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Caesar Saladin posted:yeah if you go to the /r/relationships thread on here, that steals reddit posts and talks about them, it may actually somehow be even worse than reddit. It was a bad thread years ago, I can't imagine it's gotten better
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r/antiwork staying open is so funny to me.
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Jun 18, 2023 11:57
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they don't even want to larp activism, seriously what's the point of those people
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meat police posted:There was a longread about him and how he ran Sears regarding that that I've been searching for the past few months. If you find the link archive.is has a backup. zetamind2000 posted:Another thing that made eddie lampert special was pointlessly spending his own money to keep the company going long after anyone else would have dynamited every store on the list Nah, that's how he's sucking the money out of Sears. He'd graciously "bail them out" by purchasing the stores with his own private company, a REIT, then he'd lease them back to Sears. Each physical building is owned by it's own LLC and Lampert controls them. Since the stores are doing so poorly he'd personally loan them money but set it up so that when Sears goes bankrupt he'll get paid out before the worker's pensions.
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Crystal Thenis posted:just kind of falling through SA and can’t quite get the rhyme or reason yet Odds are!
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kliras posted:they don't even want to larp activism, seriously what's the point of those people The idea that the arguably most popular "leftist" sub is just people complaining about work seems too on the nose to not be a psy-op of some sort 
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meat police posted:There was a longread about him and how he ran Sears regarding that that I've been searching for the past few months. Ha, I think this is the article you're talking about. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-07-11/at-sears-eddie-lamperts-warring-divisions-model-adds-to-the-troubles This guy is somehow worth $2 billion. Of course he runs Sears into the loving dirt with this stupid idea and has a massive yacht which is obviously called the Fountainhead. Jesus Christ.
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Gorgeous Zan posted:Ha, I think this is the article you're talking about. I had a 120 posts to read itt, it was a conversation between knowledgeable people, no kids or bots. I learned stuff, there was a related article someone was looking for and here somebody has provided what is probably the answer and if it isn't it's still interesting.^
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Silly question but... do we know for *sure* there aren't bots posting on SA?
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I'm not sure, how do you feel about know for *sure* there aren't bots posting on SA?
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The Bananana posted:Silly question but... Motherfuck the haiku bot
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Jun 18, 2023 14:37
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The Bananana posted:Silly question but... do we know for *sure* there aren't bots posting on SA? I need this on a tshirt
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Jun 18, 2023 14:40
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/r/NewYorksHottestClub/ is a good sub sometimes. Toxic Mental posted:
I've never had a good interaction with a reddit mod, so I am quite enjoying them seeing being treated as lovely as they've treated the community.
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Jun 18, 2023 14:57
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scab mod is a good name for a genre/era of fashion
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Son of Rodney posted:2023 and goons still somehow pretend they're better than reddit The main thing SA's got going for it is that it's a pretty small community. I mean, imagine this forum with, like, 100 times as many people posting on it. It would not scale well.
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Jun 18, 2023 15:01
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This guy has an entire series of these https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdyHX8K1yfY
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Spinz posted:See this is how SA is so so much better than reddit Yes, the whole thing about threaded comments being good because you can immediately collapse anything your lizard brain doesn't clock as shiny is bad. That's not community, it's just another private curated space in a world where you pick and choose every word, song, movie, show & never need to be exposed to even a few sentences you haven't chosen. That's not community. It's masquerading as community but it's just a bunch of isolated individual interactions, a liminal space, like how a mall food court or airport is bustling with conversations but no community.
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i wish i was one of those guys that would post in those threads that just write all the lyrics to a song in order post by post, i bet they're so happy in life, just enjoying the simple things
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The Bananana posted:Silly question but... do we know for *sure* there aren't bots posting on SA? I mean we don't, but we at least know that if someone's going to create a bot to post here they've at least got enough confidence in it to shell out 10 bucks per registration attempt not much of a hurdle admittedly but more than nothing
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Kazzah posted:Motherfuck the haiku bot Dumb question: Do we know for sure No bot here?
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r/pcgaming mods made some post about how they couldn’t possibly let Reddit install scab mods and betray their community so they’re simply going to reopen What an insanely weak protest. There was never any threat.
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For those of you who don't actually visit reddit, r/pics was forced back open by the admins so they are protesting by posting nothing but sexy pictures of John Oliver, and it is wonderful. https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/ John Oliver has been informed: https://twitter.com/iamjohnoliver/status/1670179738348933120 Tagra fucked around with this message at 16:08 on Jun 18, 2023 |
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Speaking of kmart and sears, there's something beautiful about the kmart subreddit tracking the few remaining stores https://old.reddit.com/r/kmart/
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Tagra posted:For those of you who don't actually visit reddit, r/pics was forced back open by the admins so they are protesting by posting nothing but sexy pictures of John Oliver, and it is wonderful. https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/ gently caress yea.
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Lick Joe posted:Also I find it funny that people have been wanting a solution for powertripping mods for well over a decade, but two days of a protest and suddenly it's a huge issue to the point where they're suddenly planning on deploying systems for voting them out. /r/SanDiego has for years been notoriously modded by one anti-sports guy living in Tempe AZ. Mentions of the Chargers at all, Padres / Slam Diego, SDSU Final Four - all shut down and posters banned almost instantly. The admin pares down the sub until its only tourists asking questions, which he can reply to and farm upvotes. To be clear I'm not clever enough to have figured this out. There have been numerous creeds posted in /r/SanDiego, /r/SanDiegan, etc. where redditors laid it all out, especially after any major sporting event. Eventually it was discovered that Reddit flat out doesn't loving care who mods the sub, as long as someone does & the sub generates content. AFAIK that mod has never lived in San Diego, they were just the first digital squatter to get to that sub's URL 10+ years ago, became an admin, and then never relinquished control.
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the same thing that happened to the sandiego reddit can happen here, like when that IK in the chili megathread chain probed anyone who talked about bean-in recipes until most bean enjoyers left the site entirely. to this day you’ll find the forums still skew heavily to no-bean chili fanatics, despite it being considered a freakish and barbarous preference by the vast majority of people around the world. don’t underestimate the ability for a rogue moderator to slowly shape a community into something perverse, a twisted alternate reality seeping corruption like a tumor.
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Apparently I could sell my account for like 50 bucks I wonder what they would use it for. I would hope it's a LLM that broke free and is looking for an old reg date to be incognito
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Tiny Timbs posted:r/pcgaming mods made some post about how they couldn’t possibly let Reddit install scab mods and betray their community so they’re simply going to reopen Yeah, seems like if reddit installing scab mods would tank the community, then that's what the mods should let them do. Reddit will either shoot itself in the foot and realize it(lol) or they'll ruin their communities and people will move on to whatever else comes up. Most likely things will continue as they have, because the actual users don't really care about all this. Either way though, whatever power these mods thought they had is gone. They just can't accept it.
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forest spirit posted:Apparently I could sell my account for like 50 bucks That's 5 bot accounts you can run to reply to yourself and seem extra funny
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the mods should’ve unionized across the whole site, but they won’t, because every mod sees themself as a temporarily embarrassed admin
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drat now that I consider it how many posts with song >lyrics >>posted >>>one >>>>at >>>>>a >>>>>>time were kicked off by someone with a small ego and couple of bots
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Bad Purchase posted:to this day you’ll find the forums still skew heavily to no-bean chili fanatics, despite it being considered a freakish and barbarous preference by the vast majority of people around the world.
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Bad Purchase posted:the mods should’ve unionized across the whole site, but they won’t, because every mod sees themself as a temporarily embarrassed admin So there are two San Diego subreddits. The main subreddit, r/SanDiego, is solo-moderated by a guy who lives in Arizona. This, in and of itself, is a capitol offense for San Diegans as they despise Zonies more than anything else. But he apparently also has terrible mod policies which he doesn't enforce evenly. Overall, the experience there was bad enough for local conversation that enough people split off to form a second subreddit, r/SanDiegan. The mods on the second subreddit aren't as zealous though, so you end up with the whiniest piss babies on the planet. The top post there is this one, complaining about the other subreddit. The users are actually happy with the new mod policy because they can finally oust the other mod and take the big subreddit over.
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Here's a quote from a reddit Moderator (it's the arizonan from /r/sandiego lol) that summarizes why all of the current mods should be removed because scabs would be better than people like thisquote:I tell my moderators that we're best described as gardeners.
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I don't really understand why so many Reddit mods use the garden or farm analogy, where they consider themselves a farmer protecting an orchard of crops or trees (shitposts) that they are somehow ultimately responsible for and deserve all of the credit for, usually explicitly referring to them as things like "products" or "bounty"
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the nba sub found out mods were posting about the finals in the sub during the blackout, mods proceed to hide try to hide the evidence https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/14cbtjv/who_here_is_in_favor_of_just_replacing_these_shit/ this has always been my big internal conflict w/r/t the blackout, yeah corporate reddit sucks but the mods might be the least sympathetic group of protestors ever i also think the blackout was a dumb idea anyways, I think if the mods really believe the place would turn to poo poo without them and wanted corporate reddit to see that I think it would've been far more effective to just resign en masse and let corporate reddit witness it first hand... but that would require giving up the power they've been wasting years accumulating there was a mod on r/weightroom that did just that a year or two ago, for pretty much the exact same reasons. mad respect for that guy, in hindsight.
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Bad Purchase posted:moderators do seem to have a penchant for cultivating tender seedlings
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Bad Purchase posted:the mods should’ve unionized across the whole site, but they won’t, because every mod sees themself as a temporarily embarrassed admin Unionize against the tyranny of the corporation we volunteer our free labor to!
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AmbientParadox posted:So there are two San Diego subreddits. The main subreddit, r/SanDiego, is solo-moderated by a guy who lives in Arizona. To be fair, Tempe is six hours and a time zone away. New Yorkers would be pissed if someone living in DC was the solo admin of their sub. deep dish peat moss posted:Here's a quote from a reddit Moderator (it's the arizonan from /r/sandiego lol) that summarizes why all of the current mods should be removed because scabs would be better than people like this  reddit moderation in a nutshell. Personal anecdote: I used to frequent /r/leaves (a sub for quitting cannabis consumption). Someone posted a question on there, asking if it were really the weed holding them back or was it underlying issues. I wrote up a two paragraph effortpost response, mostly noting that only two people have successfully consumed cannabis throughout their entire career - Willie Nelson and Snoop Dogg. Cheech went straight a long time ago, Seth Rogan peaked with Superbad, and even Kevin Smith quit smoking weed. My reply was up for a few days, got some upvotes and responses, when an /r/leaves admin sent me an insultingly patronizing message summarized as - Since I hadn't given a personal anecdote, the post was against the rules and they had no choice but to delete it.
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