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Why Redditors Are Revolting

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Our small country of The Netherlands previously used the subreddit /r/netherlands. Until some mods demoted other mods and started abusing their powers.

Most active users have moved away from that sub to /r/thenetherlands, but the sad thing is people who want to learn about our country end up in the wrong subreddit with a bunch of trolls.

Yes, reddit needs some kind of protection against moderators with ill intentions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes%3...

Something like a system whereby the population of a subreddit can vote no confidence in the moderators of that subreddit and then nominate and elect new ones?

    “Vote brigading," as mass downvoting is called,
     is a pernicious way to undermine a subreddit, as
     Reddit’s algorithm effectively counts 1 downvote
     as much as 10 upvotes.

Downvoting can be a dangerous weapon if one who exercises it has nothing to lose. The most annoying aspect of it is that folks who downvote do take time to read the comment but not let the user know why he or she is being downvoted.

Disappointed that "Revolting" used as present participle not adjective in post title.

There is no mention of the huge change in default subreddits that went live today?

www.redditblog.com/2014/05/whats-that-lassie-old-defaults-fell.html?m=1

Whoever thought that removing /r/BestOf was a good idea should be put into the dungeon. I hope that dungeon already houses whoever put 2XC on the defaults.

I understand wanting to put forwards a more gender-balanced mix. To do it in such a ridiculously ham-fisted way shows no knowledge of either the subreddits they're promoting or the Reddit community as a whole.

2XC [doesn't want to be a default](http://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/24z7fe/poll...), and it's place in the defaults will likely be corrosive to the community it already has. And half of the population aren't welcome there anyway (unless one toes a very specific line).

Plus Creepy, NoSleep and Philosophy? Seriously? I think Reddit's admin are utterly disconnected from the Reddit gen pop.

Is putting 2XC on default perhaps a strategic move in response to the rise of tumblr?

Tumblr has a pretty large number of very-active posters across a broad range of feminism/lgbt/racism/etc blogs. Basically if you can come up with something that can be discriminated against, there is probably an active tumblr blog about it.

Assuming it doesn't alienate too many other users, pulling in that very-active userbase might be a lucrative move for Reddit/Conde Nast.

These people have apparently never seen /r/spacedicks.

Wow. This made Time?

Conde Nast must have expanded its influence.

Reddit is not part of Conde Nast, it is an independent company owned by the same parent company as Conde Nast, Advance Publications.

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