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[–] 89 points 3 years ago (26 children)
  • [–] 57 points 3 years ago (19 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (11 children)

    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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  • [–] 23 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    sudo science bullshit

    this incident will be reported

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    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".

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    Lol, mvea eventually blocked me because I kept commenting on his/its posts about the piss poor quality of the articles that he/it shared. Good. I was tired of seeing the psypost slop posted by that account.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Old ass post, but I'm glad I'm not the only one that got tired of that bot/mod posting psuedo science as legit studies and people on reddit gobbling it up just because it fed their echo chamber thoughts.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [+] 8 points 3 years ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)
  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Any time I'd use reveddit or similar sites to restore comments deleted from there, it was always stupid jokes or anecdotal stories, never anything directly about the post.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    I think /r/science is misunderstood. The moderators had quite a clear vision on the kind of discussion they wanted and the kind they did not. This caused some friction every time a post reached /r/all but I don't see that as a bad thing.

    If anything that's an ideal situation. People encounter a new community they're interested in, break some rules in ignorance, the mods interfere and the violations are rolled back, the new users then either follow the rules or leave.

    Not sure how they're doing with the API changes, pretty sure they had some automation going. Don't think they're compatible with reddit's new view on making communities as interchangeable as possible to stop friction from interfering with ad revenue.

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