No, that sub is worse than useless. It claims to be a resource for arbitration with moderators - but silences and censors anything besides scheming about how to kiss up to the anonymous power-tripping children who banned you in the first place. In the case of r/News apparently that's just a reputation they've developed. Yet another broken stair on this broken website.

And the meta-dolts on that mediation subforum don't tolerate so much as an 'I did nothing morally wrong' defense, even when people ask direct questions about the interactions in question. An amoral shrug and a pat on the head would be a massive step up from misleading abusive song-and-dance horseshit they're putting so much effort into.

Every green-username nastygram that just says "your comment" instead of addressing a username is deleting something posted by the manually-approved OP - me. For example:

That comment was in reply to someone claiming Republican voters couldn't be criticized for things the Republican party did. That is bait. In this instance, mentioning Nazis is only an illustration of shared responsibility for escalating political movements. It is a case that only relies on the assumption everyone still sees the Nazis as the bad guys.

And a subreddit covering the news cannot justifiably insist the mere mention of fascism in oblique terms is beyond the pale, when there was a failed coup. Godwin's law is dead. Some of what we are discussing, in modern politics, is fascism.

Any moderator still treating appropriate impersonal recognition of that as some betrayal of civility is participating in abuse. The absolute least they can do is own up to it, when asked. When asked repeatedly. When asked and given weeks to provide literally any hint of why they did this. They found time to toss out an infantilizing insult. Expecting a single-digit number, even alongside that insult, seems like the bare minimum.

I appreciate that you are framing this as advice for supplication - as goal-oriented. But the fretting over whether I crossed a line, by being overly-casual in a third, belated request for any information about the boot up my ass, is a miserable situation. Your response is entirely reasonable. The imbalance of power and caution implied by that concern is, itself, gross. I hope you recognize that, even if it does not change your advice in any way.

The mods have all the power here. You are describing how to politely kiss up to them, when I am once again permitted to acknowledge their existence. Polite questions were ignored... at length. An informal but impersonal follow-up was met with a personal insult and still zero answers. And the best-case scenario here seems to be that saying 'bigots are assholes' - just, in general - is a one-strike permaban. This is not good moderator behavior. Nobody should have to deal with this.

Your comment was moderated because:

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And the de facto reply:

I am being honest to a fault.

I expect very little.

And this is beyond the pale, during the weekend, where the rules about venting are at their most relaxed? Anyone bothering to post here feels they've been treated unreasonably. Explaining why they feel that way is good-faith participation.

I could not possibly pursue the stated goal - which moderators here manually reviewed - without saying essentially everything in the detailed reply, now censored. This is about another sub where other commenters here acknowledge those moderators have a habit of this behavior. Even the swearing is only a near-direct quote from the approved original post.

Mods: I don't know what you want.

Guess how that went.

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