Re:Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
by xtreme on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @04:35PM
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One of the major issues not often discussed is the "powermods", or the small subset of users who are the moderators of a huge number of subreddits. They can and often do enforce their biases on multiple unrelated communities. Reddit's moderators selection process ensures that they cannot be replaced even if a majority of the community don't support them without creating a brand new subreddit.
Re:Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
by Big_crimpin on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @09:19PM
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I have a major issue with this too. I posted an idea for the admins to counter this type of thing by allowing users if they wish to, to blacklist mods so that a user can still view content that those mods have removed without having any effect on users who don't blacklist those mods.
It went as we'll as I expected it probably would have.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ideasfortheadmins/comments/8mrqyh/a...
I don't know if I went about it the wrong way but I felt I had well reasoned responses but the few replies I got were weak, and the votes indicate that mods don't want to even think about losing any power or being undermined. A sort of I'm right, you're wrong mentality - the kind that my idea would combat.
Re:Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
by baud147258 on Thursday May 31, 2018 @04:37AM
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Your idea seemed interesting, but I think "blacklist" is too strong a term. Perhaps "hide mod action" would have gone better.
Re:Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
by baud147258 on Thursday May 31, 2018 @08:35AM
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Or "ignore mod action"
Re:Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
by AsyncAwait on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @05:22PM
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> everything being centralised means one party now has control over multiple communities
Which is precisely why I started working on a federated alternative that uses ActivityPub to let users essentially build cross-server homepages of their own.
For starters, everything being centralised means one party now has control over multiple communities, which allows for censorship that wasn't there in the days of separate forums.
And tying identities together... well that's probably why there's so much drama online now. Because everyone presents themselves differently to different groups in the real world, and the difficulty of tying multiple sides of one person together is what keeps humanity and society sane.
But Reddit has certainly done a lot for discoverability and brining communities together.