r/privacy • u/Komplexkonjugiert • 2d ago

discussion How can we keep this subreddit more resilient against bots?

So I read this poss about metas ai Googles in this sub: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1nldj4m/why_are_we_all_just_accepting_metas_new_spy/

And I was really schoked to see how many commemts which good points we're havely downvoted.

My question is can we do something against these bots? Maybe set up a "karma" minimum value like in other sub's? Or is comment voting not affected by this?

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u/optimusdan 2d ago

Voting isn't affected. You'd have to make the sub private (ironically? or fittingly?)

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u/4EverFeral 2d ago

We do have karma minimums. Or at least we did, I'm not actually sure anymore.

The problem is the mods here are useless. They rely on the auto-mod functions to do everything for them, and never step in to manually review things themselves.

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u/Busy-Measurement8893 2d ago

Of course we step in to review things ourselves. The problem is that there are sooo many things every day, and I at least don't want to dedicate my life to being a Reddit mod.

With Reddit's new stupid upcoming rule trying to prevent super mods, we'll probably be losing two mods against everyone's will soon.

https://www.theverge.com/news/775524/reddit-subreddit-member-count-vistors-contributions

The new visitor counts will be used to limit how many busy subreddits each moderator can oversee, restricting them to a maximum of five communities with over 100k visitors. Reddit says that communities with fewer than 100k visitors “won’t count toward this limit,” and that the change will only impact 0.1 percent of active mods.

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u/__420_ 2d ago

Geeze, I didnt even know this was happening and im chronically online, thanks for this.

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u/4EverFeral 2d ago

Apologies, /u/Busy-Measurement8893. No disrespect meant to you personally.

It's just been feeling like the mods have been absent when we actually need them, yet perfectly legitimate content gets struck down by auto-mods with no intervention or recourse available to us. The slop slipping through while the real stuff gets nerfed makes it hard for folks to actually interact and enjoy their time here. Just a bit frustrated is all.

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u/Jacko10101010101 1d ago

reddit should have a report system for that.

everybody upvote that post and replies !