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MAPK phosphatase said:
I absolutely despise reddit brain.
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Autists, who are by definition socially retarded, should never be put in charge of other people without tism brain. Autistic troons, which is all troons (but not all autists), are further literally brain damaged from toxic troonshine, and retards should never be in charge of other people.
 
Y'know, it strikes me that if reddit admins and mods would just straight up admit they want to ban people for political or other wrongthink reasons, the site would actually be a bit more respectable (only a little) because at least at that point they're just fucking owning it. It's not like anybody believes it's an apolitical comms platform anyway.

reptile baht spaniard rid said:
Also what the fuck are these moderators doing that they need tools that do more than 100 API calls a minute? Seriously moderating is looking at a post and deciding if you delete or ban the user
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For years I've seen people pose similar questions to all the idiot mods on reddit clamoring for better/more "tools." And for simpler questions like "what 'tools' are you missing?" they have never given a satisfactory answer.

The truth is the mods want admin powers. We know the real "tools" they want and we know why the admins have never provided them (that we know of): they want to be able to shadowban (or even just directly ban) users they hate from all of reddit. They want to be able to see full logs of user activity (including votes, browsing habits, etc.) to "investigate" users to harass or "screen" users before "permitting" them to post in their treasured, beloved subs, or to target them for permabans from reddit.

The "100 API calls per minute isn't enough!" complaint gives it away. There's only a handful of non-spammy actions (technically, not "morally") I can think of that could actually bump into that limit.
  • Banning a specific user from all subreddits someone mods in one UI action. Powermods love "revenge banning" or "pre-emptive banning" (users who posted in r/The_Donald frequently found themselves pre-emptively banned from subs they'd never posted in). I'm sure there's no blanket ban API call to accomplish this in one request, so this would take one call per subreddit (and powermods might have dozens or even hundreds). I'm sure once this "mood" strikes there's gonna be multiple users in that angry mod's sights.
  • Deep-diving a user's history (one call per 100 posts, I think) for "review" or "investigation" (i.e. harassment, doxing, inspection for wrongthink, etc.) and archiving for future use or to justify blanket bans.
  • Searching many subs at once (whether a given powermod mods them or not) for no-no words to find users to ban or report to the admins. The r/AgainstHateSubs faggots undoubtedly do this by hand because they're that filled with hatred and convinced they're "on the right side of history," so they think it's their ordained task to hunt down wrongthink across reddit to find subs to target.
The general gist here is that the "tools" mods want all amount to having a great big "FUCK YOU, BUDDY!" button they can push for any given user to "punish" them. No legitimate "moderation" action should require more than a couple API calls, as legitimate moderation does not involve "blanket" actions except in extraordinary situations (which should absolutely be deliberately tempered by time gates to prevent exactly the kind of abuse these scumbags want to engage in).

They don't want to openly admit this, so they constantly whine about not having the "right tools" to "effectively moderate" and then refuse to go into further detail about what exactly that means. I honestly don't know why they won't admit this openly, since they routinely delete posts or threads (and ban users) and then change the sub's rules to forbid whatever they just nuked so they can claim "well we decided to add a rule after nuking that because it doesn't really belong here." And it's blindingly obvious to anyone who sees it in action (and the admins clearly don't care, or even quietly support/encourage it).

whogoesthere said:
Do those users ever find out that the things they say can have a real world reaction. Are any of the many posters who told this young man to do these things, will they have to help him pick up the pieces?
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No. The tranny community at large makes it a point to never acknowledge detransitioners or really anybody who's entered the pipeline who express regret. Reddit's tranny contingent is no different. In fact, they're arguably worse since reddit users practically never admit being wrong under any circumstances (even in those theatrical "mea culpa" struggle sessions they post with generic flowery language like "we could have handled this better, we have procedures in place now to prevent this from happening again, etc.").

AssignedEva said:
Some of the 3rd party apps let you one-click ban people, including without opening the post;
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If the admins had any decency, they'd openly state this as a reason they're putting limits (and costs) on the API. You've got no business one-click banning somebody from any view except that of an offending post. If you've got a legitimate reason to ban a user, surely it shouldn't be hard to find a post exhibiting that reason.

Banning should not be a rapid-fire action. I'd even go so far as to say on a massive site like reddit, ban actions should be time-gated (meaning you can only make the "ban user from sub" API call once every few seconds, or as frequently as desired but with a server-side enforced cooldown that increases with multiple calls and decays again over time when you stop. Mass bans should be a deliberate and time-consuming action, specifically to make "rage bans" painful (or at least require more coordination) and eliminate that dopamine hit from smashing the instant-response "FUCK YOU, BUDDY" button.

Of course, all of this sidesteps another big reason reddit is trying to neuter third-party apps and said app developers are upset about it -- reddit's own app displays ads (that enrich reddit) and third-party apps don't (and they usually display their own ads too). This move will essentially demonetize third-party apps by reducing their access level and usage.
 
Useful_Mistake said:
What the fuck is "crypto-fascisim?"
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Like crypto-communist or any other crypto- noun, it's someone who is a fascist (or whatever) but pretends not to be. But in the reddit to English translation, it is someone who isn't a fascist at all but the predditor wants to call them that anyway.

For instance, Gore Vidal once famously called William F. Buckley, Jr. a crypto-Nazi in a television debate that got Buckley riled enough to make threats of violence.

Buckley's hilarious response:
 
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The Omni Cuckold said:
It's almost like Reddit just wants itself to be overrun with the AI bots, and handcuff jannies in a way jannies don't normally like to be handcuffed. This way you have a hockeystick growth chart before the IPO. Inflate the user numbers just like what was happening with Twitter.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/14a6pfg/over_1500_chatgpt_bot_accounts_banned_during_the/
https://web.archive.org/web/20230616092228/https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/14a6pfg/over_1500_chatgpt_bot_accounts_banned_during_the/
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I can't wait for the day Reddit's anti-spam measures towards new accounts that they're so obnoxious that they kill growth to the site. Something like having to submit a captcha every time you want to watch a video or like a post. i want to see people being banned because they can't pass a ChatGPT filter while while bad actors automate creating accounts that pass these barriers until you have staff bonning 4 in 10 users thinking they're bots when its closer to 9 in 10. Ruin Reddit like that one guy ruined TF2. Let's test the early limits of the Dead Internet Theory. Godspeed AI powered-spam.
 

May be late posting this, give me clocks if I am.

But holy shit, it must hurt the tranny jannies to be called "landed gentry" of all things. Claiming to be all about enlightenment or looking out for the oppressed only to be called, correctly, untouchable aristocracy will surely rankle. As will see them attempt to defend against democracy... of voting them out!

That a major news site published this is icing on the cake.
 
So let me get this stright. the dictators in Reddit launched a protest against.... something and they all got their butts banned or revoked by upper management?

That's pretty funny.
 
"The action has been led by Reddit’s unpaid, volunteer moderators, who have a high level of control over how their subreddits are run."
i love that they were like "we just want to make sure you readers at home understand, they in fact, do it for free"
 
GradeAGobbleDeeGook said:
"The action has been led by Reddit’s unpaid, volunteer moderators, who have a high level of control over how their subreddits are run."
i love that they were like "we just want to make sure you readers at home understand, they in fact, do it for free"
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Most people would find moderating reddit such an unpleasant task they'd expect to be paid for it. Imagine being so desperate for even a crumb of "power" that you'd do it for free just to have that, and at the same time think you have any leverage at all as a throwaway broom. I bet there was some real shock for these freaks when they realized the corporation didn't need them and started groveling and begging to keep their brooms.
 
In the interview, Huffman also praised the cost-cutting by Twitter owner Elon Musk, calling the reduced headcount there an example of how a social media site can be profitable without the massive revenue of a company like Google.
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Jesus christ, Huffman really laying into the tranny jannies by praising a move by Elon Musk. He's gotta be doing this deliberately.
 
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