If you're a reddit 'refugee,' why did you leave?

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[–]magnora7 18 insightful - 4 fun18 insightful - 3 fun19 insightful - 4 fun -  (8 children)

Mod censorship was out of control. I'm banned in like 50 subreddits, I'm basically blocked out from contributing. And the admins just sit by and let this happen. It's not a real community, and it doesn't reflect real-world opinions at all. Almost every subreddit is compromised by highly-motivated ideologues who work their way in to mod positions.

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Which ones you were banned from?

[–]magnora7 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Basically every single one having anything to do with news or politics. I have actual opinions about things, and regardless of how kindly I voice them there seems to always be a problem with the mods removing what I say. I know it's not limited to me though because I see threads with 50%-90% of comments removed, quite often.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Basically every single one having anything to do with news or politics.

Weird thing is, in r/pics there was a thread about pro-choice message and people were actually (for the most part) doing proper representation of the opposing side https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/ea6kf5/this_really_still_shouldnt_be_a_debate/ , if you read through the comments it sounds reasonable and it's a major sub. It's mostly r/news and r/politics which is really weird, since I'd expect similar crowd to attend it.

Some times I suspect some kind of fuckery is going on reddit targeting certain subs.

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I think you're right. The cost of brigading a reddit thread ten million people will see is cheaper than running a TV ad, and businesses and governments have started to realize this

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Do we have any safeguard to try and prevent that from happening here?

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, we don't have downvotes, so things can't be censored and votes can't be un-done. So they can't hide the complaints and such.

But it's one of the problems inherent in anonymous social media. There's no way to know what anyone's intentions are until they post.

[–]SaidOverRed 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The ban message should just be honest enough to be like "It's not how you say it, it's what you say." And they get mad when people say the phrase "echo chamber"...

[–]sproketboy 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah. I had an account suspended for reporting racism. Except it was on a leftist sub so I guess I was the racist! :)