wemptronics
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wemptronics
1d ago
Still, I do hope that if activity on this forum declines too much we give Reddit another go.
This forum cannot exist on reddit. Maybe a couple years ago when admin actions chilled out, but reddit has implemented their own AI censorship/safety tools to police comments since then. In 2026 these are turbocharged, clearly designed to be dumb keyword enforcers, and it will go around deleting comments or banning users who merely mention bad ideas, i.e. suicide, capital punishment, and anything deemed sensitive. I suspect they still keep badlists of naughty subreddits for extra attention which The Motte would qualify for ten times over.
I had my very old account banned by reddit robots this year allegedly for spam. I post on reddit once every few months and am a more mild commentor by The Motte's standards. Most regulars here would need to use some kind of coded 1337 speak to go back to posting on reddit.
wemptronics
2d ago
This piece suspiciously confirmed my preconceptions of this genre, but I also haven't read any of it for myself and I do not know this writer. Are we all doomed to read 1000 pages worth of stories for a particular ethnic identity crisis before we can call ourselves responsible thinkers? Epistimic humility has forsaken us.
Comment sections under your local sports team podcast are where you find vital discussions about sports team happenings. Reddit is where the latest narrative is propagated so they're still useful for casual fans.
Since I was banned I went through my subscriptions for the first time in forever. I realized there are only a few subs I still weakly rated. /r/slatestarcodex as a link aggregator since discussion is now pretty bad. /r/supremecourt where mods have made a real effort, as good as it gets which is not great or even reliably worthwhile.
Part of this is aging out in interest. We are an aging breed after all, us highfalutin types who can remember, and a man can only see so many flamewars. I accept that. It is hard not to notice the rest of my former subscriptions look like a boneyard for old, used up machines. Subreddit after subreddit sitting out in a desert victimized by growth and entropy.
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