For those of you who haven't heard of it, /r/DetectiveConan was a DC community that has been abused since its birth, as its sole moderator deliberately allowed spam to be posted, rejected anyone offering help, and aggressively banned anyone who requested that the Reddit admins strip him of his powers.
Yesterday, one of its former users tried to recover what little was left of the subreddit, and inadvertently caused it to get banned:
SgtTamama wrote:Well, I totally blew it, and I'm sorry everyone. I've been trying aggressively for the past 2 weeks to get /r/DetectiveConan. I had this grand idea in mind that I would delete all the spam and it would be the utopia and everything would be awesome.
It all started 2 weeks ago when I sent a PM to the mod. He didn't seem to really care much about the subreddit and I figured he was over it due to the immense amount of spam and neglect. So I PM'd him and simply asked for it. No reply.
No big deal, so today I took a shot in the dark and made a serious reddit request, even though it didn't meet the 60 day requirement for inactivity. Turned out not to be the best of ideas. There was so much spam, that the sub ended up getting banned. Makes sense given that the spam posts outnumbered the on-topic posts, but maybe I shouldn't have tried.
I ended up sending another PM to the mod on the off chance he sees it. The admin did say I can try again once the 60 days are up, but if the mod suddenly becomes active, the sub will stay banned.
So, I dropped the ball and I'm sorry. That definitely did not go as expected. I haven't given up yet, so we'll see after the time requirement.
tl;dr: I tried hard to get /r/DetectiveConan to save it from spam-hell and it backfired causing it to be banned.
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I love Yunnie.
I checked subreddit, but oh-- god-- I'd rather not go there again.
People there agree that Hubuki and The Moonlighters both provide good translations and Hubuki is better only because they release episodes faster.
Faster release usually means less quality, but whatever, people have the right to have their own opinion. If they ABSOLUTELY NEED to watch the episodes ASAP, then they should watch a bad translation.
Sorry about that, totally offtopic.
Hey, this is actually the first time I hear about Reddit. Imho, it's pretty much useless, it's a bad forum-like rippoff.
People should hang out here instead of reddit (only talking about the guys from that case closed subreddit).
Note that this is a half-assed opinion of mine, if you think reddit is awesome, then-- sorry.
shinichi'sapprentice wrote:dumytru hasn't acted very 'evil-like', but that's his specialty though...
dumytru wrote:
Sorry about that, totally offtopic.
Hey, this is actually the first time I hear about Reddit. Imho, it's pretty much useless, it's a bad forum-like rippoff.
People should hang out here instead of reddit (only talking about the guys from that case closed subreddit).
Note that this is a half-assed opinion of mine, if you think reddit is awesome, then-- sorry.
Reddit is more popular within the U.S/ Western Europe and Australia/New Zealand crowd. I wouldn't call it useless as its has a wealth of information/communities and can be a great resource depending on what you are looking for, or a huge time waster if you are stuck in someplace and just need to browse. I've used that website more often than I can count for things, though it has been gaining in popularity rapidly, I think they hit 200 million? So it may fizzle out in due time once the masses find it. Though you can find a community there for practically anything good and bad. I monitored the /r/detectiveconan sub prior to it getting neglected with spam.
Believe there actually are ~10 Detective Conan subreddits there, though all are very small for obvious reasons.
The_evilbit wrote:or a huge time waster if you are stuck in someplace and just need to browse.
I kinda try to avoid that. Or well, I try to keep it to a minimum.
I say this again, but that's just my opinion. I certainly am not against Reddit.
And I actually think it's a pretty good idea [as a programmer/designer].
shinichi'sapprentice wrote:dumytru hasn't acted very 'evil-like', but that's his specialty though...
I've used that website more often than I can count for things, though it has been gaining in popularity rapidly, I think they hit 200 million? So it may fizzle out in due time once the masses find it. Though you can find a community there for practically anything good and bad. I monitored the /r/detectiveconan sub prior to it getting neglected with spam.