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I’ve also been a Redditor for well over a decade. While I miss the days when it was a smaller niche site (before the Digg implosion it was basically a nerdier,

• Takennickname 3y ago
  My friend. Of course you don't know what he is talking about. When you ask a fish what is water? It doesn't know. It was surrounded by it it's whole life. When you ask a reddit mod what is bias? It doesn't know. It was surrounded by it its whole life.
• david38 3y ago
  The old “if the issue doesn’t affect me, it’s probably something with you.”
  • wlesieutre 3y ago
    The person they're replying to was the one who said "every user" so I'm not going to fault them for saying "hasn't been my experience" I've not run into that either and I've been on reddit since before digg v4
• unsupp0rted 3y ago
  I got banned from /r/CanadaCoronavirus for saying at the time we didn't yet know how many doses and on what schedule of the vaccine would be needed. Banned. That's anti-vaxx propaganda on my part, evidently. I messaged the mods to explain that I was triple-vaxxed and what I said was not only factually correct, it wasn't even controversial. The mods patiently replied that anti-vaxx trolls like me will be reported to reddit to have my entire account banned "for harassment" if I contact them again. What inward reflection do I need? This is just one of myriad examples with mods who don't actually read or process the content about which they're banning people.
  • afavour 3y ago
    Yeah, that example does sound bad. In the ideal world I’d be curious to hear the mod’s perspective: it’s possible to be perceived as a troll even when you’re stating true facts, depending on context and tone. That’s kind of what I mean about inward reflection. If you find yourself on the receiving end of modding after stating entirely true and relevant facts… yes, maybe the mods are out of control. But maybe the impression you’re giving off while stating truth still leaves a sour taste. If you find yourself fielding accusations of being antivaxx and being racist and being a transphobe, etc etc, all in different subs with different mods then there’s only a few commonalities left. I’m not saying you did deserve any of this, I don’t have the evidence to, just that it’s something worth pondering.
    • unsupp0rted 3y ago
      The commonality could be that I am all those things, or the commonality could be that Reddit is pathologically sensitive to all those things. My claim is the latter: it's a Reddit auto-immune disease that was hardly present in the early days and is now impossible to miss after years of gradual decline.
      • HelloMcFly 3y ago
        Occam's Razor suggests the former. Here is a perfunctory "I don't know you" - nothing below may be applicable. There are power-hungry mods, no doubt. They can be politically oriented in either direction, or sometimes just like to be the monarch. But I've been around reddit for over 15 years now, and in my view if you're regularly being accused of being toxic, I'm inclined to believe that you're the cause. And it may not be due to the factual nature of your posts, but the manner in which you share them. Again, I don't know you, and my experience certainly can't generalize to everyone else. I was a mod for about six months, hated it, but that gave me all the insight I need into how dishonest (or possibly not at all self-aware) people can be when recounting how they were "wronged."
        • unsupp0rted 3y ago
• paisawalla 3y ago
  > I have never been accused of being a racist transphobe whatever, if that’s your number one issue with the site maybe some inward reflection is in order Perhaps you simply haven't encountered the kind of person who, at the vaguest sense of an opportunity to claim the title of Most Moral Person, will leap up to condescend you based on the most uncharitable and motivated reading of your words.
  • mynameisvlad 3y ago
    If one person calls you an asshole, then they might be an asshole. If everyone calls you an asshole, then some inward reflection is in order because you're likely coming off as an asshole. If it happens again and again, in different circles with different people, like GP indicates happens, then maybe, just maybe it's not everyone else that's the problem.
    • paisawalla 3y ago
      The underlying motivation in these sorts of exchanges is rarely a desire for a global increase of genuine self-examination, but more often to exploit an opportunity for ostentatious preening. We know this because your logic can be trivially inverted to point the mirror in the reverse direction. So, reflection being what it is, if self-examination were the true goal, one imagines that those advocating it would at least show first that they had done it themselves.
      • mynameisvlad 3y ago
        The underlying motivation is to have assholes take a closer look at themselves instead of continuously blaming those around them for what ultimately is the result of their own actions. If this struck such a nerve with you, then you may want to take a step back and re-evaluate why you're so deeply triggered by people advocating for introspection instead of deflection. It's pretty clear from your comment you won't, but that's a separate issue.
        • paisawalla 3y ago
• psygn89 3y ago
  I haven't been called that either, but I know what he means... many of Reddit's bigger community comment section basically seems to devolve into politics or racial issues even if it was a photo of a cute kitten. Often you'll basically see the comment section locked after it runs that course. The old reddit wasn't like that unless you visited political subreddits.
  • babypuncher 3y ago
    I think it's a product of some reddit communities becoming too big to effectively moderate. I mostly stick with smaller, non-default subs and don't really run into this problem anymore.
    • paulddraper 3y ago
      Yes, smaller subs do not have this issue.