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Mystery Spy said:
Reddit’s too cheap to moderate subs themselves—unless it’s unpaid labor from their own loser employees.

The site would actually be usable if they didn’t just give total control to the first no-lifer who squats on a subreddit and their little clique of losers. Reddit loves throwing around the word “democratize” when it’s an excuse to screw people over, but never when it comes to moderator privileges.

Unironically, AI would do a better job. At least AI can be reasoned with and will admit when it’s wrong if you bring a solid argument.A mod will perma ban you for daring to hurt his ego .
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I don't know. Based on their current AI-driven appeals system being very hit-or-miss combined with their AI system falsely banning accounts for "promoting violence" (history and gun related subs especially have had a problem with this), I'm really not too optimistic about it. The admins have enabled power-tripping mods for years and a mostly AI driven moderation force will only enable Reddit to be less transparent with their users than they already are.

At least no-life mods have somewhat of an identity so we can clown on them when they come out of the woodwork. Also I'm not sure what you mean when you say AI can be reasoned with and will admit when it's wrong, there have been countless users banned because the AI doesn't understand the context of jokes or subject matter of the post.
 
NewNiko said:
AI can be reasoned with and will admit when it's wrong,
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I have had good experiences with Grok. It's stubborn but with evidence you can make it back down.

Check Elon's grokipedia project. Elon's Insanity aside, if you correct it, it will double check and correct itself.
 
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Re: discussion about KF users using Reddit

I can only speak for myself but the only places I ever go on reddit are small hobby subs involving photography which are largely apolitical and some internet lolcow subs. I don't touch any of the major subs and would not even dream of using the major ones that are just political sperging echo chambers. Reddit like any large forum DOES have good more niche parts of it you just have to search for them.
 
I was curious what the experience is for new accounts in 2025. Let's say you wanted to discuss a software bug or something. Can you, as a new account, even post to the sub to describe it? Probably not! There are account age requirements and karma requirements in most subs. Even if you wait a month, you'll still have to find subreddits without karma requirements and make banal comments to slowly accrue karma before you can comment in anywhere worthwhile. Even longer before you can post anything outright.
As the art faggot demonstrates, legacy accounts will accrue ever more subreddit bans over time even if they never catch a sitewide ban for trolling. But new accounts? Only bots and Indians are grinding through that tedium. Add in shadowbans too, and attrition certainly exceeds new blood. I would guess that reddit began shrinking sometime between 2016 and the Coof lockdowns as those periods saw huge banwaves. It's been five years since the Floyd riots, four since the Rittenhouse trial, and 2.5 since they banned third-party apps like RIF, each taking decent chunks of real users. It must be in freefall today.
 
SHITTAHS CLOGGED! said:
I was curious what the experience is for new accounts in 2025. Let's say you wanted to discuss a software bug or something. Can you, as a new account, even post to the sub to describe it? Probably not! There are account age requirements and karma requirements in most subs. Even if you wait a month, you'll still have to find subreddits without karma requirements and make banal comments to slowly accrue karma before you can comment in anywhere worthwhile. Even longer before you can post anything outright.
As the art faggot demonstrates, legacy accounts will accrue ever more subreddit bans over time even if they never catch a sitewide ban for trolling. But new accounts? Only bots and Indians are grinding through that tedium. Add in shadowbans too, and attrition certainly exceeds new blood. I would guess that reddit began shrinking sometime between 2016 and the Coof lockdowns as those periods saw huge banwaves. It's been five years since the Floyd riots, four since the Rittenhouse trial, and 2.5 since they banned third-party apps like RIF, each taking decent chunks of real users. It must be in freefall today.
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The karma requirements are a huge nail in the coffin for attracting new users. Only the most dedicated spammers, scammers and circlejerkers can actually be assed to karma farm and it does absolutely nothing to stop the more advanced bots.

Why go through all that trouble just so you can get downvoted for disagreeing with the hivemind, arbitrarily banned by a powertripping mod or get condescending answers to legitimate questions that you asked in good faith?
 
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mr. testicular torsion said:
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So this post is telling me that the stress of living with le evil natzee rethuglikkkans is causing OP to have longer, heavier periods, and that this is a common enough occurrence that at least 10 others (assuming everyone who upvoted is a real person) can relate?

That actually explains so much omfg
 
George Lucas said:
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These are called goobers or goober peas, and they're a traditional southern snack. I mean, the term is also used to mean "peanut" but specifically, peanuts boiled in salt water are called goobers and are a snack down there. I've also heard of them adding seasoning to the water, such as chicken stock or peppers.

 
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These are called goobers or goober peas, and they're a traditional southern snack. I mean, the term is also used to mean "peanut" but specifically, peanuts boiled in salt water are called goobers and are a snack down there. I've also heard of them adding seasoning to the water, such as chicken stock or peppers.

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So that's the etymology of the goofy goober from SpongeBob, the more you know
 
Maldavius Figtree said:
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We gotta put him down boys...

Someone a few pages earlier complained that this thread sucks because half of its regulars probably have Reddit accounts. I didn't want to believe him. Most of all I didn't want to believe some of my faves could be... not only Redditors... but Reddit Mods...
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Lmao, imagine powerleveling and it's basically admitting your gay.
 
HTTP Error 404 said:
These are called goobers or goober peas, and they're a traditional southern snack. I mean, the term is also used to mean "peanut" but specifically, peanuts boiled in salt water are called goobers and are a snack down there. I've also heard of them adding seasoning to the water, such as chicken stock or peppers.

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Your mom’s a goober.
 
GilaCutter said:
Like, what the fuck is the message here?
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The message is that redditors are fucking retarded sheep(lol) who will reflexively up vote shit with animals in them because animals are heckin chungus, and you know if they allowed images with animals but not images OF animals people wouldn't be able to comprehend the distinction. So in an equally dumb effort to curb this, they just blanket ban animals as a whole. At least that's my guess.
Sicko Hunter said:
Re: discussion about KF users using Reddit
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There's like 4-5 subs I check out. All hobby/game related because I can't be fucked to have proper social media to keep up with shit since the only way to stay informed now is living on twitter and discord apparently.
 
Rick The Stick said:
There's like 4-5 subs I check out. All hobby/game related because I can't be fucked to have proper social media to keep up with shit since the only way to stay informed now is living on twitter and discord apparently.
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I used to casually read a couple of gaming and nature subreddits but I would say that in the last 2-3 years especially the political slop has gotten so bad that the entire site is functionality unreadable.

There is genuinely no escape. You can go on an obscure subreddit for enthusiasts of antique clocks or some shit and the top posts will will all be "reeeeeeee orange Hitler" garbage.
 
Syikeblade said:
The op-ed was the subject of heavy discussion on our anonymous forum board, and I got called a prissy narcissist for supporting veganism, along with pretty much unanimous dismissal of every pro-vegan point I brought up.
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>Demands everyone eat vegan
>gets made fun of
>why did everyone attack me for being vegan?
I see they're probably acing all their victim-playing classes at stereotypically lefty-U

GilaCutter said:
Every time the subject of hamfisted reddit moderation comes up, I always think of that one subreddit that's about the last photos of people when they were alive. Morbid, but it's mostly just pictures of people's loved ones or historical figures.

The hamfisted part comes in the fact that one of the rules is "no animals", which a rational person would interpret as the entire subreddit being flooded with people moping over their dead pets if it weren't for that rule. Problem is, reddit moderators are not rational, so they ban people for posting photos with any animals in them at all, even when they're not even the fucking subject of the photo. Like, what the fuck is the message here? "Shouldn't have died right after holding that dog"?
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Cannot connect reason for rules with the rules as written. Instead opts to strict, literal readings of them. Spell it with me kids: A U T I S M
Quarterback Rex Grossman said:
I have an account so I can save my favorite JAV subs. I've said it before, and maybe some won't believe it, but you can post on reddit without being a redditor. Being a redditor basically just means you're an insane leftist who can't control yourself.
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Average Chicago QB behavior. Couldn't be mine
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