Mod badges in /r/anarchism have been silently turned off. It is now impossible to immediately tell if a given post and/or comment is from a mod.
Discuss.
Posted Jul 19, 2009, 9:00 PM UTC
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My main problem with this is that it wasn't discussed in the community at all, at least not as far as I can tell. If I'm wrong, please notify me and I'll delete the submission.
I can see the positive aspect of having moderatorship be more invisible; it does reduce the privilege aspect slightly. However, I don't think sweeping that aspect under the rug really does anything positive about it. I'd much prefer the transparency we had with visible mods.
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No need to delete the submission, but this is a global change to all of reddit, not anything to do specifically with r/anarchism.
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Holy balls, I'm an idiot.
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To be fair, I did (out of curiousity) ask if it could be done for the subreddit with a simple CSS tweak in a previous discussion you started. So the timing was pretty much against you.
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Apparently the community didn't like it very much.
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Hm, apparently you can turn on the mod highlighting for some posts. I wonder if that should/could be the default in this subreddit?
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in related news, there's no way for us in the control panel to turn the option on or off.
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Yeah, because every asshole should have a say.
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I find it disturbing you are able to demean your fellow sentients to "assholes" who should be denied any voice in their community. Yes, every asshole should have a say.
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Everyone that wanders into a space isn't a community member. Sorry. The guy who helped construct every building in town is not the same as the guy who drunkenly stumbled in from the next city over.
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It depends on what you're trying to decide. In most respects, it doesn't matter where an idea comes from as long as it's sound.
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secret mods=secret police
If it was true anarchism EVERYONE would be a mod.
Would be a cool experiment in ch@os and mass deletion.
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secret mods=secret police
I don't think reddit software will be updated to remove pages like this:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/about/moderators/
So it should never be "secret."
Would be a cool experiment in ch@os
Is there an r/ch@os?
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From the Reddit blog:
being a moderator doesn't mean you wear a crown. It means you carry a mop.
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we all use this, therefore we all "own" it and should all have equal power.
That's the system we've been going on.
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Whoever just responded to me, the post wasn't banned, it was actually deleted by the submitter.
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From the Reddit blog:
In the rare case where a moderator really does want to speak officially, they will have the ability to "turn on the [M]" for a particular post or comment.
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I thought we did away with mods here. Why the hell am I not a mod like I used to be? Somebody please fix this.
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done
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I appreciate it. Didn't we do away with moderation altogether at one point? What happened?
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I guess the mods added a bunch of people since one of them was de-modding everyone. Being a mod isn't a big deal at all, but we should have as many as possible, as long as we can keep them in check, so they don't recklessly ban, de-mod, etc. I think we should get the green icons back, so we can be sure we have as many as possible and to prevent de-mods.
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I totally agree. Anarchism isn't about having no power. It's about everybody having equal power.
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ah so you're the individual.
Just for future reference we sort of like talking it over with one or two other mods before we add someone rather than going based off what one of us feels is an appropriate decision.
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My mistake. Won't happen again. I figured someone just forgot to add him/her.
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We should turn them back on, so we can be sure we have as many mods as possible and to prevent de-modding.
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You can now, by clicking distinguish.
IMO, it should be the default.
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It'd be nice if we could work out something completely unique to this subreddit.
No one person should be able to ban someone, or de-mod them. There should be a deliberation/consensus process.
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I don't know who is downvoting you, but I completely agree. I don't know if it is even possible, but if it is I would love to see a system like that enacted here.
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What's strange (to me) is that cometparty shows up [M] but skobrin just shows up [F].
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You can flag yourself by clicking the little distinguish button.
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It seems to me either we all become mods, or we look for some place else and/or start a community project into creating a more anarchial friendly reddit clone or some sort of replacement or supplement.
I think the grudging stalemate will continue as long as we let it be. I would volunteer time towards possible coding if I knew any programming (not yet, at least).
I mean come on, libre.fm managed to "get'r done" in response to last.fm, why not any of us?
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Ugh. You click it link after you post?
ETA: and you can "un" distinguish by clicking it again and clicking no? WTF.
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We had another thread going, with a similar subject. Looks like a mod had some fun with it.
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I think that he deleted his account, the banned users and spam folder are both empty.
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Are you sure? This is the last thing I saw in that thread.
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Shit, I don't know how I managed to do that on accident. I already rescinded it, and I swear that was not intentional.
That wasn't the submitter though, I really do think that he just deleted his account.
edit: seriously, I have Kyusu friended and I would never intentionally ban him. I think that he provides a lot of insight the occasional times that he posts in this subreddit.
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It's all good. The discussion of how to deal with the mod issue can be contained in this post as it is.
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YOU FUCKING JUDAS! ;)
tbh I didn't even notice.
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I think I just briefly entered into a tantric state involuntarily.