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Comment by embedding-shape 9 hours ago

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> give subreddit moderators a fighting chance

Moderators are part of the problem really, there are a handful of moderators holding the reins over all the popular subreddits, and "smaller" (even big ones) subreddits suffer from the same problem.

As an example, r/MistralAI, r/LocalLLaMA, r/ChatGPT, r/OpenAI and r/grok are all run by the same person.

The only survivable places on reddit left are the subreddits with small amount of contributors that aren't trying to gain something by participating and organizing. But they're so few.

miki123211 4 hours ago

There are two problems in computer science, accepting payments and naming things.

Reddit's principal problem is that the first person to take r/foo is often a BDFL for foo for life, and no other subreddit about foo will ever be quite as recognizable. If we instead had subreddits with a numeric ID and a non-unique display name, that problem would be solved.

Payments would also solve the spam problem, but many users who have $1 can't easily get that $1 to Reddit, so that's not really an option either.

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  • direwolf20 3 hours ago

    Reddit is eager to remove mods who it disagrees with. Any remaining mods are there because Reddit approves of them.

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PaulDavisThe1st 9 hours ago

> But they're so few.

Given how many subreddits there, I have to ask if you have statistics to back up this claim.

My intuition is that people have problems with a bunch of popular subreddits, but the vast majority of subreddits are just fine. I have no statistics to back up this intuition.

Do you?

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  • peyton 9 hours ago

    There’s a whole vibrant industry of people you can pay to market whatever you want on Reddit. They can’t all be competing for the same few popular subreddits. They must be differentiated by targeting niche subreddits.

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    • PaulDavisThe1st 6 hours ago

      There's about 138,000 active subreddits. I don't believe that this industry is targetting even a majority of them.

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    • GOD_Over_Djinn 6 hours ago

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      • nandomrumber 2 hours ago

        Imagine coming to a place where the written rules ask us for to be intellectually curious and to reply to the strongest interpretation of others.

        Then pulling down your pants in the living room and taking a shit on the floor.

        At least try not to be a cunt, mate.

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      • PaulDavisThe1st 6 hours ago

        Tell me more ... what's so naive?

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        • jibal 5 hours ago

          Looking at their other comments (e.g., "h1b invasion" and lots of misinformation about COVID) it's probably not in your interest to engage with them.

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direwolf20 3 hours ago

Admins actively choose moderators, removing ones they don't like and inserting their favorites. Recently, a mod was removed from r/LivestreamFails and made a public crashout video. In exactly the way you'd expect a Reddit mod to.

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Manuel_D 3 hours ago

Reddit recently announced a change that capped the number of large subreddits than any individual can moderate. It might reduce this problem.

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VorpalWay 7 hours ago

I don't necessarily agree, the Rust subreddit is fine (except for all the AI slop posts this year, which the moderators have a hard time keeping up with) and some of the more niche 3D printing subreddits are doing fine, basically it feels like the past few years haven't happened there. The Arch Linux subreddit is a bit chaotic, but the moderation is not really the problem I think.

Maybe all of these fall into your last paragraph and I simply don't frequent the type of subreddit you describe. The thing is, it is hard to tell if it is you or me who have a representative sample here, or if we are both off. Two samples is not statistically significant.

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  • jibal 5 hours ago

    There are over 100,000 subreddits and the vast majority of them (and all of the ones I follow) fall into their last paragraph ... it's not at all "so few". And even if it were, "representative sample" isn't really relevant when you can select and mute subs ... it's really not much different from usenet, which I was very active on in the 80's and 90's.

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