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Well now all Reddit has to do is say "we do not negotiate with hackers or their supporters" and refuse to budge.
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Well now all Reddit has to do is say "we do not negotiate with hackers or their supporters" and refuse to budge.
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"highly targeted phishing attack" means someone posed as a 13 year old girl on discord
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And then every redditor within sight went into full grooming mode.
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I'm not sure they need to have dirt on reddit employees. Releasing the list of reddit employees could be pretty damaging if it reveals e.g. Aimee Challenor still works there or they gave ViolentAcrez (the jailbait guy) a job.
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kiwifarms.net
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A post of mine was removed by reddit (as in the admin team themselves deleted it, not just the mods) for simply saying "Respect the wishes of the community and step down, cowards." This somehow constitutes bullying and harassment and got me a ban from the sub and a stern warning from the admins.
The final incentive I had to delete an account I was mostly using for shitting on the mods.
It did however make me chuckle how something as simple as that got a janny riled up so much they forwarded it to an admin. You know, the guys who they've been protesting about for the past week.
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If Reddit is smart, they'll use it to paint the whole protest like the Dems used KKK approval to paint Trump
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Why do people become reddit mods?
simple, it is because they are trannies
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simple, it is because they are trannies
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I can answer for myself, at least, and since I'm speaking on behalf of our mod team, I'm also going to try to explain for them as well, based on what I know about them and what I can share.
I became a mod on this sub because I got involved with helping out the /r/TournamentOfMemes back when it was still a thing. I made the brackets, I made the graphics, I posted each updated match, I tallied up the votes for every match, etc. It was a lot of work, but it was fun.
Out in the real world, I'm LGBT in the South, and I've seen what happens when people don't have adequate protections or support. I believe that governments, and people who take on leadership roles, have a responsibility to work for the benefit of their people. I believe strongly in doing what is right, even when it isn't popular or convenient or easy.
I mod a lot of LGBT subs; that means keeping folks safe and going toe-to-toe with a lot of bigotry and hatred. I also do a fair bit of advocacy out there in the world, marching at protests and canvassing, things like that. This is part of why I know that silence doesn't help address an injustice; when something is going wrong, people have to step up and speak about it.
Silence favors an oppressor, not the oppressed.
I consider being a mod to reflect my role as a guardian and an advocate for others. To that end, I take jobs that allow me the time or the training to be a more effective guardian. It's no secret that I have a little too much first aid training, that I know more than I ever wanted to know about armed response training, and that I used to work in disaster response. When there are sirens or shots fired, I'm one of those people who runs towards the trouble or drives towards the storm.
I've lost folks. Good people. People who deserve to be here. I don't want to lose anyone like that again, not when I can step up and do something about it.
When my job is quiet, that gives me more time to organize something for my local social group, or help with a protest, or volunteer for a cause that I believe in. That's part of why I take those jobs, because they pay me to do what I love. Having that support means I can help and protect the people I care about.
But no hurricanes means no major contracts, and while I'm glad that also means no one is getting hurt, it means I'm not operating at my full capacity. I don't want to be using my training or the things I've learned; I'd be happier not ever having to use those skills. Unfortunately, that also means no money coming in, so times are slim and tough for me right now. Life decided to raise my difficulty level for a little bit.
That's part and parcel of being a guardian - you want to be bored. You want things to be nice and quiet and not need you, but if something goes wrong, then you want to be right there and in place so you can help.
My story isn't unusual. Almost every mod I meet can say the same. They're people who care about others and they're folks who step up to help.
I'm not saying that modding a subreddit is anywhere equivalent to getting shot at, but it's reflective of who a person is. In the past decade I've spent on reddit, I've met a ton of passionate and driven people. Mods are usually the biggest advocates for a community. Sure, there are a few bad apples now and then, and there are some stinkers who have made a lot of waves in the past, but most mods do it simply because they care.
It's an unpaid and often thankless post. Mods are volunteers; they don't get paid. Redditors believe that mods have some sort of phenomenal, cosmic power, but in truth, it's mostly just a lot of repetitive manual labor. Reddit's mods do over $3.4 million USD in unpaid labor every year. Our mod tools were never intended to be used on a site this big, and they weren't sufficient a decade ago. Unfortunately, mod tools haven't improved in that time; we're still using the same tools for subreddits that now have millions of users. Modding a large sub means going through each entry in the report queue, one by one, by hand. Hour after hour, night after night.
We've got new sorting options for modmail, but that just means it's a lot easier to lose people's messages now, when previously all of the modmail went into one big inbox for each subreddit, and whatever was active or untouched simply floated to the top where you couldn't miss any of it.
Those new mod tools that reddit's been talking about lately? They've been promising those for the past eight years or so, and I know part of that has been hindered by the way reddit is split into Old Reddit and New Reddit, and part of that was delayed by the pandemic. Reddit really can't afford to go 'Under Construction' to institute the major changes that it really needs, and keep the site afloat at the same time.
So I don't know how reddit is going to handle that. They've been kicking that can down the road for years, now, and I don't know what is going to happen with that. As in all things, we're hoping for the best and preparing for the worst.
But I do know that the mods and the site admins I've interacted with are good, helpful people. We may not always agree, but those folks really care about this site and how it operates. We want there to be a space for all of y'all to come and have a good time. Reddit plays host to thousands of different communities, all with their own unique needs and problems. People compare mods to janitors, and we are - we keep the lights on and we keep the venue clean. We set sensible rules and we try to enforce them fairly. We screw up sometimes, and when we do, we try to fix things.
But ultimately, the people who own a community, the people who provide the content and the heart and soul of a community are all of you.
Just because reddit's going through hard times, and just because a lot of people are going through hard times in their lives right now, that doesn't mean this community changes in our values or our response. Our mods are the same, hardworking people, and our users are the same creative and funny folks. Sometimes we take on a more serious role; sometimes we don't.
Sometimes we don't always make the best call. We're doing what we can with the information we have available. Sometimes we screw up. Mods are human, too; it happens. We have miscommunications, we argue, we have little conflicts over how we believe a subreddit should be run, or what we believe our users want. Those things happen; it's part of being human.
Over the past few days, folks have sent a lot of harassment to our mods, based on a quarter of a discussion posted by our former head mod. People even tracked down one of our mods and harassed her on her YouTube channel - she didn't deserve that. Heck, folks even told me to go kill myself on the anti-suicide post I have pinned on the top of my user profile. I didn't deserve that sort of harassment, either. This is a meme sub, what we do here is not the end of the world.
This is a big sub, and we care a lot about it, but it's not worth telling someone to kill themselves over. Behind every username is a person, and behind every username you see on reddit, there's at least 9 other lurkers that you don't see. That's a lot of people.
So we're going to get through this. It's going to be okay.
Tl;dr: Why do mods do it? Because we care.
I became a mod on this sub because I got involved with helping out the /r/TournamentOfMemes back when it was still a thing. I made the brackets, I made the graphics, I posted each updated match, I tallied up the votes for every match, etc. It was a lot of work, but it was fun.
Out in the real world, I'm LGBT in the South, and I've seen what happens when people don't have adequate protections or support. I believe that governments, and people who take on leadership roles, have a responsibility to work for the benefit of their people. I believe strongly in doing what is right, even when it isn't popular or convenient or easy.
I mod a lot of LGBT subs; that means keeping folks safe and going toe-to-toe with a lot of bigotry and hatred. I also do a fair bit of advocacy out there in the world, marching at protests and canvassing, things like that. This is part of why I know that silence doesn't help address an injustice; when something is going wrong, people have to step up and speak about it.
Silence favors an oppressor, not the oppressed.
I consider being a mod to reflect my role as a guardian and an advocate for others. To that end, I take jobs that allow me the time or the training to be a more effective guardian. It's no secret that I have a little too much first aid training, that I know more than I ever wanted to know about armed response training, and that I used to work in disaster response. When there are sirens or shots fired, I'm one of those people who runs towards the trouble or drives towards the storm.
I've lost folks. Good people. People who deserve to be here. I don't want to lose anyone like that again, not when I can step up and do something about it.
When my job is quiet, that gives me more time to organize something for my local social group, or help with a protest, or volunteer for a cause that I believe in. That's part of why I take those jobs, because they pay me to do what I love. Having that support means I can help and protect the people I care about.
But no hurricanes means no major contracts, and while I'm glad that also means no one is getting hurt, it means I'm not operating at my full capacity. I don't want to be using my training or the things I've learned; I'd be happier not ever having to use those skills. Unfortunately, that also means no money coming in, so times are slim and tough for me right now. Life decided to raise my difficulty level for a little bit.
That's part and parcel of being a guardian - you want to be bored. You want things to be nice and quiet and not need you, but if something goes wrong, then you want to be right there and in place so you can help.
My story isn't unusual. Almost every mod I meet can say the same. They're people who care about others and they're folks who step up to help.
I'm not saying that modding a subreddit is anywhere equivalent to getting shot at, but it's reflective of who a person is. In the past decade I've spent on reddit, I've met a ton of passionate and driven people. Mods are usually the biggest advocates for a community. Sure, there are a few bad apples now and then, and there are some stinkers who have made a lot of waves in the past, but most mods do it simply because they care.
It's an unpaid and often thankless post. Mods are volunteers; they don't get paid. Redditors believe that mods have some sort of phenomenal, cosmic power, but in truth, it's mostly just a lot of repetitive manual labor. Reddit's mods do over $3.4 million USD in unpaid labor every year. Our mod tools were never intended to be used on a site this big, and they weren't sufficient a decade ago. Unfortunately, mod tools haven't improved in that time; we're still using the same tools for subreddits that now have millions of users. Modding a large sub means going through each entry in the report queue, one by one, by hand. Hour after hour, night after night.
We've got new sorting options for modmail, but that just means it's a lot easier to lose people's messages now, when previously all of the modmail went into one big inbox for each subreddit, and whatever was active or untouched simply floated to the top where you couldn't miss any of it.
Those new mod tools that reddit's been talking about lately? They've been promising those for the past eight years or so, and I know part of that has been hindered by the way reddit is split into Old Reddit and New Reddit, and part of that was delayed by the pandemic. Reddit really can't afford to go 'Under Construction' to institute the major changes that it really needs, and keep the site afloat at the same time.
So I don't know how reddit is going to handle that. They've been kicking that can down the road for years, now, and I don't know what is going to happen with that. As in all things, we're hoping for the best and preparing for the worst.
But I do know that the mods and the site admins I've interacted with are good, helpful people. We may not always agree, but those folks really care about this site and how it operates. We want there to be a space for all of y'all to come and have a good time. Reddit plays host to thousands of different communities, all with their own unique needs and problems. People compare mods to janitors, and we are - we keep the lights on and we keep the venue clean. We set sensible rules and we try to enforce them fairly. We screw up sometimes, and when we do, we try to fix things.
But ultimately, the people who own a community, the people who provide the content and the heart and soul of a community are all of you.
Just because reddit's going through hard times, and just because a lot of people are going through hard times in their lives right now, that doesn't mean this community changes in our values or our response. Our mods are the same, hardworking people, and our users are the same creative and funny folks. Sometimes we take on a more serious role; sometimes we don't.
Sometimes we don't always make the best call. We're doing what we can with the information we have available. Sometimes we screw up. Mods are human, too; it happens. We have miscommunications, we argue, we have little conflicts over how we believe a subreddit should be run, or what we believe our users want. Those things happen; it's part of being human.
Over the past few days, folks have sent a lot of harassment to our mods, based on a quarter of a discussion posted by our former head mod. People even tracked down one of our mods and harassed her on her YouTube channel - she didn't deserve that. Heck, folks even told me to go kill myself on the anti-suicide post I have pinned on the top of my user profile. I didn't deserve that sort of harassment, either. This is a meme sub, what we do here is not the end of the world.
This is a big sub, and we care a lot about it, but it's not worth telling someone to kill themselves over. Behind every username is a person, and behind every username you see on reddit, there's at least 9 other lurkers that you don't see. That's a lot of people.
So we're going to get through this. It's going to be okay.
Tl;dr: Why do mods do it? Because we care.
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r/Sydney is still locked down and only allowing the automatic daily thread. They held a poll a few days ago and most votes were automatically ruled invalid lol
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Motherfucker compared himself to a armed responder because he's a Janny. Fucking neck me now, this man is 500 pounds and couldn't waddle to the front door much less save a life
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I'm just trying to keep folks safe! That's why I moderate /r/yiff and /r/plushies!
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Lol. Sadly that's the delusion. That moderating saves lives. No retard, you're supposed to keep conversations on point and delete spam, you are literally the trash can in my email. Also I don't want to know what /r/plushies is, sounds completely homosexual
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Could this guy be any more corny? You can tell he thinks he's some badass cursed samurai, destined to walk the land fighting evil, praying for the day he can put down his sword. When he's probably some fucking EMT who makes people uncomfortable when they see him + only works during hurricanes for some reason. And his hobby is creating an echo chamber on reddit so people can't communicate how unpopular and damaging the troon ideology is.
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Nah mate, I'm not reading all that shit.simple, it is because they are trannies
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Yes...yes...he's beginning to turn! And all that had to be done was for a pRedditor to act exactly like how pRedditors always act.
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The "clever approach" of making subs NSFW has inexplicably been foiled by the admins, who have been able to revert the changes and then delete NSFW content from the now not-NSFW subs.
No archive because /r/modcoord is still NSFW and therefore can't be crawled.
There's also the requisite pearl clutching over MINORS potentially being exposed to PORN (the porn that the community members posted as spam, but this is of course the admin's fault).
No archive because /r/modcoord is still NSFW and therefore can't be crawled.
Can you believe the WILL OF THE COMMUNITY has been SUBVERTED in the name of FINANCIAL GAIN? (The will of the community being "let's hurt the revenue stream reddit has" and reddit subverting it because they need to earn revenue to cover operating costs).
There's also the requisite pearl clutching over MINORS potentially being exposed to PORN (the porn that the community members posted as spam, but this is of course the admin's fault).
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Noooo muh commoooonity
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They didn't seem to mind when trannies were spamming CP to take down subs they didn't like.