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Check out https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditMinusMods https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditMinusMods. It's dead now, but the number of popular posts removed for arbitrar

Check out https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditMinusMods https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditMinusMods. It's dead now, but the number of popular posts removed for arbitrary reasons is insane. According to the graph on the front page, something went wrong in mid-2017, because that's when the number of post removals suddenly accelerated.

wincy 3y ago
That was when they decided the 2016 election could never be allowed to happen again, and “liberal” folks decided free speech (rather hilariously in a dark way) was a “danger to democracy”. They then proceeded to call anyone who disagreed with this sentiment a “Russian bot”. I remember getting banned from certain subreddits just because I was guilty of the crime of posting in r/TheDonald (not even voicing support!)
- grepfru_it 3y ago
  -300 vote comment in r/TheDonald correcting an absurd point 5 minutes later: You have been banned from posting in $RANDOMSUB because of your association with hate-speech subreddits.
  - technick 3y ago
    Oh yea I've experienced that before by posting on r/subredditdrama. I was then banned from a relationship sub, a eli5 sub and another sub. Ironically I was posting to correct some bad information that was shared, but it didn't matter.
  - swarnie 3y ago
    The modern equivalent of this is GreenAndPleasent. I usually christen a new account by speed running a ban there first, little tradition...
- nomat 3y ago
  the mods abused the sticky functionality to get posts pushed to the front page for a long time. other subreddits were tired of t_d users brigading. they spread misinformation on purpose. Engage in good faith in online spaces or get banned. hn is useful because it is tightly moderated. the auto-ban of users that post in no-no subreddits was a reaction to the continued lack of action on reddit's part.
  - birracerveza 3y ago
    I remember that one day the frontpage was exclusively t_d posts. Insane stuff. Shortly after, they changed the algorithm. That was the day reddit officially jumped the shark. I understand why they did it, but reddit was not the same afterwards. The content got stale and boring, astroturfed to hell, and that's without mentioning the clique of moderators pushing a specific narrative on all subs and the horrible, horrible, horrible redesigns that kept getting pushed in increasingly hostile ways. I am honestly surprised, and saddened, that reddit still hasn't gone out the way digg did, but that's probably because there is no good alternative yet... The only way to "enjoy" reddit is with old.reddit.com and sorting by "rising" instead of "hot"... or "controversial", if you have the guts.
    - BonoboIO 3y ago
      What does t_d mean? I m on Reddit but never heard this term.
      - birracerveza 3y ago
        /r/the_donald https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/The_Donald https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/The_Donald It basically took over reddit before it was banned from the site.
        immanentize 3y ago
        There was a long period where they were quarantined and the modding quality fell through the floor before they were finally banned.
- propogandist 3y ago
  and now that we know it was Clinton, Obama, and intelligence agencies pushing that propaganda, plebbit won’t want to hear nothing about it.

wincy 3y ago

That was when they decided the 2016 election could never be allowed to happen again, and “liberal” folks decided free speech (rather hilariously in a dark way) was a “danger to democracy”. They then proceeded to call anyone who disagreed with this sentiment a “Russian bot”. I remember getting banned from certain subreddits just because I was guilty of the crime of posting in r/TheDonald (not even voicing support!)

grepfru_it 3y ago
-300 vote comment in r/TheDonald correcting an absurd point 5 minutes later: You have been banned from posting in $RANDOMSUB because of your association with hate-speech subreddits.
- technick 3y ago
  Oh yea I've experienced that before by posting on r/subredditdrama. I was then banned from a relationship sub, a eli5 sub and another sub. Ironically I was posting to correct some bad information that was shared, but it didn't matter.
- swarnie 3y ago
  The modern equivalent of this is GreenAndPleasent. I usually christen a new account by speed running a ban there first, little tradition...
nomat 3y ago
the mods abused the sticky functionality to get posts pushed to the front page for a long time. other subreddits were tired of t_d users brigading. they spread misinformation on purpose. Engage in good faith in online spaces or get banned. hn is useful because it is tightly moderated. the auto-ban of users that post in no-no subreddits was a reaction to the continued lack of action on reddit's part.
- birracerveza 3y ago
  I remember that one day the frontpage was exclusively t_d posts. Insane stuff. Shortly after, they changed the algorithm. That was the day reddit officially jumped the shark. I understand why they did it, but reddit was not the same afterwards. The content got stale and boring, astroturfed to hell, and that's without mentioning the clique of moderators pushing a specific narrative on all subs and the horrible, horrible, horrible redesigns that kept getting pushed in increasingly hostile ways. I am honestly surprised, and saddened, that reddit still hasn't gone out the way digg did, but that's probably because there is no good alternative yet... The only way to "enjoy" reddit is with old.reddit.com and sorting by "rising" instead of "hot"... or "controversial", if you have the guts.
  - BonoboIO 3y ago
    What does t_d mean? I m on Reddit but never heard this term.
    - birracerveza 3y ago
      /r/the_donald https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/The_Donald https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/The_Donald It basically took over reddit before it was banned from the site.
      - immanentize 3y ago
        There was a long period where they were quarantined and the modding quality fell through the floor before they were finally banned.
propogandist 3y ago
and now that we know it was Clinton, Obama, and intelligence agencies pushing that propaganda, plebbit won’t want to hear nothing about it.