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 😂.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Yikes ! It's alarming because these are actual adults, who procreate and vote...
I'm doing my best to stop reading Reddit since I can't comment. I hate when I have good information to share and can't so I'm working on finding better places where I can speak freely without some "moderator" getting involved......so far this platform has been nice. If the audience and topics pick up, I'm here for it 🧡...
Fuck Reddit, their algorithm, "bans", and any cowardly Moderator.🤣