2y ago

Reddit activated a word filter that whenever you say "fuck spez", your comment won't show up for anyone else. I just tested it on ModCoord. they're also deleting spez memes from the subs they nuked lo

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/70064

r/ModCoord: The admins in charge of demodded subreddits are mass-removing images of Huffman previously shared on them
the OP asked how are they gonna remove them all, so I replied they'll run a query for terms like "fuck spez". only to find my comment invisible, because they're already blocking it. spez protective word filter, it's active right now.

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He also gave the moderator of /r/jailbait a singular trophy "pimp daddy" that no one else has received.
Jesus, what a shit show. Can they really be thinking their path will end well?
- I unfortunately feel like it probably will end well for them, there really isn't a mainstream alternative for reddit. Lemmy isn't that easy to get into as an average user and the information on the reddit that have amassed over the years is just insane, I assume a lot of people are going to keep using reddit as if nothing has happened.
  
  I don’t know why people are saying Lemmy is difficult. I’m as dumb as a box of hammers and all I did was Google “Lemmy World”, clicked the top link, created an account, subbed to about 80 subs, and started posting.
  I have no idea what instances are or the Fediverse. I’m typing in subs and clicking submit.
  I just kept crawling and it kept working.
Reddit admins rn:
The fact that u/Spez now has a negativity filter implemented is just embarrassing for the entire company. Glad I moved on.
We did it boys, we hurt his feelings!
Fuck you Spez.
- My man
  
  Well, can you make sure he behaves then?
Fuck u/spez
Gee, it's a good thing there aren't dozens of invisible ASCII characters, and even more confusables, some which match the English letters to the pixel!
I used this to get around filters all the time, but I don't need it to work anymore since I don't use reddit now so have fun lads and ladies!
https://invisible-characters.com/
https://github.com/wanderingstan/Confusables
Wait…so if I used Power Delete Suite to add Fuck Spez to all my old comments I could keep my stuff but the bot would make it all invisible to everyone else automatically? That sounds interesting.
So the way to truly delete ones content is to mass edit and replace with "fuck spez"?
- Sounds like a plan.
This guy is turning more and more into a Musk wannabe by the day.
This kind of behavior is what got me to join Lemmy just now. (this is my first ever post in fact.)
I really wasn't even onboard with the boycott. I thought it was silly and pointless and was planning to just stay on reddit, but then he had to tantrum like a child and go against the very spirit and point of reddit in process.
So here I am. I haven't deleted my years old reddit account yet, but I probably will at this point. This lemmy federation thing seems like it will do quite nicely.
I still see fuck spez in just about every front page post I open. So i'm not sure if this is localized or rolling out?

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