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I am a digg refugee and using Reddit for 12 years. Reddit has some serious lack of moderation issues and too much politics now a days. Most of the country based

I am a digg refugee and using Reddit for 12 years. Reddit has some serious lack of moderation issues and too much politics now a days. Most of the country based subreddits are hijacked by the political ideologies of just 1-2 moderators. For example, /r/India is hijacked by the moderators with political affiliation to Congress and AAP and they ban users immediately with any opinion which doesn't fit their narrative. I have messaged the reddit admin team to change the mods and stop calling them official subreddit of India but they obviously don't care. Too much politics may cause Reddit downfall.

Triv888 6y ago
agreed... for example, /r/politics is 99% democrat
- abstractbarista 6y ago
  That sub is a mean place. You are treated as Hitler if you do anything other than parrot the sub's accepted norms, many of which are highly dissonant when compared with real life American perspectives.
  - dustingetz 6y ago
    r/politics is an influencer sockpuppet botnet
f430 6y ago
not only that but there are still far right leaning moderators running subreddits like r/canada and r/vancouver its impossible to elect moderators in a democratic fashion so we are stuck with the political bias of the people who created the subreddit first and it leads to all sorts of censorship and is a big source of misinformation. for instance we see a single user /u/maxwellhill responsible for most of the headlines posted on r/worldnews. Many redditors and people in general can't be bothered to practice critical thinking and will gladly skim over headlines which are also optimized to get upvotes. In addition, the over supply of awards, the availability of farmed reddit accounts for sale are all used to manipulate and trigger herd mentality. For example the wallstreetbets and GME short squeeze that they are still waiting to happen. It's insanely easy to create these pseudo realities and brainwash people simply by gaming something as trivial as scores in a database because people simply trust numbers, doubly more so if they are awarded on reddit. I argue that without Reddit, crypto, bitcoins, meme stocks wouldn't see its insane market prices.
encom 6y ago
r/Denmark is the same way. Absolute toxic moderation. Any dissenting opinion is deleted.
- float4 6y ago
  My favourite moment on /r/thenetherlands was when I asked: "To what extend do you think /r/thenetherlands is an echo chamber?". I even wrote a paragraph in which I explained what caused me to pose the question. My post was removed for being "low effort".
bluntfang 6y ago
>Most of the country based subreddits are hijacked by the political ideologies of just 1-2 moderators. even city based subreddits. /r/boston's biggest right wing troll /u/mitchfromboston is known to be an alt account of one of the moderators.

Triv888 6y ago

agreed... for example, /r/politics is 99% democrat

abstractbarista 6y ago
That sub is a mean place. You are treated as Hitler if you do anything other than parrot the sub's accepted norms, many of which are highly dissonant when compared with real life American perspectives.
- dustingetz 6y ago
  r/politics is an influencer sockpuppet botnet

f430 6y ago

not only that but there are still far right leaning moderators running subreddits like r/canada and r/vancouver its impossible to elect moderators in a democratic fashion so we are stuck with the political bias of the people who created the subreddit first and it leads to all sorts of censorship and is a big source of misinformation. for instance we see a single user /u/maxwellhill responsible for most of the headlines posted on r/worldnews. Many redditors and people in general can't be bothered to practice critical thinking and will gladly skim over headlines which are also optimized to get upvotes. In addition, the over supply of awards, the availability of farmed reddit accounts for sale are all used to manipulate and trigger herd mentality. For example the wallstreetbets and GME short squeeze that they are still waiting to happen. It's insanely easy to create these pseudo realities and brainwash people simply by gaming something as trivial as scores in a database because people simply trust numbers, doubly more so if they are awarded on reddit. I argue that without Reddit, crypto, bitcoins, meme stocks wouldn't see its insane market prices.

encom 6y ago

r/Denmark is the same way. Absolute toxic moderation. Any dissenting opinion is deleted.

float4 6y ago
My favourite moment on /r/thenetherlands was when I asked: "To what extend do you think /r/thenetherlands is an echo chamber?". I even wrote a paragraph in which I explained what caused me to pose the question. My post was removed for being "low effort".

bluntfang 6y ago

>Most of the country based subreddits are hijacked by the political ideologies of just 1-2 moderators. even city based subreddits. /r/boston's biggest right wing troll /u/mitchfromboston is known to be an alt account of one of the moderators.