Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge
Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge
Concerns of Redditor safety, jeopardized research amid new mods and API rules.
The outcome was predicted by plenty users in this community, but now the news are noticing it.
Regretfully the good content doesn't seem to have migrated here either
Sadly a lot of the good content will be lost, regardless of migration or encouraging users to take it off the site. Eventually someone in Reddit Inc. will have the "bright" idea to wipe everything out, to reduce spendings on data storage.
It’s still early days. I’ve been enjoying myself more here than I had been there so far. Still holds promise.
People have to post content, but most users lurk. It's a chicken/egg scenario.
I think social media is inherently incapable of fostering good content. By nature it is social as in interpersonal drama slanted. That's not considering shareholder factor yet. Early years reddit was an oddity at the unique intersection between message boards and the social media era. In the beginning they were in the money burning phase. Not concerned with making profit. So maximizing engagement at the cost of content quality wasn't on the table yet.
Quite frankly old reddits reputation became something larger than life sized. The expertise on reddit was never really that great. There was a lot of bad info but try telling a big headed neckbeard that.
Better content is to be found on the internet outside of social media. Find that person who hosts a site to share their content from a technical basis. The people who will not suffer fools. They want to talk about inner working of their widgets. They don't care about likes and subscriptions. They don't have shareholders to answer to.
Lemmy seems to be taking the route in attempt to rapid expansion by stuffing it with low content memes. A flaw is in trying to mimic social media when most people want message boards of yesteryear.
will not suffer fools
Yep, you definitely came from reddit haha
Popular is dominated by posts about relationship drama, freakout videos, and things like amiugly. Rarely do you see any major stories on popular now. Aliens could be invading and destroying half the world and the top posts would probably be about whether someone was the bad one for breaking up with their partner due to not washing the dishes.
This is spot on. But I do find myself back over there more than here even though voyager is immensely better than their mobile site/app. The Sink It for Reddit extension has made it more bearable.
None of the forcibly removed mods I spoke with have worked with or plan to work with replacement mods to pass on knowledge gained through years of experience.
Not to mention the people who have removed their previously posted content.
Lol can’t even view your link without the app any more.
It does open on my side, i just can't scroll lmao
I'm convinced that Reddit is delaying banning anything that will leak more users to Lemmy. For instance, i would be 100% done with Reddit if they banned the Infinity client, but they haven't. I'm sure I'm not alone too, as there is probably a huge overlap in infinity client uses and those who would move to Lemmy.
Perhaps, but the administration showed already that it doesn't really know what would piss off users and encourage them to leave, so there's a good chance that they'll still do it.
I'm only on reddit because the Godot community here is so small and I don't want to push for more fracturing of an already small community
Perhaps you could help usher people over with help on how to get Lemmy set up and add the community, and seed it with content. And maybe it's ok to fracture the community temporarily. If Godot has staying power a community will eventually recongeal.
As someone who left Reddit shortly after they instituted the API changes and then stopped following the fall out, can someone provide a TL;DR of what happened?
I know that reddit pushed back on the protesting subs by saying "revert to what you were or we'll do it for you" and then started asking lower ranked mods to scab.
But beyond that, I don't know if reddit actually reverted the changes, dismissed the mods, or anything else.
can someone provide a TL;DR of what happened
API changes happened. Mods protested against those API changes by privating their subs (blackout). Initially the blackout was expected to last two days, but plenty mods kept going indefinitely, because Reddit refused to undo the changes, and because plenty users were also pissed against Huffman smearing a third party app developer. Then Reddit resurrected the u/ModCodeOfConduct account to threaten the mods to go back, while pretending "I dun unrurrstand, u dun liek to mod than u leave lol" (in other words but in the same spirit). Plenty mods refused, so they were removed as mods. Then the same u/ModCodeOfConduct account started recruiting bozos and vultures to moderate the subs where the mods were kicked out.
TL;DR: of the TL;DR: Reddit didn't revert changes. Mods were kicked out. Dumbarses in their place.
Changes not reverted. Many mods dismissed. Many subs forcefully taken over, with very young accounts appointed to lead them.
Granted, I haven’t been back in many weeks now, but that was the state of affairs last time I was paying close attention.
Who else had "people start trying to can already-canned tomatoes" on their Reddit Enshittification Bingo card?
I have seen this exact question so many times in my decade on r/canning before mods could nuke them. It’s kind of astounding how ignorant to food safety some of those posts can be and that was before the great mod purge. I really hope the rest of the community has stepped in to warn others if the mods aren’t doing their job to combat misinformation.
This is a cool article and all but there is no reason, to me, to believe in a mechanism that would make those new mods somehow worse on average than the old mods. Mods order was just seniority mixed with interpersonal drama with whoever was there before them, up to the guy who happened to be there in 2009.
Moderation was a sad fiefdom that was never good, these few in the article maybe just happened to have been good ones
Mod order is still just seniority mixed with interpersonal drama, in a fiefdom structure. That doesn't change, even if the "senior" in question was recruited 5min ago.
What does change however is: emotional attachment to the platform, the subreddit, and the topic; personal and inherited (from older mods) experience; willingness to moderate a small community and make it grow.
It's also worth noting that a lot of those powermods who are eager to create interpersonal drama and abuse seniority are still there. The APIcalypse only gave them more room for expansion. Cue to Bardfinn defending Spez and trying to gaslight users with "ackshyually, spez defeated a fusker scheme".
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The dangers of food canning were explained to me clearly, succinctly, and with cited sources by Brad Barclay and someone going by Dromio05 on Reddit (who asked to withhold their real name for privacy reasons).
He noted various canning misconceptions, from thinking the contents of a concave lid are safe to eat to believing you don't need to apply heat to food in jars.
For example, Barclay pointed to one mod recommending "citizen science," saying they would use a temperature data logger to "begin conducting experiments to determine what new canning products are safe."
It includes already-canned tomatoes, which experts like the National Center for Home Food Preservation (NCHFP) recommend against, as there's no safe tested process for this.
What's critical for Reddit's content quality is not that moderators adopt identical philosophies but that they are equipped to facilitate healthy and safe discussions and debates that benefit the community.
But the hastiness with which these specific replacement mods were ushered in, and the disposal of respected, long-time moderators, raises questions about whether Reddit prioritized reopening subreddits to get things back to normal instead of finding the best people for the volunteer jobs.
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Certainly summarized the parts that I can remember...