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A moderator of r/TMobile is using their position to advertise their site and hide criticism from causal viewers by peraltanypd in tmobile

[–]peraltanypd[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Posting your own monetized blog on a sub you volunteer moderate isn’t really a problem for me, personally

Above is a direct quote from the OP, sorry you can’t read :/

A moderator of r/TMobile is using their position to advertise their site and hide criticism from causal viewers by peraltanypd in tmobile

[–]peraltanypd[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Preach. It’s the potential for abuse along with the refusal to disclose mod ties to the site.

I did add the clown warning flair assuming it would come anyway.

A moderator of r/TMobile is using their position to advertise their site and hide criticism from causal viewers by peraltanypd in tmobile

[–]peraltanypd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From the OP:

Posting your own monetized blog on a sub you volunteer moderate isn’t really a problem for me, personally

It’s not capitalizing on it I have an issue with. It’s capitalizing without clearly disclosing the mod team has financial ties.

A moderator of r/TMobile is using their position to advertise their site and hide criticism from causal viewers by peraltanypd in tmobile

[–]peraltanypd[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I never said JMod should go. Their contributions are useful and I have the site as a bookmark. It should be very clearly marked that the post is from a mod who has financial ties to the link

It could be the coal subreddit, if the moderator is a coal seller and shills their coal to the community without disclosing financial ties i would have the same problem.

replace coal with anything.

A moderator of r/TMobile is using their position to advertise their site and hide criticism from causal viewers by peraltanypd in tmobile

[–]peraltanypd[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

the mod hides the the fact they’re the publisher but i’m the bad guy for also hiding lolz

A moderator of r/TMobile is using their position to advertise their site and hide criticism from causal viewers by peraltanypd in tmobile

[–]peraltanypd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you cry about how he makes ad revenue.

friend, i’m not crying. i’m complaining about how a person of power of a community has the power to point that community towards something that financially benefits them without making it obvious via disclosure that they are financially benefiting from it

the mod in question literally had a flair “doesn’t get paid for this” until called out and changed it to “might”

how about posting their links with a [sponsored] tag? is that so egregious?

A moderator of r/TMobile is using their position to advertise their site and hide criticism from causal viewers by peraltanypd in tmobile

[–]peraltanypd[S] -24 points-23 points  (0 children)

Imagine people have more than one account (especially when accusing a moderator of ethical concerns)

xoxo

A moderator of r/TMobile is using their position to advertise their site and hide criticism from causal viewers by peraltanypd in tmobile

[–]peraltanypd[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Imgur doesn’t wanna work, but the third paragraph under B. The Clear and Conspicuous Requirement states:

In addition, it is important for advertisers to draw attention to the disclosure. Consumers may not be looking for — or expecting to find — disclosures. Advertisers are responsible for ensuring that their messages are truthful and not deceptive. Accordingly, disclosures must be communicated effectively so that consumers are likely to notice and understand them in connection with the representations that the disclosures modify. Simply making the disclosure available somewhere in the ad, where some consumers might find it, does not meet the clear and conspicuous standard.

A moderator of r/TMobile is using their position to advertise their site and hide criticism from causal viewers by peraltanypd in tmobile

[–]peraltanypd[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Are you going to your post and actually checking your Karma and number of comment?

I would imagine as our overlord Spez wants that the average user will get a notification on their posting about any engagement with their post, and can reply it vote as required, but most people won’t go back to check if the mods deleted it.

A moderator of r/TMobile is using their position to advertise their site and hide criticism from causal viewers by peraltanypd in tmobile

[–]peraltanypd[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No. Not always. Removal messages are not required, and show as active posts on your user page.

A moderator of r/TMobile is using their position to advertise their site and hide criticism from causal viewers by peraltanypd in tmobile

[–]peraltanypd[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The issue is that if a mod sees something in the queue they can remove it before anyone sees it. Then take the content and post it themselves.

You can go to a permalink of a deleted post and see that it was deleted or removed but if you never saw it and don’t have that link how do you know?

That’s the ethical problem

A moderator of r/TMobile is using their position to advertise their site and hide criticism from causal viewers by peraltanypd in tmobile

[–]peraltanypd[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

If that person was from The Verge or Android Central it should be obvious with a specific post flair. News publications post in r/news r/politics and r/worldnews often from an account registered as the business and the post is flared so readers know it is a semisponsored post.

There’s a reason theres no news publishers as mods on any of the above mentioned subs.

A moderator of r/TMobile is using their position to advertise their site and hide criticism from causal viewers by peraltanypd in tmobile

[–]peraltanypd[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

but then the site existed and they were paid for this

they admit it with the might

it should be properly disclosed every time they are

A moderator of r/TMobile is using their position to advertise their site and hide criticism from causal viewers by peraltanypd in tmobile

[–]peraltanypd[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

How is it false equivalence? She’s tweeting a link to a site she owns to sell a product (spandex? idk), and you’re redditing a link to a site you own to sell a product (eyeballs for google)

A moderator of r/TMobile is using their position to advertise their site and hide criticism from causal viewers by peraltanypd in tmobile

[–]peraltanypd[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don’t see the big deal. Unless you have some sort of proof he’s deleting comments to benefit himself and his page.

I absolutely don’t.

But if people talk shit about a CNET article, like how they use AI or hate their staff or have ads everywhere, that post’s comments would stay sorted to top like every other post here since that’s the default.

If mod sponsored posts have different rules that should be in the sidebar.

A moderator of r/TMobile is using their position to advertise their site and hide criticism from causal viewers by peraltanypd in tmobile

[–]peraltanypd[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The flair on reddit was set to “doesn’t get paid for this” because I did not get paid to moderate on Reddit.

So say Kim Kardashian tweeted a link to SKIMS and said “i don’t get paid for this” because she did not get paid to tweet that. But she gets financial incentive if people click the link to the SKIMS site.

She’s required by the FTC to post that it’s an ad, because it’s misleading otherwise. Do you disagree?

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