HamboneFakenamington

joined 1 year ago
 
 

I occasionally pop back on to see if there's any news about some of my favorite subs migrating to the fediverse that haven't yet, and I've noticed that nearly all of my home page has massive posts in the vein of "comment your favorite ___ and then tomorrow we do our favorite ___!" Or like the "eliminate one ___ every day until we get to the favorite!"

One of my video game subs is doing it for least favorite characters, a TV show sub is doing favorite character quotes, a genre one doing favorite movies and then says it will move on to favorite books, etc.

They all seem to have started around the same day, and they all have options that are dozens long.

I've seen things like this pop up occasionally before but it's so many of them all at once across vastly different subs I follow that have no connections to each other.

My corporate-conspiracy train of thought immediately started to wonder if admins are enticing users/actually posting themselves or w/e to create these kinds of threads that tend to draw lots of user engagement to try and get some numbers looking better. People tend to get really jazzed about these kinds of topics so these posts rn all have hundreds/thousands of comments and upvotes and such in subs that normally don't see that much individual engagement on posts, and they're all tailored to keep up for long periods of time with above-average (in my experience at least) numbers of options to work through to get to the "one." And ofc people who are interested in them are going to keep coming back to check out what's winning and vote on the next round, etc.

Wondering if anyone else has noticed anything like this or if it sounds as fishy to anyone else, or if perhaps it really is just all one big coincidence and I'm just being weird.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I do not have the skill or bandwidth to mod a community, but if someone makes creepywikipedia I would absolutely contribute to it!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, I’ve been cutting out sugar (or trying to at least) and I’m amazed at how many products include it that you wouldn’t expect to have it. I do love to cook so I do a lot of things from scratch, but somethings are just too cost prohibitive to make regularly/sometimes we just get too busy and need some premade elements for a dish, etc. and sugar is just overloaded into products it isn’t even necessary in. It’s so frustrating.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Sincere question, because I used Reddit frequently but I pretty much just stuck to just commenting and posting in my niche little interest subs. So I'm learning all kinds of new issues and drama about the site/company itself I was in the dark on before lol. So I've only seen bits and pieces of what awkwardturtle's whole deal was, and it struck me as being so over-the-top that I assumed it was farcical, like someone who hates those kinds of social progressive ideals and wants to mock them and make them look bad. Not sure if that's a correct read at all, though, or how likely it is.

Like "locking so men can't comment" it so inflammatory and petty, I do live in a very liberal city and am involved in many different areas of social progression both personally and professionally and I cannot think of anyone who would actually believe in, say, or do things like that. Not only because the majority of sincere feminists believe in equality between all genders and not "misandry" period, but also because it makes the whole movement look like garbage. No one sincere in their beliefs would play so heavily into the dumb stereotypes in such a public and visible way like that. It's like someone who wants to make fun of feminists vs being an actual feminist.

Not to say there aren't people in those ideological groups who don't totally miss the point and do actually say and believe stupid shit like that, but they are such a minority and a thorn in the side for those of us doing real work to make actual progress. So powermod could be sincere and just fully out of touch with what they are choosing to align themselves with.

But idk. I've just seen so many other examples of their word choices and such that is just really inconsistent with what actual social progressives would say or do. My understanding is that he's a man, but he mods the women's sub. Like an actual male feminist wouldn't insert himself in that space in such a way, spewing queer stereotypes in queer subs, etc. Seems so off the mark to me that I didn't think it might actually be sincere lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah I love the meltdown that there was "no reason" to lose SLPT, while in the same breath saying they haven't even interacted with the sub in 6 months lmao. Whatever all other drama aside, you gave a possible example literally right there lol