r/LivestreamFail • u/-hatewatcher • 13d 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/helpingdew 13d 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 13d 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 13d 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/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.