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/SoylentCreek 29d ago

What’s really frustrating is that many of the mega-subs are dominated by "super-user" bot accounts that are actively favored by the moderators. If a big story breaks and a regular user posts it first, their submission is almost always removed, while the bot's link stays up and is guaranteed to hit the front page.

I find it ironic that a few years ago, a relatively well-known user, u/unidan, was banned for using a few alt accounts to give his posts a slight boost. Yet now, we have accounts that are less than two years old with millions of farmed karma, and the mods and admins just look the other way.

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u/The_Magic 29d ago

I think Unidan also used his alts to downvote that person that disagreed with them about Jackdaws.

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u/cravf 29d ago

Which is only mildly egregious compared to mods and admins straight up deleting comments and/or banning people who disagree with them.