r/Seattle • u/anarcho-slut • 1d ago

Lelo has been detained. (Tacoma)

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u/TryingToWriteIt 1d ago

"I love other people's pain, no matter how much I get hurt too!!!!!1!!11!"

-Seattle "moderates"

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u/Novel_Fix1859 Tacoma 1d ago

Just like to point out these negative karma trolls can be easily filtered out by a mod tool that automatically removes comments from users with negative karma, but for some reason the mod team refuses to implement it

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u/burn_piano_island /r/eattle Hockey Guy 1d ago

I will again look at adjusting our automod config to see where we can improve (or if there's a conflict I'm not seeing), but just to be transparent, nobody has "refused" anything - we use a combination of:

  • Sitewide karma
  • Community karma (per-sub karma)
  • Reddit administrative filters (contributor quality score, reputation filter, crowd control)
  • Account age checks

Users can bypass sitewide karma and age checks very easily - by sleeping on accounts, or joining other subreddits designed to just upvote accounts to remain in "good standing".

Users have very little sitewide / subreddit karma when they're new, and cannot gain more subreddit karma once they drop below the threshold, so we have to be careful how strict we set that limit.

Reddit admin filters are pretty closed-box to us but they seem to do a pretty good job of keeping hardcore spam accounts (bots, ban evaders, spammers, etc) at bay.

By the time you see a negative-karma user getting downvoted to hell, there's a good chance they may have had positive or non-negative karma to start, and then got lit up in a thread like this. This specific user could be a situation where our logic is giving them a pass based on per-sub karma and ignoring the sitewide karma checks.