Reddit Official App: "I am able to take mod actions on a sub I'm not a mod in."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1660712

The hits just keep coming.

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nodsocket@lemmy.world · 174 pts · 3y (1 reply)
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FixedFun@kbin.social · 46 pts · 3y

Reddit is the worst Digg clone

Fester@lemm.ee · 103 pts · 3y (3 replies)

We are all landed gentry on this blessed day.

KevonLooney@lemm.ee · 18 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Speak for yourself!

snor10@lemm.ee · 15 pts · 3y (1 reply)

I am all landed gentry on this blessed day.

Ghyste@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 3y

Ooh, do we have Ken M here yet?

net00@lemm.ee · 47 pts · 3y (1 reply)
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Cruxifux@lemmy.world · -6 pts · 3y

Fallout 76 is actually good now tho.

Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 30 pts · 3y (3 replies)

Aren't there subreddits where everyone who joins is a mod by default?

ColonelSanders@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 3y

Came here to say this as well. As funny as this would be if it were an accident, just prior to me going scorched earth on my accounts I saw several subreddits in protest that made everyone subscribed to their sub a mod, and confirmed it myself.

It's very likely a subreddit that the person was subbed to and forgot/didn't know they were doing that.

Wintermute@lemmy.villa-straylight.social · 3 pts · 3y

If I read the announcement correctly, that is implemented by a bot with mod privileges that parses comments and takes actions on users' behalf. I don't think it's practical to literally make every user a moderator.

BuckRowdy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

On r/politicalhumor and r/madlads, the answer is yes. But you need subreddit karma to log mod actions. There is a bot running in those subs which facilitates it.

Ichi_matsu@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 3y (1 reply)

What they will do to get you on their app…

solidgrue@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 3y

I'm tempted to install the app and mod myself a /r/u_username sub just to see what chaos I can cause over on the big subs.

... or is that what they EXPECT me to do...?

Nope. The only winning move is not to play.

BaumGeist@lemmy.ml · 21 pts · 3y (1 reply)
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ryathal@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 3y

Broken authorization is absurdly common, especially if they involve graphQl. I wouldn't be surprised if it worked.

LazaroFilm@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 3y

Oh man I would have decimated that comment section.

moustachepigeon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 3y

They played themselves. I look forward to the slow motion train wreck, they deserve it.

fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com · 12 pts · 3y (1 reply)

I mentioned this on the crosspost thread (speaking of which, why crosspost? It just splits comments), but I digress:

This could be because some subreddits went nuclear and made all users mods.

BuckRowdy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y

why crosspost?

I’m new to Lemmy and trying to learn how everything works. Also yeah I made everyone on r/madlads and r/politicalhumor a mod via the Mod Democracy Bot.

Yasuke@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 11 pts · 3y

Yet another example of why Reddit should’ve just let 3rd pose apps be

buycurious@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y

This is genius because you basically grew your mod count for certain subreddits by “borrowing” from other subreddit mods.

/s

Tigbitties@kbin.social · 4 pts · 3y

Fun times ahead