Something big is happening, as Reddit seems to have purged literally every NSFW sub they know. Reason is always “unmoderated” despite some of the banned subreddits being fully moderated.


Edit: seems to have been a bug in automation (thanks @[email protected]):

https://old.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/1ii67mt/_/mb3fewv

It’s still a good reminder on how quickly a community (or communities) thousands of people enjoy and in some cases rely upon can disappear.

    • @Evotech
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      251 month ago

      How were they ever not getting “caught” lol

      • @[email protected]
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        I mean, one has to ask why they were setting up automated banning of these subreddits in the first place.

        • @[email protected]
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          The reason for all of them was unmoderated. So it seems to me like they have/are testing a method to auto ban unmoderated subs. Not that crazy, imho.

          • @Clasm
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            151 month ago

            Then why weren’t there loads more “unmoderated” subs of different categorize blocked?

            If it was just a glitch, I suspect that the affected subreddits would better represent a random distribution of topics than what we witnessed.

            • @[email protected]
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              A glitch is when something doesn’t work as you expect it to. I don’t know why you’d suspect any kind of behaviour from a glitch. Glitches can do all kinds of crazy shit.

              To be clear, I’m speculating on what tool they may actually be working on.

              • @Clasm
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                61 month ago

                I’m aware of what a glitch is. What I’m saying is that they are already targeting these specific subs regardless of their moderation status. The only ‘glitch’ here was that they got caught pushing an agenda.

                • @[email protected]
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                  You countered the assertion that it was a glitch with “well then why…” and presented a scenario you’d expect to see if it really were a glitch. I tried explaining why that doesn’t make any sense.

                  Have a good day.

                  • Golden Lox
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                    41 month ago

                    they are saying Reddit is lying, hard to understand?

          • Jomn
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            91 month ago

            If they are really testing things like that, it’s quite worrying that they did it on the production server…

              • @[email protected]
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                21 month ago

                I see, I assumed trans_surgeries wasn’t a nsfw sub, so I was weary of why it would be in the list with the rest.

                • @[email protected]
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                  1 month ago

                  NSFW doesn’t mean literal porn it means “what would be potentially catastrophic for the prudes at work to see on my screen out of the corner of their eye”.

                  As it turns out, anyones’ loins falls under that definition because vivimos en una sociedad.

                  And taking a scythe to anything with that tag is much simpler than actually being an arbiter of what is and isn’t “degenerate” porn for the sake of this batshit prudish regime.

                • JackbyDev
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                  11 month ago

                  It probably just looks for subreddits with a lot of NSFW flagged posts and they got the parameters wrong for what triggers the “is this unmoderated” part. Unmoderated NSFW subreddits probably are the target of this tool. Just my guess based on the context.