I can’t figure out where all the lemmy people posting about reddits “power tripping power mods” were posting. I think I ran across one mod in the wild (niche sub) that I thought was crazy and they got run off the platform eventually. What were people posting that they were getting banned all over the place? Maybe the mods weren’t the problem if multiple were banning you?
Smaller communities and niche hobby/fan subs typically didn’t have this issue, but the bigger ones absolutely did.
All of the big subs had a bunch of the same mods moderating lots of other subreddits and loser “powermods” that modded hundreds of subs that would ban you across multiple subs if you spoke out against them in any way was 100% a thing and still likely is. I know that turtle fuck got kicked off (they moderated something like a thousand subs) and I have at least a couple accounts permanently suspended because I brought up their abusive behavior to other mods across multiple subs. That’s fucked up and that happened to a lot of people.
There was a thing a few months ago on a local Massachusetts sub that almost broke the subreddit. The sub had basically one active moderator, so he took on another one and apparently didn’t vet them at all and that new mod went insane and banned probably hundreds of people for inane reasons (Reddit link) It eventually came out that they were a Meta employee and modded like a weird OffMyChest spin off subreddit where they posted hundreds of “dear diary” posts (nobody else really posted there, it was just them) about some pretty wild shit. Like trying to get an ex to commit suicide if I recall correctly among a bunch of other pretty bad takes. It was bad and they almost ruined that subreddit and they started onboarding some random moderators without the original mods’ or the community’s consent until they finally got booted.
There are legitimately a lot of unhinged moderators on Reddit, it’s not just people whining because they said a slur and got banned.
I remember posting about lore outside DnD (Guild Wars 2) to a comic about dragons in dndmemes, which got downvoted because no one understood the reference and it probably didn’t belong there. Mod there still decided to go full on gestapo and begin to question it while I just wanted to move on from a comment I made in a post that showed up on my front page for a reason, and he decided to permaban me from the subreddit for no good reason.
You’ll have to take my word that I wasn’t combative or that it wasn’t actually something far worse, or you can claim it as people who defend these actions without knowing the circumstances usually do. Literally was my only comment in dndmemes, it wasn’t abusive and the worst that could be claimed was that it probably held only personal relevance to me (but it was already downvoted so it didn’t really require much action).
Who knows if they just didn’t like something else in my comment history, listened to some arbitrary troll gaslighting my user from some past argument, or if they were just more pissed off than usual because of some unrelated event in their lives and made a user permanently pay for it by getting madder at a comment than they should have. There’s no judiciary or any appreciation of why we have a judiciary in the real world in these sort of websites.
For a lot of the big subs, sure. But every mod I encountered in the hobby/food/gardening subs were good and ran good spaces.
I can’t figure out where all the lemmy people posting about reddits “power tripping power mods” were posting. I think I ran across one mod in the wild (niche sub) that I thought was crazy and they got run off the platform eventually. What were people posting that they were getting banned all over the place? Maybe the mods weren’t the problem if multiple were banning you?
Smaller communities and niche hobby/fan subs typically didn’t have this issue, but the bigger ones absolutely did.
All of the big subs had a bunch of the same mods moderating lots of other subreddits and loser “powermods” that modded hundreds of subs that would ban you across multiple subs if you spoke out against them in any way was 100% a thing and still likely is. I know that turtle fuck got kicked off (they moderated something like a thousand subs) and I have at least a couple accounts permanently suspended because I brought up their abusive behavior to other mods across multiple subs. That’s fucked up and that happened to a lot of people.
There was a thing a few months ago on a local Massachusetts sub that almost broke the subreddit. The sub had basically one active moderator, so he took on another one and apparently didn’t vet them at all and that new mod went insane and banned probably hundreds of people for inane reasons (Reddit link) It eventually came out that they were a Meta employee and modded like a weird OffMyChest spin off subreddit where they posted hundreds of “dear diary” posts (nobody else really posted there, it was just them) about some pretty wild shit. Like trying to get an ex to commit suicide if I recall correctly among a bunch of other pretty bad takes. It was bad and they almost ruined that subreddit and they started onboarding some random moderators without the original mods’ or the community’s consent until they finally got booted.
There are legitimately a lot of unhinged moderators on Reddit, it’s not just people whining because they said a slur and got banned.
I remember posting about lore outside DnD (Guild Wars 2) to a comic about dragons in dndmemes, which got downvoted because no one understood the reference and it probably didn’t belong there. Mod there still decided to go full on gestapo and begin to question it while I just wanted to move on from a comment I made in a post that showed up on my front page for a reason, and he decided to permaban me from the subreddit for no good reason.
You’ll have to take my word that I wasn’t combative or that it wasn’t actually something far worse, or you can claim it as people who defend these actions without knowing the circumstances usually do. Literally was my only comment in dndmemes, it wasn’t abusive and the worst that could be claimed was that it probably held only personal relevance to me (but it was already downvoted so it didn’t really require much action).
Who knows if they just didn’t like something else in my comment history, listened to some arbitrary troll gaslighting my user from some past argument, or if they were just more pissed off than usual because of some unrelated event in their lives and made a user permanently pay for it by getting madder at a comment than they should have. There’s no judiciary or any appreciation of why we have a judiciary in the real world in these sort of websites.
You never ran into Merari01?
They’re a pretty ubiquitous cunt.