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Re:/r/StableDiffusion – Mod here – My side of the story by widowlark on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @02:49PM (#33167476)
I was banned from r/streetphotography with my first post because, despite it being a street photograph, the moderator on the clock at the time thought it was 'too derivative' - It was a permanent ban.

Since then, I have taken tens of thousands of street photos, and the fact that I cannot post them on the most-used street photography subreddit is confusing and shitty.

Re:/r/StableDiffusion – Mod here – My side of the story by practice9 on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @03:37PM (#33168192)
Similar problems exists with Wikipedia and StackOverflow moderators. IMO people who become moderators just enjoy exercising their (often unchecked) power in these online communities.
Re:/r/StableDiffusion – Mod here – My side of the story by Brusco_RF on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @04:09PM (#33168607)
When you frame it like that it becomes the tale as old as time; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Re:/r/StableDiffusion – Mod here – My side of the story by jrockway on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @03:52PM (#33168398)
I got banned from r/AskReddit for posting the Chicago Transit Authority's customer service phone number, because it was "personal information". (In a thread about the CTA, no less. The rule is any comment that matches the regular expression /\d{3}-\d{4}/ is a permaban.)

I also got kicked out of a Discord server I moderated because someone asked to be nagged about doing their homework, and I nagged them, and then someone in the server created fanart of my anime profile picture hitting their anime profile picture on the head with a magic wand, and I pinned it. I thought it was hilarious and I treasure it to this day. But that apparently was the last straw. ("There must have been some underlying issue," I hear you cry. There was. There were some differences of opinion on how to moderate the channel and the discord server. The community skewed about 60% female, and I was pretty quick to time stuff out like "women should be in the kitchen, not watching a stream" when the inevitable edgelord showed up to troll. This was apparently a controversial opinion, and all the other mods that would back me up on those decisions had long since left. I was pretty late to the giving up party, but I'm glad I eventually left. Even if not on my own terms ;)

The TL;DR here is yeah, it's really easy to be a bad community manager, and people are pretty good at easy things. Stir in a spoonful of power tripping, and the results are predictable.