While i agree r/science was terrible at this, it at least kept the conversation relevant. On new discoveries its nice to read about the science rather than: “here comes the end” or some fart joke.
Id like to think this meme is directed towards user exodus rather than moderation to keep things on topic. I hope that the fediverse keeps things on topic and doesn’t complain too much about moderation when it’s necessary.
If Reddit moderators only removed content for the sake of keeping things on topic, people wouldn’t hate the place so much. There’s a reason the mods over there are so universally maligned, and it’s not because they’re beacons of rationality and objective reasoning.
The best part is if you got notified a comment was removed you couldn’t see what the comment was and they wouldn’t tell you what rule it broke most of the time. If you asked they’d blow you off.
All r/science was, was r/politics…every fucking “study” was from sudo science bullshit that just allowed everyone to circle jerk each other about their own bias. Hell that meav mod was just a repost bot that posted non stop from that psychology today website and then sold their account…and it’s still a fuckin mod.
I just got eventually banned every time I posted that mvae or w/e the fuck that mods name was, was a bot just posting political shit hidden as “science”.
I quit that sub when I got the 100th study with a sample size of 20, talking about some clickbaity shit that was going to be silently disproven a few years later.
That shit was sooo fucking annoying. “We went to a klan rally, and polled the 10 white guys there” All said they vote republican…Title: “All republicans are KKK members study shows”…like what in the literal fuck
r/science didn’t allow jokes, off topic comments, low effort references, or anti-science rhetoric from morons who barely passed high school chemistry so anything that hit trending would have to get nuked from orbit.
While i agree r/science was terrible at this, it at least kept the conversation relevant. On new discoveries its nice to read about the science rather than: “here comes the end” or some fart joke.
Id like to think this meme is directed towards user exodus rather than moderation to keep things on topic. I hope that the fediverse keeps things on topic and doesn’t complain too much about moderation when it’s necessary.
If Reddit moderators only removed content for the sake of keeping things on topic, people wouldn’t hate the place so much. There’s a reason the mods over there are so universally maligned, and it’s not because they’re beacons of rationality and objective reasoning.
The best part is if you got notified a comment was removed you couldn’t see what the comment was and they wouldn’t tell you what rule it broke most of the time. If you asked they’d blow you off.
All r/science was, was r/politics…every fucking “study” was from sudo science bullshit that just allowed everyone to circle jerk each other about their own bias. Hell that meav mod was just a repost bot that posted non stop from that psychology today website and then sold their account…and it’s still a fuckin mod.
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I just got eventually banned every time I posted that mvae or w/e the fuck that mods name was, was a bot just posting political shit hidden as “science”.
I quit that sub when I got the 100th study with a sample size of 20, talking about some clickbaity shit that was going to be silently disproven a few years later.
It was always double-digit sample sizes.
That shit was sooo fucking annoying. “We went to a klan rally, and polled the 10 white guys there” All said they vote republican…Title: “All republicans are KKK members study shows”…like what in the literal fuck
Not even talking about politics. Just shitty science studies with hot takes and low sample sizes.
bash: science: command not foundIf your only interaction with it was on trending posts, sure.
Terrible? How?
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r/science didn’t allow jokes, off topic comments, low effort references, or anti-science rhetoric from morons who barely passed high school chemistry so anything that hit trending would have to get nuked from orbit.
You should see the morons that plague science posts on FB