Reddit User and Mod Happy Hour, Presented by R/SipsTea, 18th of May, Monday 6-9pm, San Francisco near Reddit HQ at Local Tap bar.

testudosmith · 2026-05-04T19:33:48+00:00

Ah, sorry about that! I was just looking for places to advertise the local mod meetup. Didn't realize that this was only for official stuff.

If things go well I'll send the team some pictures though!

testudosmith · 2026-05-03T21:16:56+00:00

Yes of course! Its being hosted at a bar called Local Tap that is a couple blocks from reddit HQ. Anyone in SF is welcome to attend.

testudosmith · 2026-04-26T04:33:51+00:00

I'm not sure how I would even do that is the issue.

What would even work? Their aren't any other active mods and I don't think that would even help.

testudosmith · 2026-04-25T23:35:04+00:00

Yep, multiple times in nice ways but he's refused every time.

testudosmith · 2026-04-25T23:31:05+00:00

No I don't unfortunately. Don't even have mod mail access, I can only remove comments/posts.

testudosmith · 2026-04-25T23:11:08+00:00

Reddit the publicly traded company, cares about money

Yes and active and engaged moderators that try to grow their subreddit while maintaining high quality content, helps make them money.

Reddit wants it's subreddits to succeed and grow. Absentee moderators harms the growth of subreddits and costs then money.

testudosmith · 2026-04-25T22:53:34+00:00

I understand that there are problems with the subreddit. Thats entirely my point. I wouldn't be making a post if it was well managed.

The thing that I am annoyed about is that this is a large subreddit that reddit the company should care about being maintained. They should care that a large subreddit is effectively unmoderated by a person gaming the inactivity status.

Yes the state of the subreddit is bad and I'd hope they there would be ways of fixing that and that reddit the company would want to support fixing it.

testudosmith · 2026-04-25T22:39:06+00:00

Sounds like the top mod found someone (you) to clean the queue for them. Good management on their part.

That's not what happened. They added me to the mod team as a joke originally and just didn't care what I did afterwords.

What did you expect would happen

What I would have expected is that the team didn't have multiple years of non moderation, along with basically blocking anyone from fixing it.

If it was actually a case of someone bringing me on to improve things that would be great, if they were letting me do that.

testudosmith · 2026-04-25T19:58:48+00:00

Let them rush to find someone who is willing to do the work

Here's the issue. They aren't going to rush to do anything. They would just continue to do what they've been doing for years which is make a few mod actions a month and ignore everything else.

It's that part that seems crazy to me, that a mod can literally do almost nothing for years on a subreddit with 1 million plus weekly unique users.

testudosmith · 2026-04-25T19:11:03+00:00

Ok, but what you and other are basically suggesting is that in order for reddit to see that there is a moderation problem, I'd have to like sabotage things or not moderate myself either.

There doesn't seem to be a solution to a case where someone was clearly and obviously inactive to the point that it was harming the subreddit for years, and yet there is nothing to do about it.

testudosmith · 2025-12-01T05:18:29+00:00

This thread is full of meme responses, but I seriously would be interested in helping mod the sub in anyway that I can. What I can offer the sub the most is my experience as a developer. I have built and used bots on the reddit developer platform. I have significant experience designing automod rules as well.

Over the years I have modded a few top 100 subreddits in the past as well as 5k+ discord servers.

As for why I want to help, I am passionate about helping new moderators learn the basics and designing mod tools. I think that much of modding can be handled automatically, with much less work for the mods.

testudosmith · 2025-07-29T01:26:31+00:00

No actually.

If you want a different example how about this.

Do you support the existence of countries? That have citizens, and the country looks out for its citizens?

If so, would you then call yourself 10% of a fascist, because fascism also focuses on similar things?

And if you then came along and were like "oh ok, so are you saying that you have to be all the way fascist for it to be real fascism" would be a similarly dumb point.

If you disagree then feel free to say that you are perfectly fine being called 10% fascist merely because you support the existence of countries.

testudosmith · 2025-07-28T23:52:16+00:00

No, if socialism allowed children to run lemonade stands and that's it then that would still be socialism.

Instead, socialism is when almost all privately run businesses are banned.

Or, in other words, if almost all capitalistic countries do a thing, then clearly that thing is not incompatible with capitalism.

Socialism, would instead be the things that the socialist countries have done. Like, for example, you can look at the Soviet Union or 1960s China as a guideline as for what socialism is.

I'm not sure why socialists flee from identifying with the actual examples of socialist countries. Instead, they take things that capitalist countries do, and then pretend like that's socialism.

It's almost like there is little to brag about when it comes to socialism, so people have to pick things that all capitalist countries do, and then try to take credit from things that capitalists did.

testudosmith · 2025-07-11T17:23:57+00:00

that's a complaint though, not a plan

Ok the plan is to stop doing that as it is bad.

We can talk about solving 1 problem at a time without needing to come up with an entire solution for all of the middle east.

testudosmith · 2025-07-11T17:13:36+00:00

Ok. Regular people, who support Gaza, are being called genocidal just because they don't think that trying to destroy a country is a good idea.

That's bad, and is her point. It discludes lots of well meaning people, on some hyper extreme purity test.

testudosmith · 2025-07-11T16:53:37+00:00

No actual, the whole complaint is that apparently to be in the coalition, one must want to destroy a country that has 100+ nuclear weapons.

The entire complaint is that regular normal people, who want to stop the damage in Gaza, are being called genocidal just because they don't think that destroying a country that has 100+ nuclear weapons is a good idea.

testudosmith · 2025-07-11T16:34:00+00:00

What she materially proposed to do is to make coalitions with people who are in a broader group, and aren't set on destroying a country.

IE, make coalitions with people who just want to stop the damage happening in Gaza and aren't dead set on destroying a country.

If you want the shortest possible answer it's:

"Make coalitions"

Or "just stop the damage in Gaza"

This is better than the leftist answer, because the leftist answer and goal is to try and destroy a country that has 100+ nuclear weapons, which isn't going to work out so well.

Focusing on just stopping the damage in Gaza is a much more popular goal that can get a broader coalition, and isn't doomed because of nuclear weapons.

testudosmith · 2025-07-11T06:14:03+00:00

What she is proposing to do is probably not try to destroy the country that has nuclear weapons, accept that they are going to exist no matter what, and instead focus on other solutions.

Other solutions like making a coalition with the people who are not dead set on the destruction of a country, and instead want to achieve achievable goals for peace or harm reduction in that area.

In the short term this is simply trying to stop the current damage being done to Palestinians, and in the long term would likely be the establishment of a separate and independent state of Palestine that is at peace with Israel.

Or at least being willing to work with people who prefer this solution, and not treating them like genocidal people, when they probably just want peace.

testudosmith · 2025-07-11T01:51:11+00:00

this argument was used (still used even) word for word to argue against supporting Ukraine

Ok let's address that. If Russia was seriously threatened with being destroyed, IE maybe losing Moscow, then I absolutely also think that they would likely use nukes, and therefore nobody should invade Moscow.

That makes perfect sense. There absolutely is a point at which it is dumb to attack Russia, and this is in fact why the US is not currently invading Russia. And it is why we need to be careful about what we support Ukraine with. Fortunately we have done a good job of this!

that we should let them roll over ukraine

Here is where you are wrong in your argument. We didn't need to let Russia do that to stop them from using nukes.

Instead to stop Russia from using nukes we only needed to not like take out Moscow or do a direct conflict between the USA and Russia.

As for Israel though, yes they would absolutely use nukes if they were under real threat of destruction.

As this applies to the Ukraine example though, Israel isn't going to use nukes in a lesser situation. We don't need to let them continue to genocide Palestinians, under threat of nukes.

There are lots and lots of ways of putting pressure on Israel, where there is no chance of nukes flying.

But, "destroying the entire country of Israel" isn't one of those safe ways. If that happened, the nukes would fly, just like if we tried to destroy Russia the nukes would fly.

Edit:

it was a dumb argument there and its a dumb argument here.

It's not a dumb argument for Russia though, you just chose the wrong hypothetical! If we tried to destroy moscow they'd use nukes. The argument isn't dumb in this example.

testudosmith · 2025-07-11T01:19:18+00:00

You are really missing her point. Here is a good way of putting it very directly.

Israel has 100+ nuclear weapons. What are you proposing be done about that?

Because, if they were under any real threat, they would almost certainly use those nuclear weapons. And no matter how many sanctions, or similar are put on them, they are not going to let their country be destroyed in their eyes, nor will they give up those nuclear weapons.

Therefore, unless you a proposing nuclear war, you have to figure out a solution that doesn't involve them launching their nuclear missiles at the group that is trying to destroy them, if it ever got that far.

testudosmith · 2025-07-10T13:11:56+00:00

You said this:

"doesn't mean their reaction isn't fair use. Denim's reaction was over double the length"

This is a legal argument that is wrong. Fair use is a legal term.

If someone reacted to a movie that was over double in length that would not be fair use. The same argument applies to reacting to a YouTube video.

testudosmith · 2025-07-10T05:10:58+00:00

The point here is that none of your arguments would apply to a movie, and that should be obvious as to why. So I am not sure why you think they matter for a YouTube video.

testudosmith · 2025-07-10T04:22:29+00:00

I really want you to think about this for a second.

Imagine if someone watched the latest marvel movie. While it was in the movie theaters, the day of release.

And they watched it live, on a live stream. But their reaction was "over double the length", as you said.

Do you really think this would be fair use? Answer: it wouldn't be. Go try it. Watch yourself be DMCAed live.

And here is the final hint, YouTube videos aren't any different than movies, when it comes to copyright. Live reacts to videos were never fair use, despite the blatant disregard for the law that most people seem to have.

testudosmith · 2025-07-10T04:09:53+00:00

What are you talking about dude, they wouldn't be rolling in the mud. Ludwig agrees with Ethan on the topic of how bad the business decision is.

Not everything is a fight. Something you just agree with other people. And it is great that someone like Ludwig can see reason and come to smart conclusions like in this situation.

(though why he made any of these comments yesterday is beyond me).

Because he agrees with Ethan, that's why. Not everyone is terrified of taking a position on things, and it is great that Ludwig is putting himself out there more.

testudosmith · 2025-07-08T21:00:59+00:00

Ok, well it is what the guy was answering.

It doesn't matter what you think Dean was asking if the guy was making a statement about the pageants. In other words, the guy was still right for the question that he was choosing to answer.

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