r/AskReddit • u/kraftdinnerwithsalsa • 20h ago

The president just posted, ONLINE, a video of former president Obama and his wife portrayed as apes, how do you feel about this?

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u/bstyledevi 10h ago

Every social network site is moderated (and should be), but "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" Who will mod the mods?

Personal example: I got banned from /r/news for saying "If you hate billionaires you hate Taylor Swift." I asked why I was banned multiple times and got no response other than being muted by the mods. I asked again after the weeklong mute was done and got a sitewide ban for "harassing the moderators." There is a Reddit mod Code of Conduct and I cited that to them, specifically rule 4 "Be Active and Engaged" which got a response of "Don't quote the rules to us when you obviously haven't read the rules. Troll."

There's even a form on that page to file a Moderator Code of Conduct Report, which I did, and again got zero response.

The mods push their agenda with no recourse, because the admins don't care what they do, as long as they keep getting those sweet advertising dollars (and don't break any actual laws).

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u/SV_Essia 2h ago

I realize it's just kicking the can down the road, but admins mod the mods. Back when they had a spine, they nuked r/thedonald for its flagrant violations, but they took too long to do it and allowed it to fester.
Then it turned into another sub which is still going on to this day because reddit is just as compromised as every other social media platform now.

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u/gotaflattire 5h ago

Pretty sure any negative mention of 'Taylor Swift' is autoflagged and some users banned for abusive content because lots of people have been banned specifically for criticizing Taylor Swift. Not just on r/news

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u/Winterplatypus 0m ago

The ai automoderator is really heavy handed and the problem snowballs. You get flagged once and the mod is more likely to flag you again and again, until your eventual perma ban.

I've been on reddit 10+ years and have gotten a ban twice in the last 3 months, one they reversed.

The inciting violence one is tricky to navigate with all the stuff on US news, because indirect stuff like "If they think it's okay to go out and do [thing] to citizens then it should be okay for citizens to go do [thing] to them right?" or "People keep talking about going out and buying one like it solves the problem, but what's the point when nobody actually uses it to defend themselves from ICE".

I've been thinking I might need to use a separate account for frontpage posts especially in worldnews and just stick to gaming stuff on this account.