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I am calling it! And I am going to come back to my comment 10 years from now: Reddit is the most gamed astroturfed social media on the internet. Few years ago

I am calling it! And I am going to come back to my comment 10 years from now: Reddit is the most gamed astroturfed social media on the internet. Few years ago reddit released the most active cities and top turned out to be airbase airlington. Reddit is heavily gamed ever since they planned to go public and appointed some directors from Government.

stjohnswarts 4y ago
reddit is actually quite open, much more so than twitter or facebook or tiktok. I think a lot of people equate getting kicked out of a subreddit as kicked off reddit. If your comments aren't welcome in a subreddit you are quite free to form your own sub and say (almost) whatever you like, as long as you don't flat out commit fraud, something illegal, or spout straight up nazi shit.
- robswc 4y ago
  Not really true. As someone that once argued with a moderator about the most mundane thing in the world and then proceeded to get banned from 5+ subs... its only "open" in name only. There's a well established group of terminally online individuals that "manage" to "moderate" dozens of subreddits.
  - stjohnswarts 4y ago
    I will openly admit there are gangs of moderators that control the top 20+ subs on there. I got kicked out of several just because I posted in a "covid-is-BS" sub that they were all idiots. Just because I was even -posting- in one of the subs that ultimately got banned, I got banned. I wrote 4 or 5 of those "cross pollinating" moderators and told them that it was horseshit and they were acting like babies & cowards and not sane moderators, as they hadn't even read my comment. one of them replied and did say it was BS and unblocked account in like 3 of the subs that he was a moderator of.
grandmczeb 4y ago
> Few years ago reddit released the most active cities and top turned out to be airbase airlington. I was curious about this so I looked up the post you’re referring to[1]. The actual statistic is about “most addicted cities” (which I assume means visits per capita) and Eglin Air Force Base, FL. All of the top 3 cities seem to be places with a low official population but a high worker population - Eglin had an official pop of 2,800 but over 80k workers, for example. Any reason to believe it’s not just a statistical artifact? [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20160410083943/http://www.redditblog.com/2013/05/get-ready-for-global-reddit-meetup-day.html?m=1 https://web.archive.org/web/20160410083943/http://www.reddit...

stjohnswarts 4y ago

reddit is actually quite open, much more so than twitter or facebook or tiktok. I think a lot of people equate getting kicked out of a subreddit as kicked off reddit. If your comments aren't welcome in a subreddit you are quite free to form your own sub and say (almost) whatever you like, as long as you don't flat out commit fraud, something illegal, or spout straight up nazi shit.

robswc 4y ago
Not really true. As someone that once argued with a moderator about the most mundane thing in the world and then proceeded to get banned from 5+ subs... its only "open" in name only. There's a well established group of terminally online individuals that "manage" to "moderate" dozens of subreddits.
- stjohnswarts 4y ago
  I will openly admit there are gangs of moderators that control the top 20+ subs on there. I got kicked out of several just because I posted in a "covid-is-BS" sub that they were all idiots. Just because I was even -posting- in one of the subs that ultimately got banned, I got banned. I wrote 4 or 5 of those "cross pollinating" moderators and told them that it was horseshit and they were acting like babies & cowards and not sane moderators, as they hadn't even read my comment. one of them replied and did say it was BS and unblocked account in like 3 of the subs that he was a moderator of.

grandmczeb 4y ago

> Few years ago reddit released the most active cities and top turned out to be airbase airlington. I was curious about this so I looked up the post you’re referring to[1]. The actual statistic is about “most addicted cities” (which I assume means visits per capita) and Eglin Air Force Base, FL. All of the top 3 cities seem to be places with a low official population but a high worker population - Eglin had an official pop of 2,800 but over 80k workers, for example. Any reason to believe it’s not just a statistical artifact? [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20160410083943/http://www.redditblog.com/2013/05/get-ready-for-global-reddit-meetup-day.html?m=1 https://web.archive.org/web/20160410083943/http://www.reddit...