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Not exactly the same thing but the other day I got banned from r/ADHD for a (moderate from my POV) comment about pronouns. The mod then gloated about banning d
by conradfr 6y ago
Not exactly the same thing but the other day I got banned from r/ADHD for a (moderate from my POV) comment about pronouns.
The mod then gloated about banning dozens of people other this and that "LGBTQIA+ people run the subreddit", and that "the lack of discrimination (...) for being cis or being white or being straight or being a man overshadows any discrimination they would receive for their adhd"
I don't think that's great moderation given the subject of the subreddit but what can you even do about it that would not be time consuming and pointless?
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- greenhatglack 6y agoI think your ADHD prevents you from writing coherently. Jesus Christ that was hard to parse and I’m still not sure what you tried to convey.
- globular-toast 6y agoThe moderation is the worst thing about reddit. Reddit mods are some of the most corrupt people I've encountered but there's no way of telling how much the accepted groupthink is being carefully shaped by the mods. My model for moderation would be opt-in. I want to be able to see everything by default but be able to see what moderators have flagged as inappropriate. I could then grow to trust some or all of those moderators and just hide everything they flag by default. But I'd always be able to go and quickly evaluate whether I still trust those moderators to be doing the right thing and not just hiding things they disagree with.
- bobdole12345 6y agoI think it's unfortunate that reddit chose the term moderator, because it implies an impartiality that you're not going to get from what is effectively the "owner" of a community. These are just folks who either showed up early, or demonstrated they thought about the issue the same way as the person who started the reddit thought.