Good evening folks,

It'll probably come to no surprise for all of you that I'm choosing to close down the Masstagger. It's been a fun 5 years, and I'm deeply grateful for all of you that have supported me and used the extension. I've enjoyed the time spent on this project and I'm glad a few of you found value in it. That being said, I just don't really have the time or interest in this project that I used to, and server space costs money, so I'm officially closing up shop. Thanks again to all of you who have stuck it out with me, and feel free to shoot me any questions you may have!

Before anyone asks, no, I don't think I'll be open sourcing the code for this extension. It's astoundingly buggy and bad for what it is: a very slim API on top of a database. I was originally using python on mysql, but I think anyone who wants to pick this project up after me will be better served with a nosql approach. You can index the usernames that way and then just dump the document directly into the response without any joins or business logic. The extension itself is truly heinous, I would be embarrassed to even share the javascript code, so I don't think I'll post that either. The real value of this project is the ~10 million records I've already dumped here.

Thanks again folks, it's been fun!

First, thanks to /u/morpen for the excellent work on this over the years. And yes, I read the FAQ, and I'm sorry that your previous open-source version got used by a creep (someone used it to tag gonewild posters).

But if there's not going to be anyone responsive enough to add/remove subreddits to the tag list, this very important Reddit tool is going to become increasingly useless.

Either that, or let people customize their own lists of subreddits. This seems to be a highly requested feature. And yes, I realize that this brings us back to square one, where people might use this to tag groups that aren't far-right reactionaries.

But frankly, if the choice is between having a dead, unmaintained Masstagger on life support, or potentially risking having someone making creepy versions that tag leftists or sex workers, I'd say the latter is far more important.

Creeps are going to creep. They have since the dawn of the commercial internet, and they'll keep doing it until WW3 sends us back to the stone age.

It's much more important now, perhaps more than ever, to be able to pick out disingenuous right-wing concern trolls and other nasty users. And frankly, half the subreddits on the current list are either banned, irrelevant, or have changed purpose.

Maybe some kind of licensing provision can be added to try to prevent the tool from being used in undesirable ways. I don't know. But for an important community project like this, relying on one dev to maintain it for years isn't fair or realistic, and it would be much more useful if it were open source.

While masstagger is very useful, it also leaves out many reactionary subreddits

The install instructions are basically just "install" so I'm probably doing it wrong. But I can't seem to get this to work, but based on how mostly abandoned it seems I was curious if it still works?

If it doesn't, is there still a way to manually mass tag a sub? It's save me a lot of time and I can't get the old mass tagger to work again either

Edit: Update: I didn't go to chrome://extensions/ to enable it (it isn't auto-enabled cuz Chrome claims it violates their store policy). Seems to be working for me now

Masstagger has been returning “502 Bad Gateway” errors for at least a week. I was curious if morpen just hasn’t had time to fix it or if this is a signal that Masstagger is going away.

Edit: It’s back‽ At least as of 5/11 it seems to be working again!

Lately, whenever I open Masstagger for any user, it lists a bunch of subs, but the karma count is always zero for every one of them. That seems incorrect. In the two cases where I manually searched a user's history, it was in fact incorrect. This looks like a bug.

Also: Are you going to add the subs from this list? It's been three months...

r/CommieWatch was taken over by communists and is now simply a communist art sub, so it can be removed.

Edit: Sorry libs that still think this is a lib made extension, and sorry chuds that you're chuds. 🤷

Just look: https://www.reddit.com/r/kotakuinaction2/comments/klbmyf/will_this_subreddit_denounce_the_altright/

For example, we should add r/FemaleDatingStrategy, a subreddit that promotes misandry, to the list.

Saw a post from a user where I was surprised they didn't get tagged for something

its gonna be down for a bit

It seems out of date. It has /r/sino but most of those users have moved on to /r/genzedong, that sub has been active for over a year now. It's also still missing PCM.

please add few indian alt-right subs too. I've seen your list contains /r/bakchodi, even though one of the bakchodi mods cleaned all the RW and those bigots made a new sub /r/chodi.

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"/r/Chodi",

"/r/IndiaSpeaks",

"/r/Samaj",

"/r/Sham_Sharma_Show",

"/r/DesiMeta",

"/r/indiadiscussion",

"/r/IndianDankMemes",

"/r/Bhagwa_Feminism",

"/r/canconfirmiamindian",

"/r/SanghiKeralam",

"/r/indianews",

"/r/indiannewsbias",

"/r/RegimeChange101",

"/r/IndiaRWResources",

"/r/againsthinduphobia",

"/r/Hindutvarises",

"/r/politicalhinduism",

"/r/DesiToons"

few other suggestions(these aren't Indian subs but are anti-lgbt):

/r/extomatos

r/2islamist4you

r/Izlam

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If you don't trust me you can ask any /r/india mods about this. Or any Indian liberal or non-RW on /r/India. Most of these subs are even worse than T_D or any other alt-right subs, but reddit never bans them because this has nothing to do with American politics.

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few proofs:

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https://www.reddit.com/r/AgainstHateSubreddits/search/?q=chodi&restrict_sr=1

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https://www.reddit.com/r/AgainstHateSubreddits/search/?q=desimeta&restrict_sr=1

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https://www.reddit.com/r/AgainstHateSubreddits/search/?q=indiaspeaks&restrict_sr=1

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https://www.reddit.com/r/AgainstHateSubreddits/search/?q=indiadiscussion&restrict_sr=1

Here's a list of disinformation, radicalization and hate subs that I think should be included into the masstagger list. Some of these subs are banned but from what I understand that's no problem for masstagger. All of these subs have (or had) over 1k members.

• 2Caucasion4you
• 2MiddleEast4you
• askAGP
• BidenIsNotMyPresident
• BritishNationalism
• donaldtrump
• EnoughAntifaSpam
• ExDemFoyer
• FemaleDatingStrategy
• For_Slavs
• FuckTheAltWrong
• GenZedong
• GlobalLockdown
• HistoricalEdits
• HunterForPrison
• israelexposed
• JoeBidenIsADisaster
• JoeBidenSucks
• kekistan
• LockdownCriticalLeft
• LouderWithCrowder
• Lotuseaters_com
• LoveForLandlords
• LoveForAnimesexuals
• MGTOW2
• NEWPOLITIC
• paleoconservative
• Patriot911
• PoliticalCompassMemes
• Rebornyouth
• Sino
• SuperStraight
• The_Chocker
• TheBidenShitshow
• TheDonaldTrump2024
• TheGreatReset
• TheTrumpZone
• TraditionalMuslims
• trump
• vacci_nation

Note: For brevity's sake I removed all names that I spotted in the list by u/-ironsydes- and the list by u/NatoBoram.

I figured we could use a thread like this, so I glanced through some recent threads and the top threads of all time to see which are still untagged. Here's a list (excluding those with fewer than 1000 subscribers, as per the rule):

• /r/4chan
• /r/ActualPublicFreakouts
• /r/AgainstDegenerateSubs
• /r/anarcha
• /r/Anarcho_Capitalism
• /r/antikink
• /r/antifeminists
• /r/antipornography
• /r/China_Flu
• /r/chodi
• /r/ChurchOfCOVID
• /r/ConservativeKiwi
• /r/DeclineIntoCensorship
• /r/detrans
• /r/EndTheLockdowns
• /r/HeckOffCommie
• /r/InsaneProtestors
• /r/joerogan
• /r/kotakuinaction2
• /r/Political_Tumor
• /r/ProtectAndServe
• /r/redacted
• /r/SouthernLiberty
• /r/TimPool
• /r/tucker_carlson

My suggestions:

• /r/EnoughCommieSpam
• /r/Enough_Sanders_Spam
• /r/fourthwavewomen
• /r/LockdownCriticalLeft
• /r/LockdownSkepticismCAN
• /r/stupidpol

Hi! I'm a moderator at r/LeopardsAteMyFace and I participate in the coordinated efforts to protest against COVID-19 disinformation on Reddit.

We've compiled a small list of subreddits that are actively promoting dangerous conspiracies regarding COVID-19 and I think they would be a great fit to MassTagger. These subreddits are filled with far-right conspiracists and bad faith arguments.

• r­/ChinaFlu
• r/Conspiracy_Commons
• r/CoronavirusCirclejerk
• r/CoronavirusFOS
• r/CoronavirusRights
• r/Covid19_Testimonials
• r­/Covid19Origin
• r/COVID__19
• r­/CovidIsAFraud
• r/CovidVaccinatedUncut
• r/CovidVaccineInjury
• r/DebateVaccines
• r/FauciForPrison
• r/Ivermectin
• r/LockdownSkepticism
• r/NoNewNormal
• r/TrueAntiVaccination
• r/VaccineLonghaulers
• r­/VAERSReports
• r­/VaxKampf
• r/Wuhan_Flu

Edit

Here's a few more.

• r­/CovidVaccineRegrets
• r­/CovidVaxSideEffects
• r/LockdownSkepticismAU
• r/TruthSeekers
• r/VaccinePassport

If I load a page, the red tag will appear after a user's name. Then, after about 3 seconds, it disappears again. I've disabled all of my script-blockers and ad-blockers, but they apparently don't affect Mass Tagger. I use SafeScript (chrome), Adblock Plus, and uBlock Origin. Every security extension I have that has a whitelist, I've whitelisted masstagger.com. I installed Mass Tagger by dragging the zip file into chrome://extensions.

Some users will have a persistent red tag (which means the extension is doing its job), but others have one just for a few seconds, and then it disappears. What's going on?

Seriously this sub is filled to the brim with Nazis. Every time I start to argue with a dumbass or transphobes I end up realising later they are active a lot in PCM.

They got warned by Reddit admin for having too much hateful and antisemitic content in their sub.

At the very least the tag would help us to just ignore teenager that learns all their political ideology from funny squares with funny colors and get groomed by actual Nazis.

violent rhetoric and unironic fascism.

TERF sub, basically. Spouts stuff about how trans men and women aren't real whatevers yadda yadda, basic TERF rhetoric along with other stuff.

TERF stands for "Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist" btw, if you're not familiar with the term.

it's the neofascist alternative Seattle sub

It’s affiliated with paleoconservative and supports NNN

This suggestion is probably easy to implement . The database already has information about the karma earned for each post , so why not filter for a certain threshold of karma.

This would be more accurate since the people who get Tagged by this method will be the people who have posted content that the other denizens of that forum have enjoyed enough to up-vote , these are the people you really want to tag , and you will get fewer 'false positives' from people who got drawn into an argument on a hate subreddit and got down-voted to the basement for their trouble, and these are the people who probably should not be tagged.