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There are a lot of fun things you find when you start working on this. Virtually nobody else is doing it because they all think it's wrong without realizing it'
by rhaksw 4y ago
There are a lot of fun things you find when you start working on this. Virtually nobody else is doing it because they all think it's wrong without realizing it's the right thing to do.
For example, you could reverse engineer automod configurations by scraping user pages with a headless browser, storing all of the auto-removed comments, and then looking for the most common n-grams in a given subreddit. Alternatively you could make the code work "server-side" so some sort of json is returnable, though that would take more work.
And I haven't even mentioned the history pages, which may indicate where users and moderators have disagreed the most:
https://www.reveddit.com/v/worldnews/history/ https://www.reveddit.com/v/worldnews/history/
Plus, this is only one social media site. Every site does this, and there's probably a way to reveal the shenanigans going on in a lot more places.