Bigot Reddit mods? I cannot believe this.
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But chuds told me Reddit was "too far-left", because they weren't complete bigots, and don't allow networked harassment and doxing.
Reddit is so big that it encapsulates everyone. You'll find far left. You'll find far right. You'll find a few people who somehow missed the joke, and think birds not being real is an actual conspiracy.
My point is, you can't say "reddit is _____", because they have 500 million monthly users.
Even Lemmy, which is a fraction of the size, has far right people here.
I still lurk some of the drama entertainment subs like AITA and relationship advice and there's still a strong left lean on those subs. Posts on the lines of "AITA for ending personal relationships with Trump supporters" aren't rare while I don't recall seeing any from the other side (though there have been some that avoid mentioning anything more than "political differences" and keep the specifics vague and might be from the other side, but the fact that this is the closest says enough on its own).
Comments that support Trump get downvoted, though more neutral "voice of reason" style comments can do ok.
Lots of AI posts, though. It's been going from a Jerry Springer kind of vibe to more of a Jerry Seinfeld vibe, where it's sometimes still entertaining but mostly made up.
Maybe there're better examples to argue your point but not being nice to fascists doesn't automatically give a space "a strong left lean." It just makes it not fascist.
That's fair. It could be neoliberal overall, since it does still seem friendly to minorities (at least the drama entertainment subs are, I don't assume the whole site is like that), but economics and politics don't often come up, other than the politics of supporting or opposing Trump.
So I guess it's more accurate to say it's not far right leaning.
If the "discussion" was getting too heated for the mods to handle, locking (but not deleting!) the thread sounds like the right call. What's the alternative? Ban one bigot, five more will appear. Ban them and lock the thread to prevent more bigotry.
Ban one biggot, five more appear. Ban five more. 10 more appear. Ban them all until they run out of accounts.
Aren't there options to restrict posting to people that have been around the sub for a while though? Pretty sure I have seen others do it. Might be a better choice as it means you are only banning community members that are bigots and bigots from outside of the community can't comment.
That allows the community to continue to enjoy the place.
If that's an option, agreed. It's been a while since I've been active over there so it didn't occur to me.
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Is it possible they just don't feel like dealing with and interacting with the hate? The mods are modding a game subreddit they aren't making a space where they should be expected to engage in culture wars. It's depressing having to interact with a ton of hate.
Im bi and I wouldn't want to deal with people engaging in hateful discussions about bisexual erasure on a subreddit that has nothing to do with sexuality or social issues. That isn't the space for it.
Also, as far as I can tell from the context, they didn't remove the post or punish OP, they only locked the discussion.
This thread has nothing to do with the game either.
And mods can axe it if they so choose but as this isn’t a hatefest this likely isnt an issue.
Just ban the bigots and look for common patterns so that they can implement an Automod bot to deal with most of the bigots automatically. Why be a mod if you don't want to moderate things?
They dud moderate. They shut down the thread.
Why do you think you are entitled to demand that someone confront a flood of hate for free when the subreddit isn'trelated to anything that should draw arguments on gender identity?
Why do you keep acting like banning people is "confronting a flood of hate"? You know there is literally 0 confrontation involved, right?
Shutting down the thread was how they stopped the flood of hate. Bans were likely given out to people acting rudely or were promoting hate or violence.
You know if you are LGBT+ constantly seeing hate directed at other LGBT+ folks is draining?
But the main problem isn't really resolved. The bad actor is still in the community, and so they will still support and promote anti LGBT rhetoric.
Shutting down a thread is bad for good faith participants in a conversation and is good for bad faith trolls that are just there to rile people up.
Besides, you kinda completely avoided my point. How is banning someone confrontation? If anything, shutting down the thread is more confrontation? Because those people are still in the community and can just post somewhere else. Gay people exist and get harassed for existing. What has been accomplished?
It is resolved. The pic started fights and had no relevance to the overall game. After it was pulled OP reposted it which means even though they knew it wasn’t ok for that space, as the mods locked it, they were going to perpetuate the problem so the mods banned one of the people causing problems.
It was a picture of the game.
Edit: resolved in the sense that the bigots got their way, btw. Lol.
What are you, one of those self-hating gays that want other gays to shut up about being gay because it makes you look bad to the straighties?
Which didn’t drive discussions about the game but rather drove fights about stuff that has fuckall to do with NMS.
If I post a pic of Sonic in a Sonic sub but the only discussions are fights about racism in hiring is that really relevant to Sonic?
Fights about gender have nothing to do with No Man’s Sky which as I recall doesn’t have gendered main characters.
I really just don't care because I think I fundamentally disagree.
If the post itself is related, and conversation under the post is related to the post, then it's not off topic.
If you post a pic of Sonic in a Sonic sub but the only discussions are fights about racism, I think that your issue is... that...... people are racist... whoa. So ban the racist people instead of shutting down the thread?
Like what are you saying, dawg?
The conversation has nothing to do with the game the subreddit is about then it is off topic.
The pic was intended to cause problems and OP doubled down on that fact when they reposted. OP intended to cause problems and was banned for it.
How was the post intended to cause problems?
Edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/s/c9x9toCv0F
Found the post. Huh. Seems like literally every opinion you have about this is just kinda wrong and stupid in context, huh?
You’re posting this AFTER all the offensive content was removed. How do you not get that?
Do you know what an automoderator is?
Edit: btw what were you saying about the OP trying to start problems? Let's go back to that. I don't like how you keep making false, blanket statements and then ignoring when they are directly challenged and refuted. It's almost like you have a cognitive dissonance.
Not feeling like dealing with it is just being bigoted out of fear of bigots. It doesn't change anything. Cowardice isn't an excuse.
Are they obligated to deal with hate when what they signed on for was moderating a subreddit about a video game?
Why are you deciding that someone else must take part in your desire to fight about things unrelated to the subject of the subreddit? Why do you feel entitled to their time and their mental energy like that?
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the nomanshigh subreddit is the true space for No Man's Sky fandom. Suggest that user post there, they will get a much better reaction
I quit reddit but not the nipnip grah!
Coincidentally just started playing recently, it's really cool to have a community on Lemmy now for the game, at least.
I just restarted. It's wonderful fun. I'm working my way towards a black hole and I've no idea why.
Black Hole's will send you to the other side of the galaxy and closer to the center of the universe. The effects are cool but sometimes your ship will receive damage when you go through them, so be ready.
Did you happen to save the pics of those planets? Sounds dope
I would love to see things get more active over here. It's a pretty good community on Reddit, but the mods are way too heavy handed.
If you watch "new" when a big update drops, you'll see almost every post about it get removed. Only the special chosen post gets to stay up, and it's never the first one. I can't help wondering if it's a karma grab.
NMSCoordinatesExchange has some annoying rules, too. If you post a gallery of finds it can get removed for not being split into multiple posts. If I post a gallery, it's because I don't have the time or inclination to spam the sub with dozens of related items. Would they rather nobody sees them at all? Seems like a poorly considered rule for a place that's supposed to encourage sharing of content.
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