If there's nothing else you can agree on in the Blocksize debate, the censorship in that subreddit is reprehensible.

It's strange that reddit would enable that kind of activity. Are moderation logs not public?

Makes me wonder what other communities are oblivious to moderators influence.

You must not be a heavy user of reddit. Nearly the entire site is compromised, both by mods and admins. And even without that, subreddits are created and defined by users, and thus free to set whatever explicit and implicit rules they wish.

Yup. Particularly /r/ama is a prime example of being compromised by admins.

Care to elaborate?

A lot is from rumors but since around the time they moved all the staff to SF, users 'reported' many of the "high-profile" AMAs to be paid. There was also a lot of speculation of vote manipulation by mods/admins. I didn't dig too deep so the above was mostly speculation (not from me).

You mean /r/iama? /r/ama is the casual, non-celebrity one.

Whoops yup! You are right!

> One could be a regular visitor to r/bitcoin and have no clue that there is a huge political battle going on amongst the users, miners and developers.

True story, I'm one of those visitors. Off to go read up on some stuff, apparently.

/r/bitcoin was being brigaded by a person (Roger Ver) with a personal vendetta against the moderator of /r/bitcoin, and pays people to do it. The moderation policies are there for anyone to see, and if you feel like you don't have an outlet for your theories there, there are plenty of other outlets for you elsewhere.

What seems to be mostly adolescents continually scream 'censorship' without knowing the meaning of the word. Without that moderation, you get the cesspool funded by Roger Ver.

https://xkcd.com/1357/

> What seems to be mostly adolescents continually scream 'censorship' without knowing the meaning of the word.

The meaning of the word, according to Wikipedia:

Censorship is the suppression of free speech, public communication or other information which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, politically incorrect or inconvenient as determined by governments, media outlets, authorities or other groups or institutions.

If members of a subreddit are engaging in the suppression of ideas they consider objectionable, that is censorship. Smart people understand that there is no actionable defense against such censorship, but lacking an actionable defense doesn't diminish its status as censorship to something lesser. Similarly, it's still censorship whether done by the government, reddit, or Bob's Corner Bakery.

I was one of the first people to join /r/bitcoin, and was banned years later, after the block size debate started, for being on the large block side.