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You linked to an HN thread which linked to a reddit thread as proof of this. I would like you to know that is absurd since the reddit thread makes an accusation
by Eisenstein 4y ago
You linked to an HN thread which linked to a reddit thread as proof of this. I would like you to know that is absurd since the reddit thread makes an accusation with no proof.
The 'proof' is a screenshot of a post that was called '92 of the top 100 subbreddits controlled by the same 5 people' that got removed. Why did it get removed? Who knows?
Do better. If you want to be better than reddit don't do the same dumb shit that it does and check your sources.
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- bspammer 4y agoGiven that reddit surprisingly still has a working API, this isn't actually a hard thing to check. Here's a script that works courtesy of ChatGPT: https://gist.github.com/bspammer/6b5eff6670e4b839ffea89ceaed1aa0f https://gist.github.com/bspammer/6b5eff6670e4b839ffea89ceaed... The highest non-bot user moderates 12 subreddits in the top 100. There's quite a few users who moderate more than 5. I believe the situation was much worse a few years ago, and reddit the company put pressure on them to give up some of their subs.
- Eisenstein 4y agoCan you provide the data that is output?
- bspammer 4y agohttps://gist.github.com/bspammer/d6059d2bfa222a0f340353ae0be6e151 https://gist.github.com/bspammer/d6059d2bfa222a0f340353ae0be...
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- Eisenstein 4y agoThe highest person on there that isn't a bot moderates 13 subreddits. The second 12, and down from there. Doesn't look like anywhere near '92' for any 5 people.
- bspammer 4y agoYes because like I said the fallout from the original post caused a lot of the power moderators to give up their spots. The biggest one "Cyxie" straight up deleted their account.
- Smoosh 4y agoThis is a list of accounts, not persons. One person could be operating several of these accounts.
- Eisenstein 4y agoYes, that could be. It could also be two people for each account. We can make lots of conjecture, can't we?
- alex_sf 4y ago.. the mods of most subreddits are public. This is a trivial thing to verify. It's as valid as any other information posted that you haven't personally inspected. I have no idea why you're so belligerent about this, but it's odd.
- Eisenstein 4y ago[flagged]
- alex_sf 4y agoHow am I supposed to do that? You don't accept other people's verification of information.
- Eisenstein 4y agoThe person above you just did it. It's called 'show your work'. And it doesn't show what the parent says, at all.
- alex_sf 4y agoAlmost like if you read the followups, those few power mods created multiple alt accounts in the wake of the post. But keep acting super weird about this, I guess.
- Eisenstein 4y agoAsking for proof is 'super weird' but 'conspiracy of reddit mods' is not?
- catiopatio 4y agoNo, a conspiracy of Reddit mods is not super weird. Cliques of petty tyrants are nothing new on or off the internet. What’s weird is thinking Reddit is somehow immune to human nature.