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Reddit’s replacement mods may be putting its communities at risk — With institutional knowledge seeping out of the site, poor moderation could have real-world impacts as more misinformation is allo…::Reddit’s moderator purge could have real impacts on reliability and information safety as it rushes to replace mods with inexperienced and poorly vetted volunteers, shows a new report.
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I don’t know, every time I read a headline with the word “could” in it I’m not interested, because there are no facts in it it’s just speculation.
- If my grandma had wheels, she could have been a bike
- Aliens could change Trumps hair color
- Reddit could destroy itself
- Lemmy could be the greatest thing since sliced bread
- China could collapse
- Russia could collapse
- The US could collapse
the list goes on and on.
That could be a good point
That could be a smart comment
Then read the article and not just the headline. There are various examples of why that’s happening.
There’s a canning recipe that’s been allowed to stay up despite the potential to make people sick. A moderator with zero 3D-printing experience joined as a “joke” to replace a mod whose expertise included identifying functional gun printing recipes. A new home automation moderator insists expert knowledge is unnecessary in a subreddit where bad advice can lead to electrocution or compromised cybersecurity.
Your examples are just funny, but when (good) journalists write “could”, it means that they have analyzed something and they are predicting its outcome based on the data they have collected. It’s not like they’re just making stuff up
Consider deleting all of your reddit content, then nuking your account
done the moment spez fucked up the 3rd party apps. There is no reddit without apollo!
let them continue to fuck up reddit, maybe then the people, the content and the communications will find their way to lemmy and we can forget about that degenerated platform :)
Do we actually want all the redditors and their “content” in Lemmy?
Be careful what you fish for.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Reddit’s moderator purge could have real impacts on reliability and information safety as it rushes to replace mods with inexperienced, poorly vetted volunteers, according to Ars Technica.
With testimony by both expelled former moderators and some of those who replaced them, Ars Technica’s report shows the trouble with the company’s push to quickly replace the mods who sent their subreddits dark, marked them NSFW, or turned them into jokey John Oliver fan forums earlier this year.
Reddit began removing protesting moderators in June and said it would continue doing so until morale improves unless subreddits opened back up.
A moderator with zero 3D-printing experience joined as a “joke” to replace a mod whose expertise included identifying functional gun printing recipes.
A new home automation moderator insists expert knowledge is unnecessary in a subreddit where bad advice can lead to electrocution or compromised cybersecurity.
Stevie Chancellor, a computer science and engineering professor from the University of Minnesota, is quoted as saying she was concerned that mods wouldn’t be able to stop malicious users from encouraging people in mental health support forums “to hurt themselves for their own perverted desires.”
The original article contains 381 words, the summary contains 188 words. Saved 51%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
The spread of misinformation has been reddit’s primary function since 2020.
Die reddit die
