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by rhaksw 5y ago
Thanks. Ironically I think of it as an anti-drama tool. For me, the drama is that removals are very often hidden from their authors, and revealing that puts people back on the same page.
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I enjoyed making it and I also appreciate your thanks. Please share it as you see fit!
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> The U.S. anti-vax group is quite vocal and quite large. Yes, here [1] is an example of a pro-vax comment, made by a flaired user, removed from r/conservative. The user was probably not notified of the removal, and the comment appe
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I'm glad to see more of this conversation happening. I made reveddit [1] to provide oversight for secret removals which happen more often than you may think. For example, [2] is an upvoted comment from a mod-verified contributor that w
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It is like a removeddit 2.0
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Reveddit works fine with the current workings of reddit and the archive service's APIs. Removeddit's domain lapsed. Prior to that it was working, except on Firefox with Tracking Protection (see https://www.reveddit.com&
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That's right. I'm the author of the one called reveddit and maintain a FAQ about how it works if anyone's interested, https://www.reveddit.com/about/faq/
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You can search by date with Pushshift, and I built in a UI for that on reveddit [1]. Just visit a subreddit page and select a date under filters. [1] https://www.reveddit.com
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That's correct. I'm the author of Reveddit. A few things like user pages and the desktop extension work entirely without Pushshift. Threads can function somewhat without it. I maintain a FAQ with details of how it works in case an
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> If people are frequently asking the same question then your information and how you deliver it is lacking. I maintain a FAQ mostly for things over which I have no control, https://www.reveddit.com/about/faq/
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> Common sense seems to suggest that social networks become more harmful as they becomes bigger and more profitable. Yeah I don't know that anyone could have predicted these networks would become too massive to displace. Interventio
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Fair to say it's about incentives? I think it's possible to run a profitable social media company that does care. We're just stuck with too few options. I'm unaware of any that make transparency a core value by, say, ope
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They're in a tough spot by design. Much of Facebook is private. How can they possibly be transparent enough to satisfy critics about what actions they take? Share too much and another Cambridge Analytica situation pops up. Share too li
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Does your research data include moderator actions? I imagine such data may be difficult to gather. On reddit it's easy since most groups are public and someone's already collected components for extracting such data [1]. I show so
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Haha great! You'll be glad you got into it. You can do a lot with a little effort. This project began as a 100-line tampermonkey script. There are a surprising number of things you can work on that nobody else is doing, or that could b
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You're welcome! Feel free to post in r/reveddit if you have any questions or feedback. https://www.reddit.com/r/reveddit
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Even if subs all had different moderators, reddit's secret removal system [1] gives them more influence over discourse than I think most people realize. Consider, would you want someone to do this to you? I can't imagine any regul
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> now my ip is shadowbanned for circumventing the reddit policy of not creating new account to post on subs you are banned from. That's frustrating. You wanted to politely share your opinion on local politics in a popular forum and
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> Luckily there is the website you created, reveddit. Thanks for saying so. It builds on top of similar work. I think there will always be a way to review what gets removed. And as we use more social media with opaque moderation it may b
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> Thank you. Really appreciate your input. I did read that Vice article before and recently shared it here as well. Sure thing. > From what I remember at the time /r/coronavirus and /r/china_flu removed any discuss
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They may well have believed what they shared. In this case, other subs were not removing more content, despite the claims [1], and it was simple to verify. [1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7jqbx/reddit-can
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I remember seeing links to reveddit, a site I made, over this. A competing subreddit claimed censorship [1] by posting low-res screenshots of removed posts [2]. It was just a way to drum up support for their own subreddit. The screenshots w
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Check https://www.reveddit.com . It can indicate site-level or subreddit-level shadow bans.
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> you can see the post in your history and have no way of knowing it was deleted without signing out or using a different account, other than a suspicious lack of votes or replies. Reveddit [1] or its accompanying extension [2] can alert
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Reddit's biggest dark pattern is showing your removed comments as if they are not removed when you are logged in. You can try and see it for yourself here [0]. I built a site primarily with this issue in mind [1]. [0] https:/&#
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I think it is dark to show you your comment as if it's not removed, and many say shadow removals are overused (see "what people say" [1]). Only the mods know it works this way. [1] https://www.reveddit.com/abo
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Reddit shows you your removed comments as if they're not removed, and you get no notification. I made a site that shows this [1]. Try it here [2]. [1] https://www.reveddit.com/about/faq/ [2] https:/&#x2
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> my comment was shadow banned. Yup, this is so common I made a site showing where it happens [1]. Prior to this there was no easy way to see what had been removed from your account. Even I as a developer had no idea it was happening for
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On Netlify I set headers in a config file [1]. With Pages, is the only free option to use the 3 Page Rules? [1] https://github.com/reveddit/reveddit/blob/fdf159be0e98dbfba6...
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I'm in a similar boat, I love both services. Reveddit [1] [2] builds on Netlify with Cloudflare's DNS. I might consolidate into Cloudflare if Pages were to give a free allowance of workers, similar to Netlify's free allowance

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