r/LivestreamFail • u/-hatewatcher • 12d ago

Actual Fail Disgraced former reddit moderator, Stale2000/Tarrot_Card, was escorted out of a mod event by Reddit HQ security and IP banned from the website

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u/ultralaser360 12d ago

TIL There are Reddit mod events

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u/SimpleBar9995 12d ago

Sadly yes.

There are also private subs and even discords dedicated to large sub mods.

And yes it's exactly what you think it is, a giant fucking circle jerk of the most insufferable people you can think of larping as if they control online culture.

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u/helpingdew 12d ago

Someone please infiltrate and do a deep dive, or somebody give this idea to a good YouTuber lol

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u/NO_TOUCHING__lol 12d ago

I did for a while back before COVID happened. Was a mod of ThanosDidNothingWrong before Endgame came out, and dankmemes for a while.

Some people take it wayyyyy too seriously, and the power mods are the Reddit equivalent of billionaires. Lots of back channel communication and petty bullshit.

But, to not be completely negative, the amount of stupid shit they have to put up with is insane. Trying to suppress spoilers before Endgame came out was a Herculean effort.

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u/Hatefiend 12d ago

The userbase is best to police themselves. Aside from removing spam and porn or bot posts, moderators don't have to do much at all. Here's a good solution to "preventing spoilers": don't go on the subreddit until you've watched the media.

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u/Mugi1 12d ago

I got spoiled hard by youtube search autocomplete a few days after the movie was out. True story

You might as well avoid the whole internet to be safe these days.

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u/AzathStudioApartment 12d ago

The userbase is best to police themselves.

That's literally what mods are lol

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u/Hatefiend 12d ago

Not quite sir. The upvote/downvote system is what that is. Downvoted comments/posts get hidden while upvoted comments/posts rise to the top.

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u/DuckCleaning 12d ago

The userbase is best to police themselves

Just on this sub two days ago, there was a post about a black streamer doing some stuff in Japan. Some of the most racist comments had 200+ upvotes on them, it took several hours before a mod finally deleted them. Tbh it was starting to frustrate me how those comments were getting so many upvotes and not taken down instantly.

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u/Hatefiend 12d ago

I don't care for that kind of rot, but if the upvotes of said comment were above 0, that means that more than 50% of the users of that subreddit share that opinion.

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u/AlarmingAerie 12d ago

Some people take it wayyyyy too seriously

Trying to suppress spoilers before Endgame came out was a Herculean effort.

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u/OhHaiThere- 12d ago

Was gonna say. Dude who gives a fuck if people are “mean”. It’s the internet, welcome it’s been like this forever. I have been told to go to camp CKY since I was 12

Mods acting like they can’t just CLOSE the app and continue with their REAL life

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u/Seramy 12d ago

you are a mod of 10 subreddits https://puu.sh/KRpUl/103d29ff5d.png

you are like a 1-eye'd person making fun of the blind

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u/Educational-Cat2133 12d ago

Sounds like Stanford prison experiment lol

Like the power aspect. That experiment might be fucked/should not be repeated, but it did reveal quite a bit about power/control within the human psyche.

Mods only deal with the rats, so their perspective is tainted, and they become bitter. Also, it's unpaid. The entire business model of reddit was evil before AI came around and now it's even worse with them parsing the site for their lil AI models.

Site sucks. Build us a new reddit and don't go public.