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Re:The note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if th... by LordDragonfang on Friday June 16, 2023 @01:37PM (#36360647)
>No, I'm not going to sit down and read [...] the rules so that what I'm saying perfectly jives with your little cult [...or] step in line with what you're expecting. I'm just never going to bother joining this community now.

(pardon the edit, but I don't think it's a misrepresentation of what you said)

So in other words, you didn't actually want to participate in the community and the automoderation worked as intended to ward off someone who wasn't interested in following the rules used to curate a specific community. Subreddits who have aggressive automod rules are almost without exception ones that put them in place due to the excessive rule-breaking posts from outsiders, including ones exactly like you. Some of the subs enforce specific templates to filter out the flood of low-effort repeats from people who can't be bothered.

People who actually want to participate in the community will read the rules and stay. Anyone who's offended by being asked to do that probably won't be a positive contribution to the community anyway.

Re:The note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if th... by lordloki on Friday June 16, 2023 @04:27PM (#36363337)
>the rules used to curate a specific community

Or ensure group think.

Re:The note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if th... by LordDragonfang on Friday June 16, 2023 @05:59PM (#36364503)
Same question, what specific "group think" are you so concerned is happening on reddit?

(Also, you are now banned from /r/pyongyang)

Re:The note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if th... by ramesh31 on Friday June 16, 2023 @06:13PM (#36364648)
> Same question, what specific "group think" are you so concerned is happening on reddit?

Try posting literally anything contrary to the party line on any noteworthy sub, and see how long it takes you to get banned. Particularly with a new account.

I haven't bothered posting anything on that site in years because it's a 50/50 crap shoot whether it will even be seen, or that the post I just spent 5 minutes of my life writing out will be instantly auto-modded for containing the wrong keyword.

Re:The note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if th... by LordDragonfang on Saturday June 17, 2023 @02:46AM (#36367923)
Once again, I'm astonished at how different our experiences can be, since I'm a frequent commentor and I literally cannot remember the last time a comment of mine got deleted.

I notice you did not answer my question though. And I have to wonder what you're posting that you keep needing new accounts. As someone once said, 'If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you keep getting banned and having your comments deleted, maybe you're the problem'

Re:The note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if th... by brightlancer on Saturday June 17, 2023 @04:11AM (#36368281)
> Same question, what specific "group think" are you so concerned is happening on reddit?

For more than a year, a handful of powermods were banning users which discussed the _possibility_ that SARS-CoV-2 was less dangerous than the media and politicians were claiming (now we have the data and it was less dangerous) or discussed the _possibility_ that the COVID vaccines were less effective or had worse side effects than the media and politicians were claiming (we now have the data and they were less effective and had worse side effects). These mods, who run the default subreddits, were banning users for posting in other subs which permitted such discussions -- that's right, if you posted in a sub that critically discussed what was going on, you'd get banned from default subs like r/pics and r/tifu.

I could list at least a hundred personal examples that had nothing to do with SARS-CoV-2 (usually opposing the American leftwing hive mind), but it's too easy for someone to just dismiss those as unsupported personal anecdotes. OTOH, it was well documented how Reddit shut down discussion re: SARS-CoV-2, as many other sites and services did.