Surprising that this bug hit only NSFW and LGBT subs no? Almost sounds like there’s a shortlist to run through with such scripts.
This is how “ask reddit after dark” a NSFW group discussed it
Is there list of subreddit bans that were not reversed?
Oh, a “bug”. Just like how Zuck’s platforms banned the word “democrat” because of a “bug”, right?
These bugs seem oddly specific lately.
They released the censorship update too early that was the bug.
They just have that ban loaded and ready to go… for reasons…
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.
Gotta 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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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.
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).
Ban everything.
Say oops reverse the ban.
Miss the ones you were actually going after while no one is looking
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 kindThe puritanical hypocrite kind too. Probably has a lot of overlap with the bigots
“Hahaha! And THEN we tested it and blamed it on a bug! Those poor fucking morons have no idea how little control they have.” 🤣🤣
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reversed for now, we’ll see how long it lasts
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.
Same shit as taking government programs away for a few hours the other day. It’s a small preview to gauge reaction.
Taking notes from Zuckerberg, I see.
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/
After clicking on the link, I have a few thoughts
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ew, gross (haven’t been to reddit in a year, and time/enshittification has not been kind to it)
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we should consider a warning for bare reddit links
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this may have been an error, like a script being run in prod that shouldn’t have been but it was not a bug. That isn’t a technical assessment, it is a human assessment.
this may have been an error, like a script being run in prod that shouldn’t have been but it was not a bug. That isn’t a technical assessment, it is a human assessment.
True as that may be, it’s very suspicious that the only subs affected by this bug where porn and lgbt ones. I posit they were working off a predefined subreddit shortlist which are already on the chopping block.
Yes certainly. Part of the mistake was disclosing that there is some mechanism by which such specific communities can be shut down so quickly. You can disclose that capability by accident, but you can’t have that capability by accident.
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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.
“Just a bug” is the new “just a joke”
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…
A bug or a warning shot? I’m sure they would prefer all of them to quit by themselves so they look less evil
Was a test run coordinated with the whitehouse to gauge public reaction. The actual purge will be coming shortly and will involve way more than reddit. All is function comrade citizen, continue at the working job.
