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Reddit sports mods, users calling for a ban on X links in posts

29 points by johnneville 2y ago

johnneville 2y ago
seems to be growing in popularity. front page posts from r/LeopardsAtMyFace at 14k, r/magicTCG at 17k, r/formula1 at 19k, r/xmen at 12k . . .
- jjmarr 2y ago
  I would take synchronized posts with a grain of salt. There are many groups that try to influence reddit politically. One significant strategy involves acquiring control over hobby subreddits to create the illusion of "non-political" people making a decision.
zb3 2y ago
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- pavel_lishin 2y ago
  What's "reddit"? The article in question talks about mods, who are all volunteers who don't work for reddit. Every subreddit is functionally it's own community.
  - verdverm 2y ago
    With their own rules and moderation. Groups of people deciding they want certain types of content and not others, is not censorship as GP and so many others would like us to believe. Even if it was Reddit the company, it would not be censorship, rather an editorial decision.
  - EA-3167 2y ago
    In the tradition of Reddit, when a Redditor refers to "Reddit" or "Redditors" what they mean is, "People who disagree with me." I wish there was some depth to it beyond that, but alas. Overall I see it as a symptom of algorithm-driven social media, people are so siloed that they truly don't realize that their viewpoints don't represent some kind of absolute majority outside of their bubble.
  - marcusverus 2y ago
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  - zb3 2y ago
    Since the previous comment is dead, let me repeat: Reddit is the entity that bans subreddits, like r/The_Donald and choses to keep other subreddits alive, indirectly (and directly) choses their moderators.
- timeon 2y ago
  > It's fun to watch Is it really?
legitster 2y ago
Context: To curb endless link spam, there has been a longtime rule that Twitter is the only social network users could link to when reporting news from NFL insiders. Even before the election, the transition from Twitter to X has been creating problems. First, the insiders have begun moving away from X and onto other networks. And more importantly, you now have to have an X account to see anything on X. So its usefulness as a link is pretty dead.
- add-sub-mul-div 2y ago
  Right, the timing of this is an unfortunate distraction because the worsening of Twitter is significantly apolitical and nonpartisan.
akikoo 2y ago
There's a far left mod /u/ZenOfPerkele in /r/Suomi who lies and shadow bans people who's messages he dislikes on ideological grounds. I think he's dangerous
- optionalsquid 2y ago
  They most they can do is to remove your posts and/or ban you from actively participating in that one subreddit. But you can obviously still read it if you log out. So they don't sound very dangerous to me
  - akikoo 2y ago
    He's lying about how they manage the sub-reddit. He's blocking people from engaging in discussions about things happening in Finland (Suomi). Just because he can't face the reality. Also, once he blocks somebody from /r/Suomi, that ban filter applies to /r/unitedkingdom too.
    - optionalsquid 2y ago
      /u/ZenOfPerkele is only a moderator of /u/Suomi, based on the "moderator of" list on their profile. So it seems unlikely that they'd have direct power over /r/unitedkingdom. But even if they somehow had that power, that hardly makes them worthy of the label "dangerous"
      - akikoo 2y ago
        I wrote a post on how some /r/Suomi mod tried to ban me from the whole of reddit. Yes, the whole of reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Suomi/comments/1i0kdf0/ep%C3%A4ilen_ett%C3%A4_rsuomen_anonyymi_moderaattori_yritti/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Suomi/comments/1i0kdf0/ep%C3%A4ilen... The total reddit ban happened some hours after ZenOfPerkele banned me for this post for 3 days (it was later lifted when I made a complaint): https://old.reddit.com/r/Suomi/comments/1he1lh1/keep_it_nordic/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Suomi/comments/1he1lh1/keep_it_nord... Check out the reasons why he permanently banned me from /r/Suomi: > Tätä ei nyt jaksa enää kukaan. Sä tuhlaat omaa, muiden ja meidän aikaamme ottamalla jatkuvasti jäähyjä, kieltäytymällä ymmrätämästä minkä takia sun käytös rikkoo sääntöjä, ja sen jälkeen tuhlaamalla lisää kaikkien aikaa uhriutumalla metaketjuissa loputtomiin. Tästä turhautuu meidän lisäksi kaikki muut käyttäjät, eikä sulla ole selkeästi mitään halua tai kykyö muuttaa omaa toimintasi, joten parempi että etsit itsellesi toisen foorumin keskustelua varten, kun se ei täällä sääntöjen puitteissa selvästi onnistu. > Hyvää jatkoa! So he's saying that the cause of the permaban is all mine, which is false. I'm absolutely sure that this all comes down to me studying islam now for 9 years and writing about its harmful teachings in /r/Suomi when there's a subject where I can contribute. I have never started a thread just talking about islam. ZenOfPerkele is a far left mod who hates it because he cannot defend that those teachings would not exist in the original sources of islam, in the quran and in the hadiths. Then he's saying that I'm wasting other users' time with my criticisms. Since when are every user told to read each and every post? That's ridiculous. I said he's dangerous because he wants to silence "wrong-think" and it doesn't bother him at all. Other people have noticed his behaviour and have commented that they can't say things they want to say because of a certain mod, meaning him.

29 points by johnneville 2y ago

seems to be growing in popularity. front page posts from r/LeopardsAtMyFace at 14k, r/magicTCG at 17k, r/formula1 at 19k, r/xmen at 12k . . .

jjmarr 2y ago
I would take synchronized posts with a grain of salt. There are many groups that try to influence reddit politically. One significant strategy involves acquiring control over hobby subreddits to create the illusion of "non-political" people making a decision.

zb3 2y ago

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pavel_lishin 2y ago
What's "reddit"? The article in question talks about mods, who are all volunteers who don't work for reddit. Every subreddit is functionally it's own community.
- verdverm 2y ago
  With their own rules and moderation. Groups of people deciding they want certain types of content and not others, is not censorship as GP and so many others would like us to believe. Even if it was Reddit the company, it would not be censorship, rather an editorial decision.
- EA-3167 2y ago
  In the tradition of Reddit, when a Redditor refers to "Reddit" or "Redditors" what they mean is, "People who disagree with me." I wish there was some depth to it beyond that, but alas. Overall I see it as a symptom of algorithm-driven social media, people are so siloed that they truly don't realize that their viewpoints don't represent some kind of absolute majority outside of their bubble.
- marcusverus 2y ago
  [flagged]
- zb3 2y ago
  Since the previous comment is dead, let me repeat: Reddit is the entity that bans subreddits, like r/The_Donald and choses to keep other subreddits alive, indirectly (and directly) choses their moderators.
timeon 2y ago
> It's fun to watch Is it really?

legitster 2y ago

Context: To curb endless link spam, there has been a longtime rule that Twitter is the only social network users could link to when reporting news from NFL insiders. Even before the election, the transition from Twitter to X has been creating problems. First, the insiders have begun moving away from X and onto other networks. And more importantly, you now have to have an X account to see anything on X. So its usefulness as a link is pretty dead.

add-sub-mul-div 2y ago
Right, the timing of this is an unfortunate distraction because the worsening of Twitter is significantly apolitical and nonpartisan.

akikoo 2y ago

There's a far left mod /u/ZenOfPerkele in /r/Suomi who lies and shadow bans people who's messages he dislikes on ideological grounds. I think he's dangerous

optionalsquid 2y ago
They most they can do is to remove your posts and/or ban you from actively participating in that one subreddit. But you can obviously still read it if you log out. So they don't sound very dangerous to me
- akikoo 2y ago
  He's lying about how they manage the sub-reddit. He's blocking people from engaging in discussions about things happening in Finland (Suomi). Just because he can't face the reality. Also, once he blocks somebody from /r/Suomi, that ban filter applies to /r/unitedkingdom too.
  - optionalsquid 2y ago
    /u/ZenOfPerkele is only a moderator of /u/Suomi, based on the "moderator of" list on their profile. So it seems unlikely that they'd have direct power over /r/unitedkingdom. But even if they somehow had that power, that hardly makes them worthy of the label "dangerous"
    - akikoo 2y ago
      I wrote a post on how some /r/Suomi mod tried to ban me from the whole of reddit. Yes, the whole of reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Suomi/comments/1i0kdf0/ep%C3%A4ilen_ett%C3%A4_rsuomen_anonyymi_moderaattori_yritti/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Suomi/comments/1i0kdf0/ep%C3%A4ilen... The total reddit ban happened some hours after ZenOfPerkele banned me for this post for 3 days (it was later lifted when I made a complaint): https://old.reddit.com/r/Suomi/comments/1he1lh1/keep_it_nordic/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Suomi/comments/1he1lh1/keep_it_nord... Check out the reasons why he permanently banned me from /r/Suomi: > Tätä ei nyt jaksa enää kukaan. Sä tuhlaat omaa, muiden ja meidän aikaamme ottamalla jatkuvasti jäähyjä, kieltäytymällä ymmrätämästä minkä takia sun käytös rikkoo sääntöjä, ja sen jälkeen tuhlaamalla lisää kaikkien aikaa uhriutumalla metaketjuissa loputtomiin. Tästä turhautuu meidän lisäksi kaikki muut käyttäjät, eikä sulla ole selkeästi mitään halua tai kykyö muuttaa omaa toimintasi, joten parempi että etsit itsellesi toisen foorumin keskustelua varten, kun se ei täällä sääntöjen puitteissa selvästi onnistu. > Hyvää jatkoa! So he's saying that the cause of the permaban is all mine, which is false. I'm absolutely sure that this all comes down to me studying islam now for 9 years and writing about its harmful teachings in /r/Suomi when there's a subject where I can contribute. I have never started a thread just talking about islam. ZenOfPerkele is a far left mod who hates it because he cannot defend that those teachings would not exist in the original sources of islam, in the quran and in the hadiths. Then he's saying that I'm wasting other users' time with my criticisms. Since when are every user told to read each and every post? That's ridiculous. I said he's dangerous because he wants to silence "wrong-think" and it doesn't bother him at all. Other people have noticed his behaviour and have commented that they can't say things they want to say because of a certain mod, meaning him.