• Hyperreality@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Ah, reddit mods.

    Reasons I’ve been banned include linking to a British Medical Journal article which suggested vitamin D might help prevent covid in people who are suffering a deficiency and very politely (because I know how mods get) suggesting moderators shouldn’t be giving people medical advice. The mod in question had just compared vitamin D to cyanide.

    What a cancerous shithole.

    I feel so much better posting here.

    • kava@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I got banned from /r/geopolitics for linking a report about the effects of the 2019 American sanctions on Venezuela. I’ve been banned in /r/libertarian for linking and quoting the Libertarianism Wikipedia page. I got banned from /r/socialism for saying Henry Ford saw the value of a 40 hour work week.

      If you stick around long enough, eventually you piss off some sensitive mod and they will ban you. Just the nature of online communities that have mods.

      I think a better system would be an open and transparent tribunal. Where for example a user gets reported X amount of times and it goes to a new thread where there’s a discussion/vote by all the other sub’s users. Then it can be democratically decided whether or not user should be banned.

      Then again, maybe that system would be worse because of mob mentality. At least it’d be transparent.

    • Jon Von Basslake@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I got banned from /r/Gamingcirclejerk for “being a man” and for calling out a mod for their misandry. Or rather, despite asking a few times, the whole mod team, assuming it’s more than one person.