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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by sfgirlmary to c/reddit
 

someone on a subreddit said they had brain bleeding. i asked how it happened. a mod immediately removed it and said that it was an intrusive comment or some nonsense..i messaged them asking them to explain how, and i explained how i thought it would actually be beneficial for the readers if they decided to answer and that they didnt. they responded with some authoritarian nonsense which they actually later deleted. today i get this from them:

Yesterday, I told you:

please tell me that you are willing to back down, to follow our rules, and to take moderator direction in the future without endless and exhausting debate -- or indeed without any debate at all. Otherwise, you will no longer be welcome at r/(removed)

Since you have not confirmed and are instead ignoring me, may I take this to mean that you no longer want to be part of r/(removed)?

i was tempted to reply "yes mistress"

this is sadly almost a step in the right direction cuz now they will ban you solely if they dont like your posts or other communities youre a part of.

they want you to go belly up and comply like they get off on it πŸ˜‚.

i hope reddit crashes and burns hard lmao

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[–] ccunning 66 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You and the mods need to get your shit together and start creating shareholder value as you’re intended to do.

[–] AtariDump 24 points 6 months ago
[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart 33 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] sfgirlmary 11 points 6 months ago (3 children)
[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart 42 points 6 months ago

What an intrusive comment.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago

Intrusive, banned.

[–] samus12345 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I don't get grossed out super easily, but that name grosses me out every time.

[–] VelvetStorm 28 points 6 months ago

Why aren't you saying what sub it is or who the mini hitler was?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ironically they only get this way because they go so balls deep on power modding multiple communities that they burn themselves out on the workload of processing literally any and every possible talkback on a flag.

[–] CMLVI 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I don't get it. I modded one community with about 30k users, maybe 5% of which was active. The only thing I ever did for years was remove obvious reposts by bots and sticky weekly discussion threads. Communities normally police themselves decently well. Past a critical mass, I'm sure it gets a it harder but unless it's a personal attack or completely unrelated, let people vote shit down.

I also don't know why you'd want to be a mod of 45 subs with millions of users each. Shits shady AF.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Only at reddit? Take a look at lemmy.ml or lemmygrad.ml.

[–] MaximilianKohler 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I've had worse experiences on lemmy.world subs so far. I switched to using the lemmy.ml equivalent due to it.

EDIT: A good example is the reply I got here: https://lemmy.world/comment/10323234. This [email protected] is full of pro-reddit trolls & shills, and the mods don't fight it. [email protected] seems better so far.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Lemmy.ml is fine as long as you don't criticize Stalinism, but they don't hide their viewpoint or pretend they're all about freezes peaches.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Moderation as a skill involves many subskills in my opinion: critical thinking, empathy, taking on another perspective, restraint, etc.

The issue is that reddit showed lack of all these in the months following the API fallout. This led to many β€žrealβ€œ moderators leaving.

The people remaining have a moral code that allows them to ignore the things that happened because otherwise they would leave too (empathy), or they think they can fix it (critical thinking).

Thats why you end up with messages like this.

[–] samus12345 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's the "no good cops because good cops either quit or become bad cops" problem.

[–] MaximilianKohler 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A good point, but this kind of atrocious moderation has existed for many years. https://github.com/MaximilianKohler/Archive/wiki/Reddit

The main thing that changed recently is that the admins are now as capricious as mods. The admins don't live up to a higher standard, they do whatever they want.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago
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[–] beefbaby182 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why are you even still on Reddit? Should have quit years ago.

[–] HelloHotel 7 points 5 months ago

My guess is for the stuff thats hard to find anywhere else.

[–] homesweethomeMrL 16 points 6 months ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago

Shill/shitpost training data for AI.

[–] beefbaby182 3 points 5 months ago

A cesspool of white supremacists and pedophiles?

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[–] SeattleRain 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Similar thing happened to me on /r/REBubble. Posted a story about how a tenant self immolated while being a victim. Got banned for 3 days for being political and violent even though it was a national story and posted in other parts of Reddit. I also got bombarded with Reddit Cares health checks implying that posting the story meant I was suicidal.

But yeah, just like 4chan, on top of having to follow the rules you have to tip toe around the mods' political biases. In this case it was the mods getting upset at a story that laid bare the brutality that goes into enforcing the private property rights of landlords.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

self emulated

Did you mean immolated?

[–] SeattleRain 4 points 5 months ago

Yes, fixed.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

On one thread there were a bunch of creeps making pervy jokes about a 14 year old girl. I called them out for being pedophiles and reported them. I got banned from an entire network of default subs.

[–] HelloHotel 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Given the long history of reddit's early factions, It looks like the evil side is the one in power again.

[–] Burn_The_Right 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] johannesvanderwhales 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

On the one hand I think reddit is getting really bad. On the other hand I'm not sure you can make sweeping statements about the state of reddit based on your negative interaction with one moderator.

[–] waterbogan 4 points 5 months ago

Oh please, its been terrible for years now and we all know it. Not in every sub, but the top level ones absolutely are

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

Yeah I think a lot of the real mods left during the API debacle.

What's left is fewer mod tools and less experienced moderators, a bad combination.

[–] madcaesar 12 points 5 months ago

If you still have to use reddit for some stuff, don't comment / vote giving them engagement and content.

If you do you are part of the problem.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You should have replied with β€œyes mistress”

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

100% hahahaha!

[–] samus12345 2 points 5 months ago
[–] dhork 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm just waiting for the wrong person to get banned from some useless subreddit and then go ballistic and file a class action lawsuit. Double points if they are a shareholder too.

[–] sfgirlmary 12 points 6 months ago

at this point i wouldn't be surprised if the mods were ai bots as well. it would actually explain a lot. nice government experiment to see if they can get a community of bots to control society

[–] cosmicrookie 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I had always thought that powertripping moderators would cause the downfall of reddit.

I still feel that it is the case, if reddit doesn't crash itself before the moderators do

[–] demizerone 4 points 5 months ago

I finally threw in the towel when I got suspended by a bot for making a joke about Boeing.

[–] Ibaudia 8 points 5 months ago

That's absolutely hilarious, as if this is some big high-stakes trial. That guy needs to get a grip on reality.

[–] NOT_RICK 7 points 6 months ago

Sometimes the jannies get cranky

[–] postmateDumbass 4 points 6 months ago

The only way is to have standards, oversight, multistage review process, and paid moderators - or bots.

Too many agendas in play, no defined process, lack of accountability.

Mods on power trips will ruin everything they attempt to control.

[–] PsyDoctah9Jah 2 points 5 months ago

Yikes ! It's alarming because these are actual adults, who procreate and vote...

I'm doing my best to stop reading Reddit since I can't comment. I hate when I have good information to share and can't so I'm working on finding better places where I can speak freely without some "moderator" getting involved......so far this platform has been nice. If the audience and topics pick up, I'm here for it 🧑...

Fuck Reddit, their algorithm, "bans", and any cowardly Moderator.🀣

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