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There’s a lot of useful stuff on Reddit but you do have to be careful as “upvoted” stuff is sometimes wrong and “downvoted” stuff is sometimes right. My bigger
by gymbeaux 4y ago
There’s a lot of useful stuff on Reddit but you do have to be careful as “upvoted” stuff is sometimes wrong and “downvoted” stuff is sometimes right.
My bigger issue with it is that volunteer-mods are often power-hungry and ban people who they disagree with or who hurt their feelings.
Reddit is a social experiment, and the result is humans are still trash to each other when they’re anonymous.
- kitsunesoba 4y ago> There’s a lot of useful stuff on Reddit but you do have to be careful as “upvoted” stuff is sometimes wrong and “downvoted” stuff is sometimes right. Default subs and big subs are by far the worst about this. Comments in threads on r/technology for example frequently perpetuates easily verifiable falsehoods that would quickly get shot down in smaller communities.
- bdw5204 4y agoI have a suspicion that the "volunteer-mods" on the big Reddits, like the Wikipedia admins, are infiltrated by people paid by interested parties to represent their interests on those popular web sites. In the case of Wikipedia, I recall a story about how one of their admins was a woman in Canada who was a former British intelligence agent with whatever the British equivalent of the CIA is called. If governments and NGOs can infiltrate Wikipedia to do things that are specifically against its rules, they can infiltrate Reddit and probably have. Most people are too busy to have the time to be an online moderator and those who have the time typically don't have the political skills to get appointed as a moderator of a large online community. That's why the best way to hire a good mod for your online community is to make it a paid position and to randomly monitor them for evidence of bias and/or abuse of power.