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Comment on Likely the last Mod post that I'll make in /r/videos. We're shutting down in ~tech
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Comment on Likely the last Mod post that I'll make in /r/videos. We're shutting down in ~tech
ChunkMcHorkle Link ParentJust so you know, you absolutely can get ALL your comments deleted on Reddit, if you use your GDPR data to do so. You can go all the way back to the beginning of your account, no matter how old,...Just so you know, you absolutely can get ALL your comments deleted on Reddit, if you use your GDPR data to do so. You can go all the way back to the beginning of your account, no matter how old, if Reddit still has that data on you.
I just posted a comment above in this thread on how to do this, and there is a more detailed comment in my Reddit history if you need more info.
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Comment on Likely the last Mod post that I'll make in /r/videos. We're shutting down in ~tech
ChunkMcHorkle Link ParentI'm not sure what I said that you are specifically refuting as not factual. Could you tell me what fact I alleged is untrue? I have the link to the now removed r/bestof post. Your admin friend WAS...No. Not entirely facts... I happen to know krispykrackers (literally the TOP mod at /r/askreddit) personally, and have for many many years (way before she was an admin). She isn't employed at reddit anymore, and hasn't been for quite some time. I also doubt she would have a problem with the subreddit going dark, but she doesn't interact much on reddit anymore, or anywhere else on social media.
I'm not sure what I said that you are specifically refuting as not factual. Could you tell me what fact I alleged is untrue? I have the link to the now removed r/bestof post. Your admin friend WAS employed by Reddit. At least some still are. And you can literally look at the mod and admin lists and see the rest for yourself. The top subs often have well over 100 mods, and usually only a handful do the grunt work. With respect, even Spez himself is a moderator of 15 subs, and he is most certainly a paid employee:
r/announcements r/blog r/programming r/HighQualityGifs r/OutOfTheLoop r/business r/PartyParrot r/modnews r/Layer r/reddit r/redditdev r/redesign r/hero0fwar r/reddit_fact_check r/yourweek r/spez r/metaskreddit r/guild r/hipmunk r/modprogramming. . . but his actions are not those of someone who actually has to tweak an automod script daily because the spam bots overrode yesterday's version overnight. He literally sees moderators and users as fungible.
That used to be true. But it just isn't anymore. What you say is 100% correct . . . five years ago. The lower level mods who do the actual work are in a daily battle with bots, automod, bad tools, and unresponsive admin, while the technological advances and increasing numbers of bad actors are steadily encroaching.
But either way, there's a very good chance that Spez et al will in fact take over at least the top subs during the blackout, so we will see for ourselves. Between the fact that mods are not fungible, the native tools are far inferior to the third party ones, and a lot of information specific to moderating that sub just got yeeted by that sub's seizure, I expect that the loss of control to trash on many subs will be swift and overwhelming.
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Comment on Likely the last Mod post that I'll make in /r/videos. We're shutting down in ~tech
ChunkMcHorkle Link ParentFact, including the scrubbed r/bestof post. But don't take my word for it, look for yourself. Go to r/Reddit, look at the list of mods. These are all admins as well as mods, many or all also paid...Fact, including the scrubbed r/bestof post.
But don't take my word for it, look for yourself. Go to r/Reddit, look at the list of mods. These are all admins as well as mods, many or all also paid employees. Now look at the list of mods on any big sub of your choice, and note the overlap.
Why do you think any of those people would support the blackout, or better, assume that they will not personally profit in some way from the coming IPO that is driving all of this?
Also, the ordering of the mod list in any sub is not technologically neutral: a lower mod cannot replace or adjust the rights of a mod higher on the list. It is all downward. This is to prevent sub hijacks, and has been a thing forever in many forums, even the phpBB ones. Reddit is no different.
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Comment on Likely the last Mod post that I'll make in /r/videos. We're shutting down in ~tech
ChunkMcHorkle Link ParentLooking at the list of mods of a given large sub, especially the top fifteen or so, will tell you everything you need to know. These power mods don't actually do the nuts and bolts grind of day to...Looking at the list of mods of a given large sub, especially the top fifteen or so, will tell you everything you need to know.
These power mods don't actually do the nuts and bolts grind of day to day modding, but they do love to swoop in and muscle from time to time, and the lower mods can't really rebel: if it goes too far they will just get unmodded by those higher in the list.
Also, the further up the mod list you go, the older the account and the more direct line to admin you have. Many of these power mods are also admins themselves. r/askreddit isn't going anywhere.
Even r/bestof, that claims to be supporting the blackout, scrubbed a post critical of the moderator's conference call the other day, and looking at that moderator list it's not hard to see why.
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Comment on Likely the last Mod post that I'll make in /r/videos. We're shutting down in ~tech
ChunkMcHorkle Link ParentYes, you absolutely can. I just posted a comment above in this thread on how to do this, and there is a more detailed comment in my Reddit history if you need more info. And that's just one way....Yes, you absolutely can. I just posted a comment above in this thread on how to do this, and there is a more detailed comment in my Reddit history if you need more info.
And that's just one way. There are other tools as well, like Power Delete Suite, that also allow you to archive, edit, and then delete your content.
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Comment on Likely the last Mod post that I'll make in /r/videos. We're shutting down in ~tech
ChunkMcHorkle Link ParentI made a GDPR data request last week on my accounts, and when I got those back I plugged them into the redact.dev tool, which overcame the Pushshift 1000 comment history cap and allowed me to...I made a GDPR data request last week on my accounts, and when I got those back I plugged them into the redact.dev tool, which overcame the Pushshift 1000 comment history cap and allowed me to delete all the way back to 2013. You can use redact.dev with just your profile, but I think you run into that history cap. GDPR is the way to get around it, at least for now, because I think that tool uses API calls to do the edit+deletion of each comment and post.
I'm not quite done with Reddit yet, but when I am, I'll then request a Pushshift deletion to catch anything else, on top of deleting whatever little is on there now.
My content and I - ten years and over 7000 posts/comments - will be 100% gone. Small loss to Reddit, I'm sure, but 100% the right thing to do as I take my content-creating self elsewhere.
I don't blame or judge anyone who stays. I think my main point of contention is that I want people to THINK about what they are doing with their choices and their content, and even if it fails utterly, this whole fiasco is certainly causing many to do just that. Some never will, and that's cool. But I really appreciate the number of thoughtful decisions I'm seeing, yours included.
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Comment on Likely the last Mod post that I'll make in /r/videos. We're shutting down in ~tech
ChunkMcHorkle (edited )Link ParentSick of it or not, I hope I always have enough of a heart to support what is right. This entire thing has been nothing short of foul. And if you ever start to wonder about the wisdom or the...Sick of it or not, I hope I always have enough of a heart to support what is right.
This entire thing has been nothing short of foul.
And if you ever start to wonder about the wisdom or the ethicality of your decision, remember that above and beyond the lies and the defamation and the callousness and the greed, they have proven finally and irrevocably that the disabled are not only an afterthought, but 100% disposable.
That's not good business, that's sociopathy and the cruelty of indifference. In short, it is what many people would call evil.
I have deleted ten years worth of comments and posts myself in the last 48 hours, largely because I simply won't be part of it.
Yes, they probably will just seize your sub, and do who knows what with it.
But we know who you are, and what you did, and why you did it.
It doesn't matter that a last stand doesn't work. What matters is the people that make them, and WHY, even though they know they are probably going down in flames.
No one can get you those countless hours of time and care and energy back, true enough. And this will only be the first humiliation of many, because you will be slandered, and the story will be rewritten by the victors, nastily and mercilessly and dishonestly, because that is Spez's way. It will get temporarily worse before it gets better, and I think you are well aware of that, though it will come as a shock when it happens.
But when all is said and done, you knew what you had to do, and you did it at great personal cost, and you did it simply because it is the right thing to do.
I'm glad to know you.
This is absolutely the right thing, and I - along with countless others - are 100% with you, no matter what comes next.
Remember that.
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Comment on What types of content do you want to see on Tildes? in ~tildes
ChunkMcHorkle (edited )Link ParentThe full story is here, and it's well worth the read. There's more and better elsewhere, but this is a good start. Full of drama, conflict, stupidity, and the kind of jaw-dropping shit that makes...The full story is here, and it's well worth the read. There's more and better elsewhere, but this is a good start. Full of drama, conflict, stupidity, and the kind of jaw-dropping shit that makes you realize as you're pulling your jaw back up again that if you're gonna do that enough times you should really be passing buttery popcorn goodness through it. The linked timeline above actually starts at the peak of the conflict, and about half of it takes place within three days. But I'll start at the beginning.
The TL;DR is that the original r/worldpolitics sub, where people ostensibly went to discuss world politics, changed over time. It got to be sort of carelessly managed, then not really managed at all, with some sort of anarchist flavor to it that led to the sub being overrun with a good amount of porn (including the sub banner) with a trend toward hentai. This river of porn and discussion thereof flared up at some point around a specific post involving a controversially indeterminate-aged young anime girl with impressively sized 'tracts of land,' so to speak, and the internal conflict reached a crisis. At this point the people who really wanted to discuss world politics broke off and created r/anime_titties, and that is now the default world politics sub. Still a lot of bad actors (conspiracy theorists, CCP shills, etc) but no hentai, no porn, and very specifically, no anime titties. Then r/worldpolitics got banned, then got unbanned, and is now full of porn just like it always wanted to be. The End.
EDITED TO ADD: I found another longer but better TL;DR here.)
Sorry it took me so long to see this and reply; over the last couple of days I deleted 10 years of Reddit content across accounts. They're still alive, but I've only left a single month of history on this one (same name) and depending on what reddit does next week I think that's the end. I really, really struggled with it morally, because there's a large part of me that feels an obligation to those I helped and who helped me, and those who will come behind me looking for the same. But what I am supporting by leaving it there is too much for me, so in the end I decided to just zap it. I used the GDPR data I requested last week to do it; redact.dev has a tool where you just plug in the GDPR zip file which locates the old content, and then API calls do the rest, so I figured I better git 'er done while I still could.
I feel a great deal lighter, surprisingly enough. Really glad I did it.
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Comment on If you would like to add a feature to Tildes, what would you recommend? in ~tildes
ChunkMcHorkle LinkI said this in another post, but I would like the option to soft block, or mute, a particular user if need be. To be specific, to have the actual content of a post or comment by a blocked user to...I said this in another post, but I would like the option to soft block, or mute, a particular user if need be. To be specific, to have the actual content of a post or comment by a blocked user to be hidden unless I choose to see it. This need not extend to site searches, just posts and comments.
Put succinctly, the "soft block" of RES is the model for what I would like to see.
To (sort of) quote my earlier post: instead of labels that I do not now have anyway as a new user, I would far rather have the ability to individually mute, either temporarily or permanently, someone who engages in low-level nastiness, because they tend to do so regularly. If I have no beef with the thread, or the subject, or anything else about the conversation, why would I set any of that on ignore when that's exactly the content I came to see?
A RES-style soft block for specific users would solve all of that.
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Comment on What types of content do you want to see on Tildes? in ~tildes
ChunkMcHorkle Link ParentSame here, and it would be even better here on Tildes, without the bots and CCP shills. I gotta say, though, the way that sub got its name is just classic "Reddit is broken, go get your tools" DIY...I really enjoyed /r/Anime_Titties for news.
Same here, and it would be even better here on Tildes, without the bots and CCP shills.
I gotta say, though, the way that sub got its name is just classic "Reddit is broken, go get your tools" DIY fixing.
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Comment on Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat to third-party apps in ~tech
ChunkMcHorkle Link ParentNah, keep it coming. I'm digging the long text format here. Five or six years ago, I was part of an online community that was about to lose its platform, and in searching for alternatives I recall...Nah, keep it coming. I'm digging the long text format here.
Five or six years ago, I was part of an online community that was about to lose its platform, and in searching for alternatives I recall seeing an open source Reddit-like front-end that someone had developed, and all a community had to do was supply server space for it to run on. But I've been racking my brain for days and just can't recall the name. Unfortunately, I no longer have access to that gmail account where all those conversations took place, or I could just look it up. That community ended up going to a phpBB site, so it all worked out, but that Reddit-like front end was really, really good. All you need then is the back end: hosting server space, domain name, administration/maintenance, etc.
If I ever remember, I'll let you know!
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tildes
ChunkMcHorkle (edited )Link ParentThank you for your response, NaraVara (and @arp242!). I kind of expected that what you both described would be the case, but with the influx of new users . . . maybe not indefinitely, after all....Thank you for your response, NaraVara (and @arp242!). I kind of expected that what you both described would be the case, but with the influx of new users . . . maybe not indefinitely, after all.
To answer your questions, NaraVara:
I think one of the reasons this sort of block function isn't implemented is because it ends up being kind of hard to follow a conversation that a blocked person is involved in, even parts of it where that person might be tangentially involved but not directly interacting with you.
And then there's the concern with reposts. If you're posting an article and a person you blocked posts the same do you just not see it?
I'm sure you're already well aware of this from engaging in online discourse elsewhere, but there's a range of muting/blocking that goes all the way from Reddit's old-style of seeing absolutely nothing from a blocked user, to the RES "soft block" where a user's post is collapsed except for the name, and you are given a choice as to whether to read it or not. The comments section on the Washington Post actually strikes a great middle ground: a blocked user is 100% hard blocked, which does truncate discussions they're a part of, but if they happen to respond to you elsewhere, you see their collapsed reply in your profile and are given a choice as to whether or not you want to see it.
In all my time in Reddit, across all accounts, the number of top-level posts I've submitted is probably under 30, all original or very niche content, and I ALWAYS do a search before posting just to be sure, so I've never had that problem. But to address your question directly, it depends on how that particular site handles blocked users in search (think YouTube, where a channel is blocked except in search, and sites like it). For soft blocks, it's no problem at all because you're shown everything, and blocked users' submissions show up, just collapsed (or not). But even for hard blocks, if you're using searches external to the site, like the site: function on DuckDuckGo or a direct-to-Reddit Pushshift interface like Camas, your search is unaffected, because those external searches are calling the API directly. Or were, lol.
In general, we'd like to slowly train people out of that kind of low-grade nastiness. Often it really is just a matter of tone. But doing so requires a high-touch moderation approach and a community that's willing to politely encourage people to check themselves (which is itself a skill that takes a while to develop). Overall that makes the site nicer since the sort of nastiness you mention has a tendency to bleed out and affect other users as well.
I am well able to do this, and actually posted something before I realized I've only been here five minutes and it wasn't my battle, and swiftly deleted it. The person who did this was also a new arrival, heh. Coming from Reddit, a lot of that is handled by the downvote function, which of course is not something Tildes wants. And I'm not a mod anymore, so while your kind suggestion often works, even the gentlest indication of rebuke can be met with explosive self-defense, and I'd just rather avoid that if at all possible. So now I'm just watching that post to see what happens. Will it be modded by the community in some way? Will that user be gently corrected by others? I guess we'll all see, because that instance won't be the last.
But I realized last night that my entire post might be moot: I don't think I have the skill to do a soft block, but there's a possibility I can do a hard block with uBlock Origin and a custom string that includes that username. I actually did that in Reddit one time, when they were screwing around with the block function and I needed to just get a specific someone out of my cereal bowl in the morning. If I do this, and it breaks my Tildes experience, the worst that happens is I look like a fool, and I can live with that. Got lots of practice, lol.
Again, thank you and @arp242 for taking the time to listen and answer so thoughtfully. This is such a new experience. I could get used to this. :D
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tildes
ChunkMcHorkle LinkI would very much appreciate being able to block a user without having to label their posts in any way, whether that label is private or public, seen or unseen, tracked or not tracked, acted upon...I would very much appreciate being able to block a user without having to label their posts in any way, whether that label is private or public, seen or unseen, tracked or not tracked, acted upon or not acted upon.
I've read the docs, and some further comments trying to explain and clarify them, but exactly how a label triggers various actions, and what use of these labels is considered egregious when they are not even publicly seen, I would never know unless I happened to step over some previously unforeseen threshold.
I've already seen one guy get chewed a new asshole just for answering a question, and apparently no one has noticed it. It even has some votes. It's one comment in a thread with dozens of other comments, easy to pass by, but the tone was a rude shock after reading so many far more gracious comments.
I am a new user, so I obviously do not have access to labels . . . but if I did, I would not use them easily, and not in this instance, especially without understanding what exactly each one does and specifically what it is intended to accomplish. I don't see that anywhere.
Plus, I have not gotten to be as old as I am by calling out every misdeed I see, much less put a label on it to be stored and catalogued somewhere, much less escalated to the very top of the entire administrative system for review and action. This isn't that. It's just low-level, garden variety petty nastiness from someone who probably doesn't even recognize that they just jammed a sock in someone else's mouth simply for truthfully answering a question, because that behavior was encouraged on Reddit.
So I would far rather have the ability to individually mute, either temporarily or permanently, someone who engages in that kind of low-level nastiness, because they tend to do so regularly. I have no beef with the thread, or the subject, or anything else about the conversation, so why would I set any of that on ignore when that's exactly the content I came to see?
I've read Tildes philosophy on this, but I have my own:
"It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world."
Gimme some slippers. :D
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tildes
ChunkMcHorkle Link ParentI would like that too. I don't think it's too niche because with both religion and politics, it's very easy to piss in someone's conversational soup without even knowing you're doing so, and I'm...I'd also really like an ~occult page but I realize that's probably too niche.
I would like that too. I don't think it's too niche because with both religion and politics, it's very easy to piss in someone's conversational soup without even knowing you're doing so, and I'm not here to provoke others any more than I am here to be proselytized. Such a tag would make such discussions much safer and less provocative for all.
Seems like with religion and spirituality, this is a "better safe than sorry" situation. Those subs are some of the ones I will miss on Reddit, to be sure. But after reading the docs, I figured I'd just live without it: it doesn't seem to fit into the existing structure, unfortunately. Plus I've been here for all of a hot five minutes, so what do I know?
But speaking solely for myself, and to be very blunt, I have no desire to discuss spirituality without some assurance that those who would be actively offended by my beliefs and practices have the option of avoiding my comments altogether. And I probably won't browse anything of a spiritual or religious nature that is already here for the exact same reason: there are things I too just don't want to see.
TL;DR: If ever a niche is truly required and cannot be safely relegated to general conversation, spirituality is at the very top of that list. I am really glad you brought this up. Thank you, ThatMartinFellow.
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Comment on Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat to third-party apps in ~tech
ChunkMcHorkle Link ParentAs recently as February, Reuters pegged it as second half of 2023: https://www.reuters.com/technology/reddit-aims-ipo-second-half-2023-information-2023-02-14/As recently as February, Reuters pegged it as second half of 2023:
https://www.reuters.com/technology/reddit-aims-ipo-second-half-2023-information-2023-02-14/
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Comment on Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat to third-party apps in ~tech
ChunkMcHorkle Link ParentI hadn't seen this, but . . . god is it bad. It swerves completely around a number of legitimate complaints and give non-fixes or non-answers in return. Like they keep saying "Moderators will be...I hadn't seen this, but . . . god is it bad. It swerves completely around a number of legitimate complaints and give non-fixes or non-answers in return.
Like they keep saying "Moderators will be able to see sexually-explicit content even on subreddits they don't directly moderate," but that's not the direct issue, IF it's even an issue at all. The direct issue is that without the tools built on Pushshift that allow access to REMOVED content on other subs, spotting and dealing with bad actors gets exponentially harder.
So Reddit admin has bravely addressed a problem no mod ever had.
And the blind are still getting kicked off.
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Comment on Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat to third-party apps in ~tech
ChunkMcHorkle Link ParentEh, maybe. I was a mod a few years back (different account) and honestly, beyond a quick daily browse of the news, my Reddit worldview easily and quickly shrank to just the sub I was modding. So...mods are probably some of the most addicted people on the platform
Eh, maybe. I was a mod a few years back (different account) and honestly, beyond a quick daily browse of the news, my Reddit worldview easily and quickly shrank to just the sub I was modding.
So when I left that gig, I abandoned that account and signed up to a completely different set of subs just to see if there was anything left on Reddit for me, but all in all since then my Reddit usage is a fraction of what it had been before, and part of that is because I just got tired of so much avoidable BS that Reddit admin could easily have addressed, but never did. I see it as a plain old user now, and it's just as repellent.
To give an example, in making the API cost-inaccessible to all third party users, but without ever making good on all their promises over the years to fix the very broken accessibility issues on both the mobile app and the new desktop platform, Reddit is making the site inaccessible to the vast majority of visually impaired users AND breaking the tools of the Transcribers of Reddit. Without even blinking, apparently. It's like it never even occurred to them that they'd be kicking all the blind off Reddit, and now that they know . . . radio silence.
I'm not visually impaired, but morally I am completely repulsed by this. And that's just one more thing on the heap.
Add to that ALL the other crap - paid trolls, repost bots, spam, inconsistent or absent enforcement of community rules, multiple instances of open misconduct by admins, an ongoing refusal to address longstanding issues with both the platform and some of the practices, and now having third-party-dependent mod tools taken from mods, which they created on their own, elsewhere, because Reddit could not or would not - and I think many mods are actually more ready than most to just walk away. The only reason they have not done so is because they still have a love for their community and a passion for the subject they built their subs around.
That's just my opinion as another Reddit rando, take it as such. But the odds against mods have been building for a while, both as mods and as users of the site, and this tips it, IMO.
Even when Victoria was fired, never before have I seen this many mods openly discussing just walking away, openly saying, "If RiF [or Apollo, or Bacon, or whatever] is done, I'm done." The comments on the link you posted are one recent repository of just that sentiment, and that sub has many more. Not, "I hope they pull this back," but, "Maybe it's just time I left."
And maybe it is.
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Comment on Introductions | June 2023, part 1 in ~talk
ChunkMcHorkle LinkHey all. Reddit refugee here. Many thanks to u/young_x (Reddit name) for the invite. I might actually already have a Tildes account somewhere, I've been here before, but it - along with my memory...Hey all. Reddit refugee here. Many thanks to u/young_x (Reddit name) for the invite. I might actually already have a Tildes account somewhere, I've been here before, but it - along with my memory - is long gone, lol.
I do like the long form text, and the differences between Tildes and Reddit do not bother me at all. While I would very much like some of the more niche content Reddit has, in my view it's well worth giving up in exchange for not having to deal with a single bot here, ever, or those paid solely to provoke/propagandize. I may not have anything worthy to say, but I generally put a lot of thought into saying it, and that seems also to be the case with many of the comments I have just read in this thread. So if that is true for all of Tildes, that's a HUGE plus.
I also am enamored that Tildes sees me as a human participant, and not just a warm side of beef to which advertising can be forcibly applied on its way through the content machine. Being beef isn't all bad, and I'll keep my Reddit accounts, but my participation there was fading anyway. The May 1 API lockdown that killed being able to see removed content was when I knew it was almost over, and when old Reddit is completely gone I don't see a way to participate past that.
So thank you! I will probably just lurk for a while, but hope to participate as well. Blessings to all you fine (human) people.
My opinion was painted with a broad brush. The facts I used to support it were not.
And if you look again I was very careful NOT to use all-inclusive language.
That is very clearly not the case, nor do I believe I presented it as such. If you read my statement again carefully, and look at my Reddit account if you like as well (what's left of it) I am very pro mod.
But I would also point out that of the old guard of admins, many more than those who stayed have also left, like your friend. And like your friend, they don't even interact much anymore, if at all. (Example: last I looked, Victoria Taylor kept one "kitty" sub and that is all.) Yet the list of admins and paid employees at Reddit has grown. Given recent events - and even not so recent - do you really think they are against the IPO, or against how Spez is accomplishing that? Are you alleging that Spez is doing this without majority support among his admins?
Because I do not: they are the ones who are going to have to take over the site, and keep it viable, for his IPO to work.
Also, it is a fact that moderator lists are not simply chronological, but the positions therein dictate the rights of all those on it . . . UNLESS you are a site admin. In that case, you have essentially "god rights" over any sub's mod list. Are you disputing this?
With these clarifications in place, I would ask you to read again the original statement you found so non-factual, and ask you again, looking at the mere fact that what is happening at Reddit IS happening, and not in a vacuum without massive admin support:
Is it possible that you overreacted when you labeled my post as not factual?
On Reddit, I'd have walked away already, but here this is important: it dictates how I proceed here. I personally do not make heavy handed false accusations, and primary among them is that I do not label as unfactual or a lie objective statements that are easily proven or disproven, nor do I confuse fact with opinion, nor do I use an attack at fact as a way to argue opinion. I do not believe I have done so here, either.
And for the sake of continuing peace, I need you to address the fact that you categorized my fact-filled post as not factual. This is not an agree/disagree thing, or you "disputing" an opinion, it is you categorizing as false facts that are easily proven or disproven and failing to do so.
It may well be that I do not belong here at Tildes after all, and I don't have much invested here that I can't leave it behind today, but I'd like to stay. So maybe you can specifically address your direct characterization of my statements as non-factual, identifying the false "facts" specifically, and uphold the philosophy I read in the docs. Thank you.