27 upvotes, 2 direct replies (showing 2)
View submission: Promote ideas, protect people
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Comment by [deleted] at 17/05/2015 at 10:10 UTC*
7 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I have left reddit due to years of admin mismanagement and preferential treatment for certain subreddits and users holding certain political and ideological views.
The situation has gotten especially worse in recent years, culminating in the seemingly unjustified firings of several valuable employees and a severe degradation of this community.
As an act of empowerment, I have chosen to redact all the comments I've ever made on reddit, overwriting them with this message so that this abomination of what our website used to be no longer grows and profits on our original content.
If you would like to do the same, install TamperMonkey[1] for Chrome, GreaseMonkey[2] for Firefox, NinjaKit[3] for Safari, Violent Monkey[4] for Opera, or AdGuard[5] for Internet Explorer (in Advanced Mode), then add this GreaseMonkey script[6].
1: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tampermonkey/dhdgffkkebhmkfjojejmpbldmpobfkfo
2: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/
3: https://github.com/os0x/NinjaKit
4: https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/violent-monkey/
6: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/10905-reddit-overwrite-extended
Finally, click on your username at the top right corner of reddit, click on comments, and click on the new OVERWRITE button at the top of the page. You may need to scroll down to multiple comment pages if you have commented a lot.
After doing all of the above, you are welcome to join me in an offline society.
Comment by calf at 16/05/2015 at 08:41 UTC*
-4 upvotes, 1 direct replies
around 5% of the total responding population!
You missed my point. You cannot actually assume validity or saliency based on whether the information is associated with a minority source. These are not extrapolations; these are assumptions being held when different people make interpretations. All I did was explicitly describe an alternative interpretation that would explain the admin's motives. I do not necessarily agree with their motives, but I think this interpretation is plausible. All of this was in the first part of what I said, and so I don't think you understood this.
We have no idea until we actually go out and ask this from non-Redditors.
Actually, no. Institutions use exit interviews for exactly the rationale that I suggested. You did not consider this, and tried to make the predictable appeal (that most people are invested in other online media).
heavy handed moderation and censorship? What about the user experience of that minority?
I explicitly stated that my critique was restricted to the OP's comment. I clearly stated that. I guess you didn't fully read my comment, which is problematic for me because I think that readers tend to take away the wrong impression when they do that.
As to the existence of complaints about perceived over moderation, its salience to the problem of *harassment* is moot and that should be obvious. Your logic was sloppy here anyways.
And all of this is discounting the very valid point made by /u/rwbj and others, which is that the population sampled is miniscule
No, I do see a multiple problems with the moderators' approach. But again, I stated at the outset what the aims of my comment were. /u/rwbj wrote an interesting post and I took it as an exercise to follow the logic of his points.