๐Ÿ‘คadmiralspoo๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ291๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ452

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I am a freshman moderator of /r/portland.

I had thought working as a moderator would be a great way to help grow the subreddit's base. Offer more useful real world interaction points and basically have a big impact on Portland.

Instead what I've found is that 99% of the time the moderators are dealing with bad actors and that has to be the primary focus to keep the sub from falling apart.

It isn't just dealing with trolls or stepping into stopping out of control discussions.

It is actively performing anti-ban-evasion against people who are targeting the sub for disruption and then going after moderators that get in the way of these attempts.

There is at least one active case number with the Portland Police Department of a person that has both attempted to doxx our moderators and has gone to the home of a moderator and vandalized property repeatedly.

In this example, the person will not stop and creates new accounts every day.

While there are things Reddit can be doing to help, (such as improving tools to counter ban-evasion,) I think this problem is bigger than Reddit and focuses on lack of enforcement for digital actions that would qualify as genuine crimes of harassment if translated into the physical realm.

๐Ÿ‘คbredren๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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Relationship Advice lead-ish mod here. We were one of the subs "called out" as being controlled by Gallowboob with the original post and subsequent reposts.

We (buu700 and I) added Gallowboob some years back largely to have insight into how other teams modded their subs at a time when we were growing quickly and needed to know what to do to keep up. While useful in meeting that goal, we quickly realized it was pretty meaningless for /r/relationship_advice because of the nature of the questions we were getting. The only sub like ours is /r/relationships, and we each differentiated from each other by having different rules and content creation controls.

As best as we know, Gallowboob enjoys the place and is pretty decent at modding, so we're pretty happy to have him. Most mods burn out quickly because of how dark the questions get as well as because of how meaninglessly violent people become when their posts are modded.

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Separate comment on an item in the story:

> Allam believes his time on the site has made him a more โ€œparanoidโ€ person and led him to develop โ€œborderline PTSD.โ€

Moderating Reddit's larger subreddits is absolutely capable of resulting in PTSD-like symptoms. I've been dealing with some on and off after a post some years ago where somebody who requested advice followed through with the best course of action only to find that his wife killed their kids soon after. And Reddit has absolutely no support system for things like this.

๐Ÿ‘คeganist๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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This article doesn't actually address any of the questions (eg how does he have all this time?). Note that it's on the public record that Gallowboob has worked for social media marketing companies, eg https://www.forbes.com/sites/fernandoalfonso/2016/06/01/cash...

> The Upvoted story never materialized; Reddit administrators were still digging out from under a deluge of drama including revelations about online harassment from its former CEO Yishan Wong and the sudden departure of current CEO Ellen Pao. With no job, Allam spent the next six months crafting the following cover letter and applying to jobs. In February, Ohanianโ€™s advice paid off. Allam, better known on Reddit as gallowboob, had landed a full-time executive gig with the United Kingdom-based media company UNILAD. He got the job thanks to his Reddit prowess. > > ...Allam is a social media executive at UNILAD, an online media organization that โ€œamassed a Facebook following of over 12 million fans, 30 million monthly unique visitors to the website and over 1 billion video views a month,โ€ states the company on its site.

๐Ÿ‘คgwern๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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I downloaded Reddit Enhancement Suite and it has a feature that marks the cumulative amount of upvotes you've given a user when you see a post of theirs. It is absolutely eye-opening just how much content is posted by the same few dozens of usernames. GallowBoob is the most infamous but to focus on him would be a mistake. It's pretty clear to me that the vast majority of content on Reddit is heavily manipulated and artificial.
๐Ÿ‘คBitwiseFool๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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Reddit just hasn't scaled well, and it looks like the operators of Reddit have no interest in scaling it properly.

Case in point: the moderation system. Now, if you're passionate about some niche topic, and create a sub for it and become the moderator, then fine; you rock. Things work well for you and your subscribers.

But if you're a sub of a large interest area (say, the country of India). How do you moderate there? How do you accept the diversity of thoughts and opinions, many of which run contrary to your own, but are perfectly valid in a diverse society?

Currently, /r/india has a bunch of moderators with a severe political stance (I won't go into specifics here, but I've been banned from it several times). They will warn you and ultimately ban you if you don't toe their "moderation" line. So on the one hand you have the "in" group of people threatening violence and harassing people; and on the other, you have the complement set of people getting banned for using words like "naive" (happened to me). There current moderation system (whoever started the reddit, and whoever they blessed, get to be moderators; sortof like a monarchy and a feudal system) is horribly out of date in today's world.

Here's how I would fix it: every year, have an election of moderators. People get votes proportional to their karma (or upvotes or some function thereof, which could heavily penalize bad posting behavior) earned since the last election. And the top N vote getters get to be moderators for a year.

๐Ÿ‘ค1024core๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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Reddit's top user in the sense that he reposts to farm karma and moderates over 1000 subreddits. He is an opportunist seeking power. Generally, he is disliked by a large portion of reddit. Spamming reddit at that scale to become self appointed "top user" has a major impact on the site, and it's for the worse when it dilutes the content on a site. Unsurprisingly, there are several accusations of him selling his influence to other companies.
๐Ÿ‘คiratewizard๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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While this whole situation is a mess and nowhere near black and white I'm sure, painting Allam in particular as a victim is leaving out a lot of detail.

He is not only known for being a reddit power user, he's also infamous for abusing his mod powers, and being provocative and elitist towards people calling him out, mocking, trolling or banning them. He took over and wiped out a sub that tracked his abuse of mod powers. On the big subs he's controlling people got banned frequently for calling him out, long before this more recent drama. These whole theatrics have been going on for years. I've been targeted by him in the past, sadly I can't dig it up because reddit's comment history only goes back so far.

๐Ÿ‘คMildlySerious๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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So, I don't get it.

Why does it matter if a few volunteer mods manage a ton of subs?

Isn't it hard to do? So they have a hard job? And it's volunteer?

And .. what? I don't understand the outrage directed at mods I guess.

Note: I'm a light Reddit user. I follow a handful of subs. And I can't name a single mod of any of them. Maybe this is more meaningful for people who spend more time on the site and are more involved in their particular subs? What, they just bash heads with mods sometimes?

๐Ÿ‘คthebouv๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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Reddit has turned into a cesspool. Iโ€™m sure the majority of users are great, honest and open minded, but you canโ€™t keep the internet outside the walled garden forever. And it only takes a handful of bad actors to ruin it for everyone.

As frustrated as Iโ€™ve found myself on Reddit, to the point Iโ€™ve all but quit using it save for some video game stuff, I still canโ€™t imagine how mods can be bothered to put up with bad actors, trolls, whiners, and fools. Everyone checks out at some point โ€”- and as a normal user, I can and I feel no compunction about letting the conversation devolve, but when you rely on volunteers to do the policing, itโ€™s going to happen more often and with harsh consequences. And you can see on many subs that absent strong moderation, discussion on anything remotely contentious devolves into an ugly free for all. Even if the thread is locked or certain comments get deleted, itโ€™s too little too late, and the damage has been done to civil discourse.

This article has me thinking more broadly about the internet and the future of online communities. Large platforms canโ€™t thoroughly patrol every nook and cranny without unreasonable amounts of employees. And yet itโ€™s never been more important to have fair and timely moderation on serious issues. Machine learning might have a role to play here, but itโ€™ll require some sort of human oversight to provide a โ€œstarterโ€ or some context within which a system can determine what can be censored. What else is left? Unmasking everyone isnโ€™t going to happen for good reason. The internet is in dire need of a police force, and volunteerism isnโ€™t sufficient.

๐Ÿ‘คzahma๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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I understand why mods of smaller subreddits do it. They are passionate people looking for a community. The volunteer efforts they put into it help them and the community.

I do not understand why mods work for free on the huge subreddits. Abuse, spam and more would make the position horrible.

Reddit needs to start paying folks to do this job.

๐Ÿ‘คpgrote๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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People love the idea of decentralized control, but that is not how people willing to make the effort are allocated. We see this on Reddit, on Facebook, and we see this in open source.

On Reddit (I am not a mod but friends are) mods burn out quickly. Many people have never seen the horrible behavior that goes on in the background.

Same thing on Facebook. I moderate a small 800 person group, one which is private and has mostly pre-screened people. We burned through so many mods over the years and the worst things we encounter are insult wars as nobody is going to post porn or graphic violence with their real life account.

In open source, the heavy lifting on a lot of projects is done by just 1-2 people. Sure the project might have 30 contributors, but it is those 1 or 2 who dedicate their evening when a major bug is found to fixing it.

In all these cases, the work is mostly done by whoever is willing to do it. Over time, people who find the work stressful quit and those who don't end up taking on an enormous amount.

๐Ÿ‘คMattGaiser๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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I stopped being an active user of Reddit about 5 years ago.

I felt that it wasn't a forum that was conductive to interesting discussion.

But also, I know it's a cliche to talk about the eternal September effect, but somehow it feels like the discourse in the site is even more stupid today.

At least to me it seems like it's just useful as a problem and answer site you Google on.

But now it seems like to some of users they feel like the website is the definer and trendsetter of western culture.

Instead of a website where people post memes and shit post.

Like what am I reading? That there's a shadowy cabal of moderators?

Who cares if they're running the big subreddits?

Even who cares if they're being paid by companies to post things.

Reddit is website that does little moderation themselves (except when it gets them in the news) and rely on volunteers to actually manage the site.

What do expect? That people are going to spend 10s or hours a week for the joy of community? So they can make Reddit's employees and shareholders money?

When it comes to Facebook people say "if you're not paying for it, you're the product"

But it's the same for Reddit. But this time it's the users which are taking advantage?

Oh no.

But perhaps I don't understand the seriousness of Reddit.

๐Ÿ‘คJonnax๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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I was a moderator on /r/blackpeopletwitter and the amount of racist and outright vitriol we received was fucking insane. There are people out there who really have it out for BPT and we banned dozens of users daily who were legit there to only drop the n word with a hard r and make jokes about monkeys or something.

I deleted my reddit account in a panic after someone sent me a DM saying they knew where I lived and I saw a guy wondering around my apartment complex with his phone out like he was recording. I never want to be highly visible on reddit again.

๐Ÿ‘คuncletaco๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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Just five months ago users were getting permanently suspended from Reddit for mildly criticizing GallowBoob.

You can see it here: https://old.reddit.com/r/AgainstKarmaWhores/comments/eb146l/...

I doubt that he would walk away from the website even though a number of users would be happier.

There are hundreds of fantastic moderators on Reddit that genuinely help people and there are also a few people who want to feel powerful by manipulating others.

๐Ÿ‘คxigency๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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There are subs dedicated to calling out his bs. One sub has figured out how he games reddit in his favor for karma and front page placement.
๐Ÿ‘คsomeonehere๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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Moderating a medium to large sub is a thankless task.

I moderated a sub with 100,000 subscribers for a couple of years.

Most of the work was removing obviously bad content. There was a user who would make a new account every few weeks, post various comments to make it legit, and then start posting legitimate comments with links to hardcore pornography disguised as normal links. Users once rebelled because I removed 100% illegal content.

Users and mods on the subreddit started to get hit with SLAPP lawsuits at one point. I was always very careful to hide my real identity but that was the final straw. I stepped down from modding shortly after.

Modding is a near impossible task and as a subreddit gets bigger it gets exponentially harder.

๐Ÿ‘คlaurieg๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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I think the biggest problem with reddit is that the simplest subreddit name is going to attract the largest audience, and if you don't like the moderators or community there, then there's nothing you can do about it. There's only one /r/politics, and if you don't like it then you'll have to move to, say, /r/notpolitics, which is going to have less visibility and a smaller community simply because of its name. What would help would be, for lack of a better term, "namespaced" subreddits. There wouldn't be a /r/politics, there'd be a /r/namespace1/politics and a /r/namespace2/politics, and there'd effectively be no problem with visibility: if someone's looking for a subreddit to discuss politics, then there isn't a default, and you'll have to explicitly choose which community and moderation style you want. The best way to implement this would be a federated reddit, with each server being it's own namespace. If you don't like federated-reddit1.com/r/politics, then move to federated-reddit2.com/r/politics. There'd be a problem with bubbles, but that wouldn't be any worse than what already exists.
๐Ÿ‘คranger207๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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It seems to me like the main purpose of moderation is to make sure posts conform to the theme of the subreddit... to keep things on topic. Almost everything else can be taken care of by the downvotes of the community members.

A subreddit is like a community where every citizen has a gun. They can police themselves by downvoting each other... the only thing mods need to do is make sure the theme of the community stays on track.

I'm the sole mod of a subreddit with over 600k subscribers and I basically do nothing. My case is admittedly special because the subreddit is a weird kind of "game" with very specific, well-defined rules about how to reply to posts (and a bot that deletes replies that violate this rule), but in general I feel like people don't have enough faith in the ability of a community to handle itself. Occasionally I've had to ban people who are spamming /new with disturbing content, and I did end up setting some useful automoderator rules, but otherwise I find that the community runs itself.

I've gotten a few messages from people over the years saying they're unsubscribing because they wanted me to take a more involved role in moderating the content posted to the subreddit, removing posts they thought were "low quality". That's fair, but I don't think it should be up to me what counts as "low quality"... I'm just one person. The beauty of a community is watching it develop organically from the actions of thousands of people, not molding it into some shape you happen to prefer. It's like an organism, and it has a mechanism to achieve homeostasis: upvotes and downvotes.

๐Ÿ‘คmd224๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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Vaguely reminiscent of MrBabyMan and Digg.
๐Ÿ‘คchomp๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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I was outraged when I first saw that list and how a few mods control everything, but this totally sheds some new light on the situation. The internet can be really shitty sometimes.
๐Ÿ‘คEagleflight๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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I'm sorry but I don't know what to make of this. Of course harassment is terrible, but what the hell is going on?

Last week a reddit thread discussing this list was linked on HN, someone linked to a site where you could see deleted comments. There were a lot. But it was mainly people asking very reasonable questions and wondering out loud whether these "power mods" got paid, perhaps by advertisers or influencer agencies, because doing this kind of moderation is clearly way more than a full time job. Other deleted comments were wondering if those accounts were perhaps shared (again super sensible question given the amount of time it would cost). At the very worst some of the deletions devolved into wild speculations (as reddit is wont to).

Point is, obviously they do get protection from the site. And apparently sometimes unreasonably so.

Some stinky stuff is going on below the surface, is my feeling. Doesn't mean that person gets to be harassed, of course.

Also, I don't really buy the mental health comparison to FB moderators. The latter is an absolute shit job, and it's done by anonymous teams of paid people. That doesn't really rhyme with being the most upvoted Reddit celebrity of all time, with their seemingly superhuman sense to post the juiciest meme at the most opportune time.

๐Ÿ‘คtripzilch๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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There is definitely an anomalous uptick with reddit harassment these days. I posted a positive article to /r/Coronavirus and I was immediately harassed in the dumbest way possible (someone trying to counter an article I posted but their argument was actually restating the article thesis). He ended up getting a ton of traction because he probably sounded confident. It left me confused and saddened- I owe a lot of what I learned in the last few years through great discussions on reddit and hn, hopefully reddit's deterioration by bored/malicious actors is stopped.
๐Ÿ‘คorganicfigs๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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"Five people moderate the 92 largest subreddits."

If that's true, why? How could an individual possibly have enough time and attention to moderate more than one subreddit with millions of users?

๐Ÿ‘คCausality1๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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Big/default subs are fast becoming outright mainstream trash on reddit. Fortunately like small businesses in the economy the smaller subs are holding the whole show together.

This is a positive change -- that one user account had too much power over too many subs. I refuse to believe money wasn't becoming involved.

Size breeds skepticism and the GallowBoob account (whomever was using it) just got too big.

๐Ÿ‘คs_dev๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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GallowBoob is a scourge, I'm sad to see a human being harassed and I hope he'll see justice, but he's also all it's wrong with reddit moderation and two wrongs don't cancel out to make one a saint.

I encourage you to dig into the threads of the alleged post that made him 'flip' https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/gk0w4c/t...

some are straight up harassment, which is sad. some describe however all the many things he did to ruin other people enjoyment to the site, most common of which was banning users to steal good content and repost it for karma, to fuel his own agenda, which include for example being paid from netflix to run advertisements as normal posts trough the subs he mods.

he's not the good, loving moderator that the article describes.

๐Ÿ‘คLoSboccacc๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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The way I see it is someone who has enjoyed a "privileged" position without transparency or accountability for a long time is surprised that people find issues with concentration of moderation powers (especially across subreddits).

Makes me wonder what is it that people find so appealing in having moderation of subreddits as an almost full time job.

๐Ÿ‘คraverbashing๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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The issue he was "outed" over (concerning alleged control of a significant portion of reddit by a small number of users) was discussed here previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23173018

๐Ÿ‘คmellosouls๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

(Replying to PARENT post)

GallowBoob tells a sad story, but the fact remains that they and a few others had far too much power. They were arguably also spread far too thin. So altogether, I'm not sad to see them go.

Also, their behavior deleting posts and banning users over discussion of this issue has been egregious.

๐Ÿ‘คmirimir๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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Is he done "after being outed", or done after finding a comfy job in social media management?
๐Ÿ‘คpphysch๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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The 'spam filter' enabled on most large subreddits greatly adds to the 'echo chamber' nature of Reddit and leads to a tyrannical majority. If you get downvotes in a major sub due to not agreeing with the prevailing opinion, you are rate-limited and you can only post once every 10 minutes.

Imagine being in a debate with dozens of people and being rate-limited to only posting every 10 minutes because your opinion wasn't agreed to by people doing voting.

๐Ÿ‘คdionian๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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Thank god he left. Heโ€™s a pathetic excuse for a human being.

That being said, a great number of the active mods on that platform seems to be a couple steps away from becoming power tripping maniacs. Itโ€™s one thing to stop spam and illegal content. Itโ€™s another to censor discussions because whatever content was posted can be interpreted as against rule 4.1B ยง2. How hard is it to leave the content up and let users downvote it if itโ€™s not so relevant?

๐Ÿ‘คthepangolino๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

(Replying to PARENT post)

This is your signal to build the thing you were thinking about.

So much money on the table for anyone that can reinvent, but allow easy migration from that once great site.

๐Ÿ‘คanewdirection๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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Jim Leff, who founded and ran Chowhound long ago, has a lot to say about the perils of moderating an online community:

https://jimleff.blogspot.com/2008/08/always-talk-to-mask.htm...

๐Ÿ‘คsubpixel๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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I'm sure there's an article in there somewhere: https://i.imgur.com/GqQCnVG.jpg

For some reason it even crashed my mobile browser.

As I was scrolling, more ads loaded and kept moving the text around.

๐Ÿ‘คtartrate๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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I feel sad seeing this gaining traction, when Reddit's appalling history of enabling and supporting abuse has gone unchecked for so long. Why care about it now? You didn't care before. This is a real question. Why is now the time you choose to engage?
๐Ÿ‘คstevebmark๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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I was once banned from a travel sub for suggesting to a 19 year old woman asking about safety in Egypt that it might not be the best place to travel by herself. I had been there myself and know women who have traveled Egypt on their own who also recommended against it.

My comment was seized upon by mods of the sub as:

1: Mansplaining (She didn't specifically ask for male opinions so I should shut up).

2: Racist Hate Speech (Because saying Egypt might not be perfectly safe - something I would also say about many cities in the USA - is somehow racist to Egyptians).

3: Sexist (Women can do anything that men can do and I was apparently suggesting otherwise).

I was summarily banned from that sub plus a bunch of other travel subs by the same few mods. I don't know what the answer is for moderation on Reddit but whatever they are doing right now is definitely not working.

๐Ÿ‘คciguy๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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Moderation is akin to public service. Taking on the duty means putting yourself in a place of visibility and accountability. It is no surprise that the pressure is too much for some.
๐Ÿ‘คuoaei๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

(Replying to PARENT post)

The worst spammer on reddit leaves the site? Good riddance. Though I'm sure he has a few spare accounts to post his stuff.
๐Ÿ‘คGrue3๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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Oh good. Blocking him made reddit much more enjoyable.
๐Ÿ‘คwnevets๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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Oddly enough there is nothing to be seen about this on the reddit frontpage.
๐Ÿ‘คtinus_hn๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

(Replying to PARENT post)

Good riddance, IMO
๐Ÿ‘คdiebeforei485๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

(Replying to PARENT post)

The user in question is GallowBoob.
๐Ÿ‘คideals๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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Can someone please explain how doxing works at a technical level? Suppose I post something on Twitter or Youtube that someone does not like how would they dox me? For example, CNN outed a guy who did a video where Trump bashes a guy superimposed with CNN in a boxing ring. Wouldn't such attempts at doxing people also put pressure on their freedom of speech and expression?
๐Ÿ‘คhi41๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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> because I donโ€™t know if theyโ€™re trying, you know, [to] get my IP.

Use a VPN, double-hop if you really care.

๐Ÿ‘คmycall๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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Many people see this as moderators controlling too much, but it's what happens in a mostly free system. Some people will over-achieve and 99% will underachieve or achieve just enough to get by.

This has been seen time and time again in any system involving humans.

A big issue with Reddit is that it has subs dedicated to encouraging mentally ill and anti-social behavior.

These things tend to eventually escalate into the real-world where someone eventually gets hurt or killed.

๐Ÿ‘คsacks2k๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0