It was as a response to a post about how the Chinese eat centipedes. I replied something along the lines of “yeah they eat some weird stuff, like virgin boy pee eggs”. The permaban stated “hate based on identity” and linked to the post. I made an appeal and linked the wikipedia page. Denied.
What Reddit believes to be bad content is often calls for violence or homophobia too. What they’re trying to fix now is that subreddits could be easily taken over by a brigade that could change the culture of the place very quickly and mods are powerless to stop it because it’s a whack-a-mole when votes are not public. That’s how Polish national subreddit went to utter shite for example, despite being one of the most libleft-leaning places back in the day. The damage was irreversible unfortunately.
Reddit let trumps subreddit stay up for years, not to mention all the other vile and bigoted places
I do not put much faith in that reddit actually cares about homophobia
And calls for violence has always been selective. Has reddit ever banned anyone for supporting a state to kill people? For example, supporting death penalty, supporting cops shooting people, supporting Ukraine/Russia to kill Russians/Ukrainians, or supporting Israel killing Palestinians?
The whole subject of “calls for violence” has always been biased, because we see state actors being violent as justifiable, but non-state actors as not, so it’s not right to say they don’t support calls for violence, they only don’t support selective ones that they are not entirely clear about. They don’t support the people
It doesn’t matter what Reddit’s policy is when they outsource decision making to India where decisions seem to be taken without context or at random. It’s usually up to volunteer moderators to set the rules and tone for a community.
Admins and mods have other tools to deal with those issues. But given that Reddit is a corporation it will likely also remove content that are in a murky area rules-wise, or given the current political climate selectively apply the rules. That creates a risk for redditors who try to use the site legitimately as well.
Mods can take subs private temporarily if they notice brigading. They can also contact admins who could use other tools at their disposal. Not fun, but effective.
What Reddit believes to be “bad content” has historically been a little dubious. So I can understand people are apprehensive about this.
A little dubious
I once got permabanned for sharing that the Chinese eat eggs boiled in the pee of young boys.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_boy_egg
This is really really disgusting, thanks for sharing; i know who to send this information for some laughs.
I don’t think it’s a bannable offense tho
It was as a response to a post about how the Chinese eat centipedes. I replied something along the lines of “yeah they eat some weird stuff, like virgin boy pee eggs”. The permaban stated “hate based on identity” and linked to the post. I made an appeal and linked the wikipedia page. Denied.
Fuck that platform anyways.
What Reddit believes to be bad content is often calls for violence or homophobia too. What they’re trying to fix now is that subreddits could be easily taken over by a brigade that could change the culture of the place very quickly and mods are powerless to stop it because it’s a whack-a-mole when votes are not public. That’s how Polish national subreddit went to utter shite for example, despite being one of the most libleft-leaning places back in the day. The damage was irreversible unfortunately.
Reddit let trumps subreddit stay up for years, not to mention all the other vile and bigoted places
I do not put much faith in that reddit actually cares about homophobia
And calls for violence has always been selective. Has reddit ever banned anyone for supporting a state to kill people? For example, supporting death penalty, supporting cops shooting people, supporting Ukraine/Russia to kill Russians/Ukrainians, or supporting Israel killing Palestinians?
The whole subject of “calls for violence” has always been biased, because we see state actors being violent as justifiable, but non-state actors as not, so it’s not right to say they don’t support calls for violence, they only don’t support selective ones that they are not entirely clear about. They don’t support the people
It doesn’t matter what Reddit’s policy is when they outsource decision making to India where decisions seem to be taken without context or at random. It’s usually up to volunteer moderators to set the rules and tone for a community.
Admins and mods have other tools to deal with those issues. But given that Reddit is a corporation it will likely also remove content that are in a murky area rules-wise, or given the current political climate selectively apply the rules. That creates a risk for redditors who try to use the site legitimately as well.
Mods don’t and mods do 99% of work.
Mods can take subs private temporarily if they notice brigading. They can also contact admins who could use other tools at their disposal. Not fun, but effective.
Do you realise what it means to take a subreddit private? What tools specifically do you mean? Have you ever contacted Reddit admins? XD