People don't like being banned, pt. 2: People don't like being moderated

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Normal people from Group B would simply accept it because it looked like the mods really did a good job considering the responses.

This! This is what bothered me about the non-transparent rules at the GC subs and other places on reddit.

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It's akin to the survivorship bias if you know about it. The system might be horrible discriminatory but the ones who made it on top will feel like "If I can do it, then why can't the rest" because by taking this position they get all the credit and can feel validated in their social position, while if they had to accept that others that did as they did were denied the same opportunity, then they wouldn't feel the same accomplishment - rather they would feel that they were lucky rather than being good.
Spez does the same. "We are a free speech website. We have plenty of conservatives that can follow the rules". The ones that weren't suspended yet by spez would read this and say "Yep. If I can do it, then it must have been the others that were at fault."
Spez can then point to and highlight one extreme example out of the 1000 banned and act as if this one was representing all of the banned users.

The transparency is good on saidit but you still can't view the removed content, so it's hard to judge if it was correctly removed.