yesterday i got removed from the GrandCross sub because i talked about how reddit easily manipulates users to create manufactured drama lol oh well they can keep their shitty site
The single biggest thing they could do to improve reddit is limit you to moderating a single reddit. Also start by demodding all of the power mods and banning them from ever modding again.
Reddit can't mass de-mod, it would be complete anarchy. (or maybe that's why they should.... hmmm)
But yeah, newer sites like Ruqqus caught that before it ever started - they added a limit of 10 guilds (their subreddit equivalent) moderated per user. And this place of course is just the one sub.
Even if I where a leftist shill, Reddit would have nothing of substance to offer. They ban everybody but the extreme alt-left. Deleted my account about a month ago, no reason to even look back. Let them eat themselves.
"He says Reddit does nothing to “train” or prepare moderators—who are unpaid volunteers—for troubling situations he has faced, such as reporting child pornography or dealing with doxing."
^ Ya know what this sort of labor set up is called? It's called EXPLOITATION. This is the sort of labor set up that a left wing website, arguably one of the largest in the world, developed.
Unpaid labor euphemistically called "volunteerism" is creeping into the corporate model in order to save businesses like reddit and others the cost of doing business, handling a payroll, paying taxes and being responsible community members.
Cooperations and businesses that use volunteerism to staff their business try to tell us that they are promoting community and the common good but it has nothing to do with community or the common good. It's all about their bottom line and avoiding the real costs of doing a business. It's about keeping their business model profitable for themselves by exploiting a class of workers who naively think they're "part of the team" but gain nothing from being "part of the team".
reddit and other online venues aren't the only ones doing this. Universities and colleges exploit graduate students and post grads on a regular basis to supplement their faculties but do so at about a fourth the real cost, all while raising tuition again and again. They also try to say that it's the "experience" and learning about the academic "community" that's the real, e.g. fake, value in being worked like a dog.
The number of unpaid internships especially at very wealthy corporations also offers the same deal. In exchange for being "hired" with no pay, the intern gets his foot in the door and learns about the "corporate community" and gaining "skills" but is really just an unpaid servant running around fetching coffee, pens, mail and heck, even dry cleaning and kids of executives.
Also, almost all the time, it's not some capitalists "pig" who is making the unpaid army of "community volunteers"...it's almost always a rich leftist who opposes the capitalist system and is obsessed with the income gap and financial "equity" whatever equity means to them at the moment. They always sell the idea of volunteerism as a community thing that has intangible and great rewards and strangely, the labor they're exploiting will often nod their heads and agree, but that's not how it really is.
In reality, it's a cost saving measure for the business and the profits of volunteerism goes directly into the pockets of the top executives. The volunteer who is usually an enthusiastic and naive idealist starts out wanting to prove themselves and their worth in hopes of getting a paid position (never going to happen) but over time it changes. More and more gets heaped on the volunteer and year after year passes and still no paid position until finally the disgruntled and by now, resentful volunteer quits. Weirdly, like these "power mods", the once volunteer and now quitter, still thinks the business will honor them or care. Sad fact. There are tons more willing to volunteer as tribute for the executives. The business doesn't need YOU, it just needs someone as willing to be exploited as you were and there are lots of keyboard jockeys, academic flunkies and corporate dreamers thinking they can "be someone" by volunteering as tribute, wasting their time, their resources and their energy on a system that just offers them platitudes in return for their efforts.
Insist on a paycheck people. If you're worth something, they'd pay you.
I've given up hope that the cool and creative people of 2010 Reddit went to some other site that is kept well secret and I will find it one day. It's coasting on its reputation at this point, Facebook lite that makes lite money.
Reddit has been not just a propaganda machine for the better part of 8 years.
Companies use it for marketing and have been doing it since it got popular. The most popular video game subreddits are bought out by whatever games company they set up for.
Battlefield subreddit? EA bought. COD subreddit? Activision. WOW subreddit? Blizzard bought. So on and so on.
Moderators from all these subreddits get given all kinds of free shit to keep the subreddits in line. That just video games.
Morrowind and the elderscrolls subs have public modlogs because they haven't removed me yet. That said, I barely use the site, and pretty much all of the mods there were added by admins below me because I wasn't doing anything :P.
I did get an invite to a gaming moderator discord server, where the mods for a ton of reddit gaming subreddits coordinate crap. not a fan of cabals and didn't feel like playing spy at the time. Other than that, haven't been offered anything by bethesda. We did get a message once from a bethesda rep about removing some spoilers for some game, but it seemed pretty innocuous iirc.
Lol oh yeah, i was in the CoronaVirus sub about a week ago just to see if they were allowing any positive news to come through, every post and every comment is just Trump bashing, nothing about the actual virus lol
They are letting the site be destroyed from the inside out, it's glorious to watch.
yesterday i got removed from the GrandCross sub because i talked about how reddit easily manipulates users to create manufactured drama lol oh well they can keep their shitty site
The single biggest thing they could do to improve reddit is limit you to moderating a single reddit. Also start by demodding all of the power mods and banning them from ever modding again.
Yeah but this is done on purpose. Otherwise you'd still see the Donald on the front page.
Just went over and checked - unless there's something I'm missing, the last posts are from ~2 months ago. lol
People can get around this by creating multiple accounts. Sure it's against the ToS, but the ToS is the equivalent of a gun-free zone sign.
Reddit can't mass de-mod, it would be complete anarchy. (or maybe that's why they should.... hmmm)
But yeah, newer sites like Ruqqus caught that before it ever started - they added a limit of 10 guilds (their subreddit equivalent) moderated per user. And this place of course is just the one sub.
No, they don't even pretend anymore
Even if I where a leftist shill, Reddit would have nothing of substance to offer. They ban everybody but the extreme alt-left. Deleted my account about a month ago, no reason to even look back. Let them eat themselves.
"He says Reddit does nothing to “train” or prepare moderators—who are unpaid volunteers—for troubling situations he has faced, such as reporting child pornography or dealing with doxing."
^ Ya know what this sort of labor set up is called? It's called EXPLOITATION. This is the sort of labor set up that a left wing website, arguably one of the largest in the world, developed.
Unpaid labor euphemistically called "volunteerism" is creeping into the corporate model in order to save businesses like reddit and others the cost of doing business, handling a payroll, paying taxes and being responsible community members.
Cooperations and businesses that use volunteerism to staff their business try to tell us that they are promoting community and the common good but it has nothing to do with community or the common good. It's all about their bottom line and avoiding the real costs of doing a business. It's about keeping their business model profitable for themselves by exploiting a class of workers who naively think they're "part of the team" but gain nothing from being "part of the team".
reddit and other online venues aren't the only ones doing this. Universities and colleges exploit graduate students and post grads on a regular basis to supplement their faculties but do so at about a fourth the real cost, all while raising tuition again and again. They also try to say that it's the "experience" and learning about the academic "community" that's the real, e.g. fake, value in being worked like a dog.
The number of unpaid internships especially at very wealthy corporations also offers the same deal. In exchange for being "hired" with no pay, the intern gets his foot in the door and learns about the "corporate community" and gaining "skills" but is really just an unpaid servant running around fetching coffee, pens, mail and heck, even dry cleaning and kids of executives.
Also, almost all the time, it's not some capitalists "pig" who is making the unpaid army of "community volunteers"...it's almost always a rich leftist who opposes the capitalist system and is obsessed with the income gap and financial "equity" whatever equity means to them at the moment. They always sell the idea of volunteerism as a community thing that has intangible and great rewards and strangely, the labor they're exploiting will often nod their heads and agree, but that's not how it really is.
In reality, it's a cost saving measure for the business and the profits of volunteerism goes directly into the pockets of the top executives. The volunteer who is usually an enthusiastic and naive idealist starts out wanting to prove themselves and their worth in hopes of getting a paid position (never going to happen) but over time it changes. More and more gets heaped on the volunteer and year after year passes and still no paid position until finally the disgruntled and by now, resentful volunteer quits. Weirdly, like these "power mods", the once volunteer and now quitter, still thinks the business will honor them or care. Sad fact. There are tons more willing to volunteer as tribute for the executives. The business doesn't need YOU, it just needs someone as willing to be exploited as you were and there are lots of keyboard jockeys, academic flunkies and corporate dreamers thinking they can "be someone" by volunteering as tribute, wasting their time, their resources and their energy on a system that just offers them platitudes in return for their efforts.
Insist on a paycheck people. If you're worth something, they'd pay you.
The extra h is for extra harassment.
Psych reference?
Much older, an SNL ad for lawfirm Green & Fazio that ended with:
"1-800-HARASSS - The Extra S is for xtra Harassment"
I've given up hope that the cool and creative people of 2010 Reddit went to some other site that is kept well secret and I will find it one day. It's coasting on its reputation at this point, Facebook lite that makes lite money.
At least r/okbuddyretard is still good.
It's dumb and juvenile and childish and I keep going back to that subreddit.
Reddit has been not just a propaganda machine for the better part of 8 years.
Companies use it for marketing and have been doing it since it got popular. The most popular video game subreddits are bought out by whatever games company they set up for.
Battlefield subreddit? EA bought. COD subreddit? Activision. WOW subreddit? Blizzard bought. So on and so on.
Moderators from all these subreddits get given all kinds of free shit to keep the subreddits in line. That just video games.
Morrowind and the elderscrolls subs have public modlogs because they haven't removed me yet. That said, I barely use the site, and pretty much all of the mods there were added by admins below me because I wasn't doing anything :P.
I did get an invite to a gaming moderator discord server, where the mods for a ton of reddit gaming subreddits coordinate crap. not a fan of cabals and didn't feel like playing spy at the time. Other than that, haven't been offered anything by bethesda. We did get a message once from a bethesda rep about removing some spoilers for some game, but it seemed pretty innocuous iirc.
Spent the afternoon over there shitposting the lighter side of things. Shadow banned by association.
Lol oh yeah, i was in the CoronaVirus sub about a week ago just to see if they were allowing any positive news to come through, every post and every comment is just Trump bashing, nothing about the actual virus lol
They are letting the site be destroyed from the inside out, it's glorious to watch.
Reddit can die; I digg it.
I'm not even sure they pretend to anymore
Hmmm...I could do a based reddit...
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