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Now Reddit are coming for the individual personal subreddits

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485 points dredmorbius | 1 comments | 22 Jun 23 16:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.228s | source
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seydor[dead post] ◴[22 Jun 23 17:31 UTC] No.36435734[source]▶
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bhouston ◴[22 Jun 23 17:33 UTC] No.36435763[source]▶
> And they should reign in the moderators, their abuses have angered way too many users.

Moderators are always going to be hated by some segment unfortunately.

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babypuncher ◴[22 Jun 23 17:39 UTC] No.36435840[source]▶
There will always be people who just want to show up in a space and act like an asshole, then cry "censorship" when they are asked to leave.

I kind of want moderators on Reddit to stop moderating just to show how quickly it would kill the platform. Popular subreddits would be overrun with bots and hate speech within a week. Then the real user exodus would begin, meanwhile Reddit has to try and convince their remaining advertisers that bots and racists are worth advertising to.

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Applejinx ◴[22 Jun 23 17:51 UTC] No.36436043[source]▶
We already have Twitter doing that, though. Do we have to have ALL established social media hellholes going full toxic simultaneously? I'd rather we didn't.

And yes, that was the first thing I thought of. I saw a user similarly griping about mods, saying "all the mods are rigging all the polls" and then added, "sure, pretend the users are behind you, the mods, the ones who ban them for very little reason or mute them/ignore them for asking valid questions in mod mail."

A picture emerges… bit of a self-report! I'm curious what was 'very little reason' and then how many 'valid questions' were 'asked'. Some people seem to know who their natural enemies are, and they're really clear on wanting those impediments to be removed.

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1. afterburner ◴[22 Jun 23 18:06 UTC] No.36436280[source]▶
Twitter is used as a one-to-many platform though, and I as a user (one of the 'many') can derive value from subscribing to what are essentially blog posts or announcements. I can ignore the chatter if I want to.

Reddit is all about the forum chat. Having trolls fill that up is more problematic to me as a user looking for value in the chatter.