I really wish we could "lift the veil" on what moderators of major subs really do. Because we don't actually congregate each morning for a virtual coffee, and plot how to further our communist/fascist/zionist/islamist agenda [select whatever is least like your own philosophy], and have daily competitions on how many people's free speech we can "ban" or truths we can "censor". The disconnect between what people think we do, and what we actually do, is absurd. Sure, once in a while you'll get a rogue mod, but for most moderators the sheer volume of shit is so much that after a while you really don't care which way the bias is, you're sick of the lot of it and want it cleaned up. I easily delete and tag as many comments for being "anti-islam hate" as I do for being "anti-semitic hate". And I'm past caring which side they're on.
The fundamental problem is that Reddit's workings are gnostic by design. "Shadowban" is a horrible concept from the get-go - "my anti-spam measures will be so much more effective if the spammers don't know they're in place." Essentially, Reddit's countermeasures are so shitty that if people knew what they were they'd be useless. Know my most effective fascist automoderator tweak? Require all posts to come from someone with two comment karma or better. Which takes essentially zero effort for anyone actually on Reddit, but is literally impossible from within Hootsuite. Looks like we're oppressing new users, when in fact we're cutting out 50 spam posts an hour.
Not so. Comment karma is not link karma. A user with zero comment karma or link karma can comment freely when the rule is about posts. Besides which, all one needs to do is message the mods and say "I can't see my post" and you get let through. I do this about 12 times a day.
Oh wow! Long time no see. Hope everything has been going well for you, istara. Any new books in the works?
Hello! All well. My third book, Man of the Match, should be coming out soon (just in beta/proofing now). It's another romance. Then I'm trying to get my act together and finally start publishing some of my backlog of murder mystery novels, which will go under a different pen name. I have four completed unpublished ones, but they still need proofing etc. How about you?
I'm glad to hear you are rolling with it! That's awesome! I'm actually working on a website for a romance novelist. I have learned more about the subject, target demo, and ins and outs of romance novels than I ever expected to know in my life. One of the perks of the job. Fun fact - her books with only men (usually shirtless, deliciously ab-by men) on the covers get twice as many clicks as the ones with a man and woman!