Comment by mickaelbneron on 03/01/2025 at 16:51 UTC

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View submission: On Reddit's moderation system creating a reddit-wide echo chamber

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Community could handle trolls and spammers via downvoting and ignoring, and a better Reddit spam detection algorithm.

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Comment by liquidpele at 03/01/2025 at 17:11 UTC

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This brings up an interesting point too... there seems to be some psychology in play where mods are reluctant to let downvotes handle things and feel the need to take action on everything and anything, as if they're playing a farm simulator and keeping their fields clean in some kind of skinner box scenario.