He also admitted to raping multiple women on his facebook account and argued they were over privileged transphobics and he shouldn't be considered a rapists. Can you imagine if Foxnews really knew who they had on their show representing progressives? They'd have had him back every week.
It almost seemed too perfect of a crash and burn. Everyone in the sub agreed to not talk to media because they knew nothing good could come off it. This oaf took it on themselves to destroy everything and double and triple down on their destruction afterwards. Really kind of fascinating
The users were legitimate, and some of the mods were, and even agreed that the person should not do it. That person just decided to ignore everyone and make a mockery of it. Almost seemed like a plant.
Seriously seemed way to perfect for it to have been real.. but then seeing the person spaz out afterwards was like ohhh the news didn’t have to set this up. They just found the most idiotic egotistical and delusional person they could hope for.
The users of the sub all mostly had jobs and such and it was getting scarily (if your in the upper class) close to being a citizens union forming.
I don’t know how long they were a mod there, but I would love to know.
They unilaterally decided to do the interview, obviously did no prep, didn’t try to look presentable, and had the most ridiculous job possible. I really think they were a plant, or the person whose account belonged to the mod got a big payout, and some corporation took control of the account to act like an asshole after. That sub before that interview had nurses, teachers, retail, food, and many more, many working 40+ hours a week. Would be very easy for some bad faith actors to get in there and set everything up to kill the movement. The point wasn’t that people shouldn’t have to work, it was we should be able to survive comfortably working full time, and have money and time left over for life outside work.
The users think that if you are born an America you are entitled to several things and do not need to contribute to society. You can call that legitimate but I have different words.
That must have happened after the mod who did the interview started banning people from the sub for calling for them to resign and claiming it was transphobia. I got a ban from the sub, it got reversed, but I haven’t been a user of it since that whole incident.
The saga of /r/Freefolk was really the peak saga of no-life basement dwelling moderator abuse. The entire thing was more entertaining than watching the show that the sub was based around.
There were mod alt accounts. A fake “banning” of a mod that was abusing his power and making the whole community hate him. Then hundreds of pages of Discord chats leaked proving that the whole thing was just for show to satisfy the sub, and the “banned” mod was replaced with a new mod who was the same person under an alt account. After the new leaks, all the mods turned on each other like a pack of wolves and starting airing out dirty laundry from years past. Admins basically locked the sub, fired all the mods, they tried to have a mod election that didn’t work, and it started all over with the original creator who brought back some of the least-liked mods.
It was like the perfect example of life imitating art, because basically the exact same thing was happening on the show Game of Thrones with an overall message that human beings can’t be trusted with power.
What happened to that sub? It used to crop on my feed and some of it was interesting, so I followed it, but never beyond seeing posts from time to time… what did this guy everyone’s mentioning do? Genuinely interested.
I've had a young law professor who told us that the people who were in charging in nazi germany were fundamentally the same kind of people who mod subreddits nowadays. Low competence, no success anywhere, hunger for power
Mods for those subreddits are often more like... curators I guess. They gather resources for the wiki, pin things that are relevant to the sub like recent news, etc.
The whole reddit platform really stops making sense once communities get past a certain size. It's great if you want to create a curated space discussing your obscure hobby or interest, but millions of users discussing politics? The whole idea falls apart pretty quickly.
I had a coworker like a decade ago who had a 12 year old son who was a mod of a shockingly big sub (somewhere around 250k users). There's apparently no required vetting process, no interaction with reddit itself, etc. It always makes me laugh that Obama could do an AMA where he verifies himself and promises to disclose the secrets on aliens, and a 12 year old on their lunch period could just perma ban him from the sub.
reddit is a fun place to fuck around and argue with people, but in no way is it a reliable platform for important discussion.
I got banned on a science sub for expressing my opinion which just happened to be "transphobic." Not even a discussion or warning was had. Transphobic is made up rhetoric. I'm going to start saying trans-transphobic, to describe people who make up a word to slander those with different opinions
I worked for T, a company that does moderation for T***k, a major broadcaster/streamer on the internet for a bit over a season.
What i can tell you, it is the most over the top, offensive, and outright criminally adjacent thing I've ever witnessed. I had been given a tip to not shower before my interview, based on a friend of mine who'd worked there prior. Not only do they train you for two weeks, while outright making jokes to make light of pedophilia along with other major crimes, will flat out ignore reports of real criminal activity, if not found through the system. You work for a system, for pay, to do exactly what you're told. Caring too much for what you do or for actual consumer safety, is apparently grounds to be fired.
If you can't prove a 'policy was broken within one single video clip' you cannot ban a user.
The 500lb land whale runs the show with the others, promising they can get kids rich through it, molesting children the same as any other barely hidden hideout for the FBI.
I do not moderate any serious subs but your take is wrong, probably because you are overestimating the general public’s ability to be civil on the internet. I actually moderate patently unserious subs. Yet people consistently manage to take things in directions that result in unbelievably and inappropriately rude comments. So when a topic that lends itself to such comments enters the mainstream discourse or whatever, it is easier to just ban the topic than to deal with the inevitable onslaught of “mod review needed” notifications. It’s unreasonable to expect unpaid mods to read immature back and forth childishness between adults to determine ‘who started it’ and what should be done. So ban a topic and stop it before it happens or don’t and risk someone who has been legitimately cyber bullied reporting the sub and the sub getting removed.
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Then whenever the mods don't do their job perfectly and answer to the requests of the community in banning certain posts or removing bots its: "WHERE ARE THOSE UNPAID FUCKS I DEMEAN AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY AND FUCKING DESPISE? DON'T THEY DO THEIR JOBS!?" then repeat that post 1000x until the issue is solved by said unpaid fucks.
Those people really don't win unless there is some magical sub that really likes their mods out there somewhere.
Wait til the those with a vested interest decide to infect your subreddit to the point of being unmanageable, and then you have to hand off the keys to a supermod who totally isn't being paid by a company that benefits from having a controlling interest in your former sub.
Well I handed it off to the number 2 mod who I became friends with and still talk to years later. He cares about the sub, and only gets a little drunk with power.
lmao theres this one sub the name is southafrica. theres a zecknd sub people made which is south_africa. why?, because the first one th3 mods are... idk how to put it? theyre basically into american politics like they hate elon musk etc. but if you ask anything to do with anything else that their mods disagree with they ban you and send you DMs berating you etc. its fucking hilarious they basically propaganda power trip
No major subreddit is being controlled by a dude in a basement. Not anymore.
This is one of the most popular websites on the planet; any company with any sense at all would make sure they were influencing the subreddits that impact their product. It's the cheapest form of PR available--nothing else comes even remotely close.
Reminds me a little about how the Walton family likes to get volunteers to help with their various projects in Northwest Arkansas (crystal bridges, etc).
Just a fraction of the interest they make on their multi multi (multi) billions of dollars could easily pay the volunteers a very decent salary, but people are always like ‘woo hoo I get to help out on a big Walton project? Count me in!’ And they do the work for free…
I've made a couple of basic points many times over the years that people seem to get pissed about:
Moderation on any site that makes money should be a paid job, especially a giant site like Reddit
Doing so fixes a shitload of problems
Moderated content shifts a lot of liability onto the corporation, so it's never going to happen
All of the mods are out here giving thousands upon thousand of free hours to a megazillionaire. It's like everyone has forgotten that that Reddit is a glorified forum.
To be fair, Reddit before used to be much more "free" and open. Like subreddit are made by people but then Reddit admins started telling mods what to do and went public. Old Reddit wasn't like today Reddit.
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