I’ve seen bad mod behavior before, but extortion? This requires further investgation. This mod controls what is and isn’t seen by 26million subscribers.
My initial impression is that Reddit's chaotic nature would make it easy for the issue to be brought up to the front page from any other subreddit. There's also nothing stopping any Redditor from creating an alternative sub to videos.
The user's post history (now purged by the user) was almost entirely shilling for "dogebonk" cryptocurrency, often in disingenuous ways. Like this from the last two days: https://i.imgur.com/VvuRBTZ.png
Asking for 100k doge ($17k) feels extreme enough that the mod is saying "get lost" rather than making a legitimate offer.
Given the tweet's use of #DogeBonk and #DOBO hashtags, it's probably an attempt to stir up drama to get more interest in the cryptocurrency that they've invested in. Unfortunate that the mod's joking reply feeds into that.
Doesn't surprise me at all, actually would not be surprised if this isn't wide-scale practice across Reddit.
I was banned once my own sub began to gain traction on the platform, and my 3 other (completely unrelated) accounts were banned as well. If you look at the reputation across those accounts built over years that suddenly vanished, it's easy to see how one would willingly pay to have them re activated by crooked admins.
Reddit leadership knows this is happening, many subreddits have been banned and orphaned. Reddit also makes everyone upload their content to IMGUR instead of being able to point to youtube links, so technical the majority of their content isn't credited or linked to anything that can account for it.
I chose to simply not go back really, just registered a lurk account. The quality of the site has tanked, and their IPO will likely not do much anyway. Karma always catches up with bad practice.... Spilled milk... I just maintain my own site now, which has all the features and better control/metrics for me anyway. On my own site I get much better views as well than I ever did on my Subreddit.
To clarify, it was the banned user spamming dogebonk cryptocurrency posts - not the mod. I don't think there's any wrongful behavior on part of the mod, assuming the offer was a joke.
If someone banned you and your 3 alts then I believe that would've been an admin (paid reddit employee). Subreddit mods (volunteers) can only prevent you posting in the subreddit(s) they moderate, and can't see your IP or anything.
Reddit as a whole doesn't forbid Youtube videos. Some specific subreddits may disallow videos.
Reddit is the place that badly revolutionized and enabled crowdsourced brigading.
I was not really surprised to see this post not showing up on the front page on HN. This is important news that usually gets squashed.
If we give this type of covered up corruption a pass repeatedly it affects everything else, including the stats we see, and the news we read. I hope others realize that.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 49.1 ms ] threadWhat's slightly more challenging is replicating the 26 million subscribers to /r/videos
https://old.reddit.com/r/videos/
The cost of such informaton on the IPO / trading price is one thing that public trading makes highly visible and manifest.
It used to be awesome, but now it's trash.
Modmail belongs to the subreddit, not the user. It follows the sub.
Modmail discussions will be visible to successor mods. And of course, Reddit admins.
Note that this advice also applies to anyone who's approached by a moderator with such offers or activities.
And they have to deal with this kind of stupidity.
Asking for 100k doge ($17k) feels extreme enough that the mod is saying "get lost" rather than making a legitimate offer.
Given the tweet's use of #DogeBonk and #DOBO hashtags, it's probably an attempt to stir up drama to get more interest in the cryptocurrency that they've invested in. Unfortunate that the mod's joking reply feeds into that.
Of course, the first things lost online are context, subtlty, and irony.
I was banned once my own sub began to gain traction on the platform, and my 3 other (completely unrelated) accounts were banned as well. If you look at the reputation across those accounts built over years that suddenly vanished, it's easy to see how one would willingly pay to have them re activated by crooked admins.
Reddit leadership knows this is happening, many subreddits have been banned and orphaned. Reddit also makes everyone upload their content to IMGUR instead of being able to point to youtube links, so technical the majority of their content isn't credited or linked to anything that can account for it.
I chose to simply not go back really, just registered a lurk account. The quality of the site has tanked, and their IPO will likely not do much anyway. Karma always catches up with bad practice.... Spilled milk... I just maintain my own site now, which has all the features and better control/metrics for me anyway. On my own site I get much better views as well than I ever did on my Subreddit.
If someone banned you and your 3 alts then I believe that would've been an admin (paid reddit employee). Subreddit mods (volunteers) can only prevent you posting in the subreddit(s) they moderate, and can't see your IP or anything.
Reddit as a whole doesn't forbid Youtube videos. Some specific subreddits may disallow videos.
I was not really surprised to see this post not showing up on the front page on HN. This is important news that usually gets squashed.
If we give this type of covered up corruption a pass repeatedly it affects everything else, including the stats we see, and the news we read. I hope others realize that.