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I want Reddit to fail. I do visit it and use it, but being a mod for an year and seeing the sub I was in attacked by rival subs and their community (including

I want Reddit to fail. I do visit it and use it, but being a mod for an year and seeing the sub I was in attacked by rival subs and their community (including mods) and eventually banned by reddit admins was just mind boggling to me. Never have I seen such unfairness and at the end of the day, Reddit admins don't care. If you mod a small sub (10k or so), you're irrelevant. I guess because of ads revenue and clicks they favor big subs even thou their community and mods can be openly aggressive. Reddit can go to hell. edit: sorry for the rant, I guess I needed to vent.

seasluggy 2y ago
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EA-3167 2y ago
If you don't mind me asking, what was the sub that you were a mod of?
- p2detar 2y ago
  I don't want to share it because it may connect this profile with it. I just wanna say - there was an active core in this rival sub that was googling people, searching for their real identities on any social network. A guy in our community (non-mod) had somebody call at their workplace and talk to their HR with the intent of getting them fired. Some people can be sick in their mind.
  - EA-3167 2y ago
    That's very fair, in any case I'm sorry to hear that you were so mistreated, I wish I could say that it surprised me. People love to blame the various mods, but in my opinion it was always the admins that were the problem. Of course the buck ultimately rests with Spez, which is a sentence no one wants to type.
  - fullshark 2y ago
    I'm fairly convinced the vast majority of internet media / posts are made by people with severe mental issues. https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most_of_what_you_read_on_the_internet_is_written/ https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most...
    - deleted 2y ago
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    - _zagj 2y ago
      Rich to see SSC calling other people insane.
      - EA-3167 2y ago
        When you read the post and get all of the way to bottom, you'll discover that you're part of a whole family of people who fixated on one word, rather than the content. > Edit: I guess my tone-projection is off. A lot of people seem to be put-off by my usage of the word "insane." I intended that as tongue-in-cheek and did not mean to imply that any of them literally have diagnosable mental illnesses. I have a lot of respect for all of the individuals I listed and they seem like nice people, I was just trying to make a point about how unusual their behavior is. Welcome to the club I guess.
the_real_cher 2y ago
I got banned from Reddit for calling my dog a mini Australian Shepherd in the subreddit /r/dogs which is the informal name for these dogs. they banned me because they said by calling it that instead of it's proper name American Shepherd, I supported backyard breeders. I couldn't believe it. I've been going there since it started in the 2000s? I basically only go to X/twitter now because Facebook and Instagram and tiktok are just pure slop.
- johnnyanmac 2y ago
  Americans going on a power trip because you didn't name it based on America? How timely.
  - the_real_cher 2y ago
    no this was years ago
- 0dayz 2y ago
  >I basically only go to X/twitter now because Facebook and Instagram and tiktok are just pure slop Hate to be the one breaking this to you but Xitter is filled to the brim with slop. Try open source alternatives.
  - moralestapia 2y ago
    It largely depends on who you follow. I also have a local chrome extension I made that automatically removes political tweets from my timeline, that + following people who talk about very specific things is enough to make my experience there largely positive.
- moralestapia 2y ago
  I got banned from /r/toronto for saying that a guy with a sign (that someone else posted) was not really breaking any laws, IIRC it was something like "too much immigration" or whatever. Banned for 6 months for "hate speech", wtf. What I did was simple, removed all my comments, removed all my submissions, deleted my account and haven't been back there nor do I plan to.
archagon 2y ago
Corporate social media is always, always a dead end.
selfmodruntime 2y ago
I have this same problem. Reddit moderators are just anonymous people with control over communities with millions of people. They have no authority above them and can do what they want. This approach to moderation has failed. Random tyrants can just impose their opinion on people, permanently ban them and when you evade this restriction, Reddit bans you from the entire site. I want them to fail as well.

seasluggy 2y ago

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EA-3167 2y ago

If you don't mind me asking, what was the sub that you were a mod of?

p2detar 2y ago
I don't want to share it because it may connect this profile with it. I just wanna say - there was an active core in this rival sub that was googling people, searching for their real identities on any social network. A guy in our community (non-mod) had somebody call at their workplace and talk to their HR with the intent of getting them fired. Some people can be sick in their mind.
- EA-3167 2y ago
  That's very fair, in any case I'm sorry to hear that you were so mistreated, I wish I could say that it surprised me. People love to blame the various mods, but in my opinion it was always the admins that were the problem. Of course the buck ultimately rests with Spez, which is a sentence no one wants to type.
- fullshark 2y ago
  I'm fairly convinced the vast majority of internet media / posts are made by people with severe mental issues. https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most_of_what_you_read_on_the_internet_is_written/ https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most...
  - deleted 2y ago
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  - _zagj 2y ago
    Rich to see SSC calling other people insane.
    - EA-3167 2y ago
      When you read the post and get all of the way to bottom, you'll discover that you're part of a whole family of people who fixated on one word, rather than the content. > Edit: I guess my tone-projection is off. A lot of people seem to be put-off by my usage of the word "insane." I intended that as tongue-in-cheek and did not mean to imply that any of them literally have diagnosable mental illnesses. I have a lot of respect for all of the individuals I listed and they seem like nice people, I was just trying to make a point about how unusual their behavior is. Welcome to the club I guess.

the_real_cher 2y ago

I got banned from Reddit for calling my dog a mini Australian Shepherd in the subreddit /r/dogs which is the informal name for these dogs. they banned me because they said by calling it that instead of it's proper name American Shepherd, I supported backyard breeders. I couldn't believe it. I've been going there since it started in the 2000s? I basically only go to X/twitter now because Facebook and Instagram and tiktok are just pure slop.

johnnyanmac 2y ago
Americans going on a power trip because you didn't name it based on America? How timely.
- the_real_cher 2y ago
  no this was years ago
0dayz 2y ago
>I basically only go to X/twitter now because Facebook and Instagram and tiktok are just pure slop Hate to be the one breaking this to you but Xitter is filled to the brim with slop. Try open source alternatives.
- moralestapia 2y ago
  It largely depends on who you follow. I also have a local chrome extension I made that automatically removes political tweets from my timeline, that + following people who talk about very specific things is enough to make my experience there largely positive.
moralestapia 2y ago
I got banned from /r/toronto for saying that a guy with a sign (that someone else posted) was not really breaking any laws, IIRC it was something like "too much immigration" or whatever. Banned for 6 months for "hate speech", wtf. What I did was simple, removed all my comments, removed all my submissions, deleted my account and haven't been back there nor do I plan to.

archagon 2y ago

Corporate social media is always, always a dead end.

selfmodruntime 2y ago

I have this same problem. Reddit moderators are just anonymous people with control over communities with millions of people. They have no authority above them and can do what they want. This approach to moderation has failed. Random tyrants can just impose their opinion on people, permanently ban them and when you evade this restriction, Reddit bans you from the entire site. I want them to fail as well.