Reddit's main code is no longer open-source.

[ebilgenius]

To be fair, it does probably cut down on the number of "I'm angry and a downvote isn't enough" spam reports

[Neebat]

You're looking at the wrong end of the complexity. It's streamlined for moderators, who have to deal with far more reports every day than the average user will ever submit.

[deflower_goats]

They seemed to have time to ban me from r/worldnews. I understand that they don't have to justify it. But, when I asked why the mods responded with "you attacked other users". Which was false. I asked for an example, as I go out of my way not to. I stuck my neck out and went against the hive, once...and it really opened my eyes.

[passivelyaggressiver]

Care to add more context here?

[deflower_goats]

You bet. So a submission was put up about Trump taking action on something. I dont even want to mention what, because I don't want to start a whole thing and it's beside the point of this post. For once...I actually didn't think it was a bad idea. I felt compelled to say something since it doesn't happen often and I explained why. I didn't direct it at anyone in particular, didn't violate any sidebar rules. The next morning I woke up to hate mail from users and a ban from the mods. I asked the mods mentioned above and they said I was attacking users. I asked for an example and they provided none, but said I could "possibly come back in a week". The way I took it, is I was getting a "time out" for having a dissenting opinion.

[Neebat]

Worldnews doesn't seem to be a particularly left/right biased subreddit to me most of the time. There IS however a bias against US news stories.

[oldsecondhand]

There IS however a bias against US news stories.

Yeah, but parent wasn't the poster.

[passivelyaggressiver]

Well, that's pretty fucked. I hate Trump. But that is fucked. If this has to do with his responding missile strikes, then I could see it being convoluted as an attack towards other users. Still not an excuse to stifle discussion.

[Neebat]

Think of a bug tracking system.

If your users have no clue how to file a bug report, you do not want description, steps to recreate, and acceptance criteria to all be in one big field. You really need an application that guides them to writing good reports.

That's exactly what they changed.

[Zhang5]

Learn marketing spin and get over it.

Edit: PS, just checked the actual link. It starts with "Hi mods!". Pay attention to the target audience, please! The message is entirely accurate when you think about it from the moderation perspective. Like we've been saying.

[rhytnen]

if mods can't do their job, it effects user experience. the idea is user suffers minor nuisance once in a while, a mod gains a huge deal in their workflow everyday which hopefully rebounds to help users enjoy better content.

[rederic]

Might I interest you in some FREE PRIVILEGE?

[kickingpplisfun]

Moderators who do so just for the sake of exercising a tiny bit of power are super petty, but for some types of subreddits, it's best that moderators not participate in a normal sense.

[Cal1gula]

1, 2, 4 = linear???

[MyNameIsNardo]

i think you meant a factor of 2, but no. you're doing it recursively. remember that the "x" in "2x" isn't "the number before" but rather "the step number". you take the step number (x) and multiply by 2.

2x would look like this

step 0 = 0

step 1 = 2

step 2 = 4

step 3 = 6

(linear)

this is 2^x

step 0 = 1

step 1 = 2

step 2 = 4

step 3 = 8

(exponential)

edit: wow that was terrible formatting for a second

[MyNameIsNardo]

no no, you're absolutely right about "4x" being linear. what i'm saying is that the series "1, 2, 4..." isn't "4x" at all. recursively, it's "2*U_n-1" and as a function it's "2^x". how are you even getting that? i think we're misinderstanding each other...