Surprising that this bug hit only NSFW and LGBT subs no? Almost sounds like there’s a shortlist to run through with such scripts.
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- shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish1 year
They just have that ban loaded and ready to go… for reasons…
1 yearGotta keep the historical moment in context. If Harris had won, these bans wouldn’t be going through.
The “WhitePeopleTwitter” sub got axed for outing Elon’s IT goons infiltrating the Treasury. Now that he’s on the sub, he’s probably got his legal/PR team sending threatening letters to Reddit admins for anything he finds personally upsetting.
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- phughes@lemmy.caEnglish1 year
Just like Facebook’s search “accidentally” suppressing Democrat searches. Firstly, why would you have that ready to “accidentally” deploy? Secondly, There’s no way something like that gets enabled without multiple levels of manager approval. Facebook isn’t some startup where anyone can push code to production.
- PassingThrough@lemm.eeEnglish1 year
Some other platforms also tested and reversed blockages on democratic and anti-trump sentiment. That was a “bug” too. https://archive.is/BkVAi
How quickly we forget, which I guess is the point.
- Bakkoda@sh.itjust.worksEnglish1 year
Think about how easy it was for them to both “turn it off” and “turn it back on” and then realize that’s not a place you should rely on.
Because it is very difficult to monitor, investors tend to hate it, and they have issues with CSAM being shared on site (while making it neigh impossible to address).
- 1 year
Oh, a “bug”. Just like how Zuck’s platforms banned the word “democrat” because of a “bug”, right?
These bugs seem oddly specific lately.
- 1 year
They released the censorship update too early that was the bug.
- 1 year
Lol. They accidentally switched on their new feature and called it a bug.
So the question is, why did they make the feature?
My guess is that they built it to convince investors that they could jettison entire userbases at the push of a button. In particular, investors of the silicon valley bigotry kind- 1 year
“Hahaha! And THEN we tested it and blamed it on a bug! Those poor fucking morons have no idea how little control they have.” 🤣🤣
-Spezticle
- 1 year
The puritanical hypocrite kind too. Probably has a lot of overlap with the bigots
Ban-Unban-Ban-Unban-Ban until using the site is obnoxious and participation plunges. Then start removing mods for arbitrarily enforced infractions. Seed in your own corporate friendly goons. They start banning active users and veteran accounts. Eventually, the whole sub just becomes reposts of ten year old Blåhaj memes and photoshopped/AI-generated random people waving rainbow flags with comments too generic for a Markov Chain.
Its a strategy Reddit Admins have been using since 2012 to “clean up” a popular sub without actually killing it. Look Don’t Touch is the future of Reddit.
- 1 year
Same shit as taking government programs away for a few hours the other day. It’s a small preview to gauge reaction.
- Z3k3@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
Ban everything.
Say oops reverse the ban.
Miss the ones you were actually going after while no one is looking
- 1 year
They remove NSFW content and they lose their whole market.
They are not the platform they think they are.
Reddit is basically an onlyfans ad platform.
- 1 year
What can you do but laugh, man. It took what, a few hours for them to remember what happened to Tumblr and try to walk this back? God, can’t even commit to licking boots…
- 1 year
URL without the unnecessary tracking bit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/1ii67mt/communities_are_banned_again_for_being_unmoderated/mb3fewv/
and without the unnecessary reddit bit: https://red.ngn.tf/r/ModSupport/comments/1ii67mt/communities_are_banned_again_for_being_unmoderated/mb3fewv/
A bug or a warning shot? I’m sure they would prefer all of them to quit by themselves so they look less evil
