The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate Speech [pdf]

Re:The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate S... by theWatcher37 on Monday September 11, 2017 @04:29PM (#15222005)

Reddit also has some absolutely fascist mods. For example, it's well-known that if you post anything that is against illegal immigration (and it gets too many upvotes!) /r/worldnews mods will go through and ban you after the thread dies down.

I was once banned there 48h after a polite discussion on the economic costs (citing various sources) for "hate speech". I got too many upvotes so it was noticed. Appealing to a mod resulted in him "examining my posts on other subs, and given who you voted for the ban will be permanent".

Actual hate speech is one thing, but far-left mods of major subs are using the banner of hate speech to silence well-informed opposing views.

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Re:The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate S... by ubernostrum on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @10:29AM (#15227518)

Aside from a small number of general site-wide rules, reddit is based around the idea of "your subreddit (meaning, you're a mod of it), your rules". And nothing about it requires that every single rule be exhaustively defined up-front; moderator discretion is ultimately the sole definition of a subreddit's rules.

If you don't like a subreddit's rules, you're free to create a competing subreddit on the same topic but with different rules, and try to attract people to it.

I moderate a medium-sized (200k-ish subscribers) subreddit, though, so I know how unpopular this idea is with some people.

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