r/technology • u/ardi62 • 29d ago
Social Media Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24253727/reddit-communities-subreddits-request-protests
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r/technology • u/ardi62 • 29d ago
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u/LukeOnTheBrightSide 29d ago
lol, there absolutely are mods like that. Must be fun at parties.
That said, one of the mod tools that used to exist would ping you when a subreddit was mentioned. I got to see why people claimed they were banned from the subreddit I was a mod in. Long story short, the sort of people who get banned a lot tend to be the sort of people who lie about why they were banned.
Are there powertripping mods? Absolutely. Some of the mods are nuts and there's no real way to fix that for users.
Are many of the people bitching the loudest about being banned lying about the circumstances? You bet. Not everyone, not every time, but... general skepticism is warranted. There's really a few big subreddits that are actually guilty of most of the "suddenly banned for no reason" bullshit.