"Reddit moderators should be treated like celebrities" - Ex r/LiveStreamFail mod
Lol, never run into PugJesus on here huh?
Or Jordan.
I told a popular poster here once that something they said was bigoted because it was. Soon I was banned from several comms they mod. Very childish. Dude is such a dickhead and I'm happy I no longer see their posts tbh. People can be so fucking petty. I mod a couple communities and have never abused my role like that.
Let's also not forget the very manipulative and toxic stuff people did to take over some of the more fringe political subs.
I cant remember the full story but I remember a few years ago reading a wall of text explaining how like 3 users took over a block of conspiracy subs by getting the original owner banned and claiming the subs were unmoderated.
FWIW the same thing happened to me on the Lemmy subreddit
I'm not familiar with things like this happening on Lemmy of yet, but I imagine we have this kind of assholes over here as well.
This type of person also exists at your work place, the grocery store, the park, etc. Some people out there are just 🤪
holy crap
many yrs ago I was invited to mod some sub (I forget which) and I politely declined, because I knew the temptation to ban people would be overwhelming. I figured it was better for everyone if I didn't have such powers (even if I didn't use them).
I asked a question once and got muted for life. When I asked why I was told that my participation in another sub proves that I'm a seller. I've never sold anything via reddit.
One thing I've always wondered about Reddit:
Why is it so easy to get permanently banned, sometimes even taking multiple accounts with it?
My account was over 3 years old. I would occasionally comment on relevant posts and mention that I had built a web app that might help. I wasn't blasting links everywhere, I wasn't copy-pasting the same message, and I wasn't even naming the app most of the time. These opportunities were rare enough that I might do it once a week, maybe twice at most.
Then one day: permanent ban.
Not just that account, but another account that was over 2 years old got caught in it as well.
Maybe Reddit's systems detected it as self-promotion. Maybe there was another reason I don't know about. But from a user's perspective, it feels surprisingly harsh when years of account history can disappear so quickly.
What surprises me most is that they seem comfortable making these decisions knowing how frustrating it can be for legitimate users. Losing years of participation, conversations, and reputation in an instant is enough to make anyone pretty upset.
Has anyone else experienced something similar, or am I missing something about how Reddit approaches enforcement?
As a man that title really annoys me. This behaviour has nothing to with the mod being a man and everything with them being an insecure asshole.
Idk dude, something tells me that women aren't chomping at the bit to be Reddit mods – outside of strictly female oriented subreddits.
I've seen bans for people saying "violence is never the answer" is an incorrect statement, with the mods claiming that saying that is threatening violence.
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