someone on a subreddit said they had brain bleeding. i asked how it happened. a mod immediately removed it and said that it was an intrusive comment or some nonsense…i messaged them asking them to explain how, and i explained how i thought it would actually be beneficial for the readers if they decided to answer and that they didnt. they responded with some authoritarian nonsense which they actually later deleted. today i get this from them:

Yesterday, I told you:

please tell me that you are willing to back down, to follow our rules, and to take moderator direction in the future without endless and exhausting debate – or indeed without any debate at all. Otherwise, you will no longer be welcome at r/(removed)

Since you have not confirmed and are instead ignoring me, may I take this to mean that you no longer want to be part of r/(removed)?

i was tempted to reply “yes mistress”

this is sadly almost a step in the right direction cuz now they will ban you solely if they dont like your posts or other communities youre a part of.

they want you to go belly up and comply like they get off on it 😂.

i hope reddit crashes and burns hard lmao

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    You and the mods need to get your shit together and start creating shareholder value as you’re intended to do.

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    Ironically they only get this way because they go so balls deep on power modding multiple communities that they burn themselves out on the workload of processing literally any and every possible talkback on a flag.

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      I don’t get it. I modded one community with about 30k users, maybe 5% of which was active. The only thing I ever did for years was remove obvious reposts by bots and sticky weekly discussion threads. Communities normally police themselves decently well. Past a critical mass, I’m sure it gets a it harder but unless it’s a personal attack or completely unrelated, let people vote shit down.

      I also don’t know why you’d want to be a mod of 45 subs with millions of users each. Shits shady AF.

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    Moderation as a skill involves many subskills in my opinion: critical thinking, empathy, taking on another perspective, restraint, etc.

    The issue is that reddit showed lack of all these in the months following the API fallout. This led to many „real“ moderators leaving.

    The people remaining have a moral code that allows them to ignore the things that happened because otherwise they would leave too (empathy), or they think they can fix it (critical thinking).

    Thats why you end up with messages like this.

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    Similar thing happened to me on /r/REBubble. Posted a story about how a tenant self immolated while being a victim. Got banned for 3 days for being political and violent even though it was a national story and posted in other parts of Reddit. I also got bombarded with Reddit Cares health checks implying that posting the story meant I was suicidal.

    But yeah, just like 4chan, on top of having to follow the rules you have to tip toe around the mods’ political biases. In this case it was the mods getting upset at a story that laid bare the brutality that goes into enforcing the private property rights of landlords.

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    On the one hand I think reddit is getting really bad. On the other hand I’m not sure you can make sweeping statements about the state of reddit based on your negative interaction with one moderator.

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      Oh please, its been terrible for years now and we all know it. Not in every sub, but the top level ones absolutely are

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    Yeah I think a lot of the real mods left during the API debacle.

    What’s left is fewer mod tools and less experienced moderators, a bad combination.

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    On one thread there were a bunch of creeps making pervy jokes about a 14 year old girl. I called them out for being pedophiles and reported them. I got banned from an entire network of default subs.

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      Given the long history of reddit’s early factions, It looks like the evil side is the one in power again.

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          Um… checks notes, “… this online culture (we will call it X) … [They] watch things like Ero Manga Sensei. They laugh at the thinly vailed excuses the show makes. The purpose is to protect the viewer from the discomfort its premise causes while stil fufilling the fantasy …” So… yeah. Thats correct.

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    If you still have to use reddit for some stuff, don’t comment / vote giving them engagement and content.

    If you do you are part of the problem.