[Complaint/Warning]Serial reviewer is fucking done, thank reddit and the stupidity of automods

I review every purchase I have made on DNMs for a while now and this is fucking ridiculous. There is no reason to make posting reviews a pain in the ass.

How the fuck do you let an automod flag reviews for being short when they are a paragraph? Then thanks to that you cannot even post another review because reddit thinks youre doing something stupid.

Enjoy getting robbed by vendors as less people take the time to ppost reviews.


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[27 Points] holecloud:

yep....


[22 Points] None:

To quote some whiny baby at the bottom of this thread:

this subreddit belongs to the community

If you would like to be technical, or even would like to be correct - this subreddit "belongs" to reddit. Despite it being its own entity again, Conde Nast/Advance (CN's parent company) are still the primary shareholders. Neither you, nor I, nor likely anyone here has any significant "ownership" of it.

Consider that Jared Leto and Snoop bought $50,000,000 worth of it not long ago. Do the math; if $50M isn't a majority, then it's highly unlikely that 50,000 "community members" - and yes, most likely a decent majority of which are one-off throwaway accounts - "own" jack shit of here. We post here and a few of us do the housekeeping. It's that simple.

Despite the homey, startup feel to this site, each and every one of these subreddits, pages, threads, and comments are still primarily "owned" by an enormous mass media publishing corporation. We are allowed to use their sever space. This is not some little website that a handful of admins sit on beanbags poking about pages as they feel like it during the Microbrew Mondays to lure software engineers to apply to their "jobs wanted" ad on Craigslist while shooting nerf rockets at each other waiting for someone to need shadowbanned.

That said - after a series of acquisitions, reddit is once again own entity, but now it's one that is famous for pushing the envelope that the first and fourth amendments are enclosed in really, really hard.

Whether by accident or design, this is also the only reason that you can whip out your phone on your lunch break every Wednesday afternoon and look up who has the best deal on BHO this week.

Does it really not occur to you what sort of luxury this is? I realize I am a bit older than the average user here but surely nobody here is so young that they don't understand just how different the world became with the development of hidden services. And I find it implausible that so many people still believe that this sub operates in any sort of secrecy from ANY agency. Reddit is one of the biggest websites and we are now in the top 1/6th in size.

Extremely controversial subs such as this one can exist because of the way reddit operates - pages are run via volunteer moderators tasked with making sure that each and every post in their subreddit are following the terms of use. These TOU, I might mention, have been written by teams of attorneys painstakingly tracing the exact lines of what can and can not be considered "free speech." They weren't scribbled down last minute before going live.

This means that every one of the 6000+ subs has at least one unpaid person in charge of making sure that carefully traced line doesn't get crossed. That italicized "unpaid" is there to remind you that subbreddit moderators do this job simply because we give enough of a shit about the topic and want the community to exist and advance. 100,000+ pageviews per day is an awful lot of eyeballs, which means an awful lot of time and energy spent by mods making sure the content is permitted and on the correct side of that line.

Step over it - there goes your sub.

So if you're that bent the fuck out of shape because the not even a dozen of us have decided that an automated system of helping assure that the sub doesn't get booted is needed, this probably isn't the community for you.

Jesus. I can't even begin to wrap my head around you feeling the need to take the time to write out your complaint. I can't event wrap my head around you HAVING this complaint - somehow this is a big enough problem to voice? If the expression "get over yourself" ever applied to a situation - this is it.

So knock it the everloving fuck off with pretending that you're doing the world a favor and saving them from anything by writing your three sentence shoutout to the vendor who tossed in an extra goodie because you posted a review. That's not why we are here. We are here to keep each other educated, informed, alive, and safe. Nothing more; nothing less. We aren't here to profit; we aren't here to help anyone profit.

But the two things we are the most not here for is for vendors to work around the advertising rules that we absolutely had to create in order to even permit any ads, and we are not here for any one person to create more work for us and more bullshit for members to sort through who are here to read actual content, just so someone can get a free week and a half of streaming boobs or music or whatever before the actual owner changes the password.

That "review" isn't content. It's the junk mail in our inboxes.

I joined this subreddit after having had been physically addicted to drugs at two different times in my life - once benzodiazepines and once opiates - and the hell that I went through both times once I realized how badly I was fucking up and was going to head too far down the wrong path.

My background and my history made me believe that I could contribute my experiences to help prevent others from what I nearly did - destroy my life and my family. I wasn't here a week before I realized that a majority of the members here have the exact same story - people who almost went too far but managed to become casual, responsible users who want to stay that way and not get into trouble, legal or medically. And they want to help others stay the same way.

People have been getting high or drunk since we evolved enough to figure out how, and we always will; stigmatizing it won't change it - the only thing that can make a difference is to understand and learn to control our own actions to both have fun and to be safe. This is what I see this community as being full of.

The altruism, sharing and giving I've seen here is genuinely one of the most touching things I've ever encountered in my life.

I spent years basically hating myself and humiliated by the shame I felt for my drug use - even years after I had stopped because I still felt so ashamed, despite long since having stopped because I never knew that so, so many others did the same thing. I only really learned how normal I am after coming here. I've heard my exact same story from countless others since I joined and I've met a countless kindred spirits. This is why I find this community so incredible.

Then-- there are assholes like you peppered here and there, who only want to get whatever they can out of it and pretend they're contributing something where they see an opportunity to benefit themselves.

The fact there are only a precious few of those around is what makes this sub even better.

TL;DR: I don't do tldr. If I have to read all of your bullshit, you can read mine.


[6 Points] None:

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[8 Points] DNMd:

Come on over to /r/dnmavengers


[3 Points] agentgreasy:

While the question of even discussing something here is of reasonable focus, I would offer that a template reduces the risk of association based upon collective evidence.

Honestly, with all of the discussion towards why certain things are bad, I don't quite understand why it seems so horrible to be a crowd rather than an individual. Yea, it sucks to change your habit, but, I would take a chance to examine it from both directions - especially with regards to safety.

The out front reasoning may be for content, but there are certainly other benefits.


[4 Points] mad87645:

Just use the template and do it properly. You can easilly write a paragraph and still not tell us anything relevant.


[1 Points] Jay-__:

Enjoy getting robbed by vendors as less people (...) post reviews.

That's what the 'Complaint/Warning'-flair and titles are there for.

And I (and I guess many others also) really enjoy this sub more ever since they enforced the rules more/changed them a bit.

Also, please keep in mind that the AutoMod ruleset for reviews is new and I guess still somewhat buggy/needs fine-tuning. But it's always easier to nag, huh?


[3 Points] galaxyandspace:

550 fucking words is not asking too much.


[1 Points] noonehear:

If you can't write 550 words or post a pic than your review is worthless... might as well just say "FE will update" or "I is shill."

Just curious but how many words does most of the review formats contain already.

Thank you for telling us to get "Robbed" because on person has an issue with not being able to write about a substance.

You are what is wrong with this subreddit. I think /r/darknetmarketsnoobs is more fitting for you.


[-4 Points] blackflag909:

Why don't the mods stop being nazis and embrace the freedom that this great country was founded upon. You don't need to force someone to do something the way you like it. This subreddita belongs to the community


[-17 Points] InfinitelyOutThere:

That's not the mod's fault, that's reddit's rules.


[-20 Points] roionsteroids:

0 day old account.

Seems legit.