Lazy moderation. An auto-delete filter for major news keywords is a poor way to run a news subreddit. They're throwing the baby out with the bath water.

You have no idea how hard it is to moderate a subreddit that is a default one. This is not "lazy" moderation. This is to avoid all the spam in /new

Deleting all stories containing the word "Tesla" is lazy moderation. That policy was in place for at least some period of time.

I think that spending a day trying to moderate /r/technology would make a lot of people understand "why".

Tesla got relevant suddenly with the apple news, then with the texas law, but then it was just spams to get the interest around Tesla going on.

Technology moves quickly and I can see why moderators wanted the discussion not to focus on ONE thing for too long.

I mean, you can sympathize with their bad behavior, but ultimately they were de-listed for it. Their bad behavior was a mistake.

They were also unlisted for having (as you can see) too small moderation team. This is said to be fault of /u/maxwellhill and /u/anutensil. (They are one of the oldest mods -- they have whole power).

Automoderator wiki was posted here: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/wiki/automoderator. Honestly, it does not look too bad for what was being filtered out.

I've seen the posts back then, there was a list of words that were not really relevant to /r/technology OR not about "new" technology.

two big examples : bitcoin, snowden

there were a lot of words on that list but those were the most discussed. Bitcoin was relevant and it got plenty of article. I'm not surprised that the admin of /r/technology wanted to avoid all the spam and diminish the discussions on that topic after 2 years of bitcoin topics and a huge /r/bitcoin subreddit (which I'm part of).

Snowden? Well it was talked about there a lot. Now is definitely not the time to keep talking about him on /r/technology. There are plenty of other relevant subreddits for that.

I'm sure that they would have lifted the ban if something really relevant would have come around.

Also, a lot of people tend to mix "censorship" and "moderation". I agree with PARENT, this is moderation. You cannot expect "total free speech" in a private subreddit on a private website. Shouting "censorship" at everything you don't agree with is just not relevant.

And if we go down this road, the best subreddits are the ones that are the most moderated. /r/askscience and /r/games. No trolls, no racism.

Do you consider banning any link that has one of these keywords in the title decent moderation (aside from breaking)?

previous r/technology automatic filter list:

Restore the Fourth NSA Comcast Anonymous Time Warner CISPA SOPA TPP Swartz FCC Flappy net neutrality Bitcoin GCHQ Snowden spying Clapper Congress Obama Feinstein Wyden anti-piracy FBI CIA DEA Condoleezza EFF ACLU National Security Agency Dogecoin breaking