So yeah… maybe the turtle slowly waking up that he was just a Laptog for reddit and thrown away as soon as they didnt need him anymore ( moderation is allways a volunteer thing and shouldnt be like a 2nd job ).
Lol.
An actual bad person when given mod status in too many subs: “This site is great”
Site admins ban him and deny appeals
The bad person: “This site is exploitative!!”
Reddit sucks, but this is probably the one good thing to come from Reddits recent actions.
Fully agree. Power mods like him are a huge problem on reddit and I hope this will not repeat in the fediverse.
I mean, the benefit to Lemmy is that it is easy to create a new instance to replace ones controlled by power hungry mods.
Sure, I just hope it plays out like that. I can easily imagine a situation where instances or communities get too big to fail. What’s the point in creating a splinter community where 10 or 100 users migrate to when all the content and discussion takes place in the original community.
On reddit I had started boringdystopia despite there already being the bigger aboringdystopia because I disliked the moderation. I surprisingly saw decent growth in the sub as well.
So just because there’s a bigger “original” out there, doesn’t mean you can’t do well and make a working community.
Ya thats what i wonder bc that kinda happened on reddit.
Ya but how easy would it be to get people to actually move there. Even tho on Reddit theres a rule against duplicate subs there were ways around that (like “real___” or “___uncensored”) but the problem was that some ppl just didnt care about poor conduct and the replacement subs sometime ended up not taking off or being overrun by an extreme group (tho sometime it did work.) So I wonder about that here bc a lot of ppl use that to say this isnt a problem here
You dont even need to go to a new instance you can just join another comunity on a different server
trying to encourage a code of morality, as seen in my post for mildly infuriating a few days ago mentioning some of the actions these moderators had done against the community and why they are bad for the health of it.
I hope being one of the large communities it offers a template for those to follow, I might not always get it right but I hope to do my best to eliminate it here. Bad mods ruined reddit.
Bad mods weren’t the only thing contributing to the downfall of Reddit. Infact, Id argue most moderators of Reddit were genuinely good and helped foster each subreddit community in a reasonable manner. As with all things that involve humans, there will always be bad actors, but I think overall I had maybe 2 instances I can remember in all my 14 years of Reddit where a bad moderator removed content because they didnt agree with it.
It will but they’ll be server admins instead.
Hopefully no instance ever becomes too popular by itself where this will heavily affect everyone though.
I think the fuck was effectively the last of the five no life mods.
Three where perma banned and 1 just stopped showing up (there are rumors that he died power tripping)
Aaaaaand he’s gone
What a wonderful day!
🦀🦀🦀
Well that’s not what I meant when I said to suspend akwardtheturtle but I guess it succeeded.
It’s almost hilarious that this guy was given a taste of his own medicine.
Oh, is that’s who it is? If so, fuck them.
Weren’t they a massive dick about as well, it wasn’t just an accusation without evidence.
Seems like everyone here deserves eachother.
This case is actually even funnier because that mod turned out to be right! The art was AI generated! Aspects of other people’s watermarks and other AI giveaways were left in the final art so either the whole picture was ai generated and the sketches were done after or it’s all AI generated.
Are you sure about that? I know that was the case with some recent AI-accused artists, but I haven’t seen this specific case mentioned.
The reason I ask is that:
A. There’s nothing I can find online. If you have a link, I’d love to be proven wrong.
B. After looking again art the image in question from January of this year, I don’t see any watermarks or AI tells (hands look perfect and natural, and I couldn’t spot any watermark residuals).
Image Transcription: Reddit
This website is exploitative garbage with no respect given to all the app makers and third party developers that have kept its decrepit heart beating all this time, submitted by /u/awkwardtheturtle to /u/awkwardtheturtle
/u/spez is a liar and a hypocrite, the admins are two-faced goons, and they are all toxic embarrassments instead of people. They seemed ok when I met them in person (though tiny Spez did seem like he had a lot to compensate for), but promises and assurances from people like chtorrr and redtaboo have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are stooges, not innovators.
Let it all burn to the ground where this useless website belongs
I’m a human volunteer content transcriber and you could be too!
I can’t wait for the future where ai can very reliably transcribe anything for the blind folks out there so they can freely browse stuff like we all do.
Good human
I would take anything this chode says with a huge grain of salt, but it was pretty clear that he was buddies with admins and other “power”-mods because he was not only getting away with stuff that others were getting banned for left and right, but I personally have been perma-banned for “harassment” a couple times for even bringing up their toxic behavior and why I think it was a problem to different mod teams.
Anyway they’re mentally unwell, their dick is small and they can go fuck themselves.
Decent guys with small dicks are twenty miles above this turd.
I don’t particularly feel bad for you.
Turtle is the most drama-seeking person I’ve seen on Reddit and I’ve been there a long time. They always seek out drama and then screenshot it and post it to r/CenturyClubDrama. They contribute like 80% of the total posts to that sub. They also post really long rants and then ban the person they’re ranting at so the person can’t comment back. Don’t be like turtle.
That fucking CenturyClub bullshit; I lasted about 2 days after getting invited to the subreddit a few years ago. What a morass of powermod drama queens and groupthink twats. For some god-unknown reason, I got an re-invite during the protest blackouts from one of their mods, no clue why. Because they were going to talk me out of shutting down a +1M sub?
The two bad guys fighting each other,
just like in RussiaThey’re still fighting, just not in public view .
Please let them stay away from the Fediverse… Stay the fuck away from Lemmy and Kbin. Get out, touch grass and eat some ice cream but stay away from us.
I also think we should be weary of people asking to be mods and if anyone you do make a mod acts like turdle you remove them as a mod and ban them
Agree.
Also Mmmm, its not too early for ice cream is it?
It’s never to early for ice-cream (or to late for that matter).
Is it ever?
I decided to agree, and ate the ice cream despite the time of day.
Major “you can’t fire me, I quit!” vibes
Man, the only person i hate more than spez on reddit is the turtlefuck. Hope they both have nightmares about a world without cookies.
How could you wish such a horrible thing upon anyone?! :'D
I once reported them for a blatant rule violation and got a response from Reddit admin in seconds rejecting the report. Guess awkward knew where spez buried the bodies or something? Must have been nice to have a bot auto-rejecting reports of their bad behavior.
Should platforms like kbin/lemmy/etc have limits to how many magazines/categories a single user can moderate?
Wouldn’t this just encourage alt accounts to get around the rule? You’re only hiding it with sockpuppets instead of allowing it to happen transparently.
I still think it’s a good idea. You can create alts to get around bans for instance, but it’s a powerful mod tool nonetheless. Most people will see the rule and stop there, and if they don’t then it’s a good way to justify an IP ban for repeat offenders.
As an aside, the thought of the kind of person that would break rules so that they can provide extra unpaid labor makes me queasy.
If the admin find out they can then take action
You could do it per email address, at least on platforms where your account is tied to one. Doesn’t stop it, but if you’re only allowed to mod 5 communities, you’d need a lot of sock puppet emails to mod 1000+.
If you own a domain, it’s trivial to set up a catch-all redirect to your real email address. I, for example, have this account linked to lemmy_world_grue@example.com. With the maximum length of an email address being 254 characters and the “lemmy_world_” and “@example.com” parts taking up 24 characters, I could create up to 350! - 1 (yes, that’s a factorial) more usernames, each linked to a corresponding unique address. (Well, give or take any limits Lemmy imposes on username length, anyway.)
Ban example.com gg ez
They can’t do that because they can’t necessarily tell the difference between the personal domain of one person and one providing email addresses to multiple people.
Its easier than you think. Email is pretty consolidated around a few big players these days which means about 10 minutes of work querying the database for how many accounts will be impacted and a quick Google to find out what the domain is used for is all you need to decide whether to ban it or not.
We used to do this on IRC quite often before we could even just Google it.
Yes , 5 max maybe 10 thats it.
I would even allow as high as 25, but probably an amount that can be controlled by the instance. But we should stop these 1000+ communities controlled by one mod.
Its not really possible. Just open a new community on another instance
I really hope whatever website replaces Reddit has some sort of way to mitigate/control these “super” mods
Imagine wasting this much of your life modding this many shitty subreddits. Holy jesus.
I think I’ve got better things to spend my imagination points on
Turdle is a hypocritical piece of shit
