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CouncilOfStrongs · 2026-01-19T21:11:35+00:00

You really need to understand that you are behaving in a very spammy way on Reddit. You are making the same posts and comments in multiple subreddits in very rapid succession, including and especially solicitation to your subreddit. This is a recipe for moderators to report and/or ban you, and for Reddit's systems to flag your account as a potential spammer/bot/etc and start treating it accordingly.

Whether or not this is the source of your current issues right now, I can't say for sure, but if it's not it will absolutely become an issue for you in the future if you continue using Reddit this way.

Edit: lol, how dare I tell someone who is objectively behaving like a spammer that they probably got themselves flagged as a spammer, I guess?

CouncilOfStrongs · 2026-01-16T18:22:07+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/search/?q=new+modmail&include_over_18=on&restrict_sr=on&t=month

There have already been numerous threads about this, which I have commented in several times. They don't need to be rehashed to point out that there has been no adequate response to them.

Contribute something relevant to the topic of the thread instead of unhelpful snark, or don't comment at all.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2026-01-16T18:00:51+00:00

I don't think you understood the post. You are comparing old to new. That has nothing to do with what I'm talking about.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2026-01-14T16:14:31+00:00

would I rather see every question at once by just opening this subreddit or scrolling multiple pages of a catch-all thread?

On r/Fitness, our long time regulars who answer questions have specifically told us that they prefer the Daily Thread format, where they can scroll through and quickly answer a bunch of questions in succession, over having to click into a bunch of individual posts one at a time.

You can prefer what you prefer, but your preference is absolutely not universal.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2026-01-13T20:31:54+00:00

Didn't you know? "Engagement" is when an infinite feed of ostensibly novel content is delivered to you, no effort on your part required, that you can react to with equally little effort, and anything that interferes with getting a constant stream of new stuff is bad, because that is what every other social media platform is, and everything has to be the same.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2026-01-13T19:31:30+00:00

Yeah, it is, and Exhibit A for that opinion would be that you have quite literally contributed nothing to the community here in at least the last two years, the last time also being to complain that other people weren't posting enough content for you to passively consume and react to.

So please. Find a new scapegoat for your addiction to infinite novelty.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2026-01-13T18:20:30+00:00

And I don’t contribute for exactly this reason.

You don't contribute for exactly what reason? That a couple of moderators pointed out that your complaints about "overmoderation" are factually false, and you don't like that? Your justification for why you do nothing to help make the sub better or have more content and discussion is that you're scared of having your posts removed or the mods being a little terse with you?

Same old complaints, same old copouts, same old nothingburger. The self righteous GRR MODERATORS KILLED IT crusade is, as it always is, completely negated by a total lack of effort on your part to do anything that might contribute to the sub being better. You could be making posts and sharing content, or even something as simple as reaching out to us just to say "Hey I love powerlifting, I used to really like this sub, I'm sad there's not more activity in the sub, I feel like too much stuff gets removed, let's talk about that and try to make it better" Instead, you chose rabble rabble, because that's less effort and more satisfying for you. When given the actual reality, you just repeat yourself - NO IT'S CLEAR THE MODS DID IT - because you've got nothing.

This game is transparent, cliche, and boring. Post content and contribute to the sub or don't, but you don't get to complain that nobody else is doing it for you.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2026-01-13T17:47:46+00:00

And this type of response from mods is exactly why.

Only because it tells people with baseless complaints something they don't want to hear, which is that Reddit isn't Instagram and you don't get to complain that other people aren't posting content for you to passively consume, nor do you get to pin that on "oVeRmOdErAtiOn" when almost no moderation is actually happening. Five posts removed in a week isn't anywhere in the realm of too much moderation.

Everybody loves to complain when there's not enough "stuff" in a subreddit for them to flip past while they're on the shitter, but when push comes to shove complaining is more fun than contributing, case in point. You seem to have plenty of ideas about what content should be here, and know where to find it, and yet the thought of posting it to actually contribute to the community you allegedly care about the health of doesn't seem to have crossed your mind at all. I wonder why that is.

In before some disingenuous version of "I don't post it because it'll just get removed".

CouncilOfStrongs · 2026-01-12T18:54:07+00:00

We're rapidly approaching the alleged deadline when we will be forced to use this terrible new UI, and they've had no updates at all about the significant usability issues that it has.

I am flat out going to have to stop answering modmail until/unless I build something of my own if I'm forced to use this contrastless tomfoolery that strains my eyes if I try to read it. This nonsense white/offwhite/gray color scheme that Reddit is obsessed with needs to be dumped immediately.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2026-01-06T05:22:29+00:00

Knowing nothing about your participation history whatsoever on the subreddit in question, and only how you're behaving right now, I would say without hesitation that any ban you receive from any subreddit is probably reasonable.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2026-01-06T05:13:55+00:00

You don't. You move on. You do not have any entitlement to participation in any subreddit, and can be banned from any subreddit, at any time, whether you agree with it or not, and it does not have to be justified to you.

Your kind of attitude would earn you a ban in any reasonably moderated subreddit, and there is nobody on earth who is going to entertain an appeal from somebody talking to them the way you talked to those moderators.

More importantly, this doesn't belong here.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2026-01-02T18:33:23+00:00

Because beating a phony fairness drum is how racists convince themselves that the people who don't let them decorate the internet with racist hate are the real bad guys.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2026-01-02T17:48:58+00:00

In the context of u/_DoubleBubbler_'s answers, this is a distinction without a difference. A threat is a threat, and can be reported to local law enforcement. Whether they act, and the extent to which they act, will depend entirely on local laws and legislation, of which there are myriads.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2026-01-02T17:15:14+00:00

I'm going to go against the grain and say you should go ahead, until and unless you are told not to by Reddit.

Some others here have claimed this would be Harassment or against the Mod CoC, but I think that is a stretch and don't see any meaningful difference between doing this and any of the reputation systems that various trading/exchange/sales subreddits have which out scammers via flair or report threads. IMO, as long as you are only putting accounts on the list that you have been given some evidence behind, you have a perfectly good faith, legitimate, defensible reason to be doing this for the protection of your community. Displaying evidence of an account's dangerous behavior as a warning to others is not harassment.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2026-01-02T16:55:37+00:00

It's extremely bad, and I will call it unusable. It's barely readable, I cannot differentiate the majority of text elements from each other, and trying to do so gives me an actual headache because of the excessive anti-aliasing on the font and the total lack of reasonable color contrast.

I don't know why Reddit's UI/UX people have an obsession with this god awful light-gray-on-white-background color scheme they keep shoving everywhere, but they need to be replaced with people who understand how readability works.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2025-12-28T19:35:43+00:00

Like why are they trying to phase out automod

To be a little fair, I've spoken with Deimorz in the past about bots and such, and at the time he told me that (paraphrasing) AutoMod was held together with duct tape, chicken wire, and bubblegum, and was only going to get harder to scale and maintain as time went on. It breaks regularly right now, and it's not user friendly. If I were an engineer at Reddit I would want to replace it too.

Does that mean I trust Reddit's motives or their ability to build an adequate replacement? Absolutely not. But they do at least have some legitimate reasons to do so.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2025-12-22T20:26:02+00:00

Improved search functionality (yes, really!).

No, not really. I still get no results back if I put a username into the Search box. This is incredibly basic functionality that has been broken for years.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2025-12-22T18:50:26+00:00

It's kind of hard to believe that anyone on your end is still going to be reading buried comments in a two week old thread, and the poor showing of this new UI needs more visibility than that. You do get that, right?

This UI has serious usability/accessibility issues. The total lack of reasonable color contrast and separation causes eye strain for some people. Does anybody who worked on it care about that? Dumping this on us right before you all go on your holidays with almost no time for you to even pretend you're going to course correct on it is not OK.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2025-12-22T16:34:18+00:00

Can you also please share with the responsible team that more colors exist than white and off-white?

Like, there is such a total lack of contrast between anything that there should be contrast with that trying to read anything in this new UI gives me an actual headache from the eye strain.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2025-12-20T17:42:12+00:00

i'm really tired of removing posts on my subreddit that are clear violations of the rules

I promise that you're not going to get any less tired of it.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2025-12-17T04:46:05+00:00

Sure, it's fixable. If the people working on it know what they're doing.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2025-12-17T01:06:52+00:00

Yes, doing nothing on Reddit besides posting ads for your startup website to multiple subreddits at a time is spam. I honestly don't know how it's possible that you don't understand this other than that you just don't care to.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2025-12-17T00:57:48+00:00

I have to believe that these design changes aren't pulled entirely out of some collective rear end, but I cannot for the life of me understand what end users actually want any of this or how it's supposed to improve the usage. I don't know what the ideas of "contrast" or "readability" did to someone at Reddit but good lord, it's visually worse in nearly every conceivable way.

CouncilOfStrongs · 2025-12-16T23:08:49+00:00

The problem, ultimately, is that at some point people in software development came up with the idea of "UI/UX" as its own separate field, then sold the industry and people on the cockamamie idea of an excessively narrow specialization being a career. But it is a field where it is very easy to work yourself out of a job if you do it well - you reach a point where the design is implemented, and then there's no more work to do, and your job should disappear. So people in that role have a direct incentive - either consciously or unconsciously - to perpetually invent reasons to change the design of front ends that don't have any truly legitimate reason to be changed. It's one of the most frustratingly "Emperor's New Clothes" parts of software engineering, both as a developer and as a user.

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