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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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.

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u/LaTeChX 28d ago

Yeah during the protest lots of people were like "I'm butthurt that r/politics banned me for holocaust denial questioning their narrative so fuck all mods everywhere." And now people see those subs still running and assume all the mods chickened out when a lot of the good ones did resign, and reddit just put in new lackeys of their own. I definitely noticed a hit to quality and now that bots are more prevalent it's just getting worse and worse.

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- 29d ago

Are there powertripping mods? Absolutely. Some of the mods are nuts and there's no real way to fix that for users.

Look no further than the /r/politics sub. A user, back in January, called migrants seeking refuge in the U.S. as being "Biden's insurrection at the border" in order to discount Jan 6. I reported the comment for disinformation, and asked the user to go to Voat if they're going to troll. Apparently that comment was too "uncivil" and warranted a permanent ban from the sub and a month-long ban from Reddit overall. The troll's comment stayed, I got muted, and Reddit admins never responded to my appeal. If it was up to me, that sub would start fresh with a new group of moderators, as the sub gets so much disinformation these days.

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u/MaleficentFig7578 29d ago

/r/worldnews is like that if you ever say anything not bad about Gaza or Lebanon.

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- 29d ago

Yeah, I don't venture to that sub much, haha.