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Moderators _seriously_ underestimate how hated they are. At this point I'd rather the admins just take back the subs and let the voting system sort it out. Like

Moderators _seriously_ underestimate how hated they are. At this point I'd rather the admins just take back the subs and let the voting system sort it out. Like how it did for the first 10 years of the site's life.

lokar 3y ago
It will be overrun by nazis pretty fast. A lot as changed in 10 years.
- thr_low_latency 3y ago
  Yes, like the definition of Nazi and the fact that Goodwin's law no longer means you lose the argument.
  - xracy 3y ago
    It's not that Godwin's law meant you lost the argument. Godwin's law was just an observation, that a common evil, is an easy thing to reduce someone who disagrees with you to. So you have to avoid doing that, if you want to be able to maintain any level of discourse. That, of course, goes out the window when the person you're arguing with legitimately identifies as a Nazi.
    - hn_thrwn 3y ago
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- George83728 3y ago
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  - maxsilver 3y ago
    > Nazis are very fringe, they don't outnumber anybody else and can't outvote people either Respectfully, Twitter is kind of living proof of the opposite -- clearly they can overwhelm/outvote people (and even out-spend regular folks, if you throw an $8 price tag barrier up), despite being a small number of the total population.
    - George83728 3y ago
      I don't use twitter but I sincerely doubt nazis outnumber regular users on twitter and I don't think you have real data to back up that claim. Remember, ragebait works by finding the most egregious instances of things and misrepresenting them as typical occurrences.
    - thr_low_latency 3y ago
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  - hmcq6 3y ago
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ibero 3y ago
you or any other user could create your own subreddit. it’s not like reddit can’t discuss nba games. there clearly is a gulf between people who actively wish to make it so and those who consume the byproduct of their effort.
- paxys 3y ago
  The same way moderators could go create their own version of reddit. Or you an I could just start a new basketball league. Or create a new internet if we are unhappy with the existing one. This line of reasoning goes nowhere.
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  - jjulius 3y ago
    Sure it does. If "casual users were not happy to find out that they would have nowhere to discuss the most important game of the season" (an assertion that is incredibly laughable) and were really that upset, there could've been an r/NBA2 in half a second - far easier than recreating Reddit itself or making their own league. And yet, nobody did that...
    - nbacircleerk 3y ago
      > And yet, nobody did that... /r/nbacirclejerk, /r/basketball, /r/cfb, /r/heat and /r/denvernuggets hosted the game threads for last night game. Honestly really digged the experience on the /r/nbacirclejerk game thread.
      - fud101 3y ago
        damn i had no idea hah. but im not missing reddit, never will go back now. fuck em
    - Tommah 3y ago
      /r/nba2 exists. It was created 10 years ago.
disconcision 3y ago
people complained just about as much about moderation on reddit in 2010 as they do today
humansubjects 3y ago
You are seriously underestimating how much garbage is in the mod queue.

lokar 3y ago

It will be overrun by nazis pretty fast. A lot as changed in 10 years.

thr_low_latency 3y ago
Yes, like the definition of Nazi and the fact that Goodwin's law no longer means you lose the argument.
- xracy 3y ago
  It's not that Godwin's law meant you lost the argument. Godwin's law was just an observation, that a common evil, is an easy thing to reduce someone who disagrees with you to. So you have to avoid doing that, if you want to be able to maintain any level of discourse. That, of course, goes out the window when the person you're arguing with legitimately identifies as a Nazi.
  - hn_thrwn 3y ago
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George83728 3y ago
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- maxsilver 3y ago
  > Nazis are very fringe, they don't outnumber anybody else and can't outvote people either Respectfully, Twitter is kind of living proof of the opposite -- clearly they can overwhelm/outvote people (and even out-spend regular folks, if you throw an $8 price tag barrier up), despite being a small number of the total population.
  - George83728 3y ago
    I don't use twitter but I sincerely doubt nazis outnumber regular users on twitter and I don't think you have real data to back up that claim. Remember, ragebait works by finding the most egregious instances of things and misrepresenting them as typical occurrences.
  - thr_low_latency 3y ago
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- hmcq6 3y ago
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ibero 3y ago

you or any other user could create your own subreddit. it’s not like reddit can’t discuss nba games. there clearly is a gulf between people who actively wish to make it so and those who consume the byproduct of their effort.

paxys 3y ago
The same way moderators could go create their own version of reddit. Or you an I could just start a new basketball league. Or create a new internet if we are unhappy with the existing one. This line of reasoning goes nowhere.
- deleted 3y ago
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- jjulius 3y ago
  Sure it does. If "casual users were not happy to find out that they would have nowhere to discuss the most important game of the season" (an assertion that is incredibly laughable) and were really that upset, there could've been an r/NBA2 in half a second - far easier than recreating Reddit itself or making their own league. And yet, nobody did that...
  - nbacircleerk 3y ago
    > And yet, nobody did that... /r/nbacirclejerk, /r/basketball, /r/cfb, /r/heat and /r/denvernuggets hosted the game threads for last night game. Honestly really digged the experience on the /r/nbacirclejerk game thread.
    - fud101 3y ago
      damn i had no idea hah. but im not missing reddit, never will go back now. fuck em
  - Tommah 3y ago
    /r/nba2 exists. It was created 10 years ago.

disconcision 3y ago

people complained just about as much about moderation on reddit in 2010 as they do today

humansubjects 3y ago

You are seriously underestimating how much garbage is in the mod queue.