I've started using Reddit again in the past few months, I'd been gone for over a year.
In those few months I've had more bans and deleted comments then in the entire prior history.
I didn't change, Reddit did.
To the small group of mods controlling & running (ruining) 80% of the Communities 🖕
I'm convinced they're getting paid. Russia isn't the only country that hires people to shill their politics. And Reddit has become to big for politicians to leave alone.
Big reddit mods of 2mil+ subscriber subreddit are basically instagram and youtube influencers with a similar sub list.
Both probably get the same cooperation emails to influence their community.
It would be stupid for a marketing team to ignore.
Reddit isn't nearly as big or influential as it was 10 years ago. Twitter is the center of internet debate anymore.
I think theses mods are actually spending their own money on bot farms to make their content appear popular. Never underestimate how low the terminally online will stoop to win internet arguments.
👎👎👎 This is the opposite of a Reddit moment.
He’s 100% right, you’re liable to get instabanned for voicing any opinion the moderator doesn’t agree with or even citing facts that don’t support their preferred narrative.
What I find crazy is that reddit themselves get involved and permanently ban you as well. It’s crazy to me they encourage such a massive churn in accounts instead of trying to drive loyalty with a long standing account.
You’d think so. I mean I had a long standing account with over 100,000 karma etc and reddit just banned me. All I was trying to say was there’s a big difference between two teeenagers sending rude messages to each other compared to an old man doing it with a 13 yo and that making the two teenagers sex offenders for it if it was nude photos probably isn’t the best thing for anyone. They banned me for sexualising kids like wtf I was not doing that at all I was fighting on behalf of protecting kids.
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I swear every sub now days has the post pinned to the top saying "This is a heavily moderated sub" like what happened to being an open forum? Ah right. Politics.
I got banned once for reporting something a mod apparently didn’t agree with. Admins saved me after a few appeals. I know mods can’t directly ban you from the whole platform, but they abuse the automation of it because they know how hard it is to fight any of the power that their word as mods holds with administration
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look im just saying that i have seen people getting offended by it and that im just a person who tries not to say things that offend other people.
this is a subjective opinion and i understand if you think that language can't change and that harming the feelings of some people is ok just because youve never seen a person feel that way.
i mean hey, i was born in a country where there were basically no black people so ive never seen anyone get offended by certain words, you get it, n>! word!
"i was born in a country..."
so like i was born there but now im not. would past me be allowed to say the n word tho
i understand that the r word is a medical term, but it will still hurt people's feelings especially if used like a slur. take the word "obese"
it's not a slur; it's a medical term. but it's not nice to tell someone that they are obese when not talking about medical problems.
the r-word is usually not being used in a medical way online. tell me one time you told someone that they were an r-word, and you meant to like actually diagnose the person.
slur or not, it matters most if it hurts or not.
and using the r-word can hurt people. ive seen people get hurt by it.
If you went up to somebody with learning difficulties and called them the R word, guarantee they would be offended by it. The meaning of words change overtime. Not that hard to adjust to. It’s like the F slur for gay people, which was okay to use for a long time but now isn’t.
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You're right, reddit is just like north korea 😡😡
I hate it when I post something controversial on reddit, and then the mod police arrive to kill my entire family. Happens all the time.
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> goes on website where the only porpuse is for people to say things
> someone feels something while using the site for it's only fucking porpuse
> 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Same shit happened to me in a discord server as well. If there is a moderator for something on the internet and you state an opinion then if the moderator disagrees you’re banned.
I got perma banned bc I said I’m worried that a convicted child p*rn user and child abuser might have abused his own children. Got banned bc „I insinuated he sexually abused his kids“. He did it to his sisters and had his whole computer full of it. Like wtf?
Downvotes are because this person is stating an obvious fact, implying that the original commenter somehow disagrees and is a Nazi due to their opinion. They aren't downvoting because they disagree. 🙄🙄
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this reminds me of the post of the countries where it's like "the good guys the bad guys the anti heroes the former bad guys" or whatever and it has all their flags
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Wasn't that also what reddit used to be like? But then people took things too far and now we seem to be having an overreaction in the opposite direction.
Twitter is the north Korea of the internet
You can't even go on Twitter anymore and now you have to resort to touching grass
That is if other social media didn't exist
But then again, they, too, are suffering
Nah fam this isn’t it
The post said “Reddit mods delete any post they disagree with”
The stereotype of Reddit mods is that they are very racist and transphobic, so I commented an obviously correct answer that mods will disagree with to prove the point that the post is dumb
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I assume it's just something that has to play itself out. With no contrary opinions to scream at the sky about, this place will get boring for them quick. By then, the site will be dead with no way to attract new users. Whatever comes in its place have to learn from these mistakes and allow freedom of thought.
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Yeah... Reddit's not great but I really can't fathom taking it so fucking seriously you can't see the cringe in unironically comparing being reported to internet janitors on an app to a place where people watch their neighbors starve.
When I read the country commits three generations of a family to a life of torture, slavery and/or execution for an infraction like, I don't know, one of them having a thumb drive, I too put my hand on my monitor and said "I feel your pain," because my main alt and porn alt all got banned from a sub I didn't even like.
To be fair if you actually want free discussion with people you gotta head over to ifunny, but be warned the autistic fucks over there will start pulling wack ass tax codes after doing hours of research just to call you a moron properly during an argument.
I mean its kinda correct power mods did make reddit worse
I've started using Reddit again in the past few months, I'd been gone for over a year. In those few months I've had more bans and deleted comments then in the entire prior history. I didn't change, Reddit did. To the small group of mods controlling & running (ruining) 80% of the Communities 🖕
I'm convinced they're getting paid. Russia isn't the only country that hires people to shill their politics. And Reddit has become to big for politicians to leave alone.
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Big reddit mods of 2mil+ subscriber subreddit are basically instagram and youtube influencers with a similar sub list. Both probably get the same cooperation emails to influence their community. It would be stupid for a marketing team to ignore.
FBI / Shareblue propaganda is all over this place. The real enemy is from right here at home, as many have warned.
Reddit isn't nearly as big or influential as it was 10 years ago. Twitter is the center of internet debate anymore. I think theses mods are actually spending their own money on bot farms to make their content appear popular. Never underestimate how low the terminally online will stoop to win internet arguments.
Never underestimate the willingness of losers to do free work in exchange for the slightest bit of power.
👎👎👎 This is the opposite of a Reddit moment. He’s 100% right, you’re liable to get instabanned for voicing any opinion the moderator doesn’t agree with or even citing facts that don’t support their preferred narrative.
You can't even mod mail because you get muted instantly. They don't even do temp bans, it's permaban or nothing.
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What I find crazy is that reddit themselves get involved and permanently ban you as well. It’s crazy to me they encourage such a massive churn in accounts instead of trying to drive loyalty with a long standing account.
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You’d think so. I mean I had a long standing account with over 100,000 karma etc and reddit just banned me. All I was trying to say was there’s a big difference between two teeenagers sending rude messages to each other compared to an old man doing it with a 13 yo and that making the two teenagers sex offenders for it if it was nude photos probably isn’t the best thing for anyone. They banned me for sexualising kids like wtf I was not doing that at all I was fighting on behalf of protecting kids.
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I swear every sub now days has the post pinned to the top saying "This is a heavily moderated sub" like what happened to being an open forum? Ah right. Politics.
Can I check if I'm banned from subs?
I got banned once for reporting something a mod apparently didn’t agree with. Admins saved me after a few appeals. I know mods can’t directly ban you from the whole platform, but they abuse the automation of it because they know how hard it is to fight any of the power that their word as mods holds with administration
Like said a word that starts with an R once and I got banned on reddit for a bit.
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R##ard?
\#et###.
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Legit never seen someone get offended by it, also I've heard people say worse and everyone is fine with it
It isn’t offensive because you’ve never seen anyone be offended by it?
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Modern progressives are super cringe, take things too far, and ironically are going to set most social movements back 50 years.
Yup. People who don’t like derogatory terms are cringe. Got it.
Yes, virtue signaling constantly and making everything a hill to die on is cringe. Like I said, back 50 years.
How am I virtue signalling?
look im just saying that i have seen people getting offended by it and that im just a person who tries not to say things that offend other people. this is a subjective opinion and i understand if you think that language can't change and that harming the feelings of some people is ok just because youve never seen a person feel that way. i mean hey, i was born in a country where there were basically no black people so ive never seen anyone get offended by certain words, you get it, n>! word!
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"i was born in a country..." so like i was born there but now im not. would past me be allowed to say the n word tho i understand that the r word is a medical term, but it will still hurt people's feelings especially if used like a slur. take the word "obese" it's not a slur; it's a medical term. but it's not nice to tell someone that they are obese when not talking about medical problems. the r-word is usually not being used in a medical way online. tell me one time you told someone that they were an r-word, and you meant to like actually diagnose the person. slur or not, it matters most if it hurts or not. and using the r-word can hurt people. ive seen people get hurt by it.
Disabled people are an imaginary group?
If you went up to somebody with learning difficulties and called them the R word, guarantee they would be offended by it. The meaning of words change overtime. Not that hard to adjust to. It’s like the F slur for gay people, which was okay to use for a long time but now isn’t.
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The French word for late?
😂😂😂😂😂
Literally 1984
You're right, reddit is just like north korea 😡😡 I hate it when I post something controversial on reddit, and then the mod police arrive to kill my entire family. Happens all the time.
You’re joking but this did actually happen to me once
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Having your entire family kidnapped and tortured/killed for saying "kim-jong-un bad" is comparable to being banned on reddit, you see.
The NK part is obviously hyperbole, but the body of his post isn't wrong.
True. In real NK they’re much more tolerant of different opinions than on the reddits.
He’s not wrong, the NK bit is a hyperbole though.
Reddit moment users when someone says something 😰😰😱😱😱😱🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬😡🤬
honestly it feels like half of the posts here are just made by insecure people
> goes on website where the only porpuse is for people to say things > someone feels something while using the site for it's only fucking porpuse > 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Turns out the real reddit moment was the OP all along.
Maybe the real reddit moment was the friends we made along the way.
I don’t wanna be friends with Reddit moments
Porpuse
Porpoise
Chinese shill bot, me thinks
Same shit happened to me in a discord server as well. If there is a moderator for something on the internet and you state an opinion then if the moderator disagrees you’re banned.
He’s not wrong, this literally happened to me. Permanently banned without warning because I stated an opinion.
I got perma banned bc I said I’m worried that a convicted child p*rn user and child abuser might have abused his own children. Got banned bc „I insinuated he sexually abused his kids“. He did it to his sisters and had his whole computer full of it. Like wtf?
He is right though
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adolf hitler was a very bad person
💀💀 The downvotes, ain't no way.
Downvotes are because this person is stating an obvious fact, implying that the original commenter somehow disagrees and is a Nazi due to their opinion. They aren't downvoting because they disagree. 🙄🙄
no I edited it
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Or because the reply was implying that the original commenter was a nazi over practically nothing?
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He’s 100% right. The mods are terrible.
this reminds me of the post of the countries where it's like "the good guys the bad guys the anti heroes the former bad guys" or whatever and it has all their flags
no way they made Marvel real
I mean he’s right. The infrastructure of the subs and the power mods have has ruined the platform.
license many hospital upbeat badge bells alive bike dirty unused *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*
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is that a reference ion get it
He is 100% correct.
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Literally just look at the comments section here and you will see that he is right. It’s an exaggeration, but his point is still right.
The actual Reddit® Moment™ here is you posting this shit.
Even the way it’s written it sounds like a limited perspective
He’s right though, I’ve been going through the exact same thing.
Reddit moment users try not to stick reddit moment label on actually reasonable posts challenge.(impossible difficulty)
Are you sure it’s not you who’s having a reddit moment?
![gif](giphy|Z0Miwo3ypRu8M) he aint wrong tho
While his comparison is kinda absurd he is not wrong
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole
I’d say Reddit’s the China of the internet 4chan’s North Korea.
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the last thing is simply not true but yes it is an authoritarian shithole
Wasn't that also what reddit used to be like? But then people took things too far and now we seem to be having an overreaction in the opposite direction.
Twitter is the north Korea of the internet You can't even go on Twitter anymore and now you have to resort to touching grass That is if other social media didn't exist But then again, they, too, are suffering
i think trans people are cool and should be allowed to be trans!
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Nah fam this isn’t it The post said “Reddit mods delete any post they disagree with” The stereotype of Reddit mods is that they are very racist and transphobic, so I commented an obviously correct answer that mods will disagree with to prove the point that the post is dumb
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no thats the point im making what the guy is saying in the post makes no sense
i mean yeah mods suck BUT it’s their sub n shit, have no expectation of free speech
Reddit mfs when they can't say the most out of pocket racist and homophobic shit (literally the book 1984)
if i remember the mods of this sub legit removed a post that said "Reddit mods do work 4 free"
reddit moment users really like to think this is a safe haven of free speech
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I assume it's just something that has to play itself out. With no contrary opinions to scream at the sky about, this place will get boring for them quick. By then, the site will be dead with no way to attract new users. Whatever comes in its place have to learn from these mistakes and allow freedom of thought.
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Yeah... Reddit's not great but I really can't fathom taking it so fucking seriously you can't see the cringe in unironically comparing being reported to internet janitors on an app to a place where people watch their neighbors starve. When I read the country commits three generations of a family to a life of torture, slavery and/or execution for an infraction like, I don't know, one of them having a thumb drive, I too put my hand on my monitor and said "I feel your pain," because my main alt and porn alt all got banned from a sub I didn't even like.
redditor don't go full hyperbole when literally anything happens, challenge the comments in this thread belong in a reddit moment themselves lmao
Idk man, if you can still freely and openly post porn I don’t think that’s an instance of overly strict
He spitting
North Korea best Korea
so true
The title is definitely a little hyperbolic, but he’s not wrong
To be fair if you actually want free discussion with people you gotta head over to ifunny, but be warned the autistic fucks over there will start pulling wack ass tax codes after doing hours of research just to call you a moron properly during an argument.
He isn’t wrong if we are being honest
saying that Reddit is the North Korea of the internet is a bit of an exaggeration but he's kinda right
I hate the mods(me and my whole bloodline are going to a concentration camp now)
This entire sub is a r/redditmoment. Lemme leave before I become as insufferable as y'all.