Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge

Fucked off everyone who did the work from a place of passion and knowledge and replaced them with power-hungry shills WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG

Actually so grateful for how things have played out. Discovered Lemmy, Tildes, Lobste.rs, RSS feeds for the rest. Ya, I'm over it now.

What the fucks a reddit?

They specifically mention open kettle canning as a bad practice. My friend and I were canning something and he wasn't sure we were doing it right. He called his mom and she said she had always done open kettle canning (where you basically just pouring boiling temp food into hot jars and seal them). I guess experts have soured on the practice.

Either way, we made our cans the "right" way after lots of googling and none of the jars seemed to fail.

While I sympathize with the moderators, I would assume that historically most subs are not moderated by experts, but yes, a decrease in quality mods and mod tools will choke reddit to death.

Is this the part where “it will just blow over” that Spez was talking about?

Delete your account

www.reddit.com/r/redditseppuku

What's this? Oh no! The consequences of my actions!

Companies seem to over estimate how many people are willing to do certain kinds of work.

Did Spaz think a thousand mods were just waiting in the wings that would not have similar concerns as the first group?

I’m sure I speak for all of us when I express my utter shock at this unforeseen turn of events.

One of my favorite outcomes of the purge is when I occasionally look at Reddit, I'll see an enthusiastically titled post from oldfreefolk, with ZERO replies. Are those goofballs over here anywhere, I'd love a bit more of bobbyb in my life.

They never found the right people in the first place, theres just a lot of dice rolls, luck and fragmentation.

Most mods were never experts.

They lost a lot of their more level-headed reditors as things started getting more toxic though

The (impending disaster of an) IPO can proceed, they don’t care about the rest. Content quality doesn’t mean squat until it affects ad revenue.

Pissing off your free labor has consequences? Shocker.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The dangers of food canning were explained to me clearly, succinctly, and with cited sources by Brad Barclay and someone going by Dromio05 on Reddit (who asked to withhold their real name for privacy reasons).

He noted various canning misconceptions, from thinking the contents of a concave lid are safe to eat to believing you don't need to apply heat to food in jars.

For example, Barclay pointed to one mod recommending "citizen science," saying they would use a temperature data logger to "begin conducting experiments to determine what new canning products are safe."

It includes already-canned tomatoes, which experts like the National Center for Home Food Preservation (NCHFP) recommend against, as there's no safe tested process for this.

What's critical for Reddit's content quality is not that moderators adopt identical philosophies but that they are equipped to facilitate healthy and safe discussions and debates that benefit the community.

But the hastiness with which these specific replacement mods were ushered in, and the disposal of respected, long-time moderators, raises questions about whether Reddit prioritized reopening subreddits to get things back to normal instead of finding the best people for the volunteer jobs.

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As with traditional Reddit PR: Reddit will comment when there's correction to be made. Since Reddit made no correction, the article is 100% accurate.

None of the forcibly removed mods I spoke with have worked with or plan to work with replacement mods to pass on knowledge gained through years of experience.

None of them should. Let reddit deal with the consequences of their actions, trying to fix it for them would be telling them it's ok to treat free labor as shit (as they did).

I am Spez's raging bile duct.

It saddens me that this same post on the reddit instance is more poplar than this one posted at the same time.

Reddit has become a hive mind of pretentious douche bags.

I've recently found reddit less engaging. I used to post on various communities about interests of mine, but at the end of the day I can't deny reddit is a profit based model which is ok all in all, but it really leaves a bad impression for the end user who just wants to get along in a community with like-minded individuals. And that is the very aspect that used to make it a great place for end users. Contrary to twitter or youtube that incorporate recommendation algorithms, reddit and similar sites expect users to find their communities on their own and contribute on them altogether without the intervention of some centralized algorithm. The way in which it has evicted unofficial clients is quite a shame in that regard ; it makes the platform more aggressive towards users.

I was just permanently banned from Reddit for like the 5th time. After like 20 years I think i finally called it quits!

Makes me wonder if the same problem exists on Lemmy and KBin, given the fact that they were hastily populated as a reaction to Reddit screwing up.

Deleted my reddit account!

Maybe you should UNBAN PEOPLE, like ME MAYBE!?!?!

Seriously they're basically Gazpacho in that one episode of Chowder