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 😂.
i hope reddit crashes and burns hard lmao
Why are you even still on Reddit? Should have quit years ago.
My guess is for the stuff thats hard to find anywhere else.
Sometimes the jannies get cranky
You and the mods need to get your shit together and start creating shareholder value as you’re intended to do.
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.
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
Whats ”reddit”?
Shill/shitpost training data for AI.
The thing that this community is about.
Ah.
“He’s just a little shy because I’ve tried to kill him so many times.”
“Ah.”
A cesspool of white supremacists and pedophiles?
You should have replied with “yes mistress”
100% hahahaha!
Why aren’t you saying what sub it is or who the mini hitler was?
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.
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.
Only at reddit? Take a look at lemmy.ml or lemmygrad.ml.
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 „real“ 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.
Very well put
I never thought of it this what but I think you’re right. But what is it that lead you to believe there was a mod exodus after the API lockout.
I‘m a former reddit mod, I was part of the reddit mod community, I have discussed the topic at length with other mods, a lot of us have made new communities on lemmy. I‘d say thats how I got the idea.
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.
Probably not the space to ask this, but have you ever talked to a doctor about depression?
It’s the “no good cops because good cops either quit or become bad cops” problem.
That’s absolutely hilarious, as if this is some big high-stakes trial. That guy needs to get a grip on reality.
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.
Oh please, its been terrible for years now and we all know it. Not in every sub, but the top level ones absolutely are
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.
Given the long history of reddit’s early factions, It looks like the evil side is the one in power again.
So… Conservatives.
Similar thing happened to me on /r/REBubble. Posted a story about how a tenant self emulated 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.
self emulated
Did you mean immolated?
Yes, fixed.
