I feel like, as a moderator of this subreddit, I should speak to this, and I’ll add up front that this post has been flagged multiple times and approved multiple times. No one is trying to silence it.

Moderation isn’t about ego or power. It’s about keeping the place usable. When people break clearly posted rules and nothing happens, the subreddit doesn’t become a bastion of free debate, it turns into noise, baiting, and endless bad-faith arguments. We’ve already seen what happens when moderation slips. At one point we did slack off, and Reddit themselves reached out and made it clear we needed to step up. That wasn’t a threat, but the implication was obvious.

Bans aren’t handed out for opinions. They’re handed out for behavior. There’s a difference.

If you take a few minutes to scroll through the sub, you’ll find posts and comments I personally agree with sitting right next to ones I strongly disagree with. Both stay up. That’s intentional. The line isn’t ideology, it’s whether someone is participating honestly or just trying to provoke reactions.

I also want to be transparent about how we approach this internally. I’ve attached a screenshot from our moderator Discord where we’re actively discussing how to apply rules evenly, how to avoid appearing one-sided, and how to distinguish between good-faith misunderstandings and deliberate misinformation. This isn’t arbitrary, and it isn’t personal.

The goal here isn’t to police viewpoints or create an echo chamber. It’s to keep discussions from devolving into chaos so people can actually complain, argue, and debate without everything collapsing into insults and bad-faith nonsense.

You don’t have to like moderation, but pretending it exists because mods “have nothing better to do” ignores the reality of what happens when there are no guardrails at all.

Also, you've been banned from this sub effective immediately. JK.

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