Massive shitstorm as user makes post about how 92 of the 500 top subreddits are run by the same people. Is then banned from more than 40 subreddits in an hour, then suspended from the site.

27  2020-05-14 by zsfh

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This is the level of nuclear drama we haven't seen since g*merg*te. The brutal way the admins and power mods teamed up to squash the rebellion makes Tiananman Square looks like a picnic.

Nah, this is not even close to an insurrection. This is trds being trds. No one will give a shit in a week

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You have to be blind not to know that all the most visible subreddits are Disneyland levels of corporate approved safe spaces.

Shit sucks, but this whole “redditors rise up!” thing is cringy. What do these rebels think they are going to accomplish? Reddit Inc isn’t going to change because of a few angry nerds, and the wider audience doesn’t give a f*ck because they are too busy upvoting reposts of cats, arguing like r-slurs about politics, and pretending like they understand the legal system.

If you don’t want to see it, block it. It’s that easy.

And for a more pleasant Reddit experience block the power mods.

I use Apollo. It allows me to block unlimited amounts of subreddits. I’ve literally got 2000+ subreddits blocked in addition to powerj*nnies.

My /home and /all feeds are amazingly pleasant. Drama is my single window into the reddit dumpster fire.

How did you even make such a big list

Is there a list you could PM me for blocking?

Links broken

I have about 30 subs blocked but I'm still on the verge of an aneurysm if I ever dare browse r/All

It starts to clear up at about 200.

There is a preposterous number of orangemanbad identical seethe subs, and of identical low effort “meme” subs.

Once you weed those out come the r*ghtoid seethe subs and oddly specific tro0n subs.

Then it’s just a ton of pornsubs and pruning of agendaposting subs every now and then.

Amazing that buried under mountains of trash there are still nice niche subs with nice people.

If that's what it takes for this site to become bearable I think I'll just stick to 4chan.

4chan is so freakin slow and insular on certain subjects though. Like I’m pretty sure there are less than 20 people posting original content on /k/. It’s lame, I’ve seen it all.

/vg/ is still useable I guess.

𝖳𝗁𝖾 𝗌𝗁𝖾𝖾𝗋 𝖺𝗆𝗈𝗎𝗇𝗍 𝗈𝖿 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇 𝖺𝖼𝗍𝗎𝖺𝗅𝗅𝗒 𝗂𝗌 𝗐𝗁𝖺𝗍 𝗌𝗎𝗋𝗉𝗋𝗂𝗌𝖾𝖽 𝗆𝖾 𝗅𝖺𝗌𝗍 𝗍𝗂𝗆𝖾 𝖨 𝖼𝗁𝖾𝖼𝗄𝖾𝖽 𝗈𝗎𝗍 /𝖺𝗅𝗅/. 𝖨 𝖾𝗑𝗉𝖾𝖼𝗍𝖾𝖽 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝖻𝖺𝗌𝗂𝖼 𝖻𝗂𝗍𝖼𝗁 𝗇𝗈𝗋𝗆𝗂𝖾 𝗌𝗁𝗂𝗍 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝗈𝗋𝖺𝗇𝗀𝖾 𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝖻𝖺𝖽 𝗌𝗁𝗂𝗍 𝖻𝗎𝗍 𝗌𝗈 𝗆𝗎𝖼𝗁 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗇, 𝗆𝖺𝗇

𝖨𝗍 𝖺𝗅𝗆𝗈𝗌𝗍 𝗆𝖺𝗄𝖾𝗌 𝗆𝖾 𝗌𝖾𝖾 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝗉𝗈𝗂𝗇𝗍 𝗈𝖿 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝗍𝗋𝖺𝖽𝖼𝖺𝗍𝗁 𝖿𝗋𝖾𝖺𝗄𝗌. 𝖠𝗅𝗆𝗈𝗌𝗍, 𝖻𝗎𝗍 𝗇𝗈𝗍 𝗊𝗎𝗂𝗍𝖾, 𝖻𝖾𝖼𝖺𝗎𝗌𝖾 𝖨'𝗆 𝗇𝗈𝗍 𝖺 𝗆𝖾𝗇𝗍𝖺𝗅𝗅𝗒 𝖽𝖾𝖿𝗂𝖼𝗂𝖾𝗇𝗍 𝗀𝗎𝗂𝖽𝗈 𝗈𝗋 𝗂𝗇𝖻𝗋𝖾𝖽 𝗋𝖾𝖽𝗇𝖾𝖼𝗄

Or upvoting verifiably false misinformation to spread outrage about shit and influence political policy. That’s bullshit too.

He shouldn't have tried to go against such a well-paid and wealthy group of people 😔😔😔

Unironically though, chadmins are probably one of the most overpaid demographics on this site. Imagine getting paid to do AHS's dirty work lmao. Looking forward to the day admins' jobs are outsourced to pajeets for $0.5 an hour.

What work? Just click a button and go back to jerking off.

Living the life. Sign me up.

Their is probably a whole social order of slack and discord channels with all kinds of heirarchys to adhere to and internal power struggles going on as we speak amongst the powerjannies and admins. My brief glimpse into the inner workings of jannies has taught me the behind the scenes is infinitely more pathetic then what is publically seen. They dont just do it for free, they spend all day being catty in several different IRC and secretly plot to take one another out. These powerjannie modmails are full of them plotting how to fuck over some other powerjannie or what to do about so and so subreddit. Its very pathetic.

Release screenshots!

Also part of me wants to see all that so I can laugh at them, but it would take way too much effort to work myself into their inner circle.

This is why Robert Anton Wilson says grand conspiracies are impossible: power begets usurpers.

The kind of pathetic worm that debases themselves for a crumb of control isn't gonna turn around and say "I think that's enough authority for me!"

These powerjannie modmails are full of them plotting how to fuck over some other powerjannie

Huh sorta like rat people in warhammer

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There's literally no incentive. Just, why?

I have no fucking clue

but it gives us drama so its not that bad

I'm honestly surprised that nobody has tried to make a dramatization of Janny game of thrones.

Itd be nothing but trannies on their computers

yes.

They do it for monetary compensation

pajeets

Who do you think the anti-evil operators are?

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its important work though, Reddit has to clear out degenerate subs so that the platform grows.

They targeted powermods.

Powermods.

We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a sense of moral superiority.

We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.

We'll spend most if not all of our free time cross-referencing users' post times, in order to catch people evading bans by using alternate accunts.

Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same bans over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such mod nirvana that they can literally ban those dweebs blindfolded.

Do these people have any idea how many keyboards have been smashed, cats yelled at, soylent hurled 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?

These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our self-respect? We're already building a new one without them. They take our CSS? Powermods aren't shy about throwing their time else where, or even making websites our selves. They think calling us smug, unloveable, NEETs is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with shitty usernames. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.

Powermods are petty, vengeful, by nature. We love a troll. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another ban evasion.

They actually are though because most of these accounts are controlled by the reddit administration. Every single time people have gone against these accounts they were suspended from the site plus they always seem to obediently follow the admin's timetable to fuck up the site.

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Reddit will never be able to move forward as a website with this cabal at the helm.

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So, let's have a toast to the end of reddit, seeing as how powerjannies aren't going anywhere.

Yeah, without them spez would have to pay someone to do the job, and let's be honest, Reddit isn't worth that

Cheers

clink

I always assumed that the big subs were in fact secretly moderated by people who worked for reddit dot com, tbh.

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Lmao of course there's a ton of SRDines defending the mods.

Although I did find out about this /r/sports drama because of the srd thread

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/gjedc1/urootintootin_putin_exposes_moderator_monopoly_of/fqkxnnr?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

srdines are just contrarian for the sake of being contrarian.

Aren't 4chan users the exact same way too?

yeah but 4chan is contrarian and funny

Our contrarianism is cheeky and fun. SRD's contrarianism is cruel and tragic.

People who take themselves too serious at every subject cant be funny.

🤔

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The War of the Progressive Escalating Continuum.

Never forget our fallen brothers.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AFL/wiki/waroftheprogressiveescalatingcontinuum

Interrupting the 10th post about a college sports player really pisses off the S*ppos.

Yep its a real shame because AFL is a great sport that had a fair amount of US and European interest.

Reddit has a massive issue with a lack of advertising revenue compared to their relative size and the fact that the subredit system literally should be incredibly easy to monetize for ads.

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The fact that reddit cannot monetize /r/gaming and get companies to buy ad space for the new cool game coming out is ridiculously dumb. The niche subreddits should allow for companies that don't advertise on facebook to come to reddit and get a large number of clicks.

Even doing sponsored top posts or allowing for community reps to interact directly like twitter is a basic monetization strategy.

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Reddit is completely unable to do this due to their jannie system. Having a bunch of unpaid volunteers come in and moderate subreddits to their whims and allowing for the jannies to control what the sub is about is the stupidest decision reddit ever made, and the only reason they don't back out of this is because it would cause massive reeeeing.

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AEO is meant to fix that. They are trying to roll AEO out as a moderating group to popular subreddits so that they can more effectively monetize them, but reddit, in it's infinite ability to somehow fuck up simple business practices, is not giving AEO the correct scope in terms of job duties, and seems to somehow think that banning extremists on a bunch of niche subreddits that advertisers don't care about is the smart thing to do.

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It's just corporate incompetence, and due to reddit being privately held, there isn't some board of directors to hold them accountable and tell them that fighting a culture war is really dumb, when you should be trying to make money.

tl,dr

Where is longpostbot?

Not long enough to trigger.

Looks like it's been down for a month (https://www.reddit.com /user/longpostbot). 😢

The fact that reddit cannot monetize /r/gaming and get companies to buy ad space for the new cool game coming out is ridiculously dumb.

Why can't they sell banner ads for Assassins Creed Assman or whatever? Mods have nothing to do with that.

Good post.

Reddit really hits a weird mid point of a forum aggregator and a social media and can't figure out how to morph the two, so they've just tried to turn it into social media (since forums are dead and unprofitable) with some dumb baggage from forums. However they don't play to their strengths like community engagement and investment, and try to turn this into twitter like platform instead.

The problem is very similar to what Digg experienced. Problems with monetizing because posting was controlled by a select group of people(that coordinated with each other) that warped the community.

Digg tried to clean up and make a revamp to become more ad friendly but that just ended up with posters leaving en masse to reddit.

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I fucking hate this website

SRDines are truly the lowest form of life, if they even merit that distinction.

Ajab

Wow, that's pretty anti-Semitic.

To the tune of under the sea -! Now with 99.9% less harassment ! :

Reddit mod is always trashing

The non-corporate friendly threads

Obese universially hated

The site wishes he were dead

Hot Pockets and asthma puffers

He just cannot handle the bants

Cause when someone says there's 2 genders

He cries and then shits his pants

Reddit j-slur

Reddit j-slur

He is a-slur-ic

Hardly linguistic

Does it for free

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us3_8FxoAls

Other odd stuff: Reddit's doing some cryptocurrency-for-posts experiment. https://www.coindesk.com/reddit-rolls-out-community-points-on-ethereum-to-incentivize-positive-behavior

I know Reddit can’t attract the best talent but fucking hell

Guess it's pretty hard to monetize the site when your users base consists of either underage tãnkies or trånnies surviving on welfare

Don't forget the profitable eternal mdefugee. Throwing tendies since 2016.

They have overtaken deux already 😭😭😭

Stop whining you utter bitch. Start acting like the deuxchad you are.

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does this mean that our hard working jănnies will finally receive monetary compensation?

Spoiler, some already do.

Is this social credit?

Virtually, lol.

For the subhumans on Reddit, there's not difference since they live their whole lives virtually on the internet

lol oh this is funny. They are desperate to get people to take this site seriously and be nice. Can't be any worse than Quora where telling someone they are wrong will get your post removed for not being nice.

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How long do you give it before it’s hijacked and based content is the one paid the most for?

Holy shit ethereum, my sides.

It's easier to move dark money with ethereum than bitcoin.

You know they're absolutely desperate to find some way to monetize the site when some t*rd says "blockchain!" and they take it seriously.

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There was a post in one of the threads related to this that talked about some of those mods being pedophiles and rape apologists. It got gilded and then deleted. Im trying to find it now.

That's not new, reddit has been a haven for the P-slurs for a long time.

before it was banned, /r/jailbait was one of the top google results and I'm pretty sure it was like that for years.

And let's not forget back 5+ when a user allegedly sent nudes to a minor they were only temporarily banned.

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pls don't get this subreddit banned.

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Adm*ns boutta send you to the gulag for this

Good riddance tbh

Remember the legendary post where the arrr slash drama jannies banned all the long time users of r/teenagers? Turned out most of them were in their thirties.

Ah yes, the great pedo purge. Truly a glorious time for the dramanaut revolution

Snappy be praised

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The absolute Gall ow that guy.

Edit: Made a typo oopsie

for some reason i think it was in one of the super meta subs that's invite only, and therefore wouldn't be able to dig it up using ceddit/removeddit

That reminds me that I have an account that's approved on one of those super exclusive subs for front page high-karma posters or something like that because one of my posts once got a ridiculous amount of attention. Maybe there's some good shit there I could bring here.

Sleeper agent, activate!

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as pedophilia, is in fact, hebephilia, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, ephebophilia. Pedophilia is not merely the attraction to anyone under 18, but rather a totally separate disorder (not a legal term) listed as a sexual-psychological disorder categorized under paraphilias, a group of sexual-psychological disorders in the DSM-IV and considered a disorder under the standards of the American Psychological Association.

Many people could be considered ephebophiles despite the fact that they themselves may not know the term, much less what it means. Through a peculiar turn of events, ephebophilia and hebephilia became grouped under the very general and inconclusive cultural term "pedophilia," and the majority of people using the term are unaware that they are referring to non-paraphilic sexual preferences that are unmentioned in the DSM-IV and occur relatively harmlessly in a great deal of the population.

There really is pedophilia, and these people may be referring to it, but nevertheless, it is a small part of what is labeled under "pedophilia." Pedophilia is labeled as a paraphilia because it is by nature unhealthy. Paraphilias are all unhealthy and destructive to relationships but are restricted to the definitions set forth in the DSM. Pedophilia is simply grouped with the non-pathologized conditions of hebephilia and hebephilia because they share a few similar traits. In reality, pedophilia separate from both and should be treated as such, and many people described as pedophiles would be better described as hebephiles or ephebophiles.

Hey there, it seems you've used a pretty big word. Heres a helpful video on how to pronounce it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB9fwJDweaU

I don’t see the big deal here. Those are front page subs and Reddit prefers consistent mods who aren’t pushing some dumb socio-political, subversive agenda. These aren’t meta subs. They’re meant to be the face of Reddit. Plus, they don’t want mods who will have a temper tantrum and lock the sub because they didn’t like some new law or new Reddit rule. Basically, grow the frick up. It’s not that serious.

Edit: DUDE BŪSSY LMAO

There was a similar post in /r/GenderCritical a day or two ago, about how males are dominating Reddit through power-modding, but I can't seem to find it. Wonder if that got nuked too?

When Reddit mods its people, they’re not jannying their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending me. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with them. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good jannies.

And some, I assume, are good jannies.

The only good jannie is a deleted account jannie

hint hint masterlawlz

“Hey I’ve seen this one!”

This is like the second or third time that list has made the rounds.

everyone on the internet deserves aids

So true.

The story about the asspained r-sports mod banning people for even mentioning AFL is great drama.

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Really echoes a certain sentiment

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Reddit is bitching about the 1% of jannies who do it for free.

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Yeah, I remember this happened last time a post explaining how to block all the power users started gaining traction. It was hilarious too, all the comments were people saying how much blocking all those literal paid shills improved their front page.

Also, my fucking face when the SRD thread has an upvoted comment blaming it on discord troons

EDIT: Lmao, got banned for having a username the janny who posted this thread didn't like. The irony.

Most sites from the time Reddit came into play claimed to be 'free speech' in the beginning. Some even genuinely were unless a poster was stupid enough to get the feds involved.

Then comes popularity, media attention, ad and investment deals etc etc

No shit that certain um, unpopular stuff needs to go. Come on it's a choice between millions of shekels a year vs letting people post beheading videos

This is how the internet has worked since at least 2012, deal with it.

😏despite making up 1.9%

wtf

Alright then, I have to ask, how often are brigadier/trolls just one dude with like 11 computers and 70 accounts?

I mean if the powerjannies have seen any....

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Bruh moment

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Jesus I thought someone was impersonating my account or something, just looks coincidental

Made r/therewasanattempt too. 62k upvotes and counting: http://archive.is/JpGFg

Cyxie deleted their account. They gone.

Cyxie poofed into a dozen alts, nobody's ever really gone

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The funny thing to me about lefties is how quickly they turn totalitarian. It's pretty impressive really and a the key reason that the word "liberal" has lost all meaning.

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fuck them all. There is nothing that unites people like the hatred towards mods

So true.