Reddit Now Lets You Mute Subreddits You Don't Like (arstechnica.com) 45
In a post to /r/reddit, Reddit announced that it began rolling out a feature that will allow users to mute specific communities that contain content they don't want to see. Ars Technica reports: If you mute a subreddit using this feature, posts from it won't show up in your notifications, home feed recommendations, or Popular, Reddit's feed of the most upvoted content from across its various communities. Later, Reddit plans to apply muting to other places like "All" and "Discover." Muting a community won't stop you from being able to visit or post it, though. You can mute up to 1,000 communities and tweak your muted list at any time in Settings. The report notes that this new muting feature is only available in Reddit's iOS and Android apps for now. For updates on availability, Reddit directs users to their changelog feed.
It's about time (Score:3)
You should think this would have been done a decade ago.
How about fixing the ban appeal, Reddit ? (Score:3, Interesting)
That's fucked up, Reddit.
Re:How about fixing the ban appeal, Reddit ? (Score:4, Informative)
The admins don't care. Most subreddits are moderated by petulant, agenda-driven children who constantly break Reddit's own moderation guidelines with impunity. Their only qualification for becoming a mod was that they created the subreddit or are friends with the person who did.
I like Reddit for the niche topics and it's a pretty good platform for technical discussion. For anything mainstream it's a terrible forum for discourse and the shitty moderation is the main reason.
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I find that some of the niche forums can be better than Stack Exchange for questions. Reddit still has a bit of a community.
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I had a relatively seasoned account and I accidentally posted to a subreddit that had some account requirements I didn't meet or some BS nonsense. I posted 2 or 3 times before getting the message that I couldn't post. That was enough for me to get shadowbanned from all of Reddit with no recourse.
The whole place is filled with naive petulant children and 100% democratic voting is the worst design ever. I thought Digg showed us how dumb that is.
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They can only ban you from a specific subreddit, right? They can't completely ban your entire account from all of reddit, right? (I wouldn't know because I generally don't go out of my way to be an asshole).
I'm perma banned from the entire site. Making a new account results in another fast ban as I haven't clear any of the cookies. Another browser works fine.
Re: Why is that bad?...what if no one wants you th (Score:5, Interesting)
They also use canvas fingerprinting. Clearing cookies does not always.
Weird people took over during the Ellen Pao era. Even the device driver subs became weird.
Those "volunteer mods" have too much time on their hands.
Re: Why is that bad?...what if no one wants you th (Score:2)
Well done.
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They can ban you from the subreddit. Not Reddit in general.
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That's why they form mod cabals and get in tight with the admins. Piss off some internet janitor on /r/hugboxcirclejerk and they'll get their admin buddies to yeet you off the platform. Many such cases. Sad!
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Do you know this as an absolute fact or is this just paranoid speculation?
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I don't have the receipts, but it's been known to happen. The mod cabals are definitely real. Just go to any of the big subs and start looking at the mod teams. You'll find pretty quick there are the same mods across dozens of subs, kind of like how the same elites serve on eachothers corporate boards. As for the admins listening to them, /r/AgainstHateSubreddits/ has a long history of getting entire subs banned, it's not a big stretch to assume they get individuals banned as well.
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Yeah, still sounds like paranoid conspiracy thinking to me.
Re: How about fixing the ban appeal, Reddit ? (Score:2)
Appeal got no reply.
Fuck that.
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Just "randomly" banned for no reason at all.....
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That's how you play the Reddit game. Though it has less to do with having buddies somewhere, it's mostly a social experiment.
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Reddit does this. It's a widespread practice and is pretty common knowledge, or so I thought. It's easy to control the message when a mere 100 people moderate the 5000 most popular subreddits.
Walking around with your eyes closed, your ears plugged, and saying NANANANNANA outloud because you never want to hear anything that doesn't conform to the doctrine in your narrow comfort bubble is not a good way to live.
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You are free to become a mod yourself. Do you know why there are super mods who moderate multiple subs? Because very few people want to actually be mods. It's not like it's a paid position. So if you don't like the fact that that there is a "cabal" of mods, then join to crew. Better yet, form your own sub so you can control who moderates it. But you won't, because it's easier to sit there and bitch about it.
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Nah, that works differently. Here's how to play the Reddit game.
First, get a bunch of sock puppet accounts. A dozen or two will do. Then, have them post some bullshit into various subreddits that gets upvoted. It's not as hard as it may seem, just follow observe the groupthink rules and you should get some free Karma easily. This shouldn't take you more than a month if you can dedicate about 3-5 hours a week to it.
Keep cultivating your sockpuppets until you run into someone you want off Reddit. Be careful t
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It means Reddit access is controlled run by a few people crazy - and with enough spare time - to implement these schemes and enforce their echo chambers, with no fear of being detected by an appeals process.
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Reddit is a tool to create groupthink and synchronize thought. This "game" is being played not a game of amateur trolls, this is what professional bullshit artists do.
I won't use the app on my phone (Score:4, Informative)
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Brave browser has an option in the settings to redirect to old.reddit.com.
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And old.reddit is best reddit, as everybody should know
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The Slide [f-droid.org] app works much better than the official client.
Nope (Score:1)
Except they don't. The feature only works in the app, a feature that many other apps have already offered for many years. The reason they can't do it on the website yet is because the site is populated with an SQL query and an SQL query with over 100 exclusions is too heavy for the website.
Not that it matters though, even if you spend an entire day blocking garbage subreddits, you'll just have a page with subreddits nobody visits . Once upon a time you could block maybe 100 subreddit and see good content o
I abhor Reddit's user interface (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:I abhor Reddit's user interface (Score:5, Informative)
Change www.reddit.com to old.reddit.com and the difference is night and day.
NO MORE PETS REJOICE! (Score:2)
I don't understand ... (Score:2)
Re:I don't understand ... (Score:5, Informative)
Nope, because they randomly throw a bunch of crap into your feed that is categorized as "Popular on Reddit".
I still don't see the option to remove them yet, either.
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Nope, because they randomly throw a bunch of crap into your feed that is categorized as "Popular on Reddit".
I still don't see the option to remove them yet, either.
The annoying thing is that the "popular on reddit" subs are far-left (I mean "looney left") subs like twoxchromosomes (where they ironically cheer trans-women joining), news, facepalm, upliftingnews, etc. I would actually prefer the site if I could decide what I want to see rather than the ability to remove some number that I don't want to see. I mainly go there for programming stuff.
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When I find s subreddit that I like, I bookmark it. https://www.reddit.com/r/sysad... [reddit.com] for example. When I go back and visit it via that link I don't see all the top page garbage.
Does Reddit show you posts from subs you aren't (Score:2)
Just unsub from the sub if you don't want to see posts from it.
Re: Does Reddit show you posts from subs you aren' (Score:2)
They have just allowed that also, (at least on mobile app) you could mute a person, then they allowed muting a whole sub, which is great because like everyone else who said it, Reddit is full of whackos who have created a lord of the flies type architecture, run by petulant children.
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Glad to read this.
I tried Reddit and found exactly that situation, but thought it was just me who noticed it.
Muting subreddits I don't like? (Score:2)
Maybe I'm using Reddit wrong, but I've never felt the need to mute any subreddits. It's probably because I only post on one subreddit and only occasionally. Sometimes I look at other subreddits that interest me and find worthwhile posts, but none of them are political.
When I log in I'm usually only interested in the one I post in but I see posts from other subreddits - mostly ones that I have looked at before, but then I click on the subreddit I want and that's all I see.
I just checked it out and I see no
But but but .. (Score:1)