LiveLaughLoveRevenge 39 points 3 years ago

We laugh but this does an excellent point of underscoring the whole power dynamic in Reddit.

Who normally keeps these subs on message, and controls content? The mods.

The mods are volunteers that curate the content of Reddit. And Reddit did a shit job by getting into a pissing contest with their own best assets.

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T156 1 point 3 years ago

Even so, there is only so much that the mods can do when it comes to users. Under normal circumstances, they might be able to keep them in line, but there is a track record of users either leaving to start their own communities, or flooding a subreddit if there is a controversy.

For example, /r/Steam's moderators could start banning people who talked about steam, instead of the gaming platform, but that also cuts down on their userbase, and the users could just go off and start their own /r/steamier, which is also one of the strengths of how subreddits worked. Users could just go and make their own subs if they didn't like the existing one.

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-hypnotoad- 21 points 3 years ago

As long as it’s legal under U.S. law, and you hate it, we encourage you to post it.” As you can imagine, the subreddit has some gross stuff now.

This is gold

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gk99 11 points 3 years ago

I'm just saying, r/videos is like the perfect place to start allowing porn. So much porn is in video form.

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T156 1 point 3 years ago

Video is also expensive to host, so forcing Reddit to host a bunch of pornography would also blow up their server hosting costs (why they even allowed such a thing in the first place is a mystery), never mind the additional overhead with keeping up with laws, and things like DMCA claims.

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EmoZombieNiz 5 points 3 years ago

Omg, that's disgusting. Where, where did they post the porn? Which one, which one did they posts it on?

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bin_bash 5 points 3 years ago

Let it burn why should we fight for a worst social plataform that does not care about privacy? Burn burn

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Flippanteer 5 points 3 years ago

I love the recapitalizing of their sub name, genius

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I_Miss_Daniel 3 points 3 years ago

Where?

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Flippanteer 3 points 3 years ago

PerfectlyCutsCreams instead of PerfectlyCutScreams

edit: huh I swore I made the original comment on a post that linked to r/ perfectlycutscreams, it seems I just have hallucinated so not surprising you’re asking where!

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I_Miss_Daniel 2 points 3 years ago

Hehe. Are you an AI? :)

Thanks for the explanation!

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0x1C3B00DA 2 points 3 years ago

I love this. Not only does it show the importance of mods that reddit is shitting on and stick it to reddit by preventing ad revenue from these subs, but it highlights some of reddit's other dumb policies. Casual uses trying to visit these subs on mobile are going to be annoyed that they can't anymore because reddit blocks NSFW on mobile and those dedicated enough to use reddit's shitty mobile app are going to be disappointed again with the bad experience.

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ultimate_question 1 point 3 years ago

those dedicated enough to use reddit's shitty mobile app are going to be disappointed again with the bad experience

Something like 97% of users are already on the official app so you may be overestimating the dedication required here

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0x1C3B00DA 1 point 3 years ago

true, but I meant ppl who don't use reddit on the regular and are just doing a search. Also, a lot of ppl who use the official app just don't know about alternatives. They're not necessarily there because they want that experience

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Norgur 1 point 3 years ago

"no darling, why would I watch this? This is a protest for democracy!"

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