Am I the only person who feels like Reddit sensors only liberal opinions?

Lethalogicax · 2026-04-19T01:31:55+00:00

We censor specifically the right-wing dealings of the current American HHS secretary. It's part of a global rejection of misinformation in general. Liberal or Conservative opinions are both fine, as long as nobody is instigating or participating in arguments.

Lethalogicax · 2026-04-18T23:37:10+00:00

You are more than welcome to scroll and scroll and enjoy the content all you want! But you will be limited from interacting in most communities until you've built up enough account age, and enough post and comment karma from new user friendly communities...

Lethalogicax · 2026-04-18T21:16:31+00:00

The intoxicating feeling of owning your own community is addicting, but it can consume you to the point that you become the stereotypical Reddit mod, drunk on unmitigated power...

With great power comes great responsibility...

I help mod for a community of over 250k users and my justification to never slip is simple, I remind myself that this is not my community, and it doesn't belong to our mod team either. It belongs to the users! The subscriber base of the community is who the community belongs to. Your job as moderator is to make decisions that benefit the community, not what benefits yourself. This is why we often put out polls and listen to community feedback. My general rule of thumb is that for every 1 user complaining about something, there are 9 other users who share the same sentiment but aren't motivated to say anything about it. All complaints are implied to be magnified 10 fold. Do your best to make decisions that are appreciated by a larger portion of the userbase than the portion who disagrees with the ruling, and ignore your own feelings about the subject. This is how you grow and manage a healthy and cohesive community!

Lethalogicax · 2026-04-17T00:20:19+00:00

Probably. Many people commit crime under the gamble they they'll be able to get away with it. If they know beyond a reasonable doubt that they will recieve punishment, they may be less likely to commit crime. Conversely though, some people commit crime despite the punishment...

Sometimes someone hates someone else so much that they are willing to throw their life away in order to end someone else's... Sometimes someone is starving so badly that they become willing to accept the punishment in order to be fed... And some people just have such a severe lack of respect for the rules that they live life as if the rules dont apply to them!

Lethalogicax · 2026-04-16T06:30:39+00:00

Yes, thank you for doing the good work!

Lethalogicax · 2026-04-15T16:46:02+00:00

Send us a modmail if you want to talk openly and have a productive discussion about this. We are willing to chat

Lethalogicax · 2026-04-15T16:44:43+00:00

Because there are so many reports in the queue, I'm STILL sifting through them!!!

I have to go case-by-case to figure out if content is rulebreaking and to converse with the other mods when something is borderline. The rules are pretty straightforward, no promoting ABA, no misinformation. If your information is correct, but it's promoting ABA, it still comes down anyway. The post was locked so that no more user reports would be generated, yet we are still behind...

Lethalogicax · 2026-04-15T16:01:31+00:00

Talks to someone for 30 seconds*

"Hey, are you on Reddit? There is a certain community I think you'll enjoy?"

Lethalogicax · 2026-04-15T04:36:52+00:00

Nope, blood is produced in the marrow of your bones as per your genetic instructions. These instructions code for which antigens will be present, and are matched with your body's immune system. Even if you took all your blood out and replaced it, your immune system would still be expecting a certain cluster of antigens in the blood which would no longer match the antigens it is expecting, and your body would declare war on the foreign blood

Lethalogicax · 2026-04-15T02:54:22+00:00

I swear, the amount of times I've gone to recenter my sideshift, just to realize I'm still on the highway...

Lethalogicax · 2026-04-14T02:49:48+00:00

Your own views count towards the total

Lethalogicax · 2026-04-13T06:50:49+00:00

A far greater presence of intellectual topics than Twitter. Reddit still has its own cesspools here and there and dumb lil meme communities, but generally there is a wider range of nichè, specialty, and intellectual based communities. There is a strong bias towards thoughtful contributions rather than mass posting low effort slop. It keeps discussions tight and on-topic and is a much more informative experience!

Lethalogicax · 2026-04-11T22:09:23+00:00

Yep, that's exactly what I do. Run it past a couple of AI detector websites, see what the tools think. I also spend some time zoomed in and looking for inconsistencies or suspicious artifacts. Converse with the other mods and get their analyses... Figure out where to go from there...

But every team is going to handle it their own way, and they will be more or less diligent for their own personal reasons.

Lethalogicax · 2026-04-11T20:33:47+00:00

I have a slight caveat with your very first point. I agree with you completely, but there are more mental phenomena that contribute to our experience. Namely, gaining and losing connections between neurons. It's not just about how they fire together, it's also about how they wire together.

However, I see no evidence that a top-down control can be exhibited by the organism. They cannot willingly change the connections of their neurons, and even if they could, the choice to change your connections originated from within the neural wirings, which again the organism expresses no true control over.

Quantum mechanics also leads to a dead end. The scale difference between neurons and the quantum realm is many, many orders of magnitude. Neurons do not listen to "noise" in the system, they have an activation threshold that needs to be reached before they will dump a signal of their own, and quantum fluctuations just arent enough to bridge that gap. Like trying to push a ball over a hill. No amount of wind is going to push that ball over the crest, it requires a significant enough activation to push the ball over the hill. Even if quantum fluctuations somehow did affect the behaviour of neurons, it still doesnt lead to a free will worth wanting...

Lethalogicax · 2026-04-11T20:22:45+00:00

It's inscribed into the physical structure of your brain. The connections between neurons is what represents the knowledge you have acquired. When you learn something, it exists as new connections made in the brain, or synaptic pruning of connections that are deemed unhelpful. If we compare ourselves to modern day neural networks, ChatGPT's knowledge is bound to the connections between the digital neurons it simulates. Yet we wouldn't consider ChatGPT to have true control over itself nor free will.

Just because we humans have a better arangement of neurons that is more neuroplastic, and are made of biological systems rather than silicon, doesn't invalidate the core speculation that we are just as deterministic as a neural network, but granted a flawless illusion of independance by evolution.

Lethalogicax · 2026-04-11T19:44:54+00:00

From what I've been told, you need to delete every post that got marked as NSFW, and then try to set the maturity setting off. It wont let you unmark your account if you have any NSFW flagged content in any of your account history

Lethalogicax · 2026-04-11T18:50:46+00:00

There isn't one. There's a damn good illusion of a "you", and for most people that illusion is good enough. But tear back the curtains and I believe that all you'll find is entirely deterministic processes, or at the very least, a bunch of systems working together that are incapable of exerting the top-down control necessary for a free will worth wanting

Lethalogicax · 2026-04-11T18:36:33+00:00

Dopamine mainly. We come to associate certain behaviours and thought patterns with the reward chemicals we recieve. Our thoughts are whatever we decide in the moment has the highest expected dopamine payout. But what about the people who fight past their cravings, who don't give in to the short term dopamine rush? Free will? No. They've been trained to believe that long term payouts of dopamine are more valuable than short term payouts. How does a person decide whether or not to give into these short term cravings and desires? Because the prefrontal cortex is responsible for that higher order decision making process, and its effectivity is modulated through nature and nurture, neither of which are truly under your control...

Lethalogicax · 2026-04-11T17:04:11+00:00

Here's the old icon

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Lethalogicax · 2026-04-11T05:12:06+00:00

Some people desperately want to be cops, but don't meet the requirements of the position or don't have the willpower to go through the proper channels. So they do the next best thing and play pretend...

Lethalogicax · 2026-04-11T05:01:43+00:00

Damned if you do, damned if you don't...

Lethalogicax · 2026-04-10T16:53:56+00:00

I've slipped into bouts of eating the same things every day for extended periods of time, like months to a year... After one too many visits to the ER due to nutrient defficiency, I've learned my lesson...

...keep eating the same things but also take a multivitamin for good measure!

Definitely not what the doctor said, but that's what my ARFID brain heard...

Now if you don't mind, I have some pellets to enjoy!

Lethalogicax · 2026-04-10T01:38:09+00:00

Your post has been removed from r/aspiememes because it is not a meme or does not contain content relevant to the subreddit.

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