coupland

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[–] coupland@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

OP is sharing a very useful tip for people new to the Fediverse. Let's not allow our pedantry to get in the way of what is still a helpful tip please.

[–] coupland@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

You're not following what I'm getting at. Reddit wants to have plausible deniability so they reach out to mod teams asking them to Judas on their fellow mods. We don't know how many agreed to turn on you -- maybe it was one, maybe it was 51%, maybe it was all of them.

The mods go to Reddit and say "yes we'll work with you to get the subreddit back up. But we don't have access to demod the head mod." Reddit says "say no more, I got u." They demod you, and say "If you have any questions go speak to your fellow mods. WE didn't make the decision, we were asked to demod you by your fellow mods."

Your fellow mods also have the extra perk that they can deny betraying you. "WE didn't demod you, Reddit did! SEE the mod logs!"

Plausible deniability all around.

[–] coupland@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

From reading the screen shots you shared:

"We are reaching out to any moderators currently on the mod team who would be willing to take steps to reopen the community"

and

"If you have any question regarding your removal, you can contact the moderator team for /r/Piracy"

I mean, it's pretty obvious one or more mods rolled on you. I'm sorry I'm not trying to be argumentative with you, it's very shitty and Reddit sucks. We wouldn't be discussing this here if I was a friend of reddit.

[–] coupland@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Understood, I'm not saying this wasn't sleazy. Just saying that they appear to have gotten permission from x% of mods on the sub.

[–] coupland@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Wait this doesn't add up. The posted screen shot isn't coercive. It's asking if anyone on the mod team is willing to betray their fellow mods. If not, cool. Sounds like there were one or more mods on the /r/piracy team who chose the "betray" thing.

[–] coupland@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

100% agree. But we should never try to force things to "one." There should never be just one community for a topic. That's what Reddit is. "This is the videos subreddit, if you don't like it you don't have a choice."

Good communities will rise. Bad communities will fall. Some communities will attract users because they're big and have lots of members. Some communities will attract users because they're small and friendly. Choice is good. Fixating on there only being "one" of anything is bad.

[–] coupland@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't understand. What's the point of posting private photos to a federated service? Just use Imgur.

"When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail."

[–] coupland@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I literally know NOTHING about the game from watching that trailer.

Also, first open world Star Wars game? What was Star Wars Galaxies, chopped liver?