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Re:The obscure social media app beloved by China's tech scene by the_duke on Friday May 17, 2024 @05:12AM (#40387924)
Some subreddits managed to maintain pretty high quality in the past, with pretty aggressive moderation. eg: r/askhistorians or r/politics. No idea how the situation is nowadays, I haven't really been on there in years.

But that requires a lot of effort from the moderators.

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Re:The obscure social media app beloved by China's tech scene by aurareturn on Friday May 17, 2024 @05:22AM (#40387982)
Yes, I've seen some. The aggressive moderation does turn casuals away and caps the growth of the subreddit though.
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Re:The obscure social media app beloved by China's tech scene by colmvp on Friday May 17, 2024 @09:06AM (#40389465)
Aggressive moderation can be very toxic. The /r/toronto and /r/askTO subreddits are modded by essentially the same people. They remove comments/posts without explanation as to what rules were broken, and then when you critique them in the comments surprise, surprise, they remove them too!
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Re:The obscure social media app beloved by China's tech scene by gruez on Friday May 17, 2024 @10:31AM (#40390367)
>Some subreddits managed to maintain pretty high quality in the past, with pretty aggressive moderation. eg: [...] r/politics

not sure if serious.

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Re:The obscure social media app beloved by China's tech scene by Tainnor on Saturday May 18, 2024 @12:40AM (#40396483)
Yeah, that's one of the worst subreddits IMHO
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