arbitrage

I got poached from a job once to a) punish a manager in a different department, and to b) serve as a check on someone else who the new manager didn't trust. People can just use you and discard you. Our industry is awful right now.

I'm glad you got out and started your own company. Good for you.

One doesn't get paid $300k/year to fuck around and choose what you work on yourself. Very often you will get punished for making management decisions above your pay grade at this level.

You are narrating my life back to me right now, and it's creepy and weird.

I'm sorry that you've experienced this horrible treadmill of despair, as well. It doesn't get better.

I've seen it before. After that manager stepped in to help me, I would've stepped in front of a bus for him. That is the one time I had a manager like that in my entire career.

It's rare, but it does happen.

Much like a stage magician, the NYT produces content that they know their audience is desperately willing to believe.

You're making the mistake of assuming that 100% of the unpaid work performed by a few niche subreddits converts to equivalent wages on the free labour market.

Is anyone going to pay first-world wages for someone to moderate a subreddit? It doesn't seem like anyone is willing to do so, because the mods do it for free. Nobody is willing to pay for this service. Social media companies that do pay for moderators tend to pay them not well at all. It's not a great job. It burns people out. It is in fact entry-level no-experience-needed grunt work.

Your calculations are vastly over-inflated.

10 years ago reddit was certainly not maintaining uptime.

Personally I'm taking the WHO announcement as an implicit signal that they are no longer so tightly controlled/held captive by corporate interests as they have been for the past ... three, four decades?

Better late than never, I guess.

It's still like this.

Women and minorities get targeted by this sort of stuff all the time.

Oh no, won't someone think of the advertisers!?

Reddit has seriously improved their mod tools in recent years. I really don't understand these complaints.

I'm not a sock puppet, I just don't see the validity in saying over and over that the mod tools are bad, when they are clearly not and work for quite a lot of mods.

Reddit came down hard on threatening mods the other year. Did you forget, or are you omitting that on purpose to strengthen your argument?

If you're a mod, and get threatened, ban the user. It's simple. Move on with your life. 90% of your problems in Reddit are caused by 10% of the people. Get rid of the trouble makers and your job is a cakewalk.

Is this really that difficult to reason through?

> Those third party apps are central to how the entire content works, they're absolutely critical for the moderators

This is simply not true. I moderate several subs. 3rd party mod tools are not critical. Mods who claim this is so are really misrepresenting the issue.

Power tools for mods are nice to have for some. I make use of automod extensively. The tools reddit provides are adequate to perform moderation tasks.

Also, since I guess it needs to be said, I'm not a shill for spez. I don't like the dude, but I'm not a sock puppet. This is all winding up looking like an epic toddler tantrum from a small proportion of the higher-power mod contingent.

Reddit has never respected its users. Spez's continued user-hostile antics over the years show that this is the case very clearly.

Because it was one of the first, and it shows its age and less than rigorous rollout compared to the other zones.

For me, I'm pretty sure it came from childhood trauma. Perhaps there's a biological component, as well -- my mother has extreme memory traits/talents too, but hers are not applicable to personal autobiographical memories. She ended up with more of a photographic memory, but only for books, reading, and school. She also suffered a lot of childhood trauma, which confounds my data points here, I know.

It certainly could be an evolutionary trait, that gets activated in the modern era because of stress. Pure speculation on my part here, though. I would love to read an actual study with real data about these phenomena.

> Aside from ruining intimate, family, professional, and casual relationships by trivially quoting and correcting hypocrisy verbatim, and having an encyclopedia of cringe that keeps me from sleeping in peace and being a wreck when I get to address a crowd or do anything else that can make me the center of attention

The thing that helped me cope and move on with my life was realizing that nobody lives in the past like this with me. They forget and move on, but I'm the only one keeping that little bubble of reality alive inside of me. It's like being the last player in a video game dungeon -- when you exit the game, the dungeon despawns.

It turns out our day-to-day realities with other people are extremely mutable. The vast majority of humanity does not cling to an excruciatingly objective past reality, it's much fuzzier for them. In a way, you can sort of just pretend you belong and join them in that weird fuzzy changeable world they live in. The rules are made up, and the points don't matter, to quote from the popular American/British gameshow "Whose Line is it Anyway?".

It doesn't really work that way. For instance, if you're discussing something with your boss, and you have perfect recall about what was discussed 6+ months ago, but your boss disagrees with you, they will just use their version of previous events as the reference of record. People tend to get angry when you disagree with their version of past events.

It's a lot like the myth of Cassandra -- doomed to be able to foretell the future, but nobody believed her. Doomed to remember the past, but nobody ever believes you. Everyone is 100% committed to their own version of the past that lives in their head.

What's the advantage?

Not really. Usenet was circling the drain a long time before Reddit was a gleam in Ohanian's eye.

It appears you have to create an account before you see any search results.

No thanks.

> Tik tok is 99% garbage content.

You're likely not using TikTok effectively. I personally use it, and all my engagements with it are 100% relevant to my interests.

A hit dog hollers, that's for sure. You likely pissed off an admin who was heavily leveraged in the crypto markets, or actively scamming users.

Seems like reddit's old reputation of being capricious and spiteful is still apt. Charming.

People don't. A company wanted a new market, so they made one and convinced enough people that they do in fact want this superior brushing technology.

Ooooh, so shiny.

Television programs warning about global warming were already on reruns when I was a little kid in the 70s and 80s.

Nothing has been being done for a loooooooong time.

> Customers that Handelsblatt spoke to have the impression that Tesla employees avoid written communication. “They never sent emails, everything was always verbal,” says the doctor from California, whose Tesla said it accelerated on its own in the fall of 2021 and crashed into two concrete pillars.

I mean, that's pretty suspicious right there.

I really don't see why they would, if they're using a paywall in the first place.

> The reduce motion option is after all an accessibility feature.

Thank you for this -- I didn't realize this was an option, now.

> Working out is now socially acceptable

When was working out socially unacceptable?

> maybe they were a journeyman piece for bronze crafters

If this were the case, shouldn't there be makers' marks on them? Something to identify them as being the work of a journeyman level artisan hoping to use it to prove their worth? Otherwise, one could fraudulently present someone else's work as there own, and undermine the system.

I feel that if they were really part of a 'graduation portfolio' for crafters, it would be much more obvious. Something like an inscription that says "crafted by Albertus in the 14th year of the Emperor Foo".

I like your fizz-buzz theory. If the object is a one-and-done throw away, then you might not bother to put your mark on it.

Utterly straight-forward and to-the-point insight. I find your argument really compelling.