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So why did you bring it up?
I brought up the percentage of subreddits, which does matter, because it determines how many subreddits remain to fall back to. The activity level of the subreddits who are blacking out, however, doesn’t matter for that, and it was pb7 who brought that up, not me.
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It’s incredibly frustrating when you take the time to write something out- something that benefits others and does nothing for you, like sharing your experience or knowledge- only to have the comment removed for one bullshit reason or another. I have never written hate speech or anything racist or in that vein on Reddit, yet I’ve been censored and banned so many times by what I can only assume are children (or childr…
What are some of the verbatim comments you were banned for? On which subs did you post them?
- Banned from /r/the_donald for saying something that wasn't even really critical of Trump, it was a fact, no ounce of opinion.. basically the mods were banning anyone who commented anything less than absolute, blind praise of Dear Leader.
- Banned from /r/clov (a penny stock subreddit) AFTER posting incredibly well-received research on the company, because I was skeptical about their earnings numbers (which did come in below expectations).
- Banned from /r/politics for saying something along the lines of "I wish Mitch McConnell would keel over already", which is absolutely a bullshit thing to get banned for, on /r/politics of all places. That's probably one of the least-"human rights" subs on Reddit. There are few places where your right to free speech is more-often challenged. Regardless of your political affiliation, I think you should be able to wish death on Trump, Biden, Obama, whatever.
- I was never banned from /r/AskWomen, but I think anyone who has been on Reddit an appreciable amount of time knows of their reputation for removing comments that have any potential to offend even one person on the planet (you can comment there if you are not a woman, they just want it off top-level and that your flair is your gender). I gave up commenting there pretty quickly. I mean I get it, I'm not a woman, but it is one of the most popular subs and you're naive if you think only women read AND comment on posts there.
- Banned from /r/robinhood for nicely, professionally (LinkedIn-appropriate) suggesting in a thread that Robinhood better-educate its users on the risks of options trading. Nowadays you can actually gamble with options in your Robinhood IRA account. That's nuts to me, and I am 100% sure it will be illegal someday. Vlad and co. really have no shame. I am an atheist, but sincerely hope Vlad Tenev goes to hell.
- When I messaged the "head mod" of /r/robinhood something like /u/CardinalNumber about the ban, I got some automated message back saying my message was reported to Reddit (I figured out it was automated because A) he replied to me immediately, and B) when I replied to that, I got the same exact message a second time. Reddit actually banned me for 3 days. It baffles me that companies like Robinhood let these guys have any association with their brand. I assume he was getting so much hate mail (he has banned A LOT of people from /r/robinhood) he just set up a program to report anyone who messages him- figures he gets a message, it's probably hostile. And as far as I know, he's still a mod there.
So at this point I was ready to perma-ban all my accounts by wishing death on Greg Abbott. I mean look, the dude is a prick. It's an opinion as close to fact as an opinion can get. It wasn't a death threat, it wasn't racist, it was the kind of comment the First Amendment was made for... we should be able to criticize public figures, especially government figures.. anything short of a death threat imo. Anyway, that's what happened. I wished death on Greg Abbott on /r/news or something like that, predictably I got hit with the perma-ban. Now I have huge swaths of my free time back haha. A double-edged sword to say the least.
I realize without the verbatim comments it's easy to read this comment and conclude I am probably being dishonest about the tone or nature of the comments, and that my bans were 100% justified. I can't disprove that notion, but for what it's worth, I wouldn't mind posting all of those comments on LinkedIn with my full name and picture attached to it(with the exception of the wishing death on Mitch McConnell and Greg Abbott).
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I'm glad your mental health is better, but you come across as an unreliable narrator. I very rarely have my comments removed, and when it has happened, it's never because I posted interesting facts about Cavendish bananas or how VLIW is underrated - it's at least a little controversial or rubs people the wrong way. The problem with downvotes is brigading (trolls overrun your community), and people have to get exposed…
This is true until you start touching 3rd rail topics. And having an experience like parent poster's even one time is one time too many IMO. I've never had a long and thoughtful post censored, but it's frustrated me the once or twice it happened with a short comment that I didn't believe deserved it. I agree we need moderation to avoid being a cesspool, but a light touch is absolutely essential.
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I believe it. That really sounds typical of Reddit.
I don't believe it at all. My unreliable narrator radar is blowing up.
Maybe the mods thought it was a bot account? Maybe they just disagreed with me. Maybe my account was too new but they didn't bother sending an explanation message? I don't know.
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> 48 hours will not even ding reddit. I don't think the direct losses of the 48 outage will be what matters here. Rumors are that Reddit wants to IPO later this year. This blackout will put the spotlight on two issues: - Reddit is extremely dependent on the goodwill of the community, especially the moderators who provide an essential service for free. - Reddit is out of touch with its own community, and keeps pissing…
> Reddit is extremely dependent on the goodwill of the community Are they? Assuming they all go dark for 48 hours, then come back online, and business continues as usual... wouldn't that somewhat prove that Reddit doesn't have to worry too much? What if certain subreddits go dark for extended amounts of times, multiple weeks, maybe even a month. And then new copycat subreddits pop up, what do you think will happen? R…
I'm not sure. I've seen several subreddits where they've done polls about going dark and they've overwhelmingly supported going dark. For example, r/AcademicBiblical is currently around 80% in favor of going dark and that's not a subreddit I would think is just chalk full of Reddit power users.
Might need some place to see which big subreddits are NOT participating
I also wonder about the moderators of the ones that aren't going dark, many larger subs are moderated by a select group of the same people more or less.
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I brought up the percentage of subreddits, which does matter, because it determines how many subreddits remain to fall back to. The activity level of the subreddits who are blacking out, however, doesn’t matter for that, and it was pb7 who brought that up, not me.
If I frequent /r/financialindependence, I’m not going to suddenly switch over to /r/guineapigs, I’ll just go do something else with my time.
It's a shame because of all the social media platforms, reddit is one of the best. There isn't so much grandstanding (I couldn't tell you a single username on reddit), and the ability to rapidly create special-interest subreddits means that discussion revolves around the topic, on the whole. I left facebook because it became a place where people I knew spent their time curating a false virtual identity of themselves…
48 hours will not even ding reddit. Do it for a month and it will count, assuming reddit doesn't simply re-enable the subreddits. But obviously the mods here are walking a fine line between pissing off their users and getting reddit to bend over. With camarades.com we had a week long outage because of a fire in EV1's DC which then caused the fire marshal to shut everything down for a week (I don't blame them, but tha…
A two-day blackout is a warning shot.