This is the best summary I could come up with:
The dangers of food canning were explained to me clearly, succinctly, and with cited sources by Brad Barclay and someone going by Dromio05 on Reddit (who asked to withhold their real name for privacy reasons).
He noted various canning misconceptions, from thinking the contents of a concave lid are safe to eat to believing you don’t need to apply heat to food in jars.
For example, Barclay pointed to one mod recommending “citizen science,” saying they would use a temperature data logger to “begin conducting experiments to determine what new canning products are safe.”
It includes already-canned tomatoes, which experts like the National Center for Home Food Preservation (NCHFP) recommend against, as there’s no safe tested process for this.
What’s critical for Reddit’s content quality is not that moderators adopt identical philosophies but that they are equipped to facilitate healthy and safe discussions and debates that benefit the community.
But the hastiness with which these specific replacement mods were ushered in, and the disposal of respected, long-time moderators, raises questions about whether Reddit prioritized reopening subreddits to get things back to normal instead of finding the best people for the volunteer jobs.
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They specifically mention open kettle canning as a bad practice. My friend and I were canning something and he wasn’t sure we were doing it right. He called his mom and she said she had always done open kettle canning (where you basically just pouring boiling temp food into hot jars and seal them). I guess experts have soured on the practice.
Either way, we made our cans the “right” way after lots of googling and none of the jars seemed to fail.
While I sympathize with the moderators, I would assume that historically most subs are not moderated by experts, but yes, a decrease in quality mods and mod tools will choke reddit to death.
a decrease in quality mods and mod tools will choke reddit to death.
Thanks to Reddit i learned Docker and everything needed to self-host a lot of cool stuff - without even visiting Reddit.
Because it used to be a nice stable free platform to build a community around your own interests
Exactly. There was a time when using Reddit didn’t feel like you were giving Reddit the company anything for free. There was a transaction happening. They provided a platform to interact with like-minded people, and in return you used that platform, thereby drawing more traffic to their site.
Delete your account
Same with any NSFW content. Lame
I ended up creating a new account with a throwaway email because my old accounts got banned
No need for an account, you can still use old.reddit.com for the rare occasion you need to read something. If you’re on mobile, append .i to the end of the old Reddit URL (but before ? if there is one).
What the fucks a reddit?
They never found the right people in the first place, theres just a lot of dice rolls, luck and fragmentation.
Most mods were never experts.
They lost a lot of their more level-headed reditors as things started getting more toxic though