AliExpress Ad Causing Plug-in errors, slow comments, & unresponsive Reddit pages

redtaboo · 2017-04-24T16:47:59+00:00

Hey there!

We're very sorry this is happening, we've blocked that company through all of our ad partners yet they are somehow still getting through. :(

Our ads team is digging in to see if they can find those ads and block them more completely. Thank you for the report and for your patience!

redtaboo · 2017-04-24T15:09:15+00:00

The comments actually aren't there even when I look -- so, not spam filtered/removed. My guess is that there was a bot war in that thread that ended up breaking the site (as /u/13steinj alludes to below), so all the comments ended up completely deleted in order to fix things.

redtaboo · 2017-04-22T01:38:51+00:00

Are you sure? I just tried to reproduce this and received an error:

https://i.redd.it/a9rnv1lod0ty.png

In the future though, if you think you've found a security issue please email us via securityATreddit.com rather than posting publicly.

redtaboo · 2017-04-21T22:11:32+00:00

Thanks for making this post! We’ve also been working on lists and appreciate everyones help to ensure we get in as many features as possible.

Please keep the ideas coming and keep an eye on /r/modnews for updates and requests for help from us. :)

redtaboo · 2017-04-21T19:11:26+00:00

I know better than to get into a gif war with you

redtaboo · 2017-04-21T19:03:59+00:00

RIP /r/HighQualityGifs

redtaboo · 2017-04-21T17:15:53+00:00

redtaboo · 2017-04-21T17:09:49+00:00

Thanks so much for this, I'll reach out to you privately to discuss this a bit more.

Thank you very much for everything you've done for the site. You were one of the first mods and really did a lot for the site. I personally remember you helping me our when I was a complete n00b and will always appreciate that. <3

redtaboo · 2017-04-21T16:49:12+00:00

RIP /u/imnoidiot5

redtaboo · 2017-04-21T16:43:29+00:00

RIP /r/edtaboo

redtaboo · 2017-04-21T15:55:55+00:00

I'll see if that's an option for sure -- I think this may be somewhat of an edge case though, since it requires the user to have blocked the moderator for the message not to have gone through which I think is fairly rare.

redtaboo · 2017-04-20T20:13:32+00:00

You're seeing that information because you're a moderator of that subreddit, both legacy and new modmail send ban messages as the subreddit from a users perspective. Mods see the actual username of the banning moderator.

redtaboo · 2017-04-20T20:12:16+00:00

Heya! Thanks for pointing this out, it does appear to be a bug. Sorry for the confusion and trouble, we'll look into fixing this for the future.

redtaboo · 2017-04-19T18:35:09+00:00

I've removed this post as it doesn't follow the rules in the sidebar, and I've removed your most recent comments as well as they are decidedly uncivil. This isn't the space to complain about moderators, if you are upset about your ban your best bet is to (politely!) respond to your ban message and explain that you are sorry and why you won't break their rules again. This only works if you are sincere though.

Please read the sidebars of communities and lurk a bit before contributing, every subreddit has it's own set of rules and ethos. Most subreddits aren't going to be okay with random personal insults like I'm seeing here, and many will ban or warn you for behaving in this manner.

redtaboo · 2017-04-18T18:38:56+00:00

We'll be on the look out for retaliation at any point in the process and will take that into consideration when making our decisions.

redtaboo · 2017-04-18T18:35:00+00:00

What are your concerns?

redtaboo · 2017-04-18T18:33:46+00:00

Sorry for the late reply, I had a few other things that took up my attention for bit. :(

One of the things we wanted to be sure of is that we allowed for joke subreddits that are legitimate jokes. That's part of why we allowed for subjectivity in making judgement calls on our part. ")

redtaboo · 2017-04-18T18:32:20+00:00

We have a policy about that coming out in the near future. It's written up, but involves a couple steps on our end before making it public and enacting it.

Thanks for your patience! :)

redtaboo · 2017-04-18T18:31:37+00:00

If that's the case the mod in question would likely easily have links to point to that they aren't actually inactive, they would be active in discussions and modmail and commenting in the subreddit. Wanting to have light moderation is not the same as completely ignoring a subreddit. This type of case is exactly why we made the process somewhat onerous and are leaving it open to our own judgement. :)

redtaboo · 2017-04-18T18:27:20+00:00

This is a process for current moderators, if you have concerns about someone breaking sitewide rules you should message us via modmail at /r/reddit.com.

https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/reddit.com

redtaboo · 2017-04-18T17:17:47+00:00

no bamboozle! ;)

redtaboo · 2017-04-18T02:26:09+00:00

Thanks! keep them coming! The infra guys are looking at both these comments to see if we (who am i kidding they ) can figure out what's up.

redtaboo · 2017-04-18T02:03:40+00:00

wizardy! ;)

redtaboo · 2017-04-18T02:03:28+00:00

magic ;)

redtaboo · 2017-04-18T01:56:14+00:00

thanks. :(

I think this means it was either a different deploy than the one we rolled back or possibly something else entirely.

We're still digging into it, I'm very sorry for all the trouble!

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