My Reddit Account Experiment & Sub Mod Shadowbanning

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[–]IridescentAnaconda 7 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

I am curious which group you have found is the most toxic?

[–]Tiwaking 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

My guess is The moderators. And super moderators

[–]SaidOverRed[S] 5 insightful - 5 fun5 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 5 fun -  (1 child)

Oddly enough, yes. Normal users tended to be far more deliberate in their reasoning and responses. But mods tended to reply with non sequiturs that made me initially wonder if they were either trolling, mentally deficient or just plain immature (perhaps teenage) children. It turns out that it was just a result of power dynamics. The believed they could get away with anything and as a result they put no effort into real communication.

And the reason it took so long to deduce this is because this happened no matter what. It would happen when I was agreeing with communities. It would happen when I was disagreeing. It would happen when I was asking simple questions or making simple statements. Basically it was pure whim and their various "rules" were merely a guise, invoked afterward for flimsy justifications.

[–]GConly 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I once got shadowbanned from the whole site by a mod because I won an argument with him and embarrassed him. Years ago now.

It was the only way he could have the entire argument removed without trace.