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I was banned from /r/motorcycles for commenting on a handlebar camera video where a guy was racing down a winding, limited visibility road with his buddies and
by KennyBlanken 3y ago
I was banned from /r/motorcycles for commenting on a handlebar camera video where a guy was racing down a winding, limited visibility road with his buddies and lost control trying to avoid hitting a cyclist who was crossing in a crosswalk, complete with blinking warning lights.
Every comment was "fuck that cyclist, they rode out in front of you!"
Apparently calculating from the video that they were doing 15+ mph over the speed limit, and proving from the video and math that the cyclist could not see him before they'd started into the crosswalk...was ban-worthy.
The guy even blurred out his speedometer to hide that he was speeding.
His comment/post history showed that the motorcycle, which was a very powerful model, was his first bike and he'd very recently bought it. He posted "new motorcycle day" pictures.
The guy was a textbook squid: recently acquired first bike was too powerful for him, no brains/skills, riding dangerously, putting himself and others at risk.
Pointed that out to the mods and was told I was being reported for "doxxing." For clicking on "posts" on his profile and seeing he'd recently posted a picture of the bike.
Fuck that subreddit and its mods.
- mey 3y agoThis kinda nails an issue with reddit. You can find a hobby/community that you have overlapping interest in, but the culture/moderation of that community may not have any consistency with what you want. Which would be fine, but reddit doesn't provide room/discoverability for multiple subreddits of the same topic with different moderation styles/cultures.
- dharmab 3y agoIf this was recent, much of the subreddit's mod team left a few months ago. The new management is far less active in moderation.