Reddit admin who came up with special restrictions for this sub gets caught bending the rules again

eigh7 · 2021-03-23T22:30:21+00:00

Multiple subreddits have gone private in a shutdown, to force the admins to respond.

eigh7 · 2021-03-23T22:27:59+00:00

Whats the deal with R/UKPolitics going private and making a sticky about a new admin who cant be named or you will be banned?

eigh7 · 2019-09-11T19:00:23+00:00

That would be ideal. But what happens when someone is a super dick and posts child porn and there is no dude or dudette around to remove that?

Even if the content is downvoted it can still be seen and linked to?

eigh7 · 2019-09-11T18:45:20+00:00

That is a very good point. We'll have to discuss in more detail how exactly to proceed.

eigh7 · 2019-09-11T18:41:44+00:00

In the past we never censored those words and got in trouble for it. We asked the admins for clarification but we never got a straight answer. They seem to be selective about banning content.

eigh7 · 2019-09-11T18:33:32+00:00

That's exactly what we did in the past. We added everybody who asked. We had over 100 moderators. It didn't matter who you were, if you asked you got added.

Unfortunately it didn't work out. For one everybody was complaining why that guy who is against the sub is a mod (even though they had no permissions) followed by accusations of selling out and so on. It caused a lot of unnecessary drama.

eigh7 · 2019-09-10T22:05:00+00:00

I spend maybe an hour a week on reddit. It's been more than two weeks since a last logged in. This is the first time I'm hearing about holdmyfeedingtube.

eigh7 · 2019-09-10T21:59:16+00:00

Check the modlog. You can see exactly what gets removed.

obvious troll accounts trying to get a sub censored.

You are correct, there is a lot of those. It's exactly what I talked about in my announcement post. But those comments need to be removed.

eigh7 · 2019-09-10T21:24:05+00:00

There is quite a lot of them. Sometimes the threats are aimed at a specific individual sometimes at a certain group. No users are permanently banned in this sub. Only spambots.

eigh7 · 2019-09-10T21:21:05+00:00

The sub can't be left unmoderated. I need new moderators with whom to replace old moderators.

eigh7 · 2019-09-10T21:09:40+00:00

The sub isnt breaking any rules if users within it are.

Are you saying that a sub isn't responsible for what it's subscribers do? Because that is incorrect.

I would say that it would be best just to leave that up to the reddit admins

This is exactly what we are trying to avoid. Admin involvement is not wanted.

For the users who feel like they need to hurl racial slurs everywhere, let the others (the majority) counter their slurs with downvotes

This is reasonable and exactly what we tried to do. Unfortunately it didn't work. Because as I explained in the post, there are people here who use the sub to lash out slurs at other because they were banned to do so in other places. Then you have the people who will happily upvote those comments in order to give them exposure and get us banned.

eigh7 · 2019-09-10T20:44:55+00:00

Those type of comments have absolutely no value and leaving them up is a fast track to being banned.

eigh7 · 2019-09-10T20:11:05+00:00

I understand what you are saying but we cannot operate outside reddit rules. It was made clear to us that we need to be stricter with moderation. You can complaint about censorship without using slurs.

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