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In response to concerns that the new r/homeautomation mod team could overlook posts with dangerous misinformation, the anonymous Redditor pointed me to the subreddit’s sidebar, which has a disclaimer about the dangers of electricity. However, the disclaimer is only visible on old Reddit. The mod doesn’t know why.
Oh Lord
Thank God I wasn’t the only one who went WTF. That’s like one of the simplest things I learned as a mod in my first 2 days. You gotta update the sidebar twice for both versions of it. It’s been over a month since they probably took over and they still don’t know this.
I love this article but it also makes me sad like with the old r/canning mods pointing out the unsafe material the new mods left up.
Dromio05 showed me several posts he deemed questionable since Reddit took away his own mod badge. For example, this post shares a link to an article about “rebel canners,” which Dromio05 argues “gives a public platform to people who openly encourage methods and recipes that are known to be unsafe, like canning milk and open kettle canning.” The post is labeled unsafe, but Dromio05 would have removed the link to the article.
Another cited example is this recipe for canned sauce. It includes already-canned tomatoes, which experts like the National Center for Home Food Preservation (NCHFP) recommend against, as there’s no safe tested process for this. The recipe also includes nuts, though the USDA doesn’t have any recommendations for canning nuts, and NCHFP and other experts advise against canning any nuts besides green peanuts.
No comment. Moderators are the key to Reddit’s success, and they have been treated like shit and will continue to be treated like shit.
Jesus. I can from time to time, I used to be a regular on /r/canning. The attention to detail re food safety was one of the best things about the sub, as you really can kill yourself and others if you piss about.
Safety does not matter as much as money and being able to turn a profit. $50 over 5 lives.
Delete your account
I haven’t deleted mine for one simple reason. I plan to go back in and change all my comments to say the same thing (so long and thanks for all the fish). I’ll be damned if I’m gonna let them use my comments to sell for money to people willing to pay the high API costs to train whatever comes after chatgpt. Because if I’m honest it wasn’t about screwing over the third party app developers. That was an added bonus for Spez. He has this repository of internet currated data on millions of subjects getting scraped by every company wanting to train a generative AI. Sure he wanted to drive engagement on the official Reddit app. But that’s still not gonna net him more money than licensing that data for this use case. And he’s willing to sacrifice the site quality as a whole to get it.
the anonymous Redditor pointed me to the subreddit’s sidebar, which has a disclaimer about the dangers of electricity. However, the disclaimer is only visible on old Reddit. The mod doesn’t know why.
Wow this is the part that made me laugh the most. One of the first things I learned when as a mod was that you had to change the side bar in both old.reddit and the newer version since they both have different sidebars.
I never even realized that the loss of whole mod teams could make this simple feature unknown by the new team.
There are a huge amount of redditors these days who have no idea old reddit ever existed and the first time they heard of 3rd party apps was when Reddit announced they were pricing them out of existence. Naturally, a lot of those people are going to become mods now and their ignorance about fundamental aspects of the site is glaring.
This is only tangentially related but I started using reddit 13 years ago and the userbase has become increasingly unrecognizable in recent years. But what makes me truly feel like a dinosaur is seeing six month old accounts refer to reddit as “an app”… It’s bizarre to me that so many people’s exposure to reddit is limited to the worst way to possibly use the platform (the official app).
Everything has been an app first for years now. Not sure when it switched.
