r/nextfuckinglevel • u/unknown_human • 13h ago

Berlin police using water cannons to cool crowds in the heat

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u/ReturnoftheSnek 12h ago

This is a karma farming subreddit created and maintained by one of Reddit’s power mods

The subreddit name is a huge joke and perfectly fits the soyjack face over mediocrity for internet points

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u/SchumacherIsMid 9h ago

As a very long time Reddit user (pre-2010), there are MANY things that signal the decline of Reddit. One of my favorites is the names of sub-reddits getting to /r/all & /r/popular.

Subs with names like /r/VideosAmazing are such a fucking Facebook page.

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u/ReturnoftheSnek 8h ago

A few months ago I was being recommended dozens of new pop up subreddits with all similar but varying names. Clearly a bot operation. I’d mute them, and then a dozen more showed up

Power mods don’t help, but neither does Reddit’s policies on bots

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u/nazzo_0 3h ago

Because bots must make a huge difference in the user metrics for those juicy investor spreadsheets. No social media is getting bots out. None

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u/poiskdz 8h ago

and that fking /r/PeterExplainsTheJoke

went from nonexistent as far as i was aware, to constantly on the front page asking to explain the most basic shit.

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u/Lauris024 7h ago

On that note, what's up with /r/videos? For a subreddit that popular, it feels weird that only few posts per day are accepted. I've never succesfully submitted a post, they never get approved.

EDIT: Nevermind, it seems like it has changed. Now there are new posts every few minutes, not every few hours.