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[–]IT_guys_rule 1917ポイント1918ポイント  (322子コメント)

Okay here's a dark secret question: Can Super Mods and Admins see user's IP addresses if they have multiple accounts? Can you see the main account of a throwaway?

Edit: I don't know what a super mod is either guys, I just figured there were Mods then there were MODS!!!

[–]spez[S,A] 2220ポイント2221ポイント  (289子コメント)

Yes, but we throw away IPs after 100 days.

Can you see the main account of a throwaway?

Sort of. No one's looking. If they happen to share an IP, it's possible, but many IPs, for example at a college, have many hundreds of accounts on them.

edit: I should clarify. There is no such thing as a "super mod," and only select Reddit employees have access to IPs.

[–]BlatantConservative 647ポイント648ポイント  (193子コメント)

If there was a serious crime (terrorism, child porn, etc) and LEOs asked you to compre IPs of throwaways and main accounts, would you be able to make that connection?

(To clarify, Im not asking if its possible, Im asking if Reddit will give that info to LEOs)

[–]IT_guys_rule 165ポイント166ポイント  (8子コメント)

I appreciate you taking the time to answer this. I'm certain many people would like to know the limits of their privacy, especially the people that share things they may be embarrassed about.

[–]ProfoundlyProfound 3827ポイント3828ポイント  (1117子コメント)

Why are power mods still allowed, you know the ones, they lord over 100-300 subs squatting and waiting for them to become relevant...and then they promptly treat redditors like garbage?

Visit /r/MakingAMurderer sometime, one just absolutely destroyed it. They all had to flee to another sub /r/TickTockManitowoc. (Another example reached the front page yesterday.)

This is an all too common practice and I don't understand why this type of behavior is allowed? Why are we allowing power mods to exist?

Edit: Hey Spez, look, one of the very I guys I was talking about turned up. Here's your chance to see for yourself and give us some sort of answer on the issue.

[–]spez[S,A] 1725ポイント1726ポイント  (740子コメント)

This is a tricky one. The problems we see are a result of a couple of decisions we made a long time ago, not understanding their longterm consequences: simplistic moderator hierarchy and valuable real-estate in r/ urls. Unwinding these decisions requires a lot of thought and finesse. Reddit wouldn't exist as it does today without the good moderators, and we need to be very careful to continue to empower them while filtering out the bad actors. I'd like to be more specific–our thinking is more specific–but we're not ready to share anything just yet.

[–]_-_Alexander_-_ 481ポイント482ポイント  (87子コメント)

Translation: It be like it is and it be too late to change it.

Hate to be cynical but that generally sounds like "Yeahhh... no changes are planned".

My focus would be even more on moderators that are simply modding too many subreddits. There used to be a user ("ModwithoutModem" [it's 'Manwithoutmodem' and still exists], I think his name was) that I would see on like 50% of all subreddits I've ever visited. He had hundreds-to-thousands of subreddits under him. That shit has to stop if any of it is still going on.

Also - Admins should ONLY act on spam or big issues. I got shadowbanned by an admin a couple years ago just because he so happened to be a moderator of a subreddit as well and was clearly not in a good mood. I think at the time there was a bit of an issue with admins who happened to also be mods simply shadowbanning people from Reddit in it's entirety instead of just banning them from the subreddit like they should, and maybe that's still going on for all I know. I think being a Reddit admin should automatically disqualify you from being moderator of any subreddits (other than the lounge and SuggestionsForTheAdmins).

As for being a regular moderator - I kinda feel like subreddits should be weighted by their size. Like imagine there's a point system, and you have 100 points. Now there's a ranking system for subreddits - If they exceed 5 million they're an S-Rank or Tier 1 subreddit, and to be a moderator of one of those it's... 30 points out. When you reach 0, you can't be a moderator of anymore subs. So you could only be moderator of up to three huge subs and a few smaller ones. Or, lots of smaller ones if you prefer. This would be an unseen algorithm and system of course - but basically it's point would be to keep the community from having power-users that dominate most of what gets to be seen on Reddit. Oh, and the system isn't retroactive - if a subreddit just happens to get popular in the time that a moderator has been sitting, that's ignored (it'd have to be to avoid complications and unfairness).

The points being:

  • No one person should be allowed to have a seat of power over too much of Reddit (that's a road to censorship and bias).
  • Admins and Moderators have separate duties and they shouldn't get mixed together. I'm suggesting treating them much like separate branches of government. Admins should be focused on improving Reddit on a technical side (backend changes and such) and the only moderation stuff they should be concerned with are high offenses like hacking, doxxing, spam, death threats, vote manipulation, and illegal activity. The regular stuff should be dealt with by moderators, and admins shouldn't be allowed to also be moderators.

Just some suggestions off the top of my head, I guess.

[–]ProfoundlyProfound 3692ポイント3693ポイント  (199子コメント)

Just pointing out this particular issue to you, actually got me banned by the very individual i was describing as being abusive:

You've been banned from participating in /r/MakingaMurderer subreddit message via /r/MakingaMurderer[M] sent just now You have been banned from participating in /r/MakingaMurderer. You can still view and subscribe to /r/MakingaMurderer, but you won't be able to post or comment. Note from the moderators: Calling for harassment of mods If you have a question regarding your ban, you can contact the moderator team for /r/MakingaMurderer by replying to this message. Reminder from the Reddit staff: If you use another account to circumvent this subreddit ban, that will be considered a violation of the Content Policy and can result in your account being suspended from the site as a whole.

[–]JaguarGator9 154ポイント155ポイント  (5子コメント)

I'll link this question directly to you, just in case it got buried earlier:

Do you have any plans to revise the subreddit request function? Right now, I'm trying to get a subreddit that was created after my name (/r/JaguarGator9) and was created by /u/Ragwort, who created the subreddit 5 months ago and has done absolutely nothing with it. It should be noted that Ragwort has created over 800+ subreddits named after other Redditors that he has done nothing with.

However, because he's technically active, the request by the bot was denied.

Any plans to change this so that it requires that a mod be active on that particular subreddit in 30 days, and not just on Reddit?

Thanks again.

[–]DerberAuner 321ポイント322ポイント  (86子コメント)

Reddit wouldn't exist as it does today without the good moderators, and we need to be very careful to continue to empower them while filtering out the bad actors.

considering reddit is supposed to be a community driven site, you need to do something to enable users to fight back against mods they dont approve of.

theres no accountability for mods in general; no way to remove one as a user, or even a group of users, without admin intervention, which - lets be real here - almost never happens in this particular respect.

lets be real about why you have mods like that: theyre free labour, without whom running a site like reddit would be a practical impossibility. and frankly, thats the very reason why i think nothing will ever happen there, and why i wont be looking to reddit in the long run...

are you planning on adressing this in any meaningful way? or are you just going to continue down this path?

also, as a sidenote, what constitutes a "good" mod and what constitutes a "bad" mod in your opinion?


edit: its been an hour. i can already see, im not getting any response from spez on this one, and i can already see this wont get adressed. dont get your hopes up, folks. they dont care. were all unimportant, afterall.

edit 2: also: pay good attention to WHO makes the argument "you can always make your own sub". for some weird reason, its a lot of moderators of subreddits who argue that way.

[–]DenebVegaAltair 625ポイント626ポイント  (197子コメント)

What about people like /u/Ragwort who is an obvious squatter and sits on hundreds of subreddits of people's usernames without doing anything with them? /r/redditrequest doesn't work for any user who may wish to gain control of their own username subreddit because he objects to any attempt to reclaim them. He very clearly doesn't do any good for anyone and yet reddit doesn't do anything about it.

[–]ky1e 23ポイント24ポイント  (0子コメント)

The "bad actors" mentioned have been around for several years. There are several distinct cliques of "power moderators," who abuse the simple hierarchy structure and hoard influence over popular, generic communities.

/r/worldnews,

/r/iama,

/r/pics,

/r/conspiracy,

and /r/technology are all communities that have been held back by groups of "power moderators" that spend most of their time on the site dealing with internal drama within their moderator team or their subreddit communities, or external drama with other moderator teams.

When it comes to actually moderating activity in their subreddits, the clique moderator teams have always been the least effective.

They either get bogged down by their own buereaucratic systems (because they take the work way too seriously), or because they don't have any system at all. These large subreddits have a lot of activity. Moderator teams need to be both organized and nimble.

Getting rid of these "bad actors" would improve the moderator community at large, since a common trait of "power moderators" is continuously seeking and collecting more moderator permissions in more subreddits, until they are an ineffective moderator in dozens or hundreds of subreddits.

Having inactive moderators sitting on active subreddits' team can cause the community harm, because it often puts stress on the other moderators that are lower on the simple hierarchy

...anyway, yes, it is a complicated issue, and I'm glad to hear (again) that the admins are committed to fixing it (again).

[–]kwh 25ポイント26ポイント  (8子コメント)

The problems we see are a result of a couple of decisions we made a long time ago, not understanding their longterm consequences: simplistic moderator hierarchy and valuable real-estate in r/ urls.

It's kind of foolish to suggest that you didn't "understand" or think about longterm consequences. Forum moderation wasn't a new concept when you started reddit and you made specific decisions with specific expectations. Many large forums existed whose moderator staff was handpicked by site owners.

There's a few obvious "conceptual maps" to what went on with reddit from early days. One is the early internet domain system, and another is Wikipedia. The early domain system offered cheap domain names to the first 'comer', which lead to a high demand for common terms, trademarks, and other simple URLs. (www.pets.com, etc.) The result was that these were rapidly acquired or sold to those who had the greatest interest in controlling them.

Obviously, decisions made by reddit Admins caused certain key subreddit terms (news, worldnews, politics) to become highly valued. That's nothing new and has been around since AOL keywords. This also meant that the subreddit moderator leadership mattered more, while at the same time reddit admins maintained the same imperial 'disinterest' in intervening, while nevertheless influencing (behind scenes, in private emails or IRC channels, or through outright policy decisions blamed upon "investors").

In the case of Wikipedia, wikipedia purported to be a benign anarchy, without centralized control or moderation except where absolutely needed. Various processes and controls were eventually established by interested parties, yet for all intents and purposes it remained under control of Jimbo Wales and the Wikipedia Foundation which could effectively 'turn out the lights' if they desired.

Like Wikipedia editors, the crop of moderators are 'accepted' by the site owners, yet are made to do the grunt work needed to make reddit successful without anything (presumptively) other than ego remuneration.

Finally, the other important conceptual map would be to the Northwest Ordinance of the early United States. As one of the earliest acts of the States United post-revolution, it established land patents to be given to whoever would explore the newly acquired territories, provided that they A. survey the land (thus making it navigable and hospitible to others), and B. establish systems of rudimentary territorial government.

This is really what you did in the past 8 years on reddit. You let the subreddit pioneers create subreddits, and then the people populated them. The moderators in place created rules, and there was a rough concept of continuity of government, although some intervention was needed.

The next step is obvious: either recognize popular sovereignty in subreddits and establish a means for election/de-election of moderators, or give up the illusion of sovereignty altogether.

Every time people say "we did it reddit!" they believe that there is in fact an empowered "we" - when in fact the only power comes from code and 'the light switch' (ala Mao - barrel of a gun)

Right now you're dodging all responsibility for bad moderation even though it is permitted de facto by site admins, and taking all credit for good moderation. As far as I know, you have no obligation to allow moderators to continue per TOS or AUP - unless you have secret contracts or agreements (paid for?) giving them the job.

So what's the real deal Steve? You can't fool all the people all of the time.

[–]wigglewam 130ポイント131ポイント  (20子コメント)

I would like to see the default subs democratized. Hold moderator elections once a year, like StackOverflow does. Make all moderator actions transparent, so everyone can see (e.g.) who has been banned by who and for what. Allow non-defaults to continue the way they currently run, and give default subs a choice: democratize, or lose your default sub status.

Any thoughts?

[–]rfiok 46ポイント47ポイント  (6子コメント)

how about not letting them expand their power? Limit the max subs you can moderate to 15, limit the max number of big subs (20K+ users) you can moderate to 1. If someone is over the limit dont let them moderate new ones.

Give a 3 month grace period to people over this limit to give up mod status, if they dont demote them in chronological order until they are in the limits.

[–]kikiotsuka 20ポイント21ポイント  (1子コメント)

I don't like how some mods squat on subreddits. Have you thought of implementing some sort of system where you could petition for the removal of a mod or take over of a sub since /r/redditrequest doesn't seem to work?

[–]ElagabalusRex 2068ポイント2069ポイント  (305子コメント)

Do you ever think about unbanning every single user just to see the chaos it would create?

[–]spez[S,A] 2632ポイント2633ポイント  (299子コメント)

Yes, actually. There are probably users who were accidentally banned for spamming, but in reality they were just sharing an IP with a spammer. Now that our anti-spam efforts are so much better, I'd like to unban all old spammers and see what happens.

[–]voldyman 3223ポイント3224ポイント  (190子コメント)

hey can i be unshadow banned? have had multiple conversations with the mods, i didn't do anything. i can give you the alternate account i've been using and there is no malicious activity.

This username is useful because i use it everywhere else;

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    [–]RandomName01 510ポイント511ポイント  (32子コメント)

    I'd like to unban all old spammers and see what happens.

    I'm picturing some kind of zombie apocalypse type thing.

    [–]FireHazard11 20ポイント21ポイント  (1子コメント)

    Do it! Do it!

    What's the worst that could happen? They can't fire you for that, and you'd get a lot of good data on how effective your new anti spam measures are.

    [–]89vision 15ポイント16ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Seems like most of them would have just abandoned their accounts by now

    [–]ConfusedHerring 778ポイント779ポイント  (107子コメント)

    What's the best and worst thing about running Reddit?

    [–]spez[S,A] 1766ポイント1767ポイント  (103子コメント)

    The best part is being a part of something so important to so many people. It's a lot of fun most of the time, and even when it's not fun, it's very exciting and challenging. It's not always easy to find that in a job, and I'm really fortunate to have it in mine.

    The hardest part is watching what I say publicly. Everything is recorded and judged. Our PR team is always lecturing me to be a little less Joe Biden.

    [–]Maccaroney 176ポイント177ポイント  (7子コメント)

    Sometimes i feel really bad for people like you - people in power that have every word scrutinized.

    The famous "popcorn tastes good" incident brought to us by your partner in crime. Some guy, like the rest of us, was just trying to have a laugh.
    Half of my comments are references or jokes. I don't know what i'd do if i had to seriously consider the ramifications of everything i say.
    It certainly wouldn't go well. I'd explode.

    What i'm getting at is this:
    I know that you're a person. A person who makes jokes, makes mistakes, and is just trying to have a half-pleasant life like the rest of us. So just know, if you ever make a mistake and are getting absolutely buttfucked by the community at least one guy out there is going to be sitting there at his PC thinking:
            Wow, m8, you fucked up. Over 10k downvotes. I wonder what the most downvoted post of all time is... Does Reddit have a 'sort by lowest' option? Damn, doesn't seem so. Well, it needs one. I should message someone about this. I don't know anyone to message. Eh, i guess it's not really useful anyway. I would be fun, though. I wonder what my most downvoted post is. It's probably that time i talked a bunch of shit about Fast and Furious. Hah, yep, just as i suspected; almost a hundred downvotes. My high score is less than 1% of this guy's. Amazing. I guess it's really just exposure more than anything. We're all the same here. Just some people. Typing away on our keyboards. Click clack. Mine's probably louder, though. Heh. I wonder what /u/spez types on. Probably something either extremely boring or extremely cool. Actually, mine isn't extreme either. Actually, nothing i have is extreme. I want something extreme. What am i passionate about? Well, cars, i guess. But i don't have the skills to do anything crazy with them. What skills do i have? Fuck, i don't have any skills at all. I should do something with my life. /u/spez did something with his life. He's the fucking CEO of a large company with millions of users. How the fuck did that come about? I envy this man and his 10k downvotes. Truly awesome.

     

     

    TL;DR: U do u, bb, u do u. <3

    [–]mspk7305 413ポイント414ポイント  (7子コメント)

    Our PR team is always lecturing me to be a little less Joe Biden.

    Repeat after me: "Fuck you, I am Joe Biden."

    [–]BlatantConservative 430ポイント431ポイント  (9子コメント)

    Then do what I do, spend all of your time on Reddit and never go out in public.

    [–]swimbikerunrun 60ポイント61ポイント  (31子コメント)

    so important to so many people

    Agreed. This is a very social platform that, in my opinion, helps get rid of racism. I don't have any idea if people behind the screenname is a guy or girl, black or white, famous or not, rich or poor. (except /u/doubledickdude.. I've SEEN things (0_o)

    Anyways,

    Can Reddit implement an auto-destruct feature for comments? I don't care the actual comment stays, but at least name it so my username gets deleted after x amount of time.

    Right now every couple months or so I run a GreaseMonkey script that deletes all my comments and postings.

    Doxxing is a very real threat.

    [–]KungPaoSucks 694ポイント695ポイント  (101子コメント)

    Anything new you can tell us about privacy on reddit?

    [–]spez[S,A] 739ポイント740ポイント  (97子コメント)

    Not a lot new, but I can repeat how we feel: privacy colors many of our conversations around here. We have a good privacy policy; we released a thorough transparency report, which will be even more thorough next year because we're keeping better records; and that whole techno-libertarian, super-paranoid viewpoint that exists on Reddit? That came from me, and has been upheld by many others around here over the years.

    edit: I have a hard time with links.

    [–]srnull 546ポイント547ポイント  (44子コメント)

    we released a thorough (transparency report)[https://www.reddit.com/wiki/transparency/2015]

    Sweet, even the reddit CEO gets this wrong sometimes. I always remember it as "The URL part is a (whisper) at the end", but sometimes reverse it on first try.

    [–]nicolaikay 96ポイント97ポイント  (5子コメント)

    The interesting part is not that he botched a link, it's that he successfully did one link, and then immediately botched another one.

    [–]Advacar 166ポイント167ポイント  (21子コメント)

    Didn't the government info request canary disappear from the last report?

    [–]jdp407 1311ポイント1312ポイント  (167子コメント)

    Quite a few people were concerned by your recent comments to which the title of this post alludes ("We know all of your interests. Not only just your interests you are willing to declare publicly on Facebook - we know your dark secrets, we know everything"), and would like further explanation. Are your comments representative of the policies of reddit Inc.?

    Does this herald the implementation of highly targeted advertising based on subreddit preferences, or perhaps something much more sinister, like mass data collection which could then be sold on? I think if you could clarify these comments it might put people slightly more at ease.

    [–]spez[S,A] 840ポイント841ポイント  (162子コメント)

    We would like to make better use of all the data we have. The front page could be a lot more relevant; we can make better content suggestions; and yes, ads can be better targeted. There are many opportunities to make Reddit better and more relevant.

    We're not actually doing it now. I've mentioned this sort of thing before. When do, we'll always provide an opt-out or way of resetting things.

    No, we'll don't ever share this sort of information directly with advertisers. We sometimes have to jump through a lot of hoops to accomplish this, but we don't mind at all.

    [–]damn_it_so_much 317ポイント318ポイント  (36子コメント)

    Wouldn't this only increase the echochamber effect of this site? Much like google news does, or facebook?

    I suppose this would be an effect you might consider and dismiss because I'm sure lots of people out there actually prefer echochambers. But it feels like yet another step away from what made reddit great when I first joined: exposure to a breadth of relevant user content.

    It also feels like an attempt at fixing to the effect of popularity. Everyone knows that reddit content is better in non default subs for instance.

    [–]Forgot-My-Name_again 576ポイント577ポイント  (45子コメント)

    I don't mind you using my info, as long as it isn't shared, and you never try to tie it to me personally. You don't know my name (or at least have never asked), and I hope you never will. The day my account isn't anonymous is the day I mind you using my info.

    [–]wub_wub 17ポイント18ポイント  (2子コメント)

    When do, we'll always provide an opt-out

    But you made a couple of privacy invading changes and enabled them on reddit without the ability to opt out, and for some of them only after a bunch of users complained you decided to start working on opt out functionality.

    Is opt out something that is not one of the requirements for such features to be developed in the first place?

    Example:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/4ldk0r/reddit_change_affiliate_links_on_reddit/

    and another one: https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/49jjb7/reddit_change_click_events_on_outbound_links/

    [–]HMTGF 79ポイント80ポイント  (19子コメント)

    Related to showing better content, will you ever natively add the option to block a subreddit from /r/all? Having one political subreddit take up sometimes up to 18 or more of the 25 front page slots is beyond obnoxious. If I wanted to see a bunch of memelords I'd sub to meme content.

    [–]thijser2 36ポイント37ポイント  (4子コメント)

    Can we have a datamining/increase privacy opt-out option? Not all of us are happy with this development.

    [–]Bartisgod 2ポイント3ポイント  (2子コメント)

    I don't want my front page to be targeted though. It used to just be a list of top posts from all of the subs I subscribe to. Now I subscribe to about 20 subs but see nothing but /r/sandersforpresident and /r/AskReddit, it's ridiculous. I understand that it might not all be targeting, some subs have mods who know how to manipulate /r/all and others are too huge not to naturally drown everything else out. But the front page used to be a list of the top posts in each subscribed sub. Slot 1-25 were the #1 posts in subscribed subs numbers 1-25, slots 26-50 did the same for the #2 posts. The front page and /r/all shouldn't be the same thing like they pretty much are now. If you're going to target things, even if you choose to do it secretly, could you please at least offer an opt out button that returns me to a completely untargeted, unbiased view if I want it, like Google News does?

    [–]K_Lobstah 193ポイント194ポイント  (41子コメント)

    Hi Steve,

    I think the last one of these I inquired about the on-boarding process for new user accounts. Has that made its way into the timetable yet?

    I'd like to once again emphasize my belief that a thorough introduction to the site, its philosophies, how it works, and the actual nature of subreddits as independent communities will cut out SO many issues faced by both users and moderators.

    An effective presentation to first-time users could really solve a lot of little issues that we frequently see compound into larger ones.

    Regardless of the answer, thanks for taking time to do another of these. They're always interesting and informative.

    [–]spez[S,A] 218ポイント219ポイント  (29子コメント)

    Yes yes yes. Our biggest high-level product need to is to educate new users on what Reddit actually is.

    [–]sdhu 523ポイント524ポイント  (16子コメント)

    This comic created by a redditor 5 years ago really helped me make sense of reddit. It should be stickied at the top of r/all

    EDIT: credit for original link goes to u/Sophira below

    [–]Dark_Crystal 28ポイント29ポイント  (3子コメント)

    But much like the Matrix, no one can be told what Reddit is.

    [–]MannoSlimmins 555ポイント556ポイント  (56子コメント)

    What is your biggest regret in life?

    [–]spez[S] 1692ポイント1693ポイント  (53子コメント)

    It's hard to answer that. There are many moments that I regretted at one point (selling Reddit so early, leaving Reddit, letting my marriage fail), but that I now look back on with perspective, and those experiences have shaped me for the better.

    [–]DarkHorse66 41ポイント42ポイント  (4子コメント)

    One of my biggest regrets was throwing up on you first year of college as you slept in the bunk under me.

    Just kidding. That was pretty hilarious. I did actually regret throwing up into my printer that night, thinking it was a waste basket. That part sucked.

    Hi Steve!

    [–]Fenzik 153ポイント154ポイント  (0子コメント)

    I know there's a lot of joking around as well as speaking professionally on this thread, but I think it's really cool that you're actually being real as well.

    [–]Keyframe 39ポイント40ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Didn't we celebrate your marriage just a few years ago here? Well, damn. Sorry to hear that.

    [–]Mines_of_Moria 129ポイント130ポイント  (4子コメント)

    letting my marriage fail

    dude. don't be so harsh on yourself, holy shit.

    [–]CMC3BFF 3488ポイント3489ポイント  (398子コメント)

    Ever thought of buying RES and integrating it into the main site so that the vanilla reddit experience is actually worthwhile?

    [–]spez[S,A] 4835ポイント4836ポイント  (341子コメント)

    Thought of, yes. In reality, probably not. We do appreciate everything they do for us, however. I don't use it myself because I believe I should have to suffer until we make things better.

    [–]rsplatpc 4233ポイント4234ポイント  (144子コメント)

    I believe I should have to suffer until we make things better.

    "Hey RES, can we buy you?"

    "yes"

    "ok we just made it better"

    [–]RandomName01 371ポイント372ポイント  (20子コメント)

    That's a good mindset to have! One thing that I would find great is if embedded images could be resized just like in RES.

    [–]honestbleeps 221ポイント222ポイント  (15子コメント)

    why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?

    source: i am cow

    [–]MustacheEmperor 3ポイント4ポイント  (4子コメント)

    I should have to suffer until we make things better

    With m.reddit.com we are all forced to suffer while the beta is made better. Can you PLEAAASE make it so m.reddit.com respects the "request desktop site" on mobile devices? I know some people like it more but I prefer to use the desktop site even on my phone. I've looked online and there is no way to disable the mobile version of the site.

    [–]Tymanthius 7ポイント8ポイント  (7子コメント)

    In reality, probably not

    Care to elaborate? Is RES (or Toolbox) open sourced?

    [–]The--Marf 333ポイント334ポイント  (46子コメント)

    Even though you are an Admin what do you enjoy most about Reddit as a User? Sorry for the kinda vague question.

    [–]spez[S,A] 734ポイント735ポイント  (45子コメント)

    I love posts like this that I couldn't possibly explain to anyone else, but still make me laugh til I cry.

    [–]CockTheRipper 223ポイント224ポイント  (12子コメント)

    Do you think you guys are making as much progress as you had hoped? What areas and ideas are you really happy with, and which do you feel still need more work?

    [–]spez[S,A] 291ポイント292ポイント  (11子コメント)

    Yes and no. We spent a lot of the last year healing and hiring. I have to remind myself that we can't do everything we want overnight. At the same time, I'm really excited to build all our dreams, and I want to get things online yesterday!

    [–]Sponge-worthy 98ポイント99ポイント  (6子コメント)

    Healing? The general sentiment I get repeatedly is that those injurious steps have never been reversed, and your predecessor was likely brought in as a sacrificial lamb all along.

    [–]combuchan 877ポイント878ポイント  (118子コメント)

    When will m.reddit.com be not horrible and useless, and what was the impetus to change it from not horrible and useless to horrible and useless originally?

    [–]spez[S,A] 1192ポイント1193ポイント  (92子コメント)

    When will m.reddit.com be not horrible and useless

    5pm pst. Mark my words.

    [–]13steinj 188ポイント189ポイント  (12子コメント)

    Giving redditors a deadline is one thing, but one of less than 4 hours? You're either mad or something has been in the works for a while (hopefully the latter).

    [–]Shanix 198ポイント199ポイント  (13子コメント)

    Just to ping off this, would it be possible to redirect to a non-mobile version of reddit if you're not on a mobile platform?

    [–]LigerZeroSchneider 23ポイント24ポイント  (4子コメント)

    Can you stop it from showing up in google results? I've once intentionally went to m.reddit but it keeps showing up even on desktop occasionally.

    [–]Error410Gone 12ポイント13ポイント  (4子コメント)

    I still use Reddit.com/.compact on my phone. I don't like all the image previews and whatever the m.reddit has, I can just open images in a new tab, and can still expand text posts. It's probably better for my mobile data cap too with smaller thumbnails.

    [–]KorgRue 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

    m.reddit.com

    I dont get it. Why is Reddit using the m. subdomain for a site that is obviously adaptive on mobile devices. Why not just make the main desktop version fully responsive and dump the m. nonsense?

    [–]voltism 282ポイント283ポイント  (74子コメント)

    How do you feel about the default subreddits?

    [–]spez[S,A] 584ポイント585ポイント  (73子コメント)

    I understand the motive for creating them in the first place, to ensure variety on the front page, but I think we would take a different approach now.

    [–]oaklandzoo 317ポイント318ポイント  (28子コメント)

    I always like using services like Netflix which present a whole bunch of TV Shows and ask new users to pick items they like. If Reddit had some popular subreddits organized into categories, you could have a page for new users to "Setup" their Frontpage.


    Example:

    Welcome to Reddit

    Please select all categories which interest you. This information will help us form your new frontpage.

    • World News (subreddits - News, WorldNews, Europe, etc)
    • Technology (subreddits - technology, computers, etc)
    • Gaming (subreddits - Xbox, PS4, Nintendo, etc)
    • Funny (subreddits - GIFs, Funny, Videos)
    • Insert more categories here

    While not great examples, I think this kind of a system would be better at shaping Reddit for new users.

    Edit: To elaborate more on why I think this is necessary, I had a co-worker just today tell me that she did not like Reddit because there was too much noise on the front page. I had to show her how the frontpage was a collection of subreddits which can be added or removed depending on her likes. This is the basics, but not everyone gets it just yet. By showing new users this type of section up front, perhaps the idea of subreddit and curating the frontpage will come to them more quickly.

    [–]evilnight 14ポイント15ポイント  (3子コメント)

    The thing that bit you in the ass the hardest with the original defaults is that their subject matter was just too damn broad, which creates serious issues when there are millions of subscribers and tens of thousands of new users a day. No one can agree what the place is supposed to be about. Everyone spends their time voting against each other instead of for the best content.

    The subs that individual people created which grew up and became successful all tend to run better because they had both a more narrow focus and a couple of years to grow and develop a sense of identity.

    Just take /r/music as an example. That has exploded into well over a thousand smaller subs and one other default, because it couldn't do those thousand plus jobs all at the same time. I'm rather impressed with the mod teams of /r/books and /r/movies holding it together as well as they have.

    You really need a new 'meta-default' system.

    Something like reddit.com/s/movies, /s/music, /s/television etc. Those should just be multireddits of the smaller subs that are within their subject matter. All subs to opt in (and out) of those categories. You can use those categories in place of default subreddits when you implement that new subject-based signup you're working on. Let reddit self-organize these things for you, most of the work is already done. I did the music subs two years ago for example.

    [–]AvatarOfMomus 71ポイント72ポイント  (11子コメント)

    Do you think we might ever see the current setup change? There's been a lot of controversy any time a sub joins or leaves the defaults list and even the existence of defaults comes with its own problems and benefits.

    Do you think there's a better way to present the site to new/non-logged-in users, and if so do you think Reddit might eventually move away from its current system?

    [–]allthefoxes 13ポイント14ポイント  (1子コメント)

    I honestly think the solution is simple onboarding.

    Don't be like Twitter or other places that MAKE you follow people. Right after sign up, give people two simple options.

    A. Reddit is all about communities, and finding the right ones is just as important. Discover and subscribe to communities here

    B. No thanks, just give me the usual set

    (Obviously better wording that that)

    Heck, even go with something like:

    Reddit is about communities...

    <insert small paragraph about reddit>

    <Insert small paragraph about subscribing to communites>

    Click next to start discovering!

    (and then, in really small text)

    No thanks, just give me the usual set


    The usual set will simply be the defaults as we know it, but having the onboarding will help most new users

    [–]jhc1415 6ポイント7ポイント  (4子コメント)

    Do you think expanding them was a mistake? I've noticed that the quality of the content in the more niche ones like /r/space and /r/Documentaries dropped significantly after becoming defaults. I don't think people should be automatically subscribed to subs like that regardless of whether or not they have an interest in those topics.

    [–]ReallyAmused 832ポイント833ポイント  (95子コメント)

    why do you have all our secrets? - what did you mean by that statement?

    [–]spez[S,A] 1543ポイント1544ポイント  (85子コメント)

    The sentiment I was trying to convey is that people share many different facets of their personalities on Reddit, which doesn't happen many other places online or even in real life sometimes.

    As it happens, the quote you're referring to was tongue-in-cheek and needlessly douchey. My bad.

    [–]-Hegemon- 368ポイント369ポイント  (23子コメント)

    Yeah, I saw the video, I got what you meant.

    Let's say I'm into dressing like a woman (I'm not, you can check, you pervs /s).

    You guys could sell me a fancy new dress, something that Facebook wouldn't because I wouldn't share that interest there.

    But yeah, it sounded very bad in the video, very Orwellian, so it's good of you to acknowledge it.

    [–]durandalwaslaughing 79ポイント80ポイント  (11子コメント)

    As long as the advertising targeted at durandalwaslaughing remains targeted at durandalwaslaughing and never leaks to me behind the mask, I'm fine with that.

    [–]nicksline 111ポイント112ポイント  (12子コメント)

    People really overreact to statements like this.

    We should all be aware that we've shared personal data on sites such as this. A tongue in cheek comment about "knowing our secrets" is the same as a friend or colleague finding your reddit account and saying "lol I know your secrets now"

    [–]unproperNoun 9ポイント10ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Don't you think that compromising the security of ambiguity that people feel when they come to this site is putting one of the site's major attractions at risk?

    I mean the idea of reddit being enhanced using my history doesn't seem like a terrible idea, but it seems to be walking a very fine line. That is one inkling shy of doing something that uses our data how we do not want and totally ruining half the reason I come here

    [–]Rooonaldooo99 24ポイント25ポイント  (10子コメント)

    I would never want anyone to know about the shit I post on Reddit..

    [–]Bifrons 282ポイント283ポイント  (37子コメント)

    Could you talk more in depth about the decision to conspicuously replace links to various vendor sites with reddit affiliated versions to increase site revenue without the user being aware?

    [–]spez[S,A] 226ポイント227ポイント  (29子コメント)

    We announced this last week. We haven't enabled it yet, and we will provide an opt-out. We're starting with a test to see what the opportunity size actually is. We're also treading carefully.

    [–]GoGoGadgetReddit 85ポイント86ポイント  (20子コメント)

    Have you considered replacing user-posted affiliate ID URLs with Reddit affiliate IDs in the URL? This would not only generate revenue for reddit, but also be a major step towards stopping Affiliate Marketing spammers who create endless new accounts to bypass bans.

    edit -- Charity Affiliate IDs (for Amazon URLs, for example) should be an exception and left alone.
    edit2 -- The Affiliate ID replacement could be an OPT-OUT option for subreddit moderators who wish to allow it.

    [–]Bifrons 37ポイント38ポイント  (3子コメント)

    It was announced on a subreddit not a lot of users subscribe to, and the post itself is only hovering at 32 upvotes, indicating that not a lot of people has seen it. Coupled with the opt-out instead of a different mechanism, I feel that this feature is quietly being pushed through. It's technically transparent, but in a "fine print" sort of fashion.

    [–]allthefoxes 426ポイント427ポイント  (34子コメント)

    I'll ask the obligatory question:

    2fa when?

    [–]spez[S,A] 330ポイント331ポイント  (25子コメント)

    We're still working through the acute pain of fixing and finding the actually compromised accounts. 2fa after that. We've talked through the technical challenges, and they're not that bad.

    [–]how_do_i_land 125ポイント126ポイント  (11子コメント)

    How will RSS feeds etc be affected by 2fa?

    [–]spez[S,A] 214ポイント215ポイント  (8子コメント)

    The best practice is one-time-use passwords, I believe.

    [–]Dykam 84ポイント85ポイント  (3子コメント)

    one-time-use passwords

    Or limited-ability tokens? Like, read-only etc. Which I assume to some extend the OAuth API does, but more publicly like Google's one-purpose-passwords.

    [–]RCIX 12ポイント13ポイント  (4子コメント)

    I know this is a big thing for a lot of people, but at the risk of making me more visible to attacks, I don't care as much about security as I do convenience right now. Will 2fa be required or optional?

    [–]Thedutchjelle 537ポイント538ポイント  (35子コメント)

    How often do you ban people while on the toilet?

    [–]spez[S,A] 1242ポイント1243ポイント  (29子コメント)

    Never. But how often do I do AMAs while on the toilet? Now that's a question worth asking.

    [–]TheBoldMuffin 573ポイント574ポイント  (4子コメント)

    No wonder its so shitty.

    jk I'm actually really enjoying this AMA thanks for doing it

    [–]TonyQuark 410ポイント411ポイント  (43子コメント)

    When do you expect more mod tools to become available?

    [–]spez[S,A] 513ポイント514ポイント  (30子コメント)

    The big one is new moderator mail. We've got a whole product team on it. The short answer is, as soon as it's ready–as soon as possible.

    [–]zeug666 27ポイント28ポイント  (4子コメント)

    Anything you can share about the direction it's going in, changes to expect, or anything like that? I'm curious because I've had some thoughts about modmail as I've waited for it to load and I would like to share those thoughts, completely unsolicited and with no expectations of the following even being read, with you:

    • Treat modmails sort of like a support ticket; give a status like pending, completed, or an expiration/alarm/calendar type trigger to check back later.
    • allow mods to add notes, that are only visible to other mods, to a 'ticket' instead of having to create a separate modmail or utilizing a separate communication platform (unless you'd also like to add a communication platform like 'modchat')
    • Tickets 'stick' to a user, making them easier to recover and refer back to whenever mods interact with a user (because searching through modmail sucks)
    • Incorporate mod-log, mod-notes, and ban info into the above

    [–]adeadhead 110ポイント111ポイント  (5子コメント)

    Thank god. And not just for moderators. As a mod of a large sub, I feel really bad for users who aren't familiar with the site whose messages get buried and think we just ignored them.

    [–]karoc 269ポイント270ポイント  (30子コメント)

    Do you think reddit will still be relevant in 10 years from now?

    [–]Shlummie_ 206ポイント207ポイント  (106子コメント)

    Whats your reddit password?

    [–]spez[S,A] 524ポイント525ポイント  (99子コメント)

    I don't know, I use 1password, and you should too.

    [–]EorEquis 671ポイント672ポイント  (13子コメント)

    As an admin, you should absolutely see how many people just tried to login as you using "1password" for the password.

    Make charts.

    [–]GaslightProphet 7ポイント8ポイント  (9子コメント)

    How do those sites not reduce your vulnerability to a single point of impact?

    [–]super_secret_soup 78ポイント79ポイント  (35子コメント)

    1. What do you think makes reddit different to other social media sites out there?

    2. Batman vs 100 badgers, who wins?

    [–]spez[S,A] 181ポイント182ポイント  (29子コメント)

    1. People can be their authentic selves in a way they can't anywhere else. They can also be someone else's authentic self.

    2. Batman. He's the world's greatest detective.

    [–]blue2white 29ポイント30ポイント  (18子コメント)

    would you mind elaborating on how people can be their authentic selves in a way that is unique only to this site?

    if anything the up & down-vote system encourages people to act in a way that's considered favourable on this site. being themselves can mean having their comment virtually silenced by being downvoted into obscurity

    [–]Chriscftb97 201ポイント202ポイント  (167子コメント)

    Is a hotdog a sandwhich? What about a taco?

    Sharks or Penguins?

    Warriors or Cavs?

    [–]spez[S,A] 511ポイント512ポイント  (159子コメント)

    Is a hotdog a sandwhich? What about a taco?

    No. Stop it. A hotdog is one piece of bread. A taco is one piece of something. A sandwich needs 2+ pieces of bread.

    Sharks or Penguins?

    Redwings

    Warriors or Cavs?

    Dubs!

    [–]jooes 61ポイント62ポイント  (13子コメント)

    What about sub sandwiches, like from Subway? If you don't cut the bun all the way through, it's still technically one piece of bread.

    Hell, that's exactly how you cut the bun if you're having a hot dog. If a sub is a sandwich, a hot dog is a sandwich too.

    [–]camplightsatnight 104ポイント105ポイント  (13子コメント)

    A hotdog is one piece of bread. A taco is one piece of something.

    So... hotdogs are tacos?

    [–]crylicylon 149ポイント150ポイント  (54子コメント)

    A sandwich needs 2+ pieces of bread.

    What about open-face sandwiches?

    [–]SamiTheBystander 22ポイント23ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Where's all the offseason shitposting in /r/detroitredwings? STEP IT UP MAN

    [–]Spartan_Mello 30ポイント31ポイント  (0子コメント)

    LGRW!!!

    Come spend some time with us on a game day thread next year over at r/DetroitRedWings!

    [–]8arrows 69ポイント70ポイント  (6子コメント)

    Redwings

    This is how you earn a Detroiter's respect.

    [–]Voli-fair 111ポイント112ポイント  (13子コメント)

    Do you like pineapple on your pizza?

    [–]capndeevers 141ポイント142ポイント  (16子コメント)

    Do you like pina coladas?

    [–]spez[S] 430ポイント431ポイント  (15子コメント)

    No, nor do I like getting caught in the rain.

    [–]TSHIRTTIIIIIIME 743ポイント744ポイント  (99子コメント)

    What was the real reason Victoria was let go?

    [–]spez[S] 863ポイント864ポイント  (83子コメント)

    That was before my time.

    [–]dfnkt 313ポイント314ポイント  (5子コメント)

    I think you mean it was after your first time but before your second time.

    [–]BlatantConservative 157ポイント158ポイント  (28子コメント)

    Your account is literally the second oldest account on Reddit.

    But I understand how its a PR nightmare to comment on that so Im not judging you for avoiding the question

    [–]FilmMakingShitlord 69ポイント70ポイント  (2子コメント)

    That was while we had our scapegoat CEO to make people think that I wasn't involved with any unpopular decisions

    FTFY

    [–]reseph 702ポイント703ポイント  (65子コメント)

    Can you tell us why this was removed from reddit's core values?

    1. Respect anonymity and privacy

    You are not required to share more than you are comfortable with. Having information doesn't give you a license to use it. Allow people to be as anonymous as they choose, including ourselves. Value the candor afforded by anonymity.

    See https://np.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/4lmfmj/ceo_of_reddit_steve_huffman_about_advertising_on/d3olvco

    [–]spez[S,A] -508ポイント-507ポイント  (61子コメント)

    I wanted to have as few values as possible so their impact is greater. We felt that both Remember the Human and What Would Snoo Do? encompass the ideas of respect and privacy.

    [–]Telthien 399ポイント400ポイント  (20子コメント)

    With all due respect, I don't think this makes much sense. Core values aren't a matter of quantity and impact; they're a matter of principle. Principles don't devalue if you have more of them.

    There is nothing removing this sentence achieves except to signal, plain and clear, that this is no longer a core value of reddit. Nowhere else was this principle stated as clearly, and it disappoints me that it was removed entirely.

    That it is kept in spirit, and is encompassed by other ideas, is unfortunately simply not good enough, when users are growing increasingly aware that reddit is aiming to monetize our communities.

    To be clear: I'm okay with monetization. It's important to the continued existence of reddit. What I'm not okay with is the signal that reddit intends to violate privacy to achieve that end.

    [–]darthn3ss 246ポイント247ポイント  (3子コメント)

    I mean, how would we know what Snoo would do?

    For all I know, Snoo is a junkie who would sell his own grandmother at a no-tell motel for a fix. I know it's not easy but I think we'd all prefer honesty here. In the long run, deception and lies will catch up to Reddit.

    You're probably lucky we're all too addicted to have some kind of digg-esque revolt.

    [–]Dustin- 60ポイント61ポイント  (0子コメント)

    I disagree. Having many specific values is better than few vague answers. You could distill the values down to "Don't be a dick" and it would encompass everything, however it's too vague to be useful.

    [–]9764318264 31ポイント32ポイント  (3子コメント)

    How does removing any mention of privacy encompass the idea of privacy? Why was the language on the delete account page changed to deactivate?

    [–]GloryFish 6ポイント7ポイント  (0子コメント)

    I humbly suggest that those values do not adequately encompass "Respect anonymity and privacy".

    I would argue that the current values are too vague to be effective.

    [–]reseph 12ポイント13ポイント  (0子コメント)

    The new page mentions nothing of either nor even hints at them. Honestly, the page is very vague now and it didn't used to be.

    [–]TheHaleStorm 181ポイント182ポイント  (50子コメント)

    There has been a noticeable trend of moderators in very large subs (and apparently smaller subs moderated by people with a distinct conflict of interest that is NOT made clear to the casual visitor) not really moderating them as much as directing the discussion in a way that suits their personal beliefs.

    Now on most subs this would not be an issue, /r/Pokemon should be positives about Pokémon, /r/conservitive and /r/liberal positive about conservative and liberal values respectively. This makes sense as it is the point of the sub.

    The types of subs where this would end up becoming an issue are ones that would appear to the layperson to be an impartial sub, for example /r/news, /r/worldnews, or /r/politics. On the surface and in the way they are described, these subs should not take a stance one way or the other. (Edit: In addition to the large subs trying to appear impartial, subs for products, companies, people, etc, especially when a potential conflict of interest is in play, or unwritten/ambiguous rules are enforced to steer the conversation are also effected)

    Given some of the recent developments regarding Facebook and their curating/censorship/tweaking of their trending topics, do you feel that social media outlets have a duty to provide an impartial service to their patrons? Or, as in the case with targeted subs, at least make it clear that things are only being presented with information from one perspective?

    EDIT

    I have another example that I noticed because of a good question from /u/MK101 that would be directly impacted by better rules regarding transparency and fulfilling the implied duty that a sub and it's mods have to redditors.

    The sub /r/lootcrate is devoted to the popular nerd subscription box of the same name. Their rules include your basics, no spoilers on box content before a certain date, no NSFW, how to post spoilers after the blackout date, and two more i want to point out, no posting or discussing other subscription boxes, and Mods have the last say on what is allowed, the sub is not Lootcrate customer service, they will delete content to promote using the proper customer service channels.

    No posting or discussing other subscription boxes.

    This sort of makes sense, and sort of doesn't. It is a sub for fans to discuss Lootcrate, right? A common thing in many subs is to discuss recommendations regarding other products, services, or advice on things not covered explicitly by that sub (even if it is just in the comments and not a dedicated post). This makes sense, you want advice from people that you know have like interests and experiences, right? Otherwise it may as well just be the product comment section on the official website, right?

    A sub dedicated to /r/Halo may have suggestions about similar games to play during a delay and /r/Diablo3 may have a submission asking for similar games but with offline play. Hell, /r/oculus decided that the best way to serve their constituent redditors was to flat out open up discussion to ALL forms of VR tech. This is how you take what would have just been a circle jerk and turn it into a real community. That makes it a bit weird to ban any community discussion on topics other than Lootcrate...

    Mods have the final say on what is, and is not allowed.

    Can you imagine if that was how the police determined whether you broke the law or not? Get pulled over by a cop for having a sticker for his kid's school's rival on your car is illegal on this street on Tuesdays. Why? He said so, and he has the final say.

    They do say that the reason that they are going to delete many posts is to encourage redditors to take their comments to the customer service department as the sub is not the service department.

    Ok, this sort of makes sense to remind people that the sub is not official and customer service is often the best route, but many subs have realized that the higher level of accountability and visibility of product reps actively participating in the community is a very good thing for nearly all vendors. /r/vaping is a great example of awesome involvement from the companies discussed. Not only are redditors warned of potential pitfalls, but they also get to see that company's customer service first hand. It's win win right? Not to /r/lootcrate.

    Why would someone set up a sub to discuss something, then limit the discussion to only positive commentary? There is no fulfilling conversation there, so why?

    Well, it turns out the why is because the top mod is an employee of Lootcrate making it an official corporate sub run by the corporation. A fact that you would not know by looking at the sub because it is never mentioned.

    This means that any redditor doing research to see if this service is for them will see that sub and nothing but glowing reviews. Since they have a general trust in the reddit system of group verification, that must mean this is an awesome box if no one has anything bad to say.

    It is especially awesome that they definitely did not send out a faulty product like, oh, let's just say an Infinity Gauntlet oven mitt that was melting and potentially hurting people. That would surely be brought up on the sub right? Well, I see no posts about it, so it must be good to go.

    At least it seems that the sub finally started allowing posts regarding the recall of the product they sent out, but they certainly censored initial report on the potential of people being hurt and their product melting.

    These are the self serving mods with rules designed to benefit themselves at the cost of redditors that I think need to be evaluated.

    Also keep in mind, that according to current Reddit policy, it is totally OK for Lootcrate to moderate the sub devoted to them and set the rules using paid employees as the moderators. If, however, I was the person that was the top mod and set identical rules in regards to posting and conduct in the sub and accepted a free subscription to Lootcrate for doing so, I would be permanently banned for accepting a kickback.

    Make this transparent for the sake of the redditors. If you are moderating a sub about yourself, your product, or your company, ESPECIALLY if you receive any sort of compensation for it, that should be clear for transparency, integrity, and (I did not think it would be this serious) safety.

    If your rule is to delete all negative feedback, post it clearly in the sidebar. Do not hide it behind a catchall mods have the last word clause.

    We are not asking for any huge changes to Reddit. We are not even asking mods to enforce new rules, or stop enforcing old ones.

    All we request is that they clearly list what their rules are and if they have involvement that could conflict with the best interests of redditors.

    Edit: To those who expressed a skeptical outlook on whether this issue would be addressed, rest easy. An Admin did weigh in regarding the subject in another top comment chain.

    The issue is not being avoided, but it is one that will take time, discussion, and finesse to address in a way that will provide positive change regarding integrity of the site and transparency, without overstepping and moving censorship from behind to curtain to being official policy.

    It is also important that if any policy changes are made, they do not compromise the things that make Reddit great, like leaving nearly all control to the mods who can then tailor their subs to best serve their community in content, tone, and message.

    [–]mk101 1015ポイント1016ポイント  (63子コメント)

    How do you feel about staff of particular companies being mods in the the relevant subreddit?

    Mods in /r/lootcrate, who work for the company, have been deleting posts about a dangerous fault with their product (melting oven glove) and now there has even been a recall issued.

    How is it acceptable to endanger people in this way? It seems like a massive conflict of interest. Especially since there was drama recently about mods being paid on behalf of companies behind the scenes, how is this any different?

    More info:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/lootcratespoilers/comments/4lu55v/psa_possible_infinity_gauntlet_oven_mitt_safety/

    Edit: Now they admit it was actually company policy to delete the 'offending' posts, mind boggling:

    Why posts were removed: Our social team was advised to remove posts due to us sending out an official message via our own owned channels to anyone who received the oven mitt with further info. The e-mail gave them more information on how to proceed. We are currently investigating and taking appropriate action to to resolve.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/lootcrate/comments/4mbl1b/official_infinity_gauntlet_recall_emails_are/d3uu75p

    [–]AchievementUnlockd[A] 521ポイント522ポイント  (44子コメント)

    We've got no rule against people modding a sub for their employer - we actually have a couple of good examples of it happening, but it's seriously hard. See https://www.reddit.com/wiki/selfpromotion#wiki_can_i_just_run_my_own_subreddit.3F for more.

    As for the substance of the comment otherwise, I'm going to look into it, and I don't think it would be smart for us to jump in and comment beyond that.

    [–]h0nest_Bender 36ポイント37ポイント  (5子コメント)

    We've got no rule against people modding a sub for their employer

    Wait wait wait wait wait.... Let's say I mod /r/lootcate (for example) and I'm unaffiliated with the company. I can be BANNED from Reddit for taking kickbacks from Loot Crate in return for preferential moderation. I've seen mods get banned for doing things like that, even for the slightest hint that it might be happening. But you're telling me that it's OK for the company to remove the middle man? To me it seems like both situations have the same conflict of ethics. Why is one situation allowed and the other not?

    [–]AchievementUnlockd[A] 10ポイント11ポイント  (2子コメント)

    To be honest, I don't know. I pushed back on that same point, and was linked to the policy that I linked above. Anyone know? :)

    [–]TheHaleStorm 4ポイント5ポイント  (3子コメント)

    I am just going to tag in on this for a second.

    The issue that the top comment brought up can be concerning on several levels. I asked a question here that has some related conversation attached.

    Not having a policy about banning employees from mod ding subs related to their employers activities makes total sense, they are possibly in a unique position to add a lot of unique opportunities and quality after all.

    Would the Admins be willing to discuss the possibility of requiring a sub controlled by a moderator with a distinct connection or conflict of interest to annotate it as such in the side bar or mod list? Additionally, the possibility of requiring subs to be more clear with rules that will result in removing posts or banning redditors?

    Reddit is a source that a mind boggling number of people use for all sorts of entertainment, news, and research. There is a special connection and special trustworthiness that reddit exudes as a platform. It's openness and democratic evaluation of content means that the content is typically of high quality and accurate.

    If there are moderators that are shaping conversations and valuing the pushing their own personal narrative over the welling of their users and the health of the community as a whole, redditors deserve to know these things if reddit wants to retain the level of dedication and trust it receives from its users.

    Thanks for your time!

    Edit: My thanks to /u/Achievementunlockd for the gold.

    [–]AchievementUnlockd[A] 10ポイント11ポイント  (2子コメント)

    I am certainly open to such a policy discussion; I can't speak for the rest of the team and to be honest, I'm so new that I don't know what would be involved in such a policy amendment. I'd have to do some internal investigation to see if I can even think about that; I suspect legal would be involved, because that's typically just good policy.

    With that said, what you've suggested seems (at least on surface) to be reasonable. Of course, as such, I am duty bound to write and amend it until it's no longer reasonable.... :P (joking, simmer, people, simmer!)

    I'll dig around and see what I can find out.

    [–]retnemmoc 236ポイント237ポイント  (2子コメント)

    Hey /u/spez

    Do you mind answering this question now? You told us to check back with you in a few months. I think 6 years is sufficient time.

    Here is the History for those that don't remember the glorious Fuck Sears Incident.

    I am still interested in the real story behind this and think it fits perfectly in the "darkest secrets" thread. Also interested in what entities or corporations (if any) have that kind of power over reddit today and could actually get a post taken down globally.

    [–]EliteMasterEric 174ポイント175ポイント  (25子コメント)

    As a CSS mod on /r/StevenUniverse, I very much dislike the push towards m.reddit.com, mainly because of the spoiler problem.

    Obviously we don't want to restrict discussion of new episodes of the show, but we simultaneously want to keep the experience "pure" for those who haven't watched, giving users an option to avoid spoilers while still enjoying the subreddit's content.

    Our solution has been to completely ban NSFW content and reskin the tag as a Spoiler tag. This has a couple consequences, the main ones being:

    1. If you have NSFW posts hidden you won't see spoiler posts.

    2. If users look at m.reddit.com this reskinning is disabled.

    3. Subreddits that want to do this must completely ban NSFW posts, since you cannot tag a post as both NSFW and spoilers, and you can't just leave NSFW posts or spoilers unflagged.

    I would love for moderators to have the ability to enable spoiler tagging on subreddits to make the experience more consistent and keep people from PMing us asking why our sub is filled with NSFW tagged posts.

    This is a concern for many TV show subreddits, and in fact many subreddits that center on content that can be spoiled (like comic books or movies).

    Do you have any word on when these problems may be addressed?

    [–]Georgy_K_Zhukov 91ポイント92ポイント  (27子コメント)

    Reaching out to the Admins for stuff has been incredibly hit or miss. I've reported seriously abusive users through /r/reddit.com and never gotten a response, and then brought minor matters up and heard back very quickly. I also recently detailed by issues with your AMA support, and while publicly complaining did solve my immediate issue, /u/krispykrackers is gone, and that is no guarantee things are actually getting better. I know that there was recently a few new hires, but could you go into a bit more detail on how the Admin team is working to improve its ability to interact with mods and assist them in what they need?

    [–]AchievementUnlockd[A] 92ポイント93ポイント  (25子コメント)

    I hope you don't mind if I jump in and take that. I'm one of the new hires, and I'm Director of Community.

    It's a real issue, and one that was called out specifically as my immediate #1 priority, so that's how I treated it. I don't want to denigrate the team that was here - many of them are still here, and form the backbone of the team that I have now. They worked hard, in good faith, but they were woefully understaffed. In the last 30 days, though, we have worked through most of the backlog (it's now about 20% the size it was when I joined) and we're handling new inquiries almost as they come in. I'm also looking at some potential restructure of how we staff that particular workstream, which should help.

    We're also paying a lot of attention to ticket deflection, that is, providing users with the resources they need before they write us at all. That's a hard question, and I've got a staff member detailed to work exclusively on that.

    We've staffed up to handle AMAs, as you know, and one team member will eventually put 50% of her time into those (she needs to learn the rest of the work as well, and that's her first priority - the backlogs).

    I think the issues with response time are largely in the past now, and if I do my job right, we can keep it that way.

    [–]Georgy_K_Zhukov 17ポイント18ポイント  (6子コメント)

    Thanks for the reply. If I may follow up though, is AMAData@ still going to be the place to reach out to when we're looking for AMA metrics, or should we be going direct to a specific Admin?

    [–]Rohaq 26ポイント27ポイント  (1子コメント)

    There's obviously been some controversy about your statements about knowing redditors' darkest secrets. While I expect a certain amount of tracking and/or ads going on on free sites, the alarmist response over such a vague statement in somewhat expected.

    I think people (including myself) would appreciate some transparency on how our information is being used:

    • What information is collected?
    • What is it used for?
    • Who is it made available to?
    • How securely is it stored?
    • To what degree is it scrubbed and/or anonymised?

    [–]jedcaum 11ポイント12ポイント  (7子コメント)

    Here's one: r/tattoos is moderated by a complete jerk, who violates every rule the sub is supposed to hold itself to, is rude and hostile to posters, and who delivers a perma-ban at the drop of a hat and with absolutely no recourse.

    I've been banned for over a year, because I had the misfortune of being cursed at by another poster and quoted his statements to me in a subsequent post, as an example of how NOT to behave.

    That poster and I made up, said nice things about each other, and all was well - until the ban-hammer from the main mod on that sub. Who, when I inquired about the potential of lifting the ban, proceeded to berate me with the same language that I DIDN'T EVER USE that got be banned in the first place. More than once.

    I've been in contact with other mods, and while they are sympathetic, they are apparently so afraid of the guy that they won't cross him or, in the one time one tried to defend me, buck his absolute rule.

    What gives with that, and what do you think you can do about it?

    [–]Made_you_read_penis 69ポイント70ポイント  (15子コメント)

    Can we have a mod removal "mutiny" button for when a mod is out of control and fighting the rest of the team?

    So far from what I understand you can't remove a mod without them being inactive.

    I've seen people talking about this issue before. Sometimes you think you have the right person for the team and you just really really don't.

    [–]Iamabioticgod 40ポイント41ポイント  (3子コメント)

    are you guys gonna do anything about the new algorithm? Breaking news like shootings still take an hour to get to the top of /r/all

    also, /r/all/top is pretty much frozen in time because of the new algorithm. I want to see it change over time like many others

    [–]hestonkent 362ポイント363ポイント  (64子コメント)

    Be honest, what does /u/drunken_economist actually do at reddit besides keeping the whores in /r/centuryclub in line

    [–]Drunken_Economist[A] 806ポイント807ポイント  (53子コメント)

    it's a full time jorb

    [–]remzem 51ポイント52ポイント  (4子コメント)

    What's your guys policy on payed actors on reddit? Things like Putin bots, that Hillary pac that was paying people to "correct" internet message boards. Do they fall under the spam / payed advertising policy? Or are they allowed since they aren't directly selling things? Do you have methods of tracking that kind of activity?

    [–]2LateImDead 21ポイント22ポイント  (4子コメント)

    What's the deal with /u/A858DE45F56D9BC9 (now deleted)? I'm assuming the admins know the purpose, because his subreddit was once banned and is now unbanned. What do you guys know about the project and posts and all?

    [–]simple_ciri 51ポイント52ポイント  (5子コメント)

    Why do you allow certain subs to ban people who post on one subreddit from so many others? I don't browse much on this account except porn, but if I posted in the gamer gate sub, even posting that I disagree with what they say, I would get banned from like 30 subs without any interaction with them. I mean, seriously, what the fuck? How is that allowed?

    [–]101Leafy 14ポイント15ポイント  (2子コメント)

    I keep a link to the rules in the sidebar of my subreddit (/r/yokaiwatch), but I have been having a common issue with mobile-only users because they do not know how to view the sidebar's content. I know you are making "improvements" to the mobile website; will making the sidebar more easy/obvious to view be one of them?

    [–]JaguarGator9 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Do you have any plans to revise the subreddit request function? Right now, I'm trying to get a subreddit that was created after my name (/r/JaguarGator9) and was created by /u/Ragwort, who created the subreddit 5 months ago and has done absolutely nothing with it. It should be noted that Ragwort has created over 800+ subreddits named after other Redditors that he has done nothing with.

    However, because he's technically active, the request by the bot was denied.

    Any plans to change this so that it requires that a mod be active on that particular subreddit in 30 days, and not just on Reddit?

    [–]daten-shi 980ポイント981ポイント  (527子コメント)

    Why do you allow subreddits like /r/ShitRedditSays to stay active when they brigade, and blackmail other subreddits as well as dox people they do not like but ban other subreddits that do much less?

    Edit: The brigading isn't the main thing here, the more important things are the doxxing and the blackmailing that srs does

    [–]skipper14 21ポイント22ポイント  (4子コメント)

    Why not give us an option to opt out of defaulting to reddit's mobile site on phones? The mobile site sucks, I just want normal reddit and get tired of having to switch ever single time I click on a link from Google.

    [–]chromeomykiss 25ポイント26ポイント  (4子コメント)

    Why did you decline to participate and be interviewed for the documentary film "The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz"

    https://archive.org/details/TheInternetsOwnBoyTheStoryOfAaronSwartz

    [–]timothybugjunior 84ポイント85ポイント  (4子コメント)

    Was Ellen Pao just a bait and switch to take the heat for decisions everyone hates?

    [–]comrade-pupper 40ポイント41ポイント  (10子コメント)

    why are /r/PublicHealthWatch and /r/truecels not quarantined?

    a quote from the latter's sidebar:

    No encouraging or inciting violence, or other illegal activities such as rape. But of course it is ok to say, for example, that rape should have a lighter punishment or even that it should be legalized and that slutty women deserve rape.

    [–]AssuredlyAThrowAway 7ポイント8ポイント  (4子コメント)

    How do you feel about reddit power users parlaying their "karma" into careers in the social media field?

    Alexis, for example encouraged /u/gallowboob to "do something more with his karma" than simply submitting content to reddit.

    Does this create a conflict of interest from your perspective, insofar as native advertising could become more difficult to locate if high karma users (who also maintain close friendships with the core group of moderators who run the site) are selling their influence in a subtle fashion?

    [–]XaoticOrder 11ポイント12ポイント  (9子コメント)

    Hey /u/spez thanks for doing this. Question is are Reddit admins becoming more worried at how fringe Reddit seems to be getting. It seems like on most default subs whatever post goes up it immediately gets the most extreme response and crazies crawl out the wood work? I would say /r/politics is a good example but you can see the same on funny and others.