Further undelete drama involving the addition of cojoco. Creq is sure the sub has been compromised. (np.reddit.com)
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30 comments submitted at 23:09:12 on Jul 3, 2014 by lifestyled
Further undelete drama involving the addition of cojoco. Creq is sure the sub has been compromised. (np.reddit.com)
SubredditDrama
24 ups - 0 downs = 24 votes
30 comments submitted at 23:09:12 on Jul 3, 2014 by lifestyled
I still don't quite get what Creq's deal is. Is he just some paranoid dude who got made mod on /r/technology as an olive branch to the leterally NSA crowd? Is he the Robespierre to /r/technology's shitty ass levolution? Why is he criticizing people for modding subs with "those who wish to censor reddit" when he's a mod on a default sub? Why does anyone care about this shit?
I'm sure this doesn't make a lot of sense from your perspective. I just know this groups of people and know they're no good. They're what's known as "metacancer". They fuck up subs. I guess they get a kick out of it or something. Who knows. I just know this won't be good for undelete.
>Why is he criticizing people for modding subs with "those who wish to censor reddit" when he's a mod on a default sub? Why does anyone care about this shit?
I've always been against censorship. It was that way long before I exposed the list of banned keywords on /r/technology and became a mod there. It was that way even before I helped grow /r/undelete from around 30 people to where it is now. That's why I care.
While /r/technology is not a default it is no longer censored in no small part due to me. And as long as I'm a mod there it will never be.
>metacancer
All my lols
Edit: I'd like to thank Creq for bringing the drama here to the motherland.
Add meta in front of something and it's instantly more noteworthy.
Classic examples include:
Metagame
Metaknight
Metamorph
Metaphysics
Metagene
Metaclown
Metashark
Metatroll
^^Results ^^may ^^or ^^may ^^not ^^be ^^factual. ^^If ^^you ^^believe ^^any ^^of ^^this ^^consult ^^your ^^doctor. ^^Meta ^^is ^^not ^^for ^^everyone. ^^Meta ^^responsibly.
If there's a metabolic, is there's just a bolic?
Yep. That's the fun logic behind it. Whether or not the word is real after taking out (or putting in) meta or not is a different question.
I know right lol. The terms suits them well though. If you'd like to see some more go check out /r/oppression.
Oh you did away with the skellies. The downside is now mobile users can see your joeks.
Bonus interview with BPB here !
> They fuck up subs.
I dunno, personally I feel like you did more to fuck up /r/technology than anyone else I've seen on this site.
Then again, /r/247snowdenwatch was harder to type than /r/technology.
Depends on how you look at it I guess. I'd say I did a lot to fix it not fuck it up. The way it was was fucked up. The mods there made it their mission to intentionally remove almost all of the top content by censoring a huge list of keywords.
Now as you can plainly see by looking at /r/technology/top, most of the content on that entire sub of all time was actually posted after the censorship stopped in the last 3 months.... Sure fixing the problem wasn't pretty but what I did worked. I have no regrets.
Edit: The content that made it to the top also did so after a good portion left (because they were mad about the censorship) and it was no longer a default. I think that says a hell of a lot about what those mods were doing over there.
> I'd say I did a lot to fix it not fuck it up.
By turning a sub meant for technology into a sub that circlejerks about politics tangentially related to technology?
>Now as you can plainly see by looking at /r/technology/top
Let's read the top flairs!
Business, Politics, Politics, Business, Politics, Polotics, Polotics, Polotics, Polotics, Polotics, Business, Business, Technology.
On the /r/technology subreddit you have to go down 13 links in the month's top voted submissions to find 1 technology post. There's one more tech post in the top 25. /r/technology sucks at discussing actually technology now (although it's great if you want to circlejerk about the FCC!).
/r/tech banned all the politics like they said they weren't going to then it died because it turned into a borefest. No matter what everyone isn't going to be happy. At least this way more people are happy.
It's clear that your preference is for an open faucet over the curation of content. You are very dedicated to it, I will give that to you.
IMO, principles are critical, but it's not a binary. Stick too firmly to your principles, and pretty soon they're all you have.
/r/Technology NEVER WAS CENSORED!!!!! It was moderated. There is a difference. You clearly misuse the word censor for your own political reasons. /r/Technology is now nothing more than /r/Politics without a mod-team of any value.
david you guys made it a point to delete all the top content off the sub. I don't call that moderation I call that being fucking idiots. I moderate /r/technology, I'm not there to try to control the dialog like you guys were. The sub is better now than ever.
> top content
Serious question-if I posted only cat pictures on /r/technology, and they were upvoted to the top, would you leave them there?
While I'm against censorship in order for the sub to function there does need to be some rules. Image submission are currently not allowed as those are the rules of the sub. Unlike the old mods though our rules actually reflect what we allow and what we remove. What's different is we laid down ground rules for the whole community to see and then enforced them consistently no matter the kind of content submitted. We don't try to decide what is and what isn't "technology" related when whatever is submitted is at least in some way related to technology.
I couldn't happier with the result.
> We don't try to decide what is and what isn't "technology" related when whatever is submitted is at least in some way related to technology.
Could I post only pictures of cats next to cellphones? How about cute cats licking pictures of Edward Snowden?
The guy that created the no-image rule in /r/technology says hello!
Good moderators are there to remove content that does not belong. In the case of /r/Technology a moderator is there to check that the content is about TECHNOLOGY. Politics has a home for it in /r/Politics.
Good moderators remove bad content. And /r/Technology is nearly all now bad content.
/r/History does not allow Holocaust denial. We will ban for it immediately. /r/AskHistorians will as well. And so does /r/HistoryPorn. They all remove it because it's anti-historical bullshit.
Just as politics is anti-technology.
It's not censorship to ask somebody to submit their bullshit to another subreddit. That's a moderator doing his job. You refuse to do your job.
To be fair david, doing nothing can be a mod's job, if that's the sub's policy. I completely agree that results in a shitty sub, but some people prioritize absolute freedom to the point where they're willing to sacrifice quality content. That's a valid stance even if you and I wouldn't value the result.
Of course, most of them think the former leads to the latter, and those people are deranged.
Actually, according to the rules of Reddit there is a set min. level of content that all mods must remove from their subreddit regardless of their own personal views.
DOX is not allowed. Spam is not allowed. Child pornography is not allowed.
Any mod that tries to allow any of those things will find that the admins removed them and/or their subreddit entirely.
>Just as politics is anti-technology.
Oh dear god. Yeah, try telling that to all the cypherpunks lol.
What you call censorship, I call a step in the right direction to stop the "DEA love Tesla/hate ISP/Google overlord that is the uninteresting nature of /r/technology right now.