Daily Bard Digest 2024-10-12

At 10/12/24 01:02:53 in ModSupport with a score of 2 points:

I used to track them all in a spreadsheet.

The ticket close messages are reliable if you file thru reddit.com/report. If you use the inline report escalation, you may or may not get a ticket close message.

You're also not doing free labour for Reddit, Inc.

You've volunteered to help your community, which happens to be hosted on Reddit. Your community is hosted for free on Reddit - no network transit charges, no per-gigabyte peer network exit fees, no charges for storage, compute, value add services.

The people who invented the "moderators work for Reddit for free" paradigm want you to blame Reddit, instead of the people who invented the paradigm - and are likely also some of the people who you're escalating.

Anti-Evil is an eventually correct model of acceptable use policy enforcement. The T&S department of every major social media is. The T&S of other social media are worse (and slower) at being correct than Reddit AEO is (with some corner case exceptions).

When I kept my spreadsheet, I noted that first line AEO dropped the ball 25-33% of the time, and that escalated mistakes had a better than 99% appropriate resolution rate. That was data I collected over ~18 months. The transparency reports Reddit puts out show that trend has improved a little.

They don't respond to every escalation; sometimes there's extenuating circumstances beyond their control, too.

So if it makes you feel better - file your escalations via reddit.com/report, and track them on a spreadsheet or in a database (mine eventually wound up as part of a database). Compare your resolution rates with the transparency reports figures.

But ask yourself first, "what will it serve, and if I discover something, who will want to know".

It's a boring task that I only did so I could hold the admins to their promises. It's been 4 1/2 years that they've held up their end as far as I'm concerned - Sitewide Rule 1 against Hate.

I'm satisfied they're not acting in bad faith. You might decide different.

At 10/12/24 07:26:29 in transgender with a score of yall:

According to Allred's website's "On The Issues" section,

As a civil rights attorney, Colin believes we must stand united against all forms of prejudice and discrimination. He's been an outspoken supporter of LGBTQ+ rights, proudly supporting passage of legislation enshrining marriage equality into law and voting to protect Texans from discrimination on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender.

Political attacks targeting LGBTQ+ Texans are shameful and are attacks on the fundamental right to live free from discrimination. These attacks are particularly harmful to transgender kids and their families who just want to live their lives free from interference and intimidation.

Colin also fought for fairness for women, voting to guarantee equal pay for equal work, and to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act.

He knows diversity is one of Texas' great strengths, and he continues to support programs to help lift up and create opportunities for communities of color across our state. When our businesses and our government have leadership that reflects the diversity of Texas, it makes us stronger.

It's weird that Erin didn't get that into her piece. It's also weird that the spokesperson she spoke to didn't point her to that.

The clip she points to (which I guess the spokesperson pointed her to) is on Spectrum News, which is firewalled [EDIT: Paywalled]. In the clip Allred says he opposes Ted Cruz' attacks on LGBTQ+ rights and wants Equality Act protections based on gender identity.

Allred repeated Ted Cruz' transphobic dogwhistle here to reject it. It's not his position, it's not his politics.

At 10/12/24 07:57:38 in ModSupport with a score of 1 point:

the ease with which moderators get removed if they do something to affect Reddit's finances

Yes. People who act together to bankrupt the website they're using, generally aren't doing so in good faith. There's a difference between "Reddit hosts the largest Holocaust denial forum on the Internet, ask advertisers to boycott and communities to leave for the sake of their goodwill" and "Reddit turned off the golden goose for a set of developers who were collecting subscriptions to deliver Reddit to endusers ad-free while being a large load on Reddit's resources, without compensation, so we should make the site close down until they go bankrupt".

the new measures imposed to restrict protests

They forestall an action that could either be used for protest or could be used by bad actors to break the site for everyone. Possibly bankrupting the company. People like the political party that is hopefully about to lose the Presidency, the party whose 24/7 violent terrorist rally was hosted here for 4 years free of charge, whose leader and whose functionaries are a vindictive group.

I helped run the most effective protest that Reddit has ever had. We had a clearly defined goal, clearly defined consequences, a clear message to advertisers and importantly

We never went dark. Nor did we ask communities here to go dark.

We did ask Reddit to make a choice, and the Other Side of our protest made it exceptionally easy for Reddit to choose, since they were continually harassing everyone, committing crimes, engaging in terrorism.

And we remain in existence to document that behaviour and how we moved Reddit from "Hate is too hard to tackle" to "No hate groups, no hate speech".

It was a lot of effort. By a lot of people.

Who lifted hard, to keep Reddit from falling into being just another 4chan clone, untouchable by advertising, untouchable by people who want to use a public forum.

If there's no subreddit for what you want to discuss because some long term absentee subreddit moderator woke up and said, "yeah, stick it to the admins, punk rock aahh", and you get people following you around the site giving you death threats for opening one of your own,

Then the Watch Reddit Die people succeed in their covert goal of Making Reddit Die.

Protests aren't about forcing other people to do things. They're not about breaking websites. Protests are about inviting people with power to apply the power they have to end an untenable crisis. It's about showing them what lies down all the roads out of where they are now.

Closed subreddits and a bankrupt company, whose assets are auctioned off to the highest bidder in a closed bid auction, is not what anyone here in good faith wants.

At 10/12/24 08:02:12 in OutOfTheLoop with a score of yall:

The person who ran the r / jailbait subreddit, ViolentAcrez

At 10/12/24 07:26:29 in transgender with a score of yall:

According to Allred's website's "On The Issues" section,

As a civil rights attorney, Colin believes we must stand united against all forms of prejudice and discrimination. He's been an outspoken supporter of LGBTQ+ rights, proudly supporting passage of legislation enshrining marriage equality into law and voting to protect Texans from discrimination on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender.

Political attacks targeting LGBTQ+ Texans are shameful and are attacks on the fundamental right to live free from discrimination. These attacks are particularly harmful to transgender kids and their families who just want to live their lives free from interference and intimidation.

Colin also fought for fairness for women, voting to guarantee equal pay for equal work, and to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act.

He knows diversity is one of Texas' great strengths, and he continues to support programs to help lift up and create opportunities for communities of color across our state. When our businesses and our government have leadership that reflects the diversity of Texas, it makes us stronger.

It's weird that Erin didn't get that into her piece. It's also weird that the spokesperson she spoke to didn't point her to that.

The clip she points to (which I guess the spokesperson pointed her to) is on Spectrum News, which is firewalled. In the clip Allred says he opposes Ted Cruz' attacks on LGBTQ+ rights and wants Equality Act protections based on gender identity.

Allred repeated Ted Cruz' transphobic dogwhistle here to reject it. It's not his position, it's not his politics.

At 10/12/24 07:35:46 in transgender with a score of yall:

Erin, this is disappointing.

From his positions on his website

https://colinallred.com/on-the-issues/

Under Equality under the Law,

As a civil rights attorney, Colin believes we must stand united against all forms of prejudice and discrimination. He's been an outspoken supporter of LGBTQ+ rights, proudly supporting passage of legislation enshrining marriage equality into law and voting to protect Texans from discrimination on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender.

Political attacks targeting LGBTQ+ Texans are shameful and are attacks on the fundamental right to live free from discrimination. These attacks are particularly harmful to transgender kids and their families who just want to live their lives free from interference and intimidation.

He didn't use the dogwhistle. He quoted the dogwhistle to reject the dogwhistle.

This headline and your story have people here believing he's said the exact opposite of what he's said on transgender people & transgender kids.

That's disappointing. We have enough to fear.

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:

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