about 50% content is like this, no matter what view you select. I think /r/pics has the right idea; it is so dominating. Other subs should change their post to be like this (with their own messages) I think.
Also, what sub did spez mod in 2008?
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I think the comments said he was a mod of jailbait. Yeah… tells a lot about the guy.
As much as I hate this guy, could we please stick to the facts and criticise him for things that he actually did?
From what I can see, spez did not moderate jailbait. He was added by one of the other mods because back then you could just add people as mods without their consent. I have yet to see proof that he ever actively participated in that sub.
So please, go ahead, dislike him for being a lying jerk who‘s actively killing reddit but don’t jump on something that someone else did without asking.
I agree. I will continue despising him for being a nutjob prepper, restoring the KiA sub after the founder deleted it (because even he saw it as a toxic shithole) and protecting the brigaders from t_D because “vAlUaBlE DiScUsSiOn”.
That god damn sub was the start of the fall of that site. They were openly allowed to brigade the rest of the sub, manipulate voting, and spew constant hate speech and blatant misinformation, all so spez could keep his new bots and Russian trolls. Reddit really never recovered from it and I’d go as far to say that site was one of the main causes of the insurrection.
I might be wrong but my memory suggests that Reddit was basically forced to eventually act in the removal of that sub and they let it and many other questionable subs linger and prosper for a long time until it became too big to ignore.
Then let’s focus on that instead of made up accusations.
They usually let them go until something blew up on mainstream news. For jailbait, it got in national TV news. Then it came down. Before that? Not a peep.
Out of the handful of good things CNN did, demonstrating the failure of libertarianism and getting r/jailbait banned is near the top.
My eyes are screaming just looking at the new.reddit UI.
Sometimes it’s good to be reminded what an abomination it actually is.
Yeah this “new” redesign is really horrific. I really don’t understand why they did this. I get that they have old.reddit for now, but if that goes Reddit will really be completely unusable.
I really feel like they’re making an instagram clone instead of a discussion forum. The whole site is becoming more and more image dominated. So sad :(
I just looked. Every post except AITA is a protest post
Ironic in a way that AITA is still up
i’m having the opposite experience, they’re showing me all open subs - some that i used to subscribe to (probably because they have my IP)
He was listed as a mod on /r/jailbait. While the man deserves pretty much all that’s coming his way, this part is mostly constantly repeated misinformation.
Back then you could add anyone as a mod to your subreddit without their confirmation or agreement. Every admin was listed as a mod on tons of subreddits.
Still, this is what happens when you rile up an angry mob against yourself.
All Iget now is an error page and nothing loads, not even ads.
Same. Reddit borked
On r/all in Slide, I have 3 black “killing apps” pics followed by 3 other protest posts, and then it’s just normal. I respect that not everyone wishes to join the protest, but it would have been more fun if protest posts went on for at least a couple pages.
I think that’s allready pretty good because many people who are against these changes will just probably stop participating on reddit at all during the protest and thereby not influence what’s on the front page.
They might be getting DDOS. Website is messed up and won’t even load for me now. LOL.
me too “you broke reddit”
everybody who ever had an account refreshing to see what will happen lol
I think it was r/jailbait
I just wish they’d link to lemmy! It’s almost pointless to just shut down for a few days and not make people use competitors.
As a mod I’ve been considering this, but with the amount of moderators and communities that have been banned for attempting to steer their users to alternatives, it’s simply not worth the risk. For now, I’ve just linked visitors to our Discord server instead, and people should be able to find the Lemmy and Raddle alternatives there if they wish to.
This is actually illegal, if they ban you for that they’re violating the GDPR, so i’d say let them.
edit: this is wrong, I thought twitters ban on mentioning mastodon was lifted because of the GDPR, i’ll need to research this more
Wait, how is the GDPR applicable here? I thought the GDPR was just about data protection…
GDPR is absolutely not applicable here. Their platform, their rules when it comes to what people can and can’t post (with the exception of personal information, that is covered by GDPR). If tomorrow they decide that commenting the word “Banana” is a bannable offence, they’re well within their rights.
*Bananable offence.
Exactly. Shutting down for 2 days just says we’ll be back in 2 days. Shutting down and saying we’re going to Lemmy with a link to a specific community shows reddit we are serious about this.
I’ve been spamming https://join-lemmy.org everywhere I could just before the shutdown. /r/gonewild banned me for posting the link LOL
Lemmy is too wild for GW.
I think the link to a replicated (specific) community is the key.
Some of them are. I visited a couple subs that went dark yesterday, and they had popup messages with fediverse lnks.
Also, what sub did spez mod in 2008?
asking the real questions
For us who don’t know. What sub did he mod?
Jailbait
For real? Oh my god…
Kind of. You could add anybody as a mod to your sub and it would auto-approve the addition at the time.
The bad part is really that he allowed that sub to begin with, and was aware of it without taking any action. Running a site with entirely user-generated content isn’t easy, but that was definitely some low-hanging fruit there
