Reddit has had consistent issues with tranny mods and mass censorship. Actual people get sick of this shit quickly. We already knew they astroturfed numbers when you compare active users to “subscribers”. The fact is that Reddit alienated most of the internet when it tried to be more than 4chan lite.
The other day on the niche reddit I still check in on one post hit the upvote jackpot and got frontpaged, a picture with Elon and Rogan relevant to the forum (double hated now by the alt left).
Thousands of the most vile, hateful comments you could image that break every basic rule of decorum. I could easily see any forum with one or two moderators just nuking the thread to be done with it. The hate mob and bots don't add any value to a niche forum full of people who specifically sought it out and the longer the post is up the more trolls will spread into other posts and linger.
There could be just like say 1000 people/bots that open frontpage threads and dump their twitter-esque sewage on it and ruin the entire site. Wouldn't take a lot of fanatics.
The lesson is you shouldn't let people comment on frontpage posts who aren't subscribed regulars. When they click "save comment" put a timer that says the comment can be posted if they click again in 30 minutes and enforce it serverside. If they really, really want to keep a tab open that long it's probably a valuable comment or a bot (and if they do this regularly it's a bot detection signal). Same thing for subscribe.
I remember a guy who came into one of the censorship subs with a review about falaffels he had been trying to post to several subreddits, but none of them would accept it because each time it wasn't formatted correctly for their submission rules. A falaffel.
I remember a guy who came into one of the censorship subs with a review about falaffels he had been trying to post to several subreddits, but none of them would accept it because each time it wasn't formatted correctly for their submission rules. A falaffel.
Darn those White Supremacist mods! They expanded "Remove Kebab!" to "Remove Falaffel!"
On r/tipofmytongue I tried to post a safe for work post about safe for work site isitporn.com when trying to find the url, however I was unable to post it because it contained the word "porn" and the mods were unresponsive retards in regards to complaints about the automod.
They have a bot that uses random accounts to vote for posts and yes all their subscriber numbers are jacked. You can spot their mentality on subs they hide behind a page that have their subscription number hidden, they think communities give a shit about it.
I left that shithole in 2014 and only visit the linux board once a week or so.
Around 80% of posts on reddit are removed by moderators/admins. And around 80% of the remaining 20% are bots. So yeah, it's 'dead', but the bots will keep it alive.
The shift happened in 2016, specifically because of the U.S. presidential election. When Hillary Clinton "won" the DNC primary, all that money got unleashed, and Reddit changed overnight. It was like a switch was flipped. Reddit before was mostly libertarian leaning, and largely supported Ron Paul. However, after the switch, it went into crazy NPC leftist overdrive.
It mostly affected the politics subs, but it spread outward from there to infect the entire website over time. It was being done by companies like ShareBlue/ActBlue which was using bots and shills to push their message, upvote approved posts and comments, downvote wrongthink posts and comments, infiltrate mod teams, pay mods willing to do their work for them, and most likely pay the admins to censor and curate the content for the whims of the establishment masters.
It was glaringly obvious for anyone with a modicum of intelligence. People often tripped up the shills and bots, and posted ample evidence of the astroturphing. All of the shills/bots were identical. They said the same things, made the same arguments, talked the same way, and never deviated. It was like a script. Over time, this astroturphing began using non politics subs to push their message, and the Reddit admins curated the "popular" feeds to only include the approved message. Now, almost all subs have been infected, and it's driven most of the genuine users away, except for maybe a few niche subreddits.
There were other forces at work too. The anti-vaxx hatred being spread from all corners of Reddit also began after 2016. That was probably helped along by money from pharmaceutical companies, in addition to the pre Covid priming propaganda being put out by the establishment. It was just like the DNC takeover. It was that inorganic and obvious, using subs that had nothing to do with vaccines or healthcare at all would push posts to the front page that were pro vaxx and anti anti-vaxx. Lots of comments were asking "what does this have to do with ____?" that were drowned out by all the shill/bot comments.
Genuine people will generally only spend time in a forum if it's also genuine. If they know most of it's fake, even if it supports and espouses the same ideology as them, they'll usually leave. Only the die hards will stay, interspersed among all the other useful idiots who didn't notice, and the mountain of shills/trolls. Twitter, Facebook, and all other mainstream social media platforms have gone through the same thing. They're almost entirely curated and fake. There's good evidence that many of these platforms started out intending to ultimately end up where they are, while others were taken over and co-opted (like Reddit).
Only thing I use it for anymore is keeping up with bands I like since I was banned from Shitter for criticizing Bidens assfucking disaster in Afghanistan.
Sort by Top>Day and you'll see five or six posts with tens of thousands of upvotes. But keep scrolling and they vote counts drop by orders of magnitude. It doesn't make sense if the upvotes are organic. (which we know hasn't been the case for many years, but the disparity between the top posts and all the rest has increased significantly)
It's like a body but the functioning organs have been replaced by cancerous tumors and growths. It has skin, it walks, but is completely devoid of functionality and reason outside of embracing anything that doesn't fuel the cancer within or spread it to others. You wish it was dead, but normal people mistake it for a real human. It just meanders around promoting its own carcinogenic ends to the unsuspecting.
The worst is that it believes itself to be human - the only true, enlightened human.
I would imagine that even in normal times, subs with such large sub counts dont see that much activity since most people are too lazy to actually leave the sub when the move on.
Though with how much of a degenerate echochamber reddit has become, I wouldnt be surprised if most people only use it casually now.
Reddit has had consistent issues with tranny mods and mass censorship. Actual people get sick of this shit quickly. We already knew they astroturfed numbers when you compare active users to “subscribers”. The fact is that Reddit alienated most of the internet when it tried to be more than 4chan lite.
So... On your second point - the same thing Facebook did to "online shows", then, including "content creators" like CollegeHumor...??
The other day on the niche reddit I still check in on one post hit the upvote jackpot and got frontpaged, a picture with Elon and Rogan relevant to the forum (double hated now by the alt left).
Thousands of the most vile, hateful comments you could image that break every basic rule of decorum. I could easily see any forum with one or two moderators just nuking the thread to be done with it. The hate mob and bots don't add any value to a niche forum full of people who specifically sought it out and the longer the post is up the more trolls will spread into other posts and linger.
There could be just like say 1000 people/bots that open frontpage threads and dump their twitter-esque sewage on it and ruin the entire site. Wouldn't take a lot of fanatics.
The lesson is you shouldn't let people comment on frontpage posts who aren't subscribed regulars. When they click "save comment" put a timer that says the comment can be posted if they click again in 30 minutes and enforce it serverside. If they really, really want to keep a tab open that long it's probably a valuable comment or a bot (and if they do this regularly it's a bot detection signal). Same thing for subscribe.
It's interesting to see when it truly got out of control tbh in 2019.
Even if you're using it for niche or hobby stuff, it's so heavily moderated you won't see any new posts.
Each subreddit has so many kafkaesque rules designed to make it so only advertisers and shills can actually post content.
I remember a guy who came into one of the censorship subs with a review about falaffels he had been trying to post to several subreddits, but none of them would accept it because each time it wasn't formatted correctly for their submission rules. A falaffel.
To be fair falafel posting should be censored everywhere.
Darn those White Supremacist mods! They expanded "Remove Kebab!" to "Remove Falaffel!"
On r/tipofmytongue I tried to post a safe for work post about safe for work site isitporn.com when trying to find the url, however I was unable to post it because it contained the word "porn" and the mods were unresponsive retards in regards to complaints about the automod.
I eventually refound the site myself.
Cought magictcg cough
Yeah I agree. There’s just nothing really that fun or informative happening there I find.
Dead for me. I haven't been back there in years.
It's mostly bots.
The whole internet is dead. Unless you know someone in real life, every "user" is a bot that has been designed to manipulate you.
The whole internet is on Discord and Telegram now.
That's where you have to go to find anything non-corporate.
There still tranny mods on Discord though.
They have a bot that uses random accounts to vote for posts and yes all their subscriber numbers are jacked. You can spot their mentality on subs they hide behind a page that have their subscription number hidden, they think communities give a shit about it.
I left that shithole in 2014 and only visit the linux board once a week or so.
Sure could use a Linux community here...
We can make them now.
One can only hope.
Around 80% of posts on reddit are removed by moderators/admins. And around 80% of the remaining 20% are bots. So yeah, it's 'dead', but the bots will keep it alive.
The shift happened in 2016, specifically because of the U.S. presidential election. When Hillary Clinton "won" the DNC primary, all that money got unleashed, and Reddit changed overnight. It was like a switch was flipped. Reddit before was mostly libertarian leaning, and largely supported Ron Paul. However, after the switch, it went into crazy NPC leftist overdrive.
It mostly affected the politics subs, but it spread outward from there to infect the entire website over time. It was being done by companies like ShareBlue/ActBlue which was using bots and shills to push their message, upvote approved posts and comments, downvote wrongthink posts and comments, infiltrate mod teams, pay mods willing to do their work for them, and most likely pay the admins to censor and curate the content for the whims of the establishment masters.
It was glaringly obvious for anyone with a modicum of intelligence. People often tripped up the shills and bots, and posted ample evidence of the astroturphing. All of the shills/bots were identical. They said the same things, made the same arguments, talked the same way, and never deviated. It was like a script. Over time, this astroturphing began using non politics subs to push their message, and the Reddit admins curated the "popular" feeds to only include the approved message. Now, almost all subs have been infected, and it's driven most of the genuine users away, except for maybe a few niche subreddits.
There were other forces at work too. The anti-vaxx hatred being spread from all corners of Reddit also began after 2016. That was probably helped along by money from pharmaceutical companies, in addition to the pre Covid priming propaganda being put out by the establishment. It was just like the DNC takeover. It was that inorganic and obvious, using subs that had nothing to do with vaccines or healthcare at all would push posts to the front page that were pro vaxx and anti anti-vaxx. Lots of comments were asking "what does this have to do with ____?" that were drowned out by all the shill/bot comments.
Genuine people will generally only spend time in a forum if it's also genuine. If they know most of it's fake, even if it supports and espouses the same ideology as them, they'll usually leave. Only the die hards will stay, interspersed among all the other useful idiots who didn't notice, and the mountain of shills/trolls. Twitter, Facebook, and all other mainstream social media platforms have gone through the same thing. They're almost entirely curated and fake. There's good evidence that many of these platforms started out intending to ultimately end up where they are, while others were taken over and co-opted (like Reddit).
Only thing I use it for anymore is keeping up with bands I like since I was banned from Shitter for criticizing Bidens assfucking disaster in Afghanistan.
Has been for 6 years. You're only just noticing?
Not dead enough.
I noticed the same thing lately in r/aww.
Sort by Top>Day and you'll see five or six posts with tens of thousands of upvotes. But keep scrolling and they vote counts drop by orders of magnitude. It doesn't make sense if the upvotes are organic. (which we know hasn't been the case for many years, but the disparity between the top posts and all the rest has increased significantly)
It's like a body but the functioning organs have been replaced by cancerous tumors and growths. It has skin, it walks, but is completely devoid of functionality and reason outside of embracing anything that doesn't fuel the cancer within or spread it to others. You wish it was dead, but normal people mistake it for a real human. It just meanders around promoting its own carcinogenic ends to the unsuspecting.
The worst is that it believes itself to be human - the only true, enlightened human.
Its definetley an echo chamber. Its definetley full of automod bots and whacky leftists.
Reddit is a psyop
I just, finally, received my permaban this week for speaking in defense of the human right of bodily autonomy.
Reddit has a tranny jannie problem which makes the entire site inhospitable to real people.
reddit is growing in audience but how you can say if is India and sud America or even just bots?
I would imagine that even in normal times, subs with such large sub counts dont see that much activity since most people are too lazy to actually leave the sub when the move on.
Though with how much of a degenerate echochamber reddit has become, I wouldnt be surprised if most people only use it casually now.