Dracophoenix 5y agoI agree that the moderation model sucks, but I disagree that the subreddit grabs are the problem. When the admins were more hands off, that allowed for people fork subreddits at their own discretion. If one sub didn't like your opinions, you're free to move on to another one. Reddit now is trying to achieve top-down Facebook-like structure with increasingly convoluted global rules and hostility towards any subreddits to are the tiniest bit offensive to their political agendas like r/waterniggas (the predecessor to r/hydrohomies). I'm rather surprised that spez has come to the "defense" of vaccine skeptics after quarantining r/nonewnormal just last week. The cynic in me would say ad dollars are the reason and, when the money dries up, spez suddenly realized the "principles" about keeping the "wrong" people off. For the community's sake, of course. The issue shouldn't be the noise spez's statements have generated over the past few weeks, it should the fact he can decimate any community as he wishes whether its by falsely altering content or going on a purge. But unfortunately, any time one brings up "freeze peach" on the platform, you're deemed a disingenuous Nazi.