Reddit Says It's Banning More People Than Ever in Big Transparency Push (engadget.com) 52
An anonymous reader writes: Reddit's transparency reports go beyond what most social media companies offer, providing copious data on content moderation and global legal requests. Now, the company has introduced a transparency center serving as a hub for safety, security and policy information. It also announced plans to release transparency reports biannually rather than just once per year and said that in 2022, it removed significantly more offensive content, including child abuse and revenge porn, than in 2021. Last year, Reddit saw a big jump in moderation and legal requests, according to its 2022 transparency report. Government and law enforcement removal account information requests were up by 51 percent and 61 percent respectively, while copyright notices jumped 43 percent. The story was similar on the moderation front. Last summer, the BBC reported that Reddit was still leaving up "thousands" of non-consensual intimate (NCII) images (aka revenge porn), despite making changes to its policy earlier in this year.
You get a shadowban! And you! And you! (Score:4, Funny)
Everybody gets a shadowban!
It's the only way to be transparent!
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Everybody gets a shadowban!
Well, I feel safer knowing no one else will read this!
Nothing Lost Here (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Nothing Lost Here (Score:4, Insightful)
It's still better than the Reddit filter bubble. Quite frankly, I blame Reddit for the shit we're in now. Everyone thinks they got the truth, the only truth and nothing but the truth because all they hear on their subreddit is a filter bubble that keeps reinforcing their personal version of reality over and over.
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Re:Nothing Lost Here (Score:5, Interesting)
I credit the Slashdot karma system. Having categories and a +5 cap has done wonders for helping to ensure that the winning strategy for karma whoring isn't to be the first person to post a snarky one-liner in a post about a popular subject.
Admittedly, it can and does still happen. But those posts aren't ranked higher than the best informative posts. Whereas you'd often need to scroll down past half of the comments in a Reddit post to find the first insightful post.
Re:Nothing Lost Here (Score:5, Interesting)
The moderation on /. is better. Reddit is vulnerable to PRAW karma farms. Tech savvy users can drown out opinions they don't like just by having PRAW installed on several shell accounts or VPN's. It's trivially easy to get past their abuse detection.
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Hey! Stop ruining my fun playing the Reddit Game.
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>Any pure democratic system is flawed.
Ya but the difference is nobody gives 2 shits about /. OTOH there are farms you can pay for reddit. It's lucrative enough where it's a business for shady people.
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Slashdot is still better for actual discussion
Sure, if you're looking for a lot of text that includes the N word in it. IMO Slashdot is terrible for discussion strictly based on it's insanely antiquated comment system.
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If you think it's so bad, why are you posting here?
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Because stories pop up here that I don't see elsewhere.
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I'm here because I think it's refreshing to not have some algorithm show me only the "top comments." Try having a discussion on YouTube... Modern social media actively discourages real discussion, they just want positive feelings so you watch more ads.
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I would never consider having a discussion on Youtube, it's not why I'm there. There are also plenty of ways to filter comments so that you don't see the top comments....because Reddit isn't a 20 yo technology and one can write extensions for it. As for Slashdot, your only two options are to see the "most highest rated comments" or the "oldest" comments" first. So how exactly is that any better?
Re:Nothing Lost Here (Score:4, Informative)
The entire system is broken. Appealing a ban does nothing because it's apparent the person who banned you will also review your appeal.
I was perma banned from reddit for "inciting violence". I said some disparaging remarks about a dead person.
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Reddit is an echo chamber of people pathetic enough to set up puppet accounts.
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Same. Ever since I started playing the Reddit Game and getting people banned for no friggin' reason myself. It's kinda fun.
Re:Nothing Lost Here (Score:4, Insightful)
Slashdot is still better for actual discussion, which says a lot about the old BBS setup we use here.
Slashdot's moderation system mostly works because there's less activity here overall, and you can't be karma raped for expressing an unpopular opinion. The lowest a post can sink to on Slashdot is -1. I'm not sure if there is a negative moderation limit on Reddit for comments.
Also, because Slashdot's stories don't get anywhere near the thousands of comments that a popular Reddit post can receive, there's really no harm these days in browsing Slashdot at -1 anyway. Ever since anon posting was nerfed, there's very few actual troll posts these days and you're far more likely to see stuff at -1 as a result of mods with an axe to grind against someone's controversial opinion.
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I'm not sure if there is a negative moderation limit on Reddit for comments.
The downvote score can appear in the hundereds or thousands, but both actual karma lost and effective sorting bottoms out at -10
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I have to admit, it was sort of fun watching EA's attempt to defend their Star Wars Battlefront II lootbox/unlocking shenannigans get modded down by a rew hundred thousand or so.
Re: Nothing Lost Here (Score:2)
Specious. (Score:1)
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Neckbeard Rampage (Score:1)
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They moved back to facebook, saving the billionarie from his porn star hush money legal trouble by giving him all their money
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/3... [cnbc.com]
ModBots (Score:2)
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TBH the only subs that are actually any sort of fun are the various "shitpost" subs. On any of the serious subs it is way too easy to accidentally run afoul of the groupthink and burn karma/earn a ban.
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I dunno, I think it's more like Big Brother's autistic nephew.
Who does Reddit bank with? (Score:2)
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Reddit. (Score:2)
Semiannually, not biannually (Score:1)
In case anyone wondered, TFA says at the bottom that they're moving from annual to twice per year, not once every two years.
A dumpster is on fire (Score:2)
Moderation on reddit has become a dumpster fire. Sub mods are just free labor who abuse the power they're given, without any transparency to other users and without accountability. I have over 38 reddit accounts that I rotate out regularly due to voicing my opinions against the censorship that takes place. I look forward to free mod system going away and having a single source of moderation that follows the same rules as what's published.
Reddit is owned and operated by the CCP (Score:2)
Pro-China subreddits and posts are allowed, no matter how extreme or how obvious the propaganda. If you mention anything CCP doesn't agree with, you get banned. Tik-Tok is nothing compared to the propaganda spreading power of Reddit.
How many were banned for using a fake email addy? (Score:2)
I don't know about anybody else, but there are many weeks where I get as many as two or three emails from Reddit asking me to confirm "my" account. I always click the "It's not me" button.
At one point, I even decided to create an actual Reddit account, assuming that by doing so, people would stop being able to use my email address to spam me with "Confirm your account" emails, but apparently Reddit does not check to see if there is already an account associated with the email address, so I continued to ge
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What’s your email address?
Oh, I'm pretty sure you already know it.
They suspended my 14 year old account. (Score:2)
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Like being an artist who works for someone else and does not own their own work more like.
Yes I know people put htings into it. But if they expect that a random ban could not happen to them they are idiots.
Yes the current state of things is sad, and the fact that you can not get though to anything except a bot should not be allowed, it's worse when that happens on other platforms that are not just nonsence like reddit though.
Move on, get a new account if you must. You are just a number to them.
(I assume you
Re: They suspended my 14 year old account. (Score:2)
Lol I also got the "ban evasion" thing. It was a temporary ban, but I didn't go back. That thing must have a type I error rate that's insane. What's the point in hanging out there if your account is at risk from some random crap at any moment?
Reddit modding usu. immaturity-driven crybullying (Score:1)
Like the police: If they're always looking for the next "perpetrator", some "violent crime" can be found. And, if they're optimizing for scalps, scalps will be taken.
Reddit is a heavy modded sandbox (Score:2)
It's still that way, which makes it of limited value. It's already a shadow of itself and the users have taken notice (as they have all over the web)
good riddance (Score:1)
I've been permanently banned by r/socialism, for pointing out that Stalin was a genocide, and by r/law, for making a flippant comment that a boy who impregnated his teacher may not have been traumatized. A few more and I'll have the reddit monkey permanently off my back.