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Something big is happening, as Reddit seems to have purged literally every NSFW sub they know. Reason is always "unmoderated" despite some of the banned subreddits being fully moderated.


Edit: seems to have been a bug in automation (thanks @lefty7283@lemmy.world):

https://old.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/1ii67mt/_/mb3fewv

It's still a good reminder on how quickly a community (or communities) thousands of people enjoy and in some cases rely upon can disappear.

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[–] almost1337@lemm.ee 34 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

The glitch being they got caught and people complained

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 16 points 6 hours ago

How were they ever not getting "caught" lol

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Eh no need to get tin foil hat, imho.

[–] almost1337@lemm.ee 22 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, one has to ask why they were setting up automated banning of these subreddits in the first place.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

The reason for all of them was unmoderated. So it seems to me like they have/are testing a method to auto ban unmoderated subs. Not that crazy, imho.

[–] Clasm@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Then why weren't there loads more "unmoderated" subs of different categorize blocked?

If it was just a glitch, I suspect that the affected subreddits would better represent a random distribution of topics than what we witnessed.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

A glitch is when something doesn't work as you expect it to. I don't know why you'd suspect any kind of behaviour from a glitch. Glitches can do all kinds of crazy shit.

To be clear, I'm speculating on what tool they may actually be working on.

[–] Clasm@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I'm aware of what a glitch is. What I'm saying is that they are already targeting these specific subs regardless of their moderation status. The only 'glitch' here was that they got caught pushing an agenda.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

You countered the assertion that it was a glitch with "well then why..." and presented a scenario you'd expect to see if it really were a glitch. I tried explaining why that doesn't make any sense.

Have a good day.

[–] Jomn@jlai.lu 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

If they are really testing things like that, it's quite worrying that they did it on the production server...

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 4 points 5 hours ago

Huffman was probably in a huge hurry to gargle Elon's balls.

[–] bishbosh@lemm.ee 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

subs like r/boobs are unmodded?

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Hence the glitch. A glitch is when doesn't perform as expected or desired.

[–] bishbosh@lemm.ee 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I see, I assumed trans_surgeries wasn't a nsfw sub, so I was weary of why it would be in the list with the rest.

[–] SecondaryAnnetagonist@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

NSFW doesn't mean literal porn it means "what would be potentially catastrophic for the prudes at work to see on my screen out of the corner of their eye".

As it turns out, anyones' loins falls under that definition because vivimos en una sociedad.

And taking a scythe to anything with that tag is much simpler than actually being an arbiter of what is and isn't "degenerate" porn for the sake of this batshit prudish regime.