Is Reddit controlled by the powers that be?

G-MAN2004 said:
I recently read that 5 moderators control something like 20% of the top 500 subs, and it's likely they're being paid by corporations to push agendas and control what is being posted.

Makes sense really. If you're going to be a loser that sits on reddit moderating all day, you might as well make a bit of cash on the side.
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First bit seems to be true, not sure if they’re paid necessarily. There do seem to be some aspects whereby you can game the system a bit. Potentially open to abuse by paid shills as you suggest, anyone wanting to influence public opinion or indeed just people with too much time on their hands.
 
NVP said:
Nonsense, mumsnet is at least navigable.
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Screenbeat said:
I really don't get Reddit or want to!!

That goes for ******* etc etc!!!
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What about Facebook? I find that hard to navigate at best of times. I post something and then I don't know where it ends up and then family members ask me to delete it due to a conflict of interest. On a forum like here though, there is a structure and I can search my old posts. Also, I don't get the difference between a group and a 'liked' page. On the left nav bar I can pin my favourite groups but there isn't an easy way or jump-list to the liked pages. And then there is the 'like' button where you like someone's post. I mainly use the like button on fanart / cosplay type pics but there is no clear way to find those likes again. At least with deviantART, you can trace your likes (faves) as you can categorise them into folders which visually makes sense to me.
 
With respect, I don't think anyone has ever said "at least with deviantART" meaning to suggest that deviantArt is somehow better than any other platform :D

Isn't it still there to cater for furry pr0n and other, uh, niche areas of interest?
 
Reddit has some excellent material if you look in the right places and, unlike some other forums, it actually has people who know what they're talking about. :p

The askhistorians and ELI5 can be great.

As for the politics, there is still a broad scope of persuasions present, even after the culling of many of the far-right loonfests.
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
What about Facebook? I find that hard to navigate at best of times. I post something and then I don't know where it ends up and then family members ask me to delete it due to a conflict of interest. On a forum like here though, there is a structure and I can search my old posts. Also, I don't get the difference between a group and a 'liked' page. On the left nav bar I can pin my favourite groups but there isn't an easy way or jump-list to the liked pages. And then there is the 'like' button where you like someone's post. I mainly use the like button on fanart / cosplay type pics but there is no clear way to find those likes again. At least with deviantART, you can trace your likes (faves) as you can categorise them into folders which visually makes sense to me.
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Facebook sucks ballzz too!!

Ultimately all these sites are going to create arguments! When we were once having a discussion down the pub between our friends has now become a free for all!!

It can't work! Given various levels of intellect
 
It's a strange mix of helpful and massively destructive place for information. If you are very much focused on a few subjects, it's fine. Just be sure to stay away from eveything else on it. It's a highly hypocritical cess pool on the whole. Also they seem to think what they think matters. It doesn't, it still only a very small amount of people that pay attention to it. Also yes, there has been some very questionable moderating and censorship on certain parts.
 
Reddit is a great site. There are people on there who actually come across as normal. Most forums contain a large proportion of negative posters. Those who have plenty of time to waste replying to threads they have absolutely no interest in, just so people are aware of their opinion. I don't get that feeling from reddit.

The technical subreddits are great, better than technet etc etc

Technet for example became a lost cause years ago. It's just filled with 1st line MS helpers who post links to MS white papers. Reddit is full of people who have actually been there and done it.

The subreddits for watches is good as well, plenty of info.

There used to be quite dark subreddits back in the day, but the FBI closed them all down.

Reddit reminds me of how the internet used to be, back in the day. It's one of the few places left.
 
Reddit is so huge that there are good and bad parts of it. I use a couple of the subreddits for very specific things. For example r/thinkpad can hold a lot of information (but can be a bit fanboyish). r/startup contains a lot of useful discussion on starting a business (although it tends to be very US focused). r/onebag is great if you're looking for advice on reducing the amount of carp you take when travelling.

But there is a lot of dross subreddits too. Like anything there is good and bad there.
 
Devilman said:
That may indeed have been the case. Though I am not really sure what else they expected? - It's like saying "too many of the OCUK Forums have the same moderators, too much power!!!" Of course multiple different forum sections have the same moderators.

"Too much power" over whom exactly? There are alternatives to reddit.. people can even create their "own" reddit if they wanted to and wield their own "power" as much as they liked.
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I think you’re completely missing the point here. The analogy is poor, OCUK is run on behalf of a single entity with a single mod team.

The issue the poster is referring to is re: different independent forums set up for different purposes often by different people.

There is some feature whereby the mod accounts being inactive for some period of time allows for others to take over forums on reddit, some people have used scripts to do this... so people with no previous interest perhaps even in the content of the forum. Perhaps they really like moderating stuff as a hobby or perhaps they want control/influence over a bunch of forums for their own purposes - whether that involves making money, influencing an agenda etc...

It’s not necessarily very good for the forums themselves - imagine the sort of inbox/set of alerts etc.. one of these super mods who just likes to moderate (cos he’s a bit obsessed with reddit) will have, probs not much time to look at context, posting histories of the people interacting etc... for example say a Brit tells an Aussie, jokingly “bloody immigrant, too many of you lot in London, why don’t you go home”... obviously out of context and at face value that post would look very racist, so super mod skim reads and action is taken... onto the other several hundred reports... The mod perhaps doesn’t interact much in the community and isn’t really a part of it, because they moderate so many forums.

Now for the people doing it because they have some other purpose beyond just being really keen on moderating as a hobby... well they could end up shaping a forum towards their views, censoring things they don’t like, promoting things they do like etc...
 
Personally, I love reddit. It's great for focusing on forums of certain interests. There are some terrible subs but plenty of fantastic ones I find interesting.

RE Boxing: That punch wasn't lucky as these are Pros and Povetkin is no slouch considering he won an Olympic gold. I just think it was so against the state of play that it seemed lucky.

It was lucky in the sense that he was almost out of the fight the round prior but I don't feel comfortable calling it a lucky punch. Was properly gutted for Whyte though. Been waiting for his WBC shot for years and always takes 50:50 fights. It's not like he was beaten up during the fight, he just got caught with a fantastic uppercut (which he seems to have trouble defending at the best of times - Joshua, Rivas and now Povetkin have all dropped or stopped Dylan with the same punch). He can maake the adjustments - like stop leaning over ffs - and I think he could win the rematch. I wouldn't bet on him but if he fights long and carry on using his jab the way he did in the first fight, he'll be fine.
 
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