Re:Moderation Is Different from Censorship
by treis on Thursday November 03, 2022 @12:41PM
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Nah, this was a local sub and I participated regularly. That's why it was so shocking. I had hundreds to thousands of posts over a few years there and there was no indication ever that I was doing anything problematic. It was specifically the posts about local politics (zoning and such) that went against the zeitgest that were shadow deleted.
Re:Moderation Is Different from Censorship
by richbell on Thursday November 03, 2022 @06:23PM
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That's rubbish.
There were some grassroots efforts around 2015 to make the mod log public and transparent (so it'd say what was removed, by who, and optionally why), but it was unfortunately opt-in and never gained large adoption.
Mass taggers have historically been abused to ban or shadow-ban users who've posted in "bad" subreddits.
If you argued with someone in r/the Donald, you'd magically be unable to participate in a large swath of unrelated communities. Trying to appeal the bans would often result in you being permanently muted or receiving a snarky response from the mods saying it's your fault for engaging in said 'bad' communities.