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Reddit updates look after rough 6 months and ahead of reported IPO (arstechnica.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Reddit updates look after rough 6 months and ahead of reported IPO::"Edit: Obligatory 'F--- Spez' for karma."

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

A friend of mine was talking about how they had blatant homophobia sent their way on an LGBT subreddit, which was upvoted. Went to check r/ApolloApp and someone critical of the dev (because he was selling merch) was being blatantly and casually homophobic with similar upvote behaviour.

I'm not an easily offended guy but, honestly, I'm glad I left that shithole.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

They did kick out a lot of mods during the protests and moderation has gone to utter shit since the api change

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah new moderation didn’t stand a chance because the good mod tools were all 3rd party.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

So many good mod bots aswell all gone

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. I read an article (also on Ars Technica funnily enough) about how some moderators aren't equipped to deal with things. I believe they singled out r/canning because of the potential for food poisoning, but r/ender3 had a sympathetic "mod" who only joined that subreddit as a moderator just to fuck with Reddit corporate when they were replacing the mods.

Reddit, predictably, did not respond, so whoever wrote that article did their job right.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Oh god canning I heard about the new mods haveing less than a clue about it christ that's a massive fuck up

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Had a brief look at r/WorldNews yesterday. Every comment was blatantly disgusting Islamaphobia that I couldn't believe hadn't been deleted yet. I don't ever remember it being that bad over there

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Same, I remember r/worldnews not swinging that way whatsoever.