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by yanderekko 3y ago
Yep, and if it applies to abortion, why not third-trimester abortion? Why is that relevant to a privacy interest? Where is the right to privacy in the Constitution, btw? Sounds like the whole thing is legislating from the bench! Maybe we sh
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by yanderekko 3y ago
Yep. Roe vs. Wade was one of the most egregious examples of "legislating from the bench" in the latter 20th century? How many people who would hand-wring over recent SCOTUS decisions oppose Roe on these grounds? Or is this a conve
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by yanderekko 3y ago
>Remember: profits are a direct measure of the inefficiency of a given market. Marginal profits are, not absolute profits..
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by yanderekko 3y ago
Yeah, obviously one has to be careful about lamenting this stuff, but it seems pretty clear that #MeToo not only ended the careers of many successful senior creative visionaries but it probably provoked a more-cautious stance from many comp
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by yanderekko 3y ago
Okay, but Reddit would sensibly prefer free labor + cheap tooling over free labor + costly tooling.
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by yanderekko 3y ago
Except it wasn't actually free, that's the entire issue..
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by yanderekko 3y ago
I mean, if moderating is going to become literally impossible than the moderators should provide more sober, detailed arguments for why this is the case. As far as I'm aware this just hasn't been done. It's just "we have
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by yanderekko 3y ago
So you seriously expect that when June 30th rolls around, basically all major subs are going to be flooded with CP and moderators across the site will be overwhelmed, plunging everything into chaos? That's an amazing prediction - guess
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by yanderekko 3y ago
>They were expressing their loyalties by saying they want to keep working for free for the company … as long as their tools aren’t deliberately broken by the company Reddit is under no obligation to find these terms acceptable. Moderator
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by yanderekko 3y ago
Yeah, the dude politely asked for 4-6 weeks of closure time.. hard to believe that he expected Reddit to find this reasonable. Unfortunately, the admins probably lack bandwidth to go back and forth on these things and so they just yeeted th
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by yanderekko 3y ago
I'd distinguish between small and large communities. For example, if the World of Warcraft subreddit implodes somehow it's basically guaranteed that another one will arise, although you do often get awkward userbase splits, eg. &#
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by yanderekko 3y ago
"No bad tactics, only bad targets". The only thing the activists would condemn here would be if Huffman were seriously assaulted on the street, or his family being harassed (although it seems like nowadays close adult relatives&#x
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by yanderekko 3y ago
>I direct you to Twitter's valuation. That's an imperfect correlate of user experience. A lot of sites have banned NSFW content for the sake of their valuations in ways that have obviously agitated their userbase.
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by yanderekko 3y ago
A lot of people on the left basically can't imagine a social media platform being good unless it heavily restricts right-wing speech/expression.
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by yanderekko 3y ago
"Ugh. This place is such a ghost town that it even has Republicans and old people."
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by yanderekko 3y ago
>Next, they'll hand over fan-built communities to the entities that own the IPs they're dedicated to. Eg. r/starwars to Disney, r/startrek to Viacom/Paramount, etc. This is obviously not going to happen, and insi
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by yanderekko 3y ago
>Is this more rigged election without evidence talk? I mean, the user above just provided his personal testimony on the subject. In any case, why should we have a presumption that a poll with say 10k votes on a sub with 10m users is a re
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by yanderekko 3y ago
Yep. Given that this is HN, try looking at /r/California. It's basically a person fief for a single user (granted, he's not nearly as obnoxious as many Reddit mods.) Yet simply because this user owns the obvious name, th
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by yanderekko 3y ago
I think the median mod deserves almost zero credit for "creating" the communities that they oversee. The welfare of the mods and the communities are usually not tightly intertwined, and scenarios where the mods are committed to de
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by yanderekko 3y ago
The community is exactly why toxic mods should be removed.
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by yanderekko 3y ago
Nope, that was a bad action. On the other hand, booting the mods that are holding the subs hostage is a good action.
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by yanderekko 3y ago
>Setting a sub to private is moderation Destroying a community is not. There's plenty of obvious precedents where mods that attempted to destroy their own subreddits or merely hold them hostage have been replaced. These were conside
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by yanderekko 3y ago
>How do you tell a willing user with the intention to keep a sub running as is, and a willing user who just wants to burn it all down, turn it into their own fiefdom, or worse? Reddit has replaced mods before. This isn't a new probl
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by yanderekko 3y ago
>Reddit clearly doesn't understand the product. When users join a sub it's because they like the content and tacitly approve of the moderation. How can this "tacit approval" be applied to mods but not the admin polici
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by yanderekko 3y ago
What does CEO trust have to do with any of this?
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by yanderekko 3y ago
>They're still interested. They're just protesting your policies. The implication is that prioritizing the latter at all points in time is incompatible with the former. Seems reasonable enough. What does it mean to be "int
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by yanderekko 3y ago
>We formed connections and communities and friendships on sites like Facebook and Twitter and Reddit, but those companies need to make money, so those connections are only allowed to exist as long as they are part of a profitable system.
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by yanderekko 3y ago
My point is that the marginal impact will be negligible. The people who would get angry over forced reopenings are the people that are already angry over the API changes. Why would Reddit care about upsetting the people that are already all
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by yanderekko 3y ago
There's not going to be a populist revolt against Reddit stopping angry mods from destroying their communities and/or actively siphoning them to other sites. The people who are already angry may get angrier, but they're alrea
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by yanderekko 3y ago
And you actually destroyed the community on Reddit in the process?

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