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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.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 month ago (5 children)

The subs are back up for the record. According to an admin, it was a glitch.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The glitch being they got caught and people complained

[–] Evotech 25 points 1 month ago

How were they ever not getting "caught" lol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Eh no need to get tin foil hat, imho.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean, one has to ask why they were setting up automated banning of these subreddits in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Gold_E_Lox 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

they are saying Reddit is lying, hard to understand?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I understand what they were saying and I tried to explain why their case for it didn't make sense to me.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Huffman was probably in a huge hurry to gargle Elon's balls.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Thats just regular boring old Incompetence.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

subs like r/boobs are unmodded?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hence the glitch. A glitch is when doesn't perform as expected or desired.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 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.

[–] Goodmorningsunshine 37 points 1 month ago

😂 like that Facebook "glitch" that banned any inclusive terms and force-followed Trump on people's profiles? Lol these fuckers

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out they're making a ban list for all these communities, but the 'glitch' was that someone turned it on before whatever PR move/manufactured scandal they were going to use to justify it was ready to go.

Or this was just a test fire to see how people would react.

[–] dilroopgill 5 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

That's a pretty big glitch. 1. You have a nuclear button. 2. The omega thermal nuclear cluster bombs are pointed at a particular target

[–] Maggoty 5 points 1 month ago

Lmao, somebody said to do it and got called on the carpet by their shareholders.