This one is slightly more deserved but equally infuriating.
I used to lurk in some right wing spaces on reddit. I had been there for years, just watching. Taking the temperature of the groups so to speak.
I spoke up one time, To correct something I found truly egregious.
Suddenly I was shadow banned in like a dozen left-wing spaces. Spaces that I thought were about discussion.
And then I was shadow banned in the right-wing spaces the next day.
It was definitely something.
I also got banned from the pro-choice debate sub once because I asked for clarification on a bad faith argument the pro-lifers always use.
I was told it wasnt the community’s job to educate me…um…yeah it kinda is because this is a DEBATE sub and I would like to know how to answer this bad faith argument when my aunt uses it at Thanksgiving.
I gotta say that this collection of stories plus all the others is starting to feel less like power mods with vendettas and more like a large scale astroturfing campaign intended to weed out people capable of using logic and/or bridging the gap in the various manufactured (or falsely amplified) conflicts dividing people for no good reason.
It’s especially weird how many feature “argued about it for 3 messages then admin banned for harassment”, especially since reddit’s mod problem isn’t exactly a secret and they’d be even more aware of it with the full visibility they have and you’d figure they’d want to address it if they were operating on good faith.
Similar experience here. I corrected some wrong statement made on a right wing subreddit, the next day I’m banned from a handful of left wing subreddits.
I think half my issue is that I was raised in a conservative community before moving to the city, so sometimes, I use the ‘wrong speak’ for both groups. Even without the automods.
This one is slightly more deserved but equally infuriating.
I used to lurk in some right wing spaces on reddit. I had been there for years, just watching. Taking the temperature of the groups so to speak.
I spoke up one time, To correct something I found truly egregious.
Suddenly I was shadow banned in like a dozen left-wing spaces. Spaces that I thought were about discussion.
And then I was shadow banned in the right-wing spaces the next day.
It was definitely something.
I also got banned from the pro-choice debate sub once because I asked for clarification on a bad faith argument the pro-lifers always use.
I was told it wasnt the community’s job to educate me…um…yeah it kinda is because this is a DEBATE sub and I would like to know how to answer this bad faith argument when my aunt uses it at Thanksgiving.
I gotta say that this collection of stories plus all the others is starting to feel less like power mods with vendettas and more like a large scale astroturfing campaign intended to weed out people capable of using logic and/or bridging the gap in the various manufactured (or falsely amplified) conflicts dividing people for no good reason.
It’s especially weird how many feature “argued about it for 3 messages then admin banned for harassment”, especially since reddit’s mod problem isn’t exactly a secret and they’d be even more aware of it with the full visibility they have and you’d figure they’d want to address it if they were operating on good faith.
And then they train AI even harder on it.
If you ever feel bad about being shunned by predditors, just remember that child trafficker Jizzlane Maxwell was/is a r/worldnews powermod.
AND was defended by other mods. Even Admin iirc.
Yeah I’ve been muted in world news too. That one was for what you would expect. I criticized Isreal.
When you’ve been around since like 2007/2009, its almost expected that you have some bans under your belt.
As far as I know that was debunked. The account was active when Maxwell definitely couldn’t have been. See also: https://coagulopath.com/ghislaine-maxwell-does-not-have-a-secret-reddit-account/
What do you actually agree with in that article? Not philosophically. specifically about how they detect and evaluate the evidence they present.
Well that just tells you that these subs are not for discussion but for echo chambers and lamenting, even if they claim otherwise.
20 screeching libtards with blue hair vs gigachad alpha male
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Similar experience here. I corrected some wrong statement made on a right wing subreddit, the next day I’m banned from a handful of left wing subreddits.
I think half my issue is that I was raised in a conservative community before moving to the city, so sometimes, I use the ‘wrong speak’ for both groups. Even without the automods.