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Re:Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote co... by Eisenstein on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @01:33PM (#35791213)
You linked to an HN thread which linked to a reddit thread as proof of this. I would like you to know that is absurd since the reddit thread makes an accusation with no proof.

The 'proof' is a screenshot of a post that was called '92 of the top 100 subbreddits controlled by the same 5 people' that got removed. Why did it get removed? Who knows?

Do better. If you want to be better than reddit don't do the same dumb shit that it does and check your sources.

Re:Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote co... by bspammer on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @03:16PM (#35792712)
Given that reddit surprisingly still has a working API, this isn't actually a hard thing to check. Here's a script that works courtesy of ChatGPT:

https://gist.github.com/bspammer/6b5eff6670e4b839ffea89ceaed...

The highest non-bot user moderates 12 subreddits in the top 100. There's quite a few users who moderate more than 5. I believe the situation was much worse a few years ago, and reddit the company put pressure on them to give up some of their subs.

Re:Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote co... by Eisenstein on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @04:01PM (#35793318)
Can you provide the data that is output?
Re:Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote co... by bspammer on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @04:09PM (#35793421)
Re:Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote co... by Eisenstein on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @05:23PM (#35794399)
The highest person on there that isn't a bot moderates 13 subreddits. The second 12, and down from there. Doesn't look like anywhere near '92' for any 5 people.
Re:Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote co... by bspammer on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @05:45PM (#35794648)
Yes because like I said the fallout from the original post caused a lot of the power moderators to give up their spots. The biggest one "Cyxie" straight up deleted their account.
Re:Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote co... by tourist2d on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @07:07PM (#35795411)
Ah, so the fact was wrong.
Re:Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote co... by chaos_a on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @08:48PM (#35796313)
Cyxie just moved to the account TreKs
Re:Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote co... by Smoosh on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @07:46PM (#35795825)
This is a list of accounts, not persons. One person could be operating several of these accounts.
Re:Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote co... by Eisenstein on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @08:47PM (#35796307)
Yes, that could be. It could also be two people for each account. We can make lots of conjecture, can't we?
Re:Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote co... by alex_sf on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @04:05PM (#35793361)
.. the mods of most subreddits are public. This is a trivial thing to verify. It's as valid as any other information posted that you haven't personally inspected. I have no idea why you're so belligerent about this, but it's odd.
Re:Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote co... by Eisenstein on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @04:10PM (#35793427)
If it is so trivial then verify it and come back with verification instead of stating your confusion as to my tone.
Re:Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote co... by alex_sf on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @04:20PM (#35793571)
How am I supposed to do that? You don't accept other people's verification of information.
Re:Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote co... by Eisenstein on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @05:15PM (#35794325)
The person above you just did it. It's called 'show your work'. And it doesn't show what the parent says, at all.
Re:Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote co... by alex_sf on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @06:13PM (#35794934)
Almost like if you read the followups, those few power mods created multiple alt accounts in the wake of the post.

But keep acting super weird about this, I guess.

Re:Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote co... by Eisenstein on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @08:45PM (#35796284)
Asking for proof is 'super weird' but 'conspiracy of reddit mods' is not?
Re:Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote co... by catiopatio on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @09:01PM (#35796391)
No, a conspiracy of Reddit mods is not super weird.

Cliques of petty tyrants are nothing new on or off the internet.

What’s weird is thinking Reddit is somehow immune to human nature.

Re:Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote co... by Eisenstein on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @11:19PM (#35797435)
Sorry but 'human nature' doesn't preclude need for proof. Just because something seems plausible doesn't make it evidence that it happened.
Re:Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote co... by catiopatio on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @12:02AM (#35797814)
There’s plenty of proof a Google search away. This wasn’t some great secret.
Re:Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote co... by Eisenstein on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @12:59AM (#35798197)
Yeah I have been asking for it and gotten either 'search for it, it is easy to find' or a runaround where people claim to have it and then don't. So, provide it or stop asserting that you have it.