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
You should have replied with “yes mistress”
100% hahahaha!
First day on Reddit?
lmao your user name
What an intrusive comment.
I don’t get grossed out super easily, but that name grosses me out every time.
Intrusive, banned.
Sometimes the jannies get cranky
I’m just waiting for the wrong person to get banned from some useless subreddit and then go ballistic and file a class action lawsuit. Double points if they are a shareholder too.
at this point i wouldn’t be surprised if the mods were ai bots as well. it would actually explain a lot. nice government experiment to see if they can get a community of bots to control society
You and the mods need to get your shit together and start creating shareholder value as you’re intended to do.
Whats ”reddit”?
The thing that this community is about.
Ah.
“He’s just a little shy because I’ve tried to kill him so many times.”
“Ah.”
A cesspool of white supremacists and pedophiles?
Shill/shitpost training data for AI.
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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.
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.
The only way is to have standards, oversight, multistage review process, and paid moderators - or bots.
Too many agendas in play, no defined process, lack of accountability.
Mods on power trips will ruin everything they attempt to control.
Why aren’t you saying what sub it is or who the mini hitler was?
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.
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.
A good point, but this kind of atrocious moderation has existed for many years. https://github.com/MaximilianKohler/Archive/wiki/Reddit
The main thing that changed recently is that the admins are now as capricious as mods. The admins don’t live up to a higher standard, they do whatever they want.
Probably not the space to ask this, but have you ever talked to a doctor about depression?
It’s the “no good cops because good cops either quit or become bad cops” problem.
I never thought of it this what but I think you’re right. But what is it that lead you to believe there was a mod exodus after the API lockout.
All the mods that exited lol
I‘m a former reddit mod, I was part of the reddit mod community, I have discussed the topic at length with other mods, a lot of us have made new communities on lemmy. I‘d say thats how I got the idea.
Very well put
Thank you
Only at reddit? Take a look at lemmy.ml or lemmygrad.ml.
I’ve had worse experiences on lemmy.world subs so far. I switched to using the lemmy.ml equivalent due to it.
EDIT: A good example is the reply I got here: https://lemmy.world/comment/10323234. This !reddit@lemmy.world is full of pro-reddit trolls & shills, and the mods don’t fight it. !reddit@lemmy.ml seems better so far.
Lemmy.ml is fine as long as you don’t criticize Stalinism, but they don’t hide their viewpoint or pretend they’re all about freezes peaches.
That’s absolutely hilarious, as if this is some big high-stakes trial. That guy needs to get a grip on reality.
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.
Oh please, its been terrible for years now and we all know it. Not in every sub, but the top level ones absolutely are
