• NotAnOtter@lemmus.org
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      They recently had a mod event where they announced they are restricting ban abilities from mods. Basically AI can ban, mods can choose to unban - but not initiate a ban in the first place.

      There are a couple mods I like to hate-watch, once a month or so I swing by and see what kind of BS they have been doing lately. The schadenfreude of watching them mald over this was the best I’ve had all year.

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          No I enjoy it. I’m not sitting there getting angry over anything or having it ruin my day.

          Just once and a while swing by and laugh for a bit. It’s like a zoo I guess? But I have more respect for zoos.

          “What are the idiots up to today… oh being idiots lol”

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        dint know this news, im not surprise. probably came out at the same time they announced there will be AI dominated mods, who will “police” AI-subs. probably realized that overbanning has caused them to lose many users/ and now there are more lurkers than not. at the same time, reddit doesnt want to give up thier ai moderation and filtering.

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          Yeah this is all second hand from an announcement about something that is “going to happen”. So details might differ from what actually shows up.

          And yes I think mod abuse is starting to show up in their bottom line. They need people commenting so they target ads more effectively, same reason they killed r/All. They need to know stuff about you so they can send ads.

          Mods being the toxic assholes they are is driving people to lurk, as you stated.

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            the bannings by reddits own filteriing/AI is causing people to lurk, old reddit makes the site legible. the new UI, even if you use extension to remove some of the features is still horrible to use.