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comment by kleinbl00

That entire article (minus the parts from Dead Poets' Society) are about how you've never moderated on Reddit, don't want to moderate on Reddit, and have no understanding of how moderation works on Reddit.

So why would you write an article on moderating on Reddit, exactly?



_refugee_  ·  3950 days ago  ·  link  ·  

why do people care about reddit this much kb

and if they do, why can't they just keep it there

Like hell, I love being meta as much as the next person that subscribes to a ton of subreddits about reddit like r/tldr and r/depthhub and r/metareddit and Sure! I eat the popcorn over at r/SRS and r/subredditdrama and Sure! I've tried to puzzle my way through the wormhole that is Game of Trolls and Sure! I've wondered sometimes if Reddit is really just a giant game that people play and all of this stuff is just designed to keep you entertained after you realize the original stuff that brought you there, the beginning front page, is actually seriously shitty and Sure! Then I've shaken my head and said "That's just crazy talk _refugee_ that's just not sane" EVEN THOUGH I subscribe to r/hailcorporate and so on. Like trust me I've been there I get the whole "Reddit is awesome" and then "Even when Reddit's not awesome it's enthralling" and then the "Oh so...every entertaining thread in r/relationshipadvice is a troll testing out an audience" and I STILL READ THOSE THREADS. But at least I keep the popcorn-eating circle-jerking contained within my reddit. I don't even tweet my frustrations about Reddit. I tweet frustrations about Hubski. But fuck if I'm going to blog about either. Is it just link karma? "If I talk about Reddit on another site then I can submit the link to Reddit and then Redditors will give me points for it"?

Also, from the article:

    I became a redditor many years ago when the site was young. I was part of the exodus of Digg users when their model and rules changed.

Author doesn't know what they are talking about. Those two sentences form a direct contradiction.

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kleinbl00  ·  3950 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    why do people care about reddit this much kb

...Because they have nothing else to care about.

    and if they do, why can't they just keep it there

Because KONY2012 taught us that rabble-rousing on the internet is the most effective means to change.

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_refugee_  ·  3950 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Because KONY2012 taught us that rabble-rousing on the internet is the most effective means to change

Oh, you funny, you.

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