> I find the fact that I cannot post certain ideas to Reddit in my local city subreddit without getting downvoted to Oblivion and then no longer can post at all

> I find the fact that I cannot post certain ideas to Reddit in my local city subreddit without getting downvoted to Oblivion and then no longer can post at all due to negative karma problematic In this scenario, who holds the power to downvote you to oblivion? Who makes the rules about participation relative to karma? If you said the same things in a local bar, would you find it problematic if people disagreed with you or maybe decided not to talk to you? To find the behavior of privately moderated community groups more problematic than the behavior of bad cops - behavior that ruins or ends thousands of lives every year - seems like a major misalignment. > Doesn’t matter what your equivalency argument is. This is problematic and opens the door to abuse. In a discussion comparing things, equivalency always matters. The world is filled with systems, communities, and organizations that are wide open to abuse. That potential is not by itself an equalizing factor.