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Daily Bard Digest 2024-09-30

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Here's todays official post from the BARDCHIVE:

08/20/20 16:41:07 with a score of -2: https://old.reddit.com/r/redditsecurity/comments/idclo1/understanding_hate_on_reddit_and_the_impact_of/g29e1qd/?context=8

(Apparently mandatory disclaimer: I'm not an admin)

As a for-instance -- the model I use in conjunction with my work on /r/AgainstHateSubreddits breaks down types of hatred and harassment roughly equivalent to the ontology Reddit is using - but also, with respect to (for example) White Supremacist Extremism (an internal category I track), that has expressions in every other category - hatred based on religion, political compartment, gender, sexuality, ability, and with violent tendencies. They also specifically and pointedly instruct their adherents to hide the fact that they're White Supremacists - they tell them to "hide their power levels" and eschew specific distinctive signals that separate their efforts from the efforts of any other more-specifically-focused / "legitimate" political / social / cultural movements.

They know that people will reject them if they're openly identified as the KKK / neoNazis / violent white supremacists - so they do things that obscure that connection. And, sometimes, they do things that seem bizarre but are identifiably related to hatred, because they think it will "red-pill" recruits.

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At 09/30/24 13:32:19 in modnews with a score of 2 points:

All examples that were addressed then by admin intervention

Nope. Those subreddits had to arrive at extremist criminal activity / violent threats for Reddit to do the right thing, back then.

being 'swindled' by bad faith actors

They were. It's a fact. I was kicked out of a Reddit moderator groomercord adminned by one of them for pointing it out to everyone.

Why do you accept an appeal to

I don't. You may not know this, but I spent 2016 to the present documenting & quantifying the harm of bad faith "anti-moderation" subreddit operation patterns.

never, ever resulted in platform harm

Deliberate manipulation of subreddit moderators to deceive them into taking actions that cause Reddit as a business to fail, is platform harm.

This is a business removing the ability of i.e. a network of bad faith, Politically Motivated Extremists who specialise in inauthentic engagement, to set up a portfolio of "communities" which can be manipulated to cause a load on employee labour and denial of advertising revenue / failure to meet SLAs in advertisement placement contracts, at an arbitrary time of the bad actor's choosing

Such as in the hypothetical event of a particular political candidate (whose "24/7" "rally" space was hosted on this site for 4 years, then kicked off, due to bad faith operation designed to destroy the goodwill of others using the site and load employee labour arbitrarily, thereby in kicking them off, shifting operation costs - estimated in the billions of $ US - onto those bad actors) loses an election and makes good on his promises to punish those who have not pledged their unwavering loyalty and support and free services to his cause.

Now, uh, I believe I have made perfectly clear where I am coming from. I should make clear that I'm not a Reddit employee and don't speak for them.

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