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Daily Bard Digest 2024-10-06

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03/21/19 01:41:01 with a score of -2: https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/b3mkgo/man_wearing_maga_hat_kicked_out_of_vigil_for/ej0rrmq/?context=8

"i HaVeN't bEeN fOlLoWiNg rEaL cLoSe"

"Please Mr. President, stop using these shootings as the face of gun control. There were 432 murders in Chicago last year. Tackle that. Make those murderers the face of gun control.

Stop fricking pretending that school shootings make any dent in the murders in this country. They don't. There were over 16,000 homicides in the US last year. This will make less than 0.1% difference this year. That doesn't help the families of the people who died here, but please tackle the real problem Mr. President."

You need to shut. the frick. up

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At 10/06/24 16:02:43 in ModSupport with a score of 1 point:

I do trust that they have the technological means to tell that my account is not run by the same person

The admins don't and shouldn't. They only see activity and behaviour on platform, and have dealt with groups in the past attempting to reverse engineer the parameters of what subreddit operators can and cannot get away with, which groups have individuals working together to supply individual puzzle pieces to the group, and which groups pass their knowledge along to others, with the aim of "Watching" (Making) Reddit Die.

Mod Code of Conduct enforcement is part of Trust & Safety, and one of the first precepts of T&S work is to not hand out network maps to anyone who doesn't have a need to know.

It's reasonable to believe that of the many groups who have been kicked off Reddit in the past six years, some of them are not above taking revenge. Or just … mercs hired by a competitor to make things fall down. Can't break in to a database but can motivate, by deceit, subreddit moderators to make the site fall down.

The only way someone finds out whether or not "it's pure optics" is by gathering data & testing hypotheses. Reading transparency reports. Infiltrating groups who do these things, if the investigator is foolish enough.

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At 10/06/24 14:31:51 in ModSupport with a score of 1 point:

There's three distinct possibilities:

The socks are there as part of something the admin is doing as part of their job; your efforts to report them will be met with "Thanks, we will look into it and get back to you if we need more info", and nothing will hapoen;

The socks are there as part of the admin's personal efforts, and your efforts to report them will be met with "Thanks, we will look into it and get back to you if we need more info", and something will happen, but you will never be told what it is, and if you're trying to take over the subreddit as a mod, you may or may not be granted the RedditRequest.

Both of these scenarios are indistinguishable, and so, Wittgensteinian in approach, we don't deliberate on them. Wovon manner nicht sprechen kann, daruber mußt manner schwiegt

possibility three: The mod and socks aren't operated by an admin, but are exploiting the automated activity metrics to attempt to game detection of absentee moderating. You file a modCoC, they investigate, find the pattern, find other "moderators" doing the same thing to defeat anti-misfeasance detection, they take action all at once on all of them some months after your report, for some other pretext, so that they don't figure out their sh… scheme has been made (and so never alter it), and you have the admins' gratitude (what there is of it). You never find out if your report had any effect.

The leitmotif here that I'd like to bring the brass, woodwinds, strings, and guest performer didgeridoo all into at the coda in order to bring it all home in a unified major lift:

You never find out if your reports had any effect,

(Because for all the admins know you might be part of their effort to reverse engineer anti-abuse policy and practices, to circumvent them)

So you file them and have faith (if you can find any) that someone appropriate will read them and act on them.

And maybe if you are consistent enough in your messaging and regular enough in your efforts to point out repeated patterns and potential solutions, that someone with access to the right levers will get allocated their Round Tuit.

The world calls this "coping with bureaucracy, 101 level"

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At 10/06/24 14:13:58 in ModSupport with a score of 1 point:

If they don't have an A on their user profile, not an admin

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At 10/06/24 14:15:03 in Frickthealtright with a score of yall:

We cannot accept any posts about other subreddits.

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I am certain you do not wish to argue that several years ago you assaulted me at Tanglewood Forest. Several of your fellow company members have chased me and thwapped me with Amtgard -legal boffer weapons on Company Road while I was making announcements on behalf of Kingdom Officers.

Snapshots:

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/b3mkgo/man_wearing_maga_hat_kicked_out_of_vigil_for/ej0rrmq/?context=8:

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