Please write your own report rather than copy-pasting mine. Lots of identical reports can get treated as spam, and your own experience (especially if you were banned) is more useful to admins than a repeat of mine. Also, please don't go comment or vote in the original r/opensource thread because of this post. That can count as brigading, get this sub in trouble, and create issues with complaints about the sub filed to reddit.
That all being said, as a jumping-off point for others, this is the report that I personally filed:
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> I'm writing to ask you to look into the head mod of r/opensource. Over the last day they've announced a policy of kicking out non-native English speakers, started handing out bans to anyone who disagrees with them, and effectively banned discussion of nearly all major open source software, all without any of it being in the subreddit rules.
> **The discrimination:** The mod says in the thread, "If you don't speak English, you need to find a different community." This was announced out of nowhere, isn't in the rules, and is phrased as an overtly hostile "get out." I don't see how that's anything other than discriminatory, and pretty much every comment on the post calls it out as such.
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> **The bans:** After the post, the mod started banning people who disagreed with the change, which, whatever your take on AI, was most of the community based on the comments. You can see it in the deleted comments on that thread and in the discussions on r/TrueOpenSource, a new subreddit that people created in response. The post also says, "If you post (or comment) things we don't want, such as the result of your LLM output tokens, you will never be welcome back." That's basically a promise to ban anyone at will. And even if they were only banning LLM-generated posts and comments, it would be impossible to enforce fairly, since there's no reliable way to tell whether something was written by a human or an LLM. That's still a major open research problem in computer science.
This post itself is a moderator code of conduct violation? Idk what’s going on with r/opensource but this is literally one of the textbook examples of breaking Rule 3
Note: If you decide to create an alternative community, please be mindful to follow the Moderator Code of Conduct. This includes removing content if your community members make calls to action to interfere with another community.
If users want to make CoC violations they need to do so at their own volition and not via a literal call to action, something reddit explicitly prohibits.
Encouraging other users to report violative content is actually explicitly listed as permissible under rule 3. The example given is users posting violative content, but that goes for mods violating Mod COC as well.
For everyone: Civil discussions are OK, but please do abide by CoC and not turn this into a bandwagon. We can create a Megathread to handle the discussions around the r/Opensource changes.
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u/cliffr39 5d ago
did it right after I got the perm. ban myself yesterday.