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> This is a user generated content site. What are letters to the editor if not user-generated content? > I have been contributing content to Reddit for over 1
by catach 4y ago
> This is a user generated content site.
What are letters to the editor if not user-generated content?
> I have been contributing content to Reddit for over 15 years, unpaid.
So there seems to be an implied misunderstanding in the way you're framing your complaint. Maybe I'm wrong, but just to be sure: subreddit owners and mods are also regular reddit users, unpaid. Every reddit user has the freedom to manage the subs they create however they like, as long as site TOS/US law is respected.
Part of the consequences there is that no mod cares how much you've contributed or paid to reddit as a whole. Doesn't matter. Alternatively, they'll very likely care if you're a major contributor to their subreddit. But when you're a deep participant in a community you'll likely already know what lines to avoid crossing.
Similarly, mods don't care if your rule-breaking posts are highly upvoted. Their concern is for the long-term health of their sub. Ideally, their rules and consistently enforcing those rules are for the benefit of that long-term health.
In this specific case, this isn't "payola", it's the general redditor aversion to marketing. Easy fix: stop marketing your products on subs that are not centered around user-submitted products.
- breck 4y agoYou have fair points and I realize I should have narrowed my argument. > subreddit owners and mods are also regular reddit users, unpaid My contention is that this is false, when it comes to subreddits with over 100,000 users. A lot of these mods are regularly accepting bribes and kickbacks. (Not all, of course, but a significant percentage) I have put up some funding to get proof of this and will publish the results.
- catach 4y agoIf you're limited to using public data, I struggle to see how it'd be possible to disambiguate the "bribe" case from the other, typical reasons why rule enforcement is occasionally inconsistent. I do agree that at least some mods have been successfully bribed by external forces, but I don't see how it's Reddit-the-company's job to police commercial activity, nor does it seem to be actually illegal.
- breck 4y ago> If you're limited to using public data We're not. Old fashioned investigative journalism. > I don't see how it's Reddit-the-company's job to police commercial activity I think Reddit should allow anon users, but not anon mods. Reddit leadership exercises censorship over the major issues of the day, using their anon mods, which has caused great harm to America and the world, IMO. We don't allow anon judges and we shouldn't allow anon mods (at least for large subreddits—with great power comes great responsibility).
- catach 4y agoI hope the evidence you find is convincing of the truth.