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:marseynotesbardfinn: "Reddit doesn't have power moderators."

https://old.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/16m5i1f/was_the_reddit_blackout_mainly_done_by_individual/k16c4pr?context=8&sort=controversial

Power janny denies the existence of power jannies:

First: You should remove “power mod” from your toolkit; Reddit doesn't have power moderators. Reddit has moderators who do one specific task for many subreddits, but their “power” is limited to the one specific task.

There is a group of subreddit hate groups operators who popularized “power mod” as an idea, to motivate harassment of delegated mods (for instance, a mod who put together CSS for thousands of subreddits). It helped deflect attention from the fact that a group of them controlled hundreds of subreddits orbiting coontown and cringeanarchy. They never got named as “power mods”, for some reason

With the implementation of the Moderator Code of Conduct, Reddit, Inc. made it clear that entire operator teams could be held accountable for the policies and actions put in place by one subreddit operator.

That's the explicit expectation: Mod teams that blacked out subreddits or otherwise contributed to attempts to break reddit — they are to blame.

There were cases of mod team members communicating to reddit admins that they disagreed with the actions of head operators; those still have mod privileges and are still operating subreddits, for the most part.

Some just walked away from operating / moderating one or more subreddits.

However

In the end

“We” should not be blaming mods / subreddit operators or mod teams. Volunteers who soak up the brunt of abuse from running communities on a website that explicitly invited violent neonazis and male feminists to operate on the site … then their cow tools are broken by the same site, after doing a 90% job on ejecting the violent neonazis …

You'd be angry too if the city council broke your door locks after years of refusing to provide police unless there's an ongoing firefight

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There is no arguing with me because you don't have an argument.

Calling me an extremist is poisoning the well - a derailing tactic.

Have a nice life

:#marseyjanny2:

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Steve, nobody gives a frick

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I was in the private subreddit where they came up with the idea of harassing specific moderators using the “power mods” idea imported from harassing Wikipedia editors and Slashdot mods.

wtf is bussyfinn talking about? :marseybeanquestion:

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He plots with his buddies in private about where to target and ways to target them, so he says his enemies do that to go after him instead. Very standard DARVO behaviour with a heaping of :marseyprojection:.

Also, everything he doesn't want to admit to is a right-wing plot. Which is the viewpoint of reddit in general.

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>Bardfinn

>buddies

:#surejan:

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Every woman has her orbiters.


:gay:

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She has many supporters in the fight against hate! Some people just can't accept that they're on the wrong side of herstory! :marseybardfinn3:

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:siren:BARD BOT ALERT!:siren:Current streak was: 0 days 00 hours 00 minutes and 15 seconds Record is 1 days 13 hours 09 minutes and 59 seconds by TheDunceonFlorist

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:siren:BARD BOT ALERT!:siren:Current streak was: 0 days 00 hours 04 minutes and 31 seconds

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Wow! There have been 13173 rent free mentions since 2022-09-24

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Fellow trains. Current allies. Future accusers of abuse?

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I don't remember who mansplained it. Maybe @ACA? Apparently some brain dead chuds accidentally? invited bardfinn to their super secret club where bard was able to observe them.

Edit: Found it

https://rdrama.net/post/194666/bardfinn-moment-lmao/4746696#context

It was @InterGONEvention

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some brain dead chuds accidentally? invited bardfinn to their super secret club

We don't send our best!

:!marseydramautist: :marseyawardretard::marseycrayoneater:

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This sounds hilarious and drama pilled :marseydramautist:

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:siren:BARD BOT ALERT!:siren:Current streak was: 0 days 00 hours 01 minutes and 18 seconds Record is 1 days 13 hours 09 minutes and 59 seconds by TheDunceonFlorist

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No clue on that one

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Oh who was it. @ABC maybe :marseysquint: I confuse you two :marseybrainlet:

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Dramatards would :marseymid: never :marseyitsover: :#marseypearlclutch:

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:siren:BARD BOT ALERT!:siren:Current streak was: 0 days 00 hours 10 minutes and 57 seconds

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newest bardfriend is password_forgettor at 16:24 on 17-09-2023

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Lmao Chuds are even more r-slurred than Bardfinn


:chadblack2::marseybear::marseyrefrigerator:

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:siren:BARD BOT ALERT!:siren:Current streak was: 0 days 00 hours 09 minutes and 16 seconds

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rdrama is currently running at 153.549 µBardyhertz

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I'm not a gambling woman.

Correct :marseycool2:

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!slots150

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Strawman, five yard penalty.

:#marseyxd:

I want to reply to tard so badly, but I don't feel like blowing an account.

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We need a referee marsey


:chadblack2::marseybear::marseyrefrigerator:

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Sure Bardy. That's why just replying to you is a ban and no way a few people control all of reddit and will pretty much sitewide ban 1 user for a no-no in 1 sub.


https://i.rdrama.net/images/16947238656178334.webp

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:siren:BARD BOT ALERT!:siren:Current streak was: 0 days 01 hours 12 minutes and 08 seconds

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longest streak broken in the last 7 days was ManBearFridge which was 1 days 01 hours 03 minutes and 43 seconds

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Powermod is a very real term. It describes mods who engage in "competitive subreddit accumulation."

There is a groomercord site for jannies with a bot that you type in a command and the bot can sum the subscriber totals of all the subreddita where you are a moderator. So if you are a moderator at three places that have 10M subscribers, the sum will tell you 30M.

They call this their "e-peen" score.

Another command tell you who are the top ranked moderators for controlling the most.

Here is the current list as of the past 24 hours:

1. /u/esoterix_luke (315,944,771)

2. /u/TreKs (312,834,153)

3. /u/purge-user (309,703,764)

4. /u/comment-nuke (308,215,949)

5. /u/Sunkisty (278,137,879)

6. /u/Blank-Cheque (275,137,914)

7. /u/RamsesThePigeon (204,638,525)

8. /u/Merari01 (197,518,381)

9. /u/SeriousSamStone (183,145,495)

10. /u/qtx (165,374,425)

11. /u/FlairModeratorBot (155,690,669)

12. /u/BvbblegvmBitch (153,984,437)

13. /u/ameen__shaikh (153,973,125)

14. /u/pussgurka (152,515,510)

15. /u/Zyklozylum (151,821,644)

The person who last checked it was ranked 402.

It shows 15 per page and there are 2574 pages.

Moderators also run other secret groomercords to stalk username mentions, and issue mass bans across multiple combined subreddits of multiple moderators.

Powermods are a real thing and they call themselves powermods.

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A few of those are bots. But I never heard of the number one janny. Where do these tards come from? That account is only 4 years old. He just woke up one day and set out to be the top mop?

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I think I can sort of answer this one. Luke's like 19 years old, and I'm also 19 years old. I picked up modding as a hobby when I was 13, and was actively modding for almost a year until I got bored with it, and now I just mod occasionally. The difference between Luke and basically every other teenager mod (yeah, there's a lot of mods who are teenagers) is that most get sick of modding after doing it for a year or two. I guess he's still not burnt out after all this time. That's also why those three bots in that list are his, and since he happened to be the one that made those bots that lots of other mods need, he got added to a bunch of subs.

You've just never heard of him because he's just a chill dude who never gets into drama.

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>I picked up modding as a hobby when I was 13

:#marseycringe:


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I know right? Looking back, I think I got into modding because I didn't really have any friends at school.

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Unironically keep yourself safe

Leo Frank was innocent

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3 and 4 are bots I guess, that's news since I last looked years ago. And yes, people openly say they want to be #1.

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:#marseynorm:

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How TF did a former WatchRedditDie mod become #1 powerjanny on Reddit?

But @CrystalVulpine said it was impossible for WRD mods former and current to become a part of the cabal :marseypearlclutch:

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I was led to believe /u/Merari01 was the giga-powerjanny. Maybe he's just the biggest lolcow.

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!bardfinn watch these chuds get smoked in 24-48 business hours

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:siren:BARD BOT ALERT!:siren:Current streak was: 0 days 00 hours 02 minutes and 55 seconds

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Its a slow day on rdrama, we've mentioned the behemoth of Garland 2 times less than usual. Quick go check /u/Bardfinn!

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He's really going at it with replies


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can you really call bardfinn a power moderator?

reddit says he mods 40 subreddit, but almost all of them are random ten subscriber communities that effectively tantamount to domain squatting.

he mods just three subreddit that get more than one post per day (/r/fuckthealtright, /r/contrapoints, and surprisingly enough /r/thecure). even ahs is pretty much dead at this point.

for someone who dedicated his entire life to this website, he controls a surprisingly small amount of subs. his communities probably generate less than 1% of the engagement someone like merari has.

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He's been burned as a fricking weirdo, which doesn't stop him from posting somehow, but I think if he's still modding he'll use alts for that

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He gots modding alts for sure. He has special ops training after all.


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:siren:BARD BOT ALERT!:siren:Current streak was: 0 days 01 hours 23 minutes and 36 seconds

Record is 1 days 13 hours 09 minutes and 59 seconds by TheDunceonFlorist

Wow! There have been 13174 rent free mentions since 2022-09-24

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Hang all powerjannies from lightposts

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The admins aren't in the business of creating culture — only hosting infrastructure.

Yeah, that's why they had a front page BLM Snoo for many months in 2020, and a founder stepped down with the condition of hiring a basketball AmeriKKKan in his place.

Because infrastructure is all they do.

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I see bardfinn is binging on stimulants again.

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:siren:BARD BOT ALERT!:siren:Current streak was: 0 days 00 hours 10 minutes and 58 seconds

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newest bardfriend is Sword-Saint_Spider-Man at 00:51 on 19-09-2023

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Bardfinn

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:siren:BARD BOT ALERT!:siren:Current streak was: 0 days 07 hours 33 minutes and 36 seconds Record is 1 days 13 hours 09 minutes and 59 seconds by TheDunceonFlorist

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>head operators

Wow they still do it for free.

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With the implementation of the Moderator Code of Conduct, Reddit, Inc. made it clear that entire operator teams could be held accountable for the policies and actions put in place by one subreddit operator.

I didn't even realize it was BF until "Reddit, Inc." lol :marseyditzy:

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doesn't know the difference between power- and powerful lul

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Closing the SITE for a DDOS wasn't OK. (

I totally realize most people are going to disagree with me here but I feel compelled to say that closing the site for a simple ddos wasn't a very kind thing to do. We have seen TONS of posts from vulnerable populations talking about how this site is a source of support and humor in a dark time. Irony and dirtbagism aside, taking away that support without warning was not okay.

You can say I'm being silly, or humorless or reactionary. Whatever. I love the show and I love this community. But sometimes I come home after dealing with ableism and our nightmare reality all day, and this sub is one of many things that make me feel better. It wasn't a good feeling to find this sub closed for the sake of irony. Maybe that's laughable or pathetic. But for me, it's true.

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