Re:92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people
by newyankee on Friday May 15, 2020 @09:25AM
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They may not be handled over to the Govt, however the mods should not get so powerful that they create their own quasi dictatorship in terms of what is allowable and what is not. There should also be recourse for people to raise their issues at a neutral subreddit where supermods can arbitrate.
Re:92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people
by parineum on Saturday May 16, 2020 @01:52PM
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IMO, a little transparency into the subreddits' mod activity would alleviate this completely. People don't leave subreddits that are modded in a heavily biased way because they have no way to know.
I don't see why I shouldn't be able to unhide all modded posts if I choose to.
Re:92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people
by newyankee on Thursday May 21, 2020 @03:38AM
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that's the secret sauce of the information warfare era. Keep non curious people in their own bubble without a way to find out if there are other options there. They cannot leave the bubble due to network effects and no one can do this all the time. Always project that your bubble is the cleanest one.
The abuses of mods in some subreddits if it were happening in real life would be subjects of class action lawsuits.
While I agree that there should ideally be a process to deal with obviously maliciously confusing community names, a country is an entity too big and diverse to have a single centrally-moderated conversation platform for anyway. Control of the exact country-name subbreddits could be offered to official governments, but is that in any way interesting? We already have country TLDs as official government communication platforms on the web.