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Certain subs are heavily curated. You will immediately get banned if you go against the mods view of the world. And they do this to even the most innocent posts

Certain subs are heavily curated. You will immediately get banned if you go against the mods view of the world. And they do this to even the most innocent posts. If you are used to these subs, as soon as you leave your perfect bubble you will see a Reddit full of (to your eyes) lies and deception. Of course the same applies to outsiders visiting your sub, they will be shocked by the amount of lies casually presented as facts. That's why everyone should subscribe to at least two subreddits they don't agree with.

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bitcharmer 6y ago
I came here to say this. Mods on most major subreddits exercise their own politics and force their views on everyone. What makes matters even worse is that there is a very narrow group of users being mods on the most influential subs. These are perfect conditions for creating world view bubbles and what always baffled me is that reddit admins don't seem to care. It looks like Reddit wants their platform to be like this.
throw_m239339 6y ago
> That's why everyone should subscribe to at least two subreddits they don't agree with. Certain subs will automatically ban you if you ever participate in another sub mods of the former sub do not like. r_offmychest will automatically ban you at the first comment for instance. This very thing does prevent good faith people from participating in subs that are antagonistic. It's against reddit rules but admins do no care. Admins do not care about brigading either (a sub encouraging the harassment of another sub or person), unless some specific subs/users are victim. r_ch* p* tr* ph* * s* regularly engaged in the bullying of users and subs until they attacked the wrong person and got quarantined. I don't care what the rules are, only that they are enforced very differently depending on who violates them and who is the victim.
- panpanna 6y ago
  > Certain subs will automatically ban you if you... Reddit obviously needs to fix this, that's a whole different problem.
- encom 6y ago
  >Certain subs will automatically ban you if you ever participate in another sub mods of the former sub do not like. That happened to me a lot. I posted semi-regularly in r/fatpeoplehate about personal health. I posted quite regularly in /r/the_donald, because I like to correct common misconceptions about how Europe works (like Denmark NOT being socialst, no matter what Sanders says). Finally, I got temp banned for using the word "faggot" in the wrong sub. Despite not being directed at anyone, and being obvious satire. That was the day I was done with Reddit. They do not want people where who go against the politically correct group think. So except for HN, I don't know where to go to pointlessly argue with people on the internet. Voat started out okay I think, but it has become too "endlösung" for me.
- saagarjha 6y ago
  > r_ch* p* tr* ph* * s* regularly engaged in the bullying of users and subs until they attacked the wrong person and got quarantined. I'll admit I don't really understand the practice of censoring things that aren't clearly swear words from context, but in this case you've censored it so much (and I suspect thrown in spaces so Hacker News doesn't italicize bits of it) that I really have no idea what you're talking about.
  - cc-d 6y ago
    I frequently read the specific sub he censored, and even I could not decipher the name initially. The sub is chapotraphouse, based upon the podcast of the same name. I've never listened to the podcast, I tried once and within a few minutes found it obnoxious. As somebody interested in political theory/history/whatever label you want to apply to "the study of power structures", I often find the perspective of the sub interesting, and can usually be summed up as "21st century communists in America".
tlear 6y ago
Lots of subreddits will ban you if you post on a subreddit they don’t like.. Past totally apolitical random subs like /ski it is just silly. Reading stuff right now going on about US protests I can easily see how anyone with 2 brain cells can write a bot that will creat posts driving certain agenda. If you have few hundred minimum wage posters on staff and some tools it should be really trivial to creat a lot of shit
hoorayimhelping 6y ago
>That's why everyone should subscribe to at least two subreddits they don't agree with. So the solution to reddit's partisan and out of touch politics is to consume more of it, but make sure that you have a good cross section of dumb viewpoints? I have a better suggestion: find political insight literally anywhere other than reddit. It's a naive place with all the perspective and context of a 15 year old first discovering the world and trying to express opinions about it.

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bitcharmer 6y ago

I came here to say this. Mods on most major subreddits exercise their own politics and force their views on everyone. What makes matters even worse is that there is a very narrow group of users being mods on the most influential subs. These are perfect conditions for creating world view bubbles and what always baffled me is that reddit admins don't seem to care. It looks like Reddit wants their platform to be like this.

throw_m239339 6y ago

> That's why everyone should subscribe to at least two subreddits they don't agree with. Certain subs will automatically ban you if you ever participate in another sub mods of the former sub do not like. r_offmychest will automatically ban you at the first comment for instance. This very thing does prevent good faith people from participating in subs that are antagonistic. It's against reddit rules but admins do no care. Admins do not care about brigading either (a sub encouraging the harassment of another sub or person), unless some specific subs/users are victim. r_ch* p* tr* ph* * s* regularly engaged in the bullying of users and subs until they attacked the wrong person and got quarantined. I don't care what the rules are, only that they are enforced very differently depending on who violates them and who is the victim.

panpanna 6y ago
> Certain subs will automatically ban you if you... Reddit obviously needs to fix this, that's a whole different problem.
encom 6y ago
>Certain subs will automatically ban you if you ever participate in another sub mods of the former sub do not like. That happened to me a lot. I posted semi-regularly in r/fatpeoplehate about personal health. I posted quite regularly in /r/the_donald, because I like to correct common misconceptions about how Europe works (like Denmark NOT being socialst, no matter what Sanders says). Finally, I got temp banned for using the word "faggot" in the wrong sub. Despite not being directed at anyone, and being obvious satire. That was the day I was done with Reddit. They do not want people where who go against the politically correct group think. So except for HN, I don't know where to go to pointlessly argue with people on the internet. Voat started out okay I think, but it has become too "endlösung" for me.
saagarjha 6y ago
> r_ch* p* tr* ph* * s* regularly engaged in the bullying of users and subs until they attacked the wrong person and got quarantined. I'll admit I don't really understand the practice of censoring things that aren't clearly swear words from context, but in this case you've censored it so much (and I suspect thrown in spaces so Hacker News doesn't italicize bits of it) that I really have no idea what you're talking about.
- cc-d 6y ago
  I frequently read the specific sub he censored, and even I could not decipher the name initially. The sub is chapotraphouse, based upon the podcast of the same name. I've never listened to the podcast, I tried once and within a few minutes found it obnoxious. As somebody interested in political theory/history/whatever label you want to apply to "the study of power structures", I often find the perspective of the sub interesting, and can usually be summed up as "21st century communists in America".

tlear 6y ago

Lots of subreddits will ban you if you post on a subreddit they don’t like.. Past totally apolitical random subs like /ski it is just silly. Reading stuff right now going on about US protests I can easily see how anyone with 2 brain cells can write a bot that will creat posts driving certain agenda. If you have few hundred minimum wage posters on staff and some tools it should be really trivial to creat a lot of shit

hoorayimhelping 6y ago

>That's why everyone should subscribe to at least two subreddits they don't agree with. So the solution to reddit's partisan and out of touch politics is to consume more of it, but make sure that you have a good cross section of dumb viewpoints? I have a better suggestion: find political insight literally anywhere other than reddit. It's a naive place with all the perspective and context of a 15 year old first discovering the world and trying to express opinions about it.