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[The Pink Panther]

With admins like these, how does Reddit retains it's sane crowd?

Plebbit is mainstream.

 

[Otis Boi]

With admins like these, how does Reddit retains it's sane crowd?

Im going to hazard a guess that most user only visit a few specific subs. I wouldn't be surprised if most people get rid of 90% of the default subs once they make an account meaning they wont ever see the political side or reedit unless the mistakenly click on r/all.Also i think most people use it as a content aggregator and not so much a Discussion forum. I meant thats what i do when i want news related to pc/gaming stuff. Anything else tends to be complete ass cancer

 

[-HF-]

I would say that most reddit users don't participate in the first place. They just follow the basic subs and swipe through their normie content without caring or even talking with the community behind it. Clicking on an upvote button is the most interaction that you will get from >98% of reddit users (threads with 15k upvotes and 200 comments).

But that means that Reddit is a really effective propaganda tool. The average user doesn't question, he just consumes. Mods can always shut down a political side that they don't like very efficiently, with no consequences, and 90% of the users won't even realize that it happened.
In an democracy quantity wins over quality, and that's what reddit provides.

It's so effective that they can spread radical viewpoints to a huge audience, which would never be possible in the real world.
i.e. you wouldn't find a single person in Real Life who thinks that lesbians who don't want girl dick are transphobic. Everybody in RL would consider you insane. Not even our most leftist party here would claim that. But on reddit this is just the hot topic right now and the troon mods successfully enforce that... but that's already talked about here in the Reddit Trans Community thread.

 

[Lucille Bluth]

I don’t know why so many Subreddits have such superiority complexes. So many accuse [insert popular sub here] of being filled with trolls and fanboys or that this sub is filled with nothing more than “straight males” or whatever demographic when they’re no better.

There was a post on either Drama or Subredditdrama where users were “dragging” a community and saying that they lacked logic/reasoning when they were being just as bird brained and petty.

 

[Give Her The D]

But that means that Reddit is a really effective propaganda tool. The average user doesn't question, he just consumes. Mods can always shut down a political side that they don't like very efficiently, with no consequences, and 90% of the users won't even realize that it happened.

This already happens with AgainstHateSubreddit's auto-mod bot, where if you post in a sub that a participating subreddit doesn't like (i.e. /r/WatchRedditDie), it'll just straight up ban you from the sub for "participating in a hate subreddit".

 

[Liber Pater]

There is still some reddit drama because of the pewdiepie ADL donation going on.
People keep calling to remove the moderator sloth_on_meth, who is one of reddits jobless power-mods who moderates over 100 subreddits and got assigned by reddit siteadmins to moderate r/pewdiepiesubmissions some time ago, when he complained about it not being moderated.
Pewdiepie did confirm in his video today again that he wasn't the one giving sloth mod, but he also said that sloth did some things good and that he is the mod and that people should just deal with it... and that he got told that his subreddit would get deleted if there aren't mods.

http://archive.fo/CjXs3

Anyway, the current drama still is about how sloth did shut down all criticism towards the ADL when that controversy happened. He did assign some new reddit accounts as mods to assist him at that day and he went full nuclear against everybody who politically disagrees with him. The only political subreddits where he is active are far-left and he regularly shuts people down by claiming that they are alt-right trump supporters.
sloth_on_meth is also mod on the Battlefield subreddit and he did lock that subreddit down when the whole "you don't have to play it" controversy happened. This whole thing was a huge story on it's own, because sloth was just mod there and did get removed by the owner of the subreddit for shutting people down and then the reddit siteadmins stepped in, removed the subreddit owner and made sloth owner.

How many Reddit power-mods (or power-mods on any large site, for that matter) do you think are taxpayer-funded? Surely, people with so much spare time and mental energy have to be NEETs living off of either family/inheritance or a tugboat. That, or they are they all retirees.

 

[-HF-]

How many Reddit power-mods (or power-mods on any large site, for that matter) do you think are taxpayer-funded? Surely, people with so much spare time and mental energy have to be NEETs living off of either family/inheritance or a tugboat. That, or they are they all retirees.

This is u/sloth_on_meth

Reddit site-admins did install him as mod in r/pewdiepiesubmission and they kicked the old owner and installed him in r/battlefield.
There is the rumor that it's his job and he gets paid by reddit. But there is no proof for it, he denied it multiple times and he behaves a little bit too stupid for actually getting paid. He goes on power trips and has a i-can-do-whatever-i-want attitude. It really doesn't look like he has some boss above him who would warn him when he fucks up.

We don't know more about him, the only reason why we have this pic is because he got a bit too euphoric during that pewdiepie vs. t-series meme and showed his face.

 

[AnOminous]

How many Reddit power-mods (or power-mods on any large site, for that matter) do you think are taxpayer-funded? Surely, people with so much spare time and mental energy have to be NEETs living off of either family/inheritance or a tugboat. That, or they are they all retirees.

It seems people like that should lose their tard bucks because if they have the capacity to do shit like that for free on a consistent basis, they have the capacity to do an actual job and shouldn't be being paid to shit up discussion forums for actual humans by the taxes of the very humans whose discussion forums they're shitting up.

 

[Liber Pater]

This is u/sloth_on_meth
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Reddit site-admins did install him as mod in r/pewdiepiesubmission and they kicked the old owner and installed him in r/battlefield.
There is the rumor that it's his job and he gets paid by reddit. But there is no proof for it, he denied it multiple times and he behaves a little bit too stupid for actually getting paid. He goes on power trips and has a i-can-do-whatever-i-want attitude. It really doesn't look like he has some boss above him who would warn him when he fucks up.

We don't know more about him, the only reason why we have this pic is because he got a bit too euphoric during that pewdiepie vs. t-series meme and showed his face.

Interesting picture. As they say on Plebbit, "username checks out."

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

This man's living in the year 3019.

 

[Dante Alighieri]

Uh what. Now I'm no woman but I'm pretty sure eggs aren't stored in the bladder.

 

[The handsome tard]

I gotta share this story, god, these people cant take fucking joke. I knew this would happen but man, these NPCs work like...clockwork.

Its basically gay time for Steam, having discount on pretty leftist games like Night in The suicide Wood and etc.

Usual corporate pandering that makes the LGBTQwhatever crowd think that they care about them, tho Steam has decided to do it now and not June...weird.

Anyway, the comments were the usual SJW circle jerk, at most you'd see someone complaining the discounts werent high enough, whatever.

Well, I decided to pop their bubbles using the mighty call that triggers the heart of the easily offended

"Ha! GAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!"


Aaaaaand I got a one week ban from GameDeals.
Was it worth it?

Yes

 

[Vampirella]

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This man's living in the year 3019.

There are so many things to unpack with this.

 

[NerdShamer]

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This man's living in the year 3019.

According to our other Reddit thread, this sounds normal for them.

 

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This man's living in the year 3019.

Uh what. Now I'm no woman but I'm pretty sure eggs aren't stored in the bladder.

Pee is stored in the ovaries.

 

[Salubrious]

Random sub I lurked is closing:

r/narcsinthewild - Announcement - /r/narcsinthewild is closing

4 votes and 7 comments so far on Reddit

www.reddit.com

Getting mods is wayyyyyy more difficult than people think. Because this is an offshoot of RBN, we have a lot of specific criteria required in order to qualify to be a mod. Training takes more than a month or two depending on schedules. Even if we get a mod trained, 90% of the mods ghost within a month or two. Modding requires hours and hours of volunteering. We get nasty messages and threats. We deal with harassment on and off the sub from users that dislike our modding decisions. All of NITW's mods work on at least 1 other sub (usually way more than that) and we only have so much time we can dedicate. Overhauling rules and subreddit designs take weeks and on top of that, we must stay on top of the day-to-day work to keep the sub up and running. Mods have lives, jobs, obligations, friends, family, personal struggles, financial worries, stress, health issues, etc. We can only stretch ourselves so thin. There are other reasons we can't keep this sub going, I can't possibly list them all.

This was a big decision and not something we took lightly. We've discussed this for a long time and eventually we had to admit that it's best if the sub closes, we just can't keep things going at this rate.

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This just kind of feels like you're modding too hard. This sub averages 1-3 new posts per day, and approximately 20 comments per day. Yet the entire subreddit is closing because it's too hard to mod?

Also, how does it take a full month to train someone to be a mod? That seems like overkill.

Am I overthinking this?

 

[Elysian]

Random sub I lurked is closing:

r/narcsinthewild - Announcement - /r/narcsinthewild is closing

4 votes and 7 comments so far on Reddit

www.reddit.com

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This just kind of feels like you're modding too hard. This sub averages 1-3 new posts per day, and approximately 20 comments per day. Yet the entire subreddit is closing because it's too hard to mod?

Also, how does it take a full month to train someone to be a mod? That seems like overkill.

Am I overthinking this?

I think they’re acting like the sub is more important than it is, but maybe since the raisedbynarcissists-adjacent subs get autistic rage DMs from some of the more internet savvy narcissists? I don’t see how you’d need a whole month’s training to teach a mod not to drop their spaghetti when faced with batshit people sending them mean words on the internet though.

 

[Pointless Pedant]

I think they’re acting like the sub is more important than it is, but maybe since the raisedbynarcissists-adjacent subs get autistic rage DMs from some of the more internet savvy narcissists? I don’t see how you’d need a whole month’s training to teach a mod not to drop their spaghetti when faced with batshit people sending them mean words on the internet though.

So that subreddit's not about DEA agents? I guessed wrong.

 

[AnOminous]

Also, how does it take a full month to train someone to be a mod? That seems like overkill.

It sounds like it's run by narcs.

 

[Pointless Pedant]

It sounds like it's run by narcs.

Man, the DEA are really wasting their time. No wonder the war on drugs failed so badly.