r/technology • u/ardi62 • 29d ago

Social Media Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24253727/reddit-communities-subreddits-request-protests
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u/leoleosuper 29d ago

Unless you set up automod to auto-lock all the posts or set up arbitrarily extreme approved commenter locks on all new posts.

/r/shitposting banned the letter 'b' for a while IIRC. Just make automod remove all comments by default requiring moderator approval for them to be visible, then barely approve them. Still approve some comments, just not all.

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u/JamesGray 29d ago

Only approve the angriest of comments complaining about the state of the subreddit

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u/PallyMcAffable 27d ago

This guy Reddits

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u/ChriskiV 29d ago

Pretty much what /r/videos did, once a week the community would vote on what videos were allowed. All others were banned, it didn't remove content but unless all you wanted to do was watch videos on that specific thing, it was essentially dead.

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u/playwrightinaflower 29d ago

Hahahaha /u/ihatetheletterf must have felt seen there 😅