Reddit has officially created the largest online safe space for their hivemind. I remember quite well the blackout of 2015 and damn was it heard. But I'm guessing many of us from that time got sick of reddit for one reason or another and eventually left.

Now there's hardly any presence of those speaking out against what has happened today, at least compared to 2015, but then again Reddit is so far gone that I don't believe it would have any sort of impact anyway.

The following statement was made by Spez on /r/announcements

To be clear, promoting violence towards anyone would be a violation of both this rule and our violence policy. For the neo-nazi example, that is why we exempt from protection those “who promote such attacks of hate.”

To which a user quickly pointed out the irony.

I didn't want to make this post long, and much of the issues are well explained in that post. I just wanted to show that nothing really changed since 2015, only got much, much worse.

Was reading through the thread announcing the new beta profiles:

https://www.reddit.com/r/beta/comments/6bqemt/try_the_new_profiles_page_yourselves_and_tell_us/

Found a comment where the guy fucks up a link (and doesn't bother correcting) https://www.reddit.com/r/beta/comments/6bqemt/try_the_new_profiles_page_yourselves_and_tell_us/dhpljzf/ mirror

Profile says 7 years, something doesn't add up. Product manager? Sounds like a clueless PR guy.

The main thread:

https://np.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/7blqt4/message_from_the_moderators_the_future_of_iama/

All good with the admins.

Apparently they are also censoring (and banning) some people asking what seems to be reasonable, albeit critical, questions...notably this post by /u/gangreless

Edit: and...they locked the thread 6 hours in. Maybe they were not expecting quite so much push back.

Sometimes it's difficult to tell, especially if the post doesn't make it to the front page if a mod has removed a post. Using Ceddit is another way, but that's not always reliable if the post isn't duplicated on Reddit elsewhere for technical reasons.

So I found a way to easily find out: If you View page source, the censored post contains the code: <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" /> whilst the uncensored post doesn't. It's a nice clear way of establishing if the post was removed by the mods.

You can reproduce this by creating a post, viewing the source, removing the post (as a mod), viewing the source, and then re-approving the post again (and checking the source again).

The "<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" />" code is also visible when the user who created the post deletes it themself. Obviously, there's no need to check on that though, since it's obvious it was deleted due to the "submitted xyz ago by [deleted]" part on the page itself at the top.

http://i.imgur.com/qgdPP86.png

context: How India’s biggest sub-reddit is being silently censored https://medium.com/@krantikaari_r/how-indias-biggest-sub-reddit-is-being-silently-censored-16ac656624e6

It appears that many subs are missing from /r/popular.

Two which were in the original set but now appear to be missing are /r/conspiracy and /r/documentaries (currently a default).

Has anyone an updated list of subs missing from /r/popular ?

Full moderator list for the top 100 subreddits (sorted alphabetically and by number of top 100 subreddits moderated): Google spreadsheet

Full moderator list for the top 100 subreddits (sorted alphabetically): Google spreadsheet

I used http://redditmetrics.com/top to identify the top subreddits.

Total number of moderators for the top 100 subreddits: 3,241

This number includes every user that was listed on each subreddit's moderator list regardless of whether the user was a bot, duplicate account, joint account, or has no moderator permissions.

It should also be noted that /r/Science has over 1400 moderators and /r/askscience has over 400 moderators. These two subreddits increased the total size of the list considerably.

If you zoom out on the spreadsheets you can see some interesting patterns too. (Screenshot taken while using the Dark Reader extension for chrome)

Number of users, including bots, that moderate...

...2 or more top 100 subreddits: 350

...3 or more top 100 subreddits: 103

...4 or more top 100 subreddits: 49

...5 or more top 100 subreddits: 29

...6 or more top 100 subreddits: 15

...7 or more top 100 subreddits: 10

...8 or more top 100 subreddits: 8

...9 or more top 100 subreddits: 6

...10 or more top 100 subreddits: 4

The user that moderates the most top 100 subreddits is /u/AutoModerator with 39.

These lists are not updated in real-time.

Feel free to download the spreadsheets and let me know what you think.

Several days ago I asked for a Greasemonkey script that would append "edited by /u/spez" to the end of my posts - the post is currently sitting at #1 in this sub with 93 upvotes. I was alarmed to log in today and see a comment from moderator /u/adeadhead where he threatened to "ban the shit out of me" if I followed through with this. (link)

Does /u/adeadhead actually have grounds to ban me for this?

Is there a way I or someone else could modify one of those Greasemonkey scripts that goes back in time and edits all of my comments to read "edited by /u/spez"?

Thanks.

In 2015, many large subreddits went dark in protest to protest what the moderators and users felt was admin abuse, as directed by the then CEO ellen pao.

The black out was meant to represent the dissatisfaction of the moderators and users by denying reddit its function, providing content. Many people who opened up their browser didn't care about reddit politics, but they were forced to care based on the actions of the more active users.

At that time, there was a strong movement on reddit to support it, there was popular support, there was active supporting sub's to coordinate content as well as provide the tools necessary. And while that content still exists it is dated and more or less defunct.

This is a thread to discuss the idea and implementation of such an event, in response to the recent actions of the current CEO who admitted to "shadow editing" users posts. The user reactions to the behaviour can be found here.

I order them based on their order on /r/all at the time of posting this, no favouritism will be applied here.

• /r/The_Donald
• /r/uncensorednews
• /r/SubredditDrama
• /r/conspiracy
• /r/technology locked by local mods
• /r/OutOfTheLoop
• /r/KotakuInAction
• /r/Conservative
• /r/TheNewRight
• /r/news
• /r/WayOfTheBern
• /r/HillaryForPrison
• /r/WhereIsAssange
• /r/undelete
• /r/Drama
• /r/subredditcancer
• /r/worldpolitics
• /r/misc
• /r/Bernie_Sanders
• /r/Operation_Berenstain
• /r/h3h3productions
• /r/Blackout2015

As we can see there is a lot of opinions on this issue, many people are against the actions of the admin, some are for it, though I speculate they are only for it, because the recipient involved being /r/The_Donald.

If we were to black out, a lot of subs dislike the donald, so a list would need to be made up of potential supporting subs or moderators.

Another action that will need to be taken, it proper consideration to any "demands", what as a movement, would people want to occur here?

This is an edit of my original post here in /r/socialengineering, as at the time I wasn't sure where else to post it.

Reddit killed Fat people hate but they allow a sub that is about people dying on camera. I guess watching someone get ran over by a car is okay but you better not offend fat people....

I am one of the more active users and submitters on reddit. Or I was. The ability of mods on major subs to silence users is too great. I have argued this before: That generic subs like /r/news, /r/politics, etc., should not be run in the same way the more idiosyncratic subs are. If anything they should be run more like a multireddit where they aggregate more narrowly defined subs.

As it stands now, the arbitrary and capricious moderation of the major subs, many of them default subs, is destroying reddits reputation as an open platform.

Fix it or the exodus of users will just get bigger

Punishing Active Users