Skavau

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[–] Skavau@lemm.ee 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

In this case, its automation. It's also a partial response to Reddits ineffectual moderator system. No-one is gunna spend all day monitoring comments from trolls and spammers on basic communities usually flooded with comments. I can't see anyone especially truly engaged to do so in (for example, and I have no idea if these communities do this) in r/aww or r/pics or r/jokes or r/videos, which are just pretty basic subreddits that aren't really hobbyist.

Whereas say, r/AskHistorians or some video game community or a music subgenre community likely will by their hobbyist nature attract more engaged moderators.

[–] Skavau@lemm.ee 1 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

They will do it so long as not doing it greatly increases the amount of busywork, spam moderation and troll moderation.

[–] Skavau@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Sure, but it offers at least some protection.

[–] Skavau@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

By low karma I mean -100 types.

[–] Skavau@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The traffic on Reddit is massive for highly populated subreddits. And these subreddits that restrict low karma account activities aren't doing it for any profit motive.

I understand Lemmy isn't really big enough for this to be a concern here.

[–] Skavau@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Unfortunately, on reddit - when subreddits restrict new posters or low karma commenters, they're just trying to mitigate the impact of trolls and bots and people making new accounts. It's not about being elitist.

[–] Skavau@lemm.ee 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I often just forget to upvote generally. Although this could lead to argumentative posters making troll posts, getting engagement and trending just because people reply to them.

[–] Skavau@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago (8 children)

This may not be an inherently bad thing given that low karma accounts tend to be trolls.