290 upvotes, 12 direct replies (showing 12)
View submission: Let's talk content. AMA.
How do plan on determining who is an authentic member of a subreddit?
If I make a few posts to /r/ShitRedditSays and then go harass members of /r/kotakuinaction or /r/theredpill would that then be enough to get /r/shitredditsays banned?
How do you hope to combat strategies such as this?
Comment by FluentInTypo at 16/07/2015 at 22:49 UTC
6 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Seriously. I am a member of many conflicting political subreddits because I am "independant". I do not fully subscribe to any political party, hence, I think there are some very dumb people and idea in *all* parties and say so. Can /r/liberal report me as 'not authentic' if I dare question a comment/post and "its well known" from my post history that I frequent /r/conservative and /r/libertarian? Now repeat that last question swapping all the parties around and guess what? I could be banned from all the political subs.
Comment by [deleted] at 16/07/2015 at 20:32 UTC
28 upvotes, 2 direct replies
I don't think so. They posted earlier that they won't ban subs outright for individual users and are putting tools in place for mods to help with this issue.
Comment by smeezekitty at 16/07/2015 at 20:58 UTC
79 upvotes, 1 direct replies
SRS does this on a regular basis. As far as I am concerned, they SHOULD be banned if they don't stop it. Even if the sidebar says not to brigade, the mods to nothing to stop it.
Comment by Logan_Mac at 16/07/2015 at 20:51 UTC
86 upvotes, 1 direct replies
SRS could organize sending bomb threats to Reddit HQ and they still wouldn't ban them
Comment by blarg_industries at 16/07/2015 at 21:13 UTC
26 upvotes, 1 direct replies
How do you hope to combat strategies such as this?
Prediction: they won't. There will be one set of rules for favored subs, like SRS, and one rule for all the rest - the same as now.
Comment by FartingSunshine at 16/07/2015 at 23:17 UTC
11 upvotes, 1 direct replies
They are trying to be as vague as possible so that /r/shitredditsays can always considered not to be in violation. Period.
Comment by [deleted] at 16/07/2015 at 21:21 UTC
4 upvotes, 2 direct replies
I'm no admin, but I imagine it comes down to activity ON a sub. If there are a bunch of users who organize a brigade on a sub and the sub does nothing about it, then they're representative of that sub. If nothing has happened within the sub, and yet there's a large number of subscribers harrassing other areas of reddit, then I think the subs on the receiving end should ban the trouble users, and possibly coordinate with mods of subs that they appear to be associated with to confirm whether the sub itself is at fault, or so that those other mods can do damage control to protect their sub.
Comment by InternetWeakGuy at 16/07/2015 at 20:43 UTC
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
It seems to me that the mod tools they're talking about will allow them to identify the actual community members from the shit stirrers.
Comment by Tetragramatron at 17/07/2015 at 07:31 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
This is a good argument for a hands off approach. Not that I'm ultimately in favor of that but it's a valid issue to consider.
Comment by [deleted] at 16/07/2015 at 21:43 UTC
0 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Red arm bands. They will be issued apon accepting the new terms of service. Any one with an arm band will have their free expression protected from others free speech. Its a victory for free expression unparalleled by even the founders of the United States
Comment by IlllllI at 17/07/2015 at 01:11 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Please do this. SRS needs to go far away.
Comment by frenris at 16/07/2015 at 22:48 UTC
-1 upvotes, 1 direct replies
It's strange, when I read equivalencies like this I always get the sense that the people making them *want* SRS banned - despite the fact they're making pro speech posts.