Shitty repost bots. Actively ban bots pretending to be humans.
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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Please don't let /c/asklemmy become like /r/askreddit, which had half of the front-page posts being the same sex related questions every month.
"Women of reddit, what non sexual thing that guys so makes you horny?"
"What is the sexiest thing you regret doing?"
"How many cocks have you sucked while your cat judges you while waiting for you to feed it?"
It was bullshit.
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I hope that the mod-user relationship will be healthier here. (Bias, I was a reddit moderator.)
Some reddit mods were crap, this is true. Powermods and sub collectors were real. They did shit up a few communities.
But these people were a very small proportion of all moderators. Most moderators I met were chill, and just wanted to chip in to their respective communities to give back, in a way. Volunteering for internet janitor duty, because no matter how much people use the term as an insult it turns out public spaces need janitors - or they get filled with shit, trash, graffiti (and not the cool kind either, mostly badly drawn swastikas). It's not a position that should be glorified, or anything, because that's weird, but I hope that some semblance of basic respect can be maintained here on Lemmy - both ways, meaning no powermods but also no defaulting to assuming mods suck.
I say this with the best of intentions so bear with me, but I think most of the disdain towards moderators on Reddit came from locking threads due to "excessive trolling" or "y'all can't behave" etc. It was so visible and immediately shut down conversation which was frustrating for average users. In my opinion excessive trolling isn't a reason to shut a thread. The only things that would really need to be shut down would be things that are straight up illegal. Obviously people saying offensive things or trolling is an issue but, again in my opinion, that's what the whole upvote downvote system is for, and moderators can step in for things that are blatantly out of line.
spez
To stop talking about Reddit. Reddit is dead to me!
r/the_donald or anything like it. Kindly fuck off with all of that shit.
too late.
At least they're hidden on their own instances
Communities with videos of violence and assault, justice porn etc. I hate those, this is honey for conservatives and fascists, they love it and it disgusts me.
Ads
Other Redditors. Can we just be on Lemmy and move the fuck on?
Comments that require a, "well, back on Reddit..." explanation. Could include comments about that guy's dead wife. That one kid's broken arms, etc.
Power mods. Many of the ones who ran Reddit's biggest subreddits like iBleeedOrange and Awkwardtheturtle were major assholes.
Major Assholes
Petty Tyrants
An actual human sex trafficker (allegedly)
You got anything more about that last one? I've spoken to most of these power mod assholes outside of reddit and I haven't heard a thing about that
One of the most prolific power mods of all time may have been Ghislaine Maxwell. There's quite a bit of circumstantial evidence to suggest so.
Edit: I'm adding a link to an objective, comprehensive analysis of the theory here
"Thanks for the gold kind stranger"
You forgot to add the "Edit: " part because they always have to come back and edit every 2 minutes.
Edit: "Whoa my first gold! Thanks!"
Edit2: "Wow this is silly, thanks everyone!"
Edit3: "While you're here, let me tell you my life story."
EditAdNauseum: High pitched ear ringing
Uhhhg. Reddit award acceptance speeches like anyone cares.
"Oh wow thank you for giving a giant corporation your money because of something I said!"
The ragebait fake text message screenshots that plague subs like antiwork.
Wow, your dickhead boss is stupid enough to put all of that in writing and has the exact same style of writing, spelling and grammar as you do? Isn’t that a coincidence!
/r/nothingeverhappens
This is posted in sarcasm as I always hated that kind of response
Bots. Endless bots where you don't know if the comment or post is a real person. Sign ups need a barrier to filter out bots.
People who don’t know/acknowledge the difference between “free speech” and “hate speech”
unfortunately lemmy already has those people, but luckily enough they seem to organize in tidy communities that are easy to defederate
I couldn't see anyone else mentioning it so I will. Ads. My mind is at peace without them
u/spez
Overzealous mods.
Endless OF spam.
Corporate shills.
Permanent bans. Except for egregious cases, ALL bans should be for a certain number of hours to cool the situation down, and then let it go.
I can hope it won’t but I know it’s gonna happen anyway - the chronically online mentality that was everywhere on Reddit.
On reddit it always seemed like a lot of people (or at least the most vocal ones) never actually go outside and have this very idealized and unrealistic view on the world.
I actually liked megathreads, they usually meant big news and I didn't have to read 20 posts about the same thing.
But what I disliked about reddit was when trolls from some subreddits would spam CP to get other subreddits closed
"cool pictures"
You realize that if things get weird enough at Reddit, they may attempt federation (or at least to pull federated content).
Then the fediverse can charge reddit an obscene amount for a api. The money can be used to pay the devs and support development
No, they can't. The fediverse doesn't work like that, it isn't controlled by one entity, the most individual instances could do is defederate from Reddit.
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/s on stuff that's so obviously sarcastic. The begining of that to me was a big indicator for how stupid the reddit userbase had become.
It depends how obvious, but honestly I don't think it's that bad. Some non-native English speakers might not get sarcasm, and it also depends a bit on culture. British people are a fair bit more sarcastic than Americans and it's not always obvious in text.
The "obligatory" jokes, copypasted every time someone writes a certain thing. I would always downvote them. I am thinking about blocking users that continue that here.