Side by side: User’s post about the unmoderated power of Reddit admins to edit and remove comments gets removed, and OP’s account deleted. Credit to u/thiccquack for the original comment.
Posted May 27, 2020, 11:21 AM UTC
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When it shows [deleted] in place of a username, it usually means that the user has been banned from that particular subreddit. I know this because r/India bans people like it's their job.
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"How dare you speak for India in r/India, YA BANNED! We only accept Paki propoganda or posts bashing BJP, thanks for being so considerate."
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Huh, I had assumed r/India would be pro-Modi
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As I've heard, the guy who created r/India also created r/Pakistan and was a Pakistani guy. Not sure tho
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What a joke.
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Thanks, you’re right. Same point still stands though
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Been banned there lol.
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Doesn't it also show [deleted] when someone deletes their own comment?
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bans people like it's their job.
Which is crazy, their real job is to ask me to advice them to do the needful.
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Boi you’re brave
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Only the comment was removed. The account is still there: https://www.reddit.com/user/GrandslamGaz
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The image on the right is from the date when Reddit bacame a Publisher.
IANAL; but if I were, and defending someone against prosecution for a """Reddit comment or post""", my first motion would be to dismiss because of inability to prove defendant actually made the post and not the admins.
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Very much true.
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What subreddit was it in?
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R/AskReddit
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r/AskReddit it was on a thread saying what’s some unfun facts. I remember seeing this comment and I said to myself it would be deleted came back two hours later to show my friend one of the fucked up facts in it and sure as shit it was gone.
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I emailed him about Reddit over a year ago. No reply.
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I just don’t like how easily platforms can be turned into propaganda machines. Watching amazon force news stations they own to report how clean their centers are and youtube has been caught censoring “communist thugs”. Liberal or conservative this is very concerning.
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Reddit version of astroturfing. Closet authoritarians.
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Anyone got a link for the comment edit fiasco?
Edit: well that was easy to find. For anyone curious follow this link
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I can't actually prove this because it happened in reddits past and it's just my observation, but the most you'd ever see a thread or post get was 3 gold. That was if it was beyond exceptional. Those were extreme outliers. After the election r/politics threads magically started getting 15xgold(before they introduced other awards like platinum). Most of those threads would get ratio'd before astroturfing got better, but had an ungodly amount of awards.
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I'll dispute that. Posts could get crazy amount of gold for being a smattering debunking or some "goes with the moralistic right" consensus of reddit or otherwise something super cringey memey far long before that esp when linked on something like BestOf. I don't use Reedit like that these days outside of a few particular sub s and I don't use the new lame "gamified monetization" version of reddit where they highlight.
Though I would not Be surprised by the air of Trump crazy if "Orange Man Bad Syndrome" is fueling more gildings. Honestly too you can bet your sweet bottom dollar that some Silicon Valley liberal pansy on the admin team has access to give free gildings and push them out of the norm if not only for narrative but advertising to actual users to spend money on this feature...
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Reddit admins can edit comments!?!?!? What the fuck?!?!?
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Lmao, I even said they'd remove it and got downvoted
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Is this why every gallowboob post is gilded enough to blind someone?
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Arrr conspiracy will NOT allow posts saying this same thing. They remove any mention of admins giving awards to astroturf
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FBI should be investigating foriegn influence on social media platforms like reddit by now imo.
Perversion of the minds of the free
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The FBI is the political tool of those in bed with foreign influence like China, those folks also control the organizations that moderate and run many of the default subs on Reddit for viral influence. What a funny coincidence.
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It shouldn’t have gotten removed, is there any proof though? Or it it speculation
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WHAT THE FUCK. I SAW THIS COMMENT TODAY IN THE MORNING. it was on an askreddit question about what are some unfun facts?
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Saw this yesterday and was surprised it wasn't removed aleeady
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If anyone has proof of Admins giving awards, I'm interested. So far, I only have unusual or suspicious awards given. It does seem hypocritical to thank people for awards and spending money, in a post criticizing Reddit. I do think Admins sometimes grant awards to critical posts as subtle-trolls (ok, it's kinda funny).
Yeah same. Recently our auto-mod received an award though and that was strange.
https://www.reddit.com/r/WatchRedditDie/comments/goqwb2/reddit_power_user_banned_me_from_rthathappened/frhoxc5?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x
Nah that happens from time to time, it’s just someone having fun.
I do that whenever someone gives me coins. I find nasty ass comments and I give them awards.
Seems like a joke (although I don’t know who would spend money on that)
The award is no longer there
Really? It shows up for me.
In fact, there's two now. The "Ignite! Award" and now the "Nothing To Do Award".
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I received an award for a comment I posted last week. When the person responded to my thank you, I could have sworn there was an [A] next to their name in their comment. I just checked now, but don't see it anymore.
Is there a way to check whether someone is an admin?
Check their post history for comments in which they make their status visible.
I just realized, the notification about the reward has the [A] in it. That's probably what I saw. Sorry for the misinformation.
They can make alt accounts same as anyone else.
The two creators admit creating several accounts right after they started Reddit to make it look like there were more subscribers.
Yeah but they can only give free awards through admin accounts.
Their name is in orange I think
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/bgc6oq/reddit_admins_have_the_ability_to_gold_post_for
There was a Reddit employee AMA some years ago where he said he was able to give out gold for free. I can't easily find it as I'm on my phone but they definitely have that ability.
There have been many many threads where they show they'll give it out willie nillie as a joke.
Yeah I’ve caught gboob guilding comments criticizing him. He did it to me once. I know because he responded with a smile when I guessed it was him in the award reply.
Remember reddit giving out “free coins” to certain users as a test? Those coins are then used for awards. Would you really be surprised if certain users happen to get millions of free coins?
https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/ecbenx/whats_the_deal_with_reddit_giving_free_coins/
I remember there was an askreddit threat for admins and someone asked about gold and then almost every comment in that chain was gilded and an admin explained that they could give out limited amounts of gold
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9x577m/were_reddits_infrastructure_team_ask_us_anything/e9swgz9/
Ah, finally! Thanks for digging that up. I'm not about to scream "Reddit Admin Tyranny," but it is good to know.
It seems kind of obvious sometimes. There'll be a fairly innocuous comment, like maybe 5 down from the top comment, and it'll have this huge amount of awards out of nowhere, when there's no others in the thread. I guess it isn't proof, but as you said, it is suspicious, and it happens a lot.
Most of my awards have come from snark after criticizing admin and telling people not to buy Reddit gold.
Same here. I usually no longer really say "don't buy me gold" unless one of my posts has been given a "reward," just to warn people off of falling for the "OMG, lets pile on more rewards!" That said, I guess if people want to be morons, it's their money...
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I've seen posts questioning who gilds ad posts.
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Is there a good sub for discussing "unusual or suspicious awards given" or other weird stuff we happen to notice about Reddit, but have no proof yet?
Hm. I don't know of one. Maybe you could create one if you're interested
Ruqqus.com - in other words, I'm already checked out & don't take reddit seriously anymore.
I think in many cases it is just corporations furthering there own articles / interests. People see a post on r/politics that has every award under the sun they are more likely to dive into it.
Sidenote what a fucking echo chamber that place is.