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Reddits attempt at community moderation killed it. Even hyper specific subs, like city subs, are victim to the ideological whims of their moderators. My local
by thepasswordis 3y ago
Reddits attempt at community moderation killed it.
Even hyper specific subs, like city subs, are victim to the ideological whims of their moderators. My local subreddit has basically become useless because mods have banned so many people, or attempted to ban questions which are generally related to the city. They want typical city related questions or discussions to go into weekly roundup threads, and the main sub is just for current events (read: politics).
It’s extremely frustrating. I know it’s kind of boring to complain about mods, but seriously Reddits moderators are what poisoned it.
- harkinian 3y agoWasn't it this way from the start, though?
- thepasswordis 3y agoModeration really used to be just removing spam or abuse. At some point it became enforcing topics. While yes a subreddit about trains should stay in topic space about trains, mods have overstepped that. Take for instance the Star Trek subreddit. Criticism of Star Trek discovery is banned, despite being clearly on topic.
- r721 3y agoYeah, I think topics should be separated from communities in future Reddit-like websites. I mean it's an indisputable fact that some article is about trains, and what's arguable is whether it needs to be discussed in that particular community. In my mind it looks something like this: 1) user posts a link (and upvotes some initial topics) 2) other users vote on those topics, also can propose some additional ones 3) topic mods can superdownvote/remove some topics (in case of trolling etc.) 4) community mods select posts for their communities from available posts, possibly automatically (based on upvoted topics)
- harkinian 3y agoThe community thing seems fine. If you don't like how a community is run, you can go to a different one.
- r721 3y agoThis is how it works now, and I'm thinking about alternative ways. Communities do also exist in my model, and you can do the same thing. But you don't need to be a hardcore reddit user which has esoteric knowledge like "these articles are allowed in /r/trains1, and these are better to be posted to /r/trains5".
- kps 3y agoI'm watching Bluesky with interest, because I think it claims to offer that; you would in principle create a ‘feed’ matching (tagged-#Trains AND (approved-by-Trains1 OR approved-by-Trains5) AND NOT rejected-by-CrapFilter23). The interface is horribly twitter-like but does at least have threading (and unlike !&*#&$ Mastodon, respects `:preferred-color-scheme`), and it's not clear that it couldn't have an alternative old.reddit-like interface.
- thepasswordis 3y agoI think the way HN does it would be good; give me the “showdead” option.
- vehemenz 3y agoI agree that city subs have basically been ruined by overbearing moderation, but ultimately it's a small part of Reddit. Go somewhere else for that. Plenty of other subs are doing fine or are thriving.