That when you block someone, their comment vanishes from your sight. It is like they don't even exist. That's how blocking should be done. It isn't like where on Reddit, you still have the option to click an icon next to their name and see what they've said that got you to block them. Why the hell is that a thing? Why should we care? If we want them blocked, we don't want to see them ever again, including the ability to re-read what they've said.

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[–] 44 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Here are a few:

  • Allowing to hide karma visible to the user.
  • Good content.
  • The blocking system (Reddit's way of blocking is used to piss people off).
  • Genuine debates (as far as that is possible).
  • Not being immediately banned from the entire site when an AI decides you did something wrong (I can't back this up but I firmly believe Reddit uses AI to moderate their entire site).
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  • [–] 1 point 4 hours ago*

    If it's like I remember - you can choose to use rules & tools to mod on Reddit, you don't have to, but I am not exaggerating, there were hundreds of reports per day on the normalnudes one I helped with, and hundreds of guys a week who ignored the "no isolated erection shots" and had their posts removed, also so many women advertising, both of which were disallowed on that thread- I would not be surprised or annoyed if they got a tool to recognize those.

    Also it was a don't offer critique unless it's asked for place, otherwise if you can't say something nice say nothing, so comments got legitimately reported all day too.

    It's hard to imagine the scale of the bad actors on that site, it's a constant flood being held back.

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  • [–] 8 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

    I was permabanned from Reddit for making fun of AI in a lighthearted manner. They wouldn't reverse the decision after I complained. It was a dull response, too, like they didn't even try to look into it; instead, I broke a rule for "inciting violence" when nothing I said was even violent in nature. ¯\(ツ)

    10+ years gone and over 160k karma so it's not like I was a noob or troll. I moderated 4 or 5 subreddits myself too, and was a top contributor to many tech subs...

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