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Eh no need to get tin foil hat, imho.
I mean, one has to ask why they were setting up automated banning of these subreddits in the first place.
The reason for all of them was unmoderated. So it seems to me like they have/are testing a method to auto ban unmoderated subs. Not that crazy, imho.
Then why weren't there loads more "unmoderated" subs of different categorize blocked?
If it was just a glitch, I suspect that the affected subreddits would better represent a random distribution of topics than what we witnessed.
A glitch is when something doesn't work as you expect it to. I don't know why you'd suspect any kind of behaviour from a glitch. Glitches can do all kinds of crazy shit.
To be clear, I'm speculating on what tool they may actually be working on.
I'm aware of what a glitch is. What I'm saying is that they are already targeting these specific subs regardless of their moderation status. The only 'glitch' here was that they got caught pushing an agenda.
You countered the assertion that it was a glitch with "well then why..." and presented a scenario you'd expect to see if it really were a glitch. I tried explaining why that doesn't make any sense.
Have a good day.
they are saying Reddit is lying, hard to understand?
I understand what they were saying and I tried to explain why their case for it didn't make sense to me.