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View submission: Reddit's Decline in Democracy
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Comment by [deleted] at 13/05/2009 at 21:00 UTC
43 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Yeah, I'd be the first to agree that reddit has its fair share of problems as a community, but the fact that there are scripts banning spam is *not* one of them. Unless you're a spammer.
Comment by MechaAaronBurr at 13/05/2009 at 23:16 UTC
11 upvotes, 0 direct replies
So this guy's just crying because he's butthurt about getting nicked for spamming. What a bunch of bullshit.
Comment by [deleted] at 14/05/2009 at 00:33 UTC
5 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Even so, pointing out that several popular subreddits that really should be community-run are moderator-run (and they may possibly have a hidden agenda). This is particularly worrisome in r/politics and r/worldnews where the potential for partisan abuse is quite high.
Yes, I know, "subreddits are communities not categories" but the Reddit staff really should have snapped up some of the more obvious ones.
(Caveat: I have created one subreddit (r/tf2) and am the sole moderator of it- never had to do any moderating though. If Reddit sent me a message tomorrow saying Valve wanted control of it I'd gladly do so.)
Comment by technosaur at 13/05/2009 at 20:57 UTC
8 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Maybe he has an agenda; I don't know. But is the basic issue true? Are the major subreddits owned or controlled by individual redditors or small groups of reddits?
Comment by [deleted] at 13/05/2009 at 23:17 UTC*
5 upvotes, 2 direct replies
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Comment by [deleted] at 13/05/2009 at 20:55 UTC
-4 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Not all SEO guys are spammers! There really is a lot you can do to legitimately make a piece of content rank better, which has nothing to do with incoming links (read: spam).
Comment by [deleted] at 13/05/2009 at 20:42 UTC
-15 upvotes, 2 direct replies
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