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meiko60 ( meiko60@lemmy.sdf.org )  to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 years ago

Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge

arstechnica.com

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Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge

arstechnica.com

meiko60 ( meiko60@lemmy.sdf.org )  to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 years ago
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  • Taleya ( Taleya@aussie.zone ) Banned
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    Fucked off everyone who did the work from a place of passion and knowledge and replaced them with power-hungry shills WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG

  • Kofu ( Kofu@lemmy.ml ) 
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    What the fucks a reddit?

    • athos77 ( athos77@kbin.social ) 
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      Someplace that never learned from Digg.

      • JustARegularNerd ( JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone ) 
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        deleted by creator

    • auth ( authed@lemmy.ml ) 
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      Nobody will know in 10 years

      • JustARegularNerd ( JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone ) 
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        If it helps give a bit of reassurance, I grew up after the Digg era, and I didn’t even know it was a thing until the whole Reddit thing.

        Maybe in ten years time, the next generation will be the same about Reddit, or at least, one can only hope.

  • neptune ( neptune@dmv.social ) 
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    They specifically mention open kettle canning as a bad practice. My friend and I were canning something and he wasn’t sure we were doing it right. He called his mom and she said she had always done open kettle canning (where you basically just pouring boiling temp food into hot jars and seal them). I guess experts have soured on the practice.

    Either way, we made our cans the “right” way after lots of googling and none of the jars seemed to fail.

    While I sympathize with the moderators, I would assume that historically most subs are not moderated by experts, but yes, a decrease in quality mods and mod tools will choke reddit to death.

    • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 ( Dirk@lemmy.ml ) 
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      a decrease in quality mods and mod tools will choke reddit to death.

      Thanks to Reddit i learned Docker and everything needed to self-host a lot of cool stuff - without even visiting Reddit.

      • Metal Zealot ( Metal_Zealot@lemmy.ml ) 
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        Lul

    • theodewere ( theodewere@kbin.social ) 
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      i don’t understand why anyone voluntarily works for those dipshits

      • collegefurtrader ( collegefurtrader@discuss.tchncs.de ) 
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        Because it used to be a nice stable free platform to build a community around your own interests

        • bionicjoey ( bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ) 
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          Exactly. There was a time when using Reddit didn’t feel like you were giving Reddit the company anything for free. There was a transaction happening. They provided a platform to interact with like-minded people, and in return you used that platform, thereby drawing more traffic to their site.

          • theodewere ( theodewere@kbin.social ) 
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            i understand the idea, i’m just not sure i can remember those days anymore on that platform… it’s a good idea…

  • detalferous ( detalferous@lemm.ee ) 
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    Delete your account

    www.reddit.com/r/redditseppuku

    • danielton ( danielton@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ) 
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      Wow. They want me to install the app to read this.

      • Krachsterben ( Krachsterben@feddit.de ) 
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        Same with any NSFW content. Lame

        I ended up creating a new account with a throwaway email because my old accounts got banned

        • danielton ( danielton@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ) 
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          Since deleting my account on July 2, I just don’t care enough about Reddit to create a burner account or download their app.

        • CmdrShepard ( CmdrShepard@lemmy.one ) 
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          They’ll ban your new account too once you post something.

        • Kakertratte ( Kakertratte@feddit.de ) 
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          With the stealth app available on f-droid you can view all content without an account.

          Its what i use for occasionally reddit browsing and viewing nsfw content on there.

      • detalferous ( detalferous@lemm.ee ) 
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        Reddit sucks

        Kill your old reddit self

        https://old.reddit.com/r/redditseppuku

        • danielton ( danielton@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ) 
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          Spez said they’re not killing Old Reddit, but he also said they weren’t going to pull an Elon either.

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    Companies seem to over estimate how many people are willing to do certain kinds of work.

    Did Spaz think a thousand mods were just waiting in the wings that would not have similar concerns as the first group?

  • intensely_human ( intensely_human@lemm.ee ) Banned
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    Mass purging leads to bad outcomes? That’s not what all my tankie friends said!

  • bradorsomething ( bradorsomething@ttrpg.network ) 
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    One of my favorite outcomes of the purge is when I occasionally look at Reddit, I’ll see an enthusiastically titled post from oldfreefolk, with ZERO replies. Are those goofballs over here anywhere, I’d love a bit more of bobbyb in my life.

  • 🦊 OneRedFox 🦊 ( OneRedFox@beehaw.org ) 
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    Pissing off your free labor has consequences? Shocker.

  • tvbusy ( tvbusy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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    As with traditional Reddit PR: Reddit will comment when there’s correction to be made. Since Reddit made no correction, the article is 100% accurate.

  • Ulu-Mulu-no-die ( ulu_mulu@lemm.ee ) 
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    None of the forcibly removed mods I spoke with have worked with or plan to work with replacement mods to pass on knowledge gained through years of experience.

    None of them should. Let reddit deal with the consequences of their actions, trying to fix it for them would be telling them it’s ok to treat free labor as shit (as they did).

  • AutoTL;DR ( autotldr@lemmings.world ) B
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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    The dangers of food canning were explained to me clearly, succinctly, and with cited sources by Brad Barclay and someone going by Dromio05 on Reddit (who asked to withhold their real name for privacy reasons).

    He noted various canning misconceptions, from thinking the contents of a concave lid are safe to eat to believing you don’t need to apply heat to food in jars.

    For example, Barclay pointed to one mod recommending “citizen science,” saying they would use a temperature data logger to “begin conducting experiments to determine what new canning products are safe.”

    It includes already-canned tomatoes, which experts like the National Center for Home Food Preservation (NCHFP) recommend against, as there’s no safe tested process for this.

    What’s critical for Reddit’s content quality is not that moderators adopt identical philosophies but that they are equipped to facilitate healthy and safe discussions and debates that benefit the community.

    But the hastiness with which these specific replacement mods were ushered in, and the disposal of respected, long-time moderators, raises questions about whether Reddit prioritized reopening subreddits to get things back to normal instead of finding the best people for the volunteer jobs.


    The original article contains 670 words, the summary contains 192 words. Saved 71%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

    • Little1Lost ( Little8Lost@feddit.de ) 
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      there are more pages that the bot missed

  • RoboRay ( RoboRay@kbin.social ) 
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    I am Spez’s raging bile duct.

  • PopcornPlayaa_ ( PopcornPlayaa_@lemm.ee ) 
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    Reddit has become a hive mind of pretentious douche bags.

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    I’ve recently found reddit less engaging. I used to post on various communities about interests of mine, but at the end of the day I can’t deny reddit is a profit based model which is ok all in all, but it really leaves a bad impression for the end user who just wants to get along in a community with like-minded individuals. And that is the very aspect that used to make it a great place for end users. Contrary to twitter or youtube that incorporate recommendation algorithms, reddit and similar sites expect users to find their communities on their own and contribute on them altogether without the intervention of some centralized algorithm. The way in which it has evicted unofficial clients is quite a shame in that regard ; it makes the platform more aggressive towards users.

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    I was just permanently banned from Reddit for like the 5th time. After like 20 years I think i finally called it quits!

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