Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors

Re:Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors by ProAm on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @08:16PM (#23483734)

What more is there to do with reddit? All their new ideas in the last 5 years have been poached from other social sites that did it first. It will always be a cesspool in the same manner that twitter and facebook with always be cesspools but that's more a reflection on society than management. They will always be pawns in the bot game, political game and advertising/sponsorship game because they are conduits only. Nothing good comes out of reddit that is not put into reddit from the outside.

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Re:Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors by hnzix on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @08:38PM (#23483924)

> Nothing good comes out of reddit that is not put into reddit from the outside.

The good that comes from inside Reddit is the curation, as much as everyone likes to complain about it.

They have become more proactive about banning hate and grief subreddits and have a system for reporting and shadowbanning bad faith individuals. If anything one could argue they come down a little too hard on borderline controversial subs but it's such a tough line to walk.

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Re:Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors by bigiain on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @10:02PM (#23484520)

"Curation"?

By five totally unaccountable mods, all pushing brands for money?

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/gitwbo/p...

That curation is "The good that comes from inside Reddit"???

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Re:Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors by bawolff on Thursday June 11, 2020 @12:10AM (#23485116)

So? I dont care who the mods are. Reddit is a glorified collection of web forums. Like all web forums they live and die by the signal to noise ratio. Reddit is popular because most subreddits match up to some subgroup that thinks it has decent signal to noise ratio.

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Re:Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors by andrewzah on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @11:27PM (#23484940)

Dramatics aside, the best subreddits tend to be the ones that are strongly curated. /r/AskHistorians, /r/neutralpolitics, etc.

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Re:Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors by dorkinspace on Thursday June 11, 2020 @04:13PM (#23492892)

The reason those subs are some of the best is not just because they are strongly curated, but also because they are fairly curated based on well defined, sensible rules.

The unaccountable, power-abusing moderators that are being discussed in this thread remove posts and ban users completely arbitrarily. If these mods had a rule system like r/AskHistorians and applied them as fairly, there wouldn't be nearly as much concern over the issue.

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Re:Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors by john-radio on Thursday June 11, 2020 @09:32AM (#23488656)

Those are very good subreddits (/r/nosleep is another strongly curated, excellent one with a different purpose) but I don't think that can stand up as a general rule at all. /r/NoStupidQuestions, /r/CrazyIdeas, /r/LearnPython...

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Re:Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors by nathias on Thursday June 11, 2020 @05:24AM (#23486815)

ah yes, come for the news, stay for the censorship

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Re:Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors by blaser-waffle on Thursday June 11, 2020 @09:46AM (#23488803)

If you don't like it there is always Voat.

HN has a decent amount of curation, too. Been seeing a lot of flagged and deleted posts these days...

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Re:Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors by sanchostache on Friday June 12, 2020 @02:40AM (#23496664)

Cesspit echo-chamber anymore. A reflection of the communist society in which we're quickly headed. The doublespeak and gaslighting has a lot gotten worse...

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