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/r/science

While i agree r/science was terrible at this, it at least kept the conversation relevant. On new discoveries its nice to read about the science rather than: “here comes the end” or some fart joke.

Id like to think this meme is directed towards user exodus rather than moderation to keep things on topic. I hope that the fediverse keeps things on topic and doesn’t complain too much about moderation when it’s necessary.

If Reddit moderators only removed content for the sake of keeping things on topic, people wouldn't hate the place so much. There's a reason the mods over there are so universally maligned, and it's not because they're beacons of rationality and objective reasoning.

The best part is if you got notified a comment was removed you couldn't see what the comment was and they wouldn't tell you what rule it broke most of the time. If you asked they'd blow you off.

All r/science was, was r/politics...every fucking "study" was from sudo science bullshit that just allowed everyone to circle jerk each other about their own bias. Hell that meav mod was just a repost bot that posted non stop from that psychology today website and then sold their account...and it's still a fuckin mod.

sudo science bullshit

this incident will be reported

I just got eventually banned every time I posted that mvae or w/e the fuck that mods name was, was a bot just posting political shit hidden as "science".

I quit that sub when I got the 100th study with a sample size of 20, talking about some clickbaity shit that was going to be silently disproven a few years later.

It was always double-digit sample sizes.

That shit was sooo fucking annoying. "We went to a klan rally, and polled the 10 white guys there" All said they vote republican...Title: "All republicans are KKK members study shows"...like what in the literal fuck

Not even talking about politics. Just shitty science studies with hot takes and low sample sizes.

sudo science bullshit

bash: science: command not found

Terrible? How?

r/science didn't allow jokes, off topic comments, low effort references, or anti-science rhetoric from morons who barely passed high school chemistry so anything that hit trending would have to get nuked from orbit.

many times i stopped writing a comment when i realized i was on r/science

Me, too. Is r/science still there? Last I heard they opened up the sub again, contingent on very specific benchmarks for Reddit making their app functional for moderating that I sincerely doubt they will meet ...

Any time I'd use reveddit or similar sites to restore comments deleted from there, it was always stupid jokes or anecdotal stories, never anything directly about the post.

They started adding an automod comment where off-topic replies were allowed.

I think /r/science is misunderstood. The moderators had quite a clear vision on the kind of discussion they wanted and the kind they did not. This caused some friction every time a post reached /r/all but I don't see that as a bad thing.

If anything that's an ideal situation. People encounter a new community they're interested in, break some rules in ignorance, the mods interfere and the violations are rolled back, the new users then either follow the rules or leave.

Not sure how they're doing with the API changes, pretty sure they had some automation going. Don't think they're compatible with reddit's new view on making communities as interchangeable as possible to stop friction from interfering with ad revenue.

All it needs is a fuckton of awards next to one of the [removed] comments, so you know that what you missed was worth reading.

Fuck the major subs. I don't miss that arbitrary shit at all. And may I just add, fuck AwkwardtheTurtle in particular: seeing them get eaten by their own antics was just -chef's kiss-

What happened to him? I only know that this person was a (bad) mod on a whole lot of subs.

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Now just shut down /r/mademesmile . You'd have to go back to Mao's Red Guards to find worse control freaks.

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Good, good…let the Reddit brain drain continue. Do not fear the Lemmy. The lemmy welcomes you. maniacal laugh

I honestly think the Reddit thing is over. Redditors are a little toxic and condescending. There may not be as much content on Lemmy but it sure feels peaceful.

Reddit notifications scare me, usually it's a bot telling me I did something wrong or a human who wants to call me stupid and down vote my opinions. I stopped commenting because of this.

I've started seeing some deleted by creator comments here, lot of those with lots of upvotes.

Also: "removed by mod".

The beauty here, though, is you can easily cross-reference on the mod log what post was removed and why.

Makes it a lot easier for us former Reddit mods dealing with claims of persecution.

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I am ashamed to admit it but I was happy to have my search resources back when the protest slowed down till I clicked on a few and found out people with my interests care about Reddits bs too, therewasn't much left of many threads! 😂

I used web.archive.org to browse the Reddit communities during the blackout, I still actually use it in most cases because it helps both with subreddits that are still private, but also ones where people have deleted their threads.

It might not work with every single one, but it should work with the ones that appear in Google.

I can find no good information on Reddit. Just all corporate shills

That's what it was like for the past year because the mods felt a need to lock and delete comments on 1/4 of all posts on the front page for "reasons". Fuck that shit hole. Let it die.

I root for the first guy

He made a couple of good points.

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Such a pain to edit or delete comments one by one.

It is, but its well worth it. What i found is that my comments from 2 or more years ago weren't showing on my profile. So although my profile seems empty, I still have historic comments on the platform that I can't get to unless I know every comment I made and where.

You can do a GDPR request and get the location of every single one, as long as you haven't deleted your account.

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I think it would be better if it said something like "[removed] I've moved to Lemmy"or something like that

I'm guilty of this as a mod sometimes. When i remove a comment i don't want to leave a hole in the thread, because then people will see replies to a deleted comment and wonder what they said; so i remove the replies as well, resulting in this.

It's pick your poison i guess