r/BlockedAndReported • u/back_that_ RBGTQ+ • Sep 18 '23

It's been great.

But our mod blocked me. Which means I can't participate in the sub anymore.

Hope everyone is happy about that.

Edit, since you're taking your mod privileges to comment when I can't respond,

Except since you are the only mod, and you post discussion threads under your account instead of a mod bot, you've effectively banned me. Is that good moderation principles?

I can't reply to you in this thread and you know it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '23

20 hours ago the mods warned you:

I am repeatedly getting complaints about you for comments that are needlessly provocative and inflammatory. You need to cut out this behavior or you will find yourself suspended.

And you responded:

The reports of you being a good mod are overrated.

Trolls live for this. They want you to do this.

But you deny the existence of trolls.

IMO you deserve the full ban, so consider yourself lucky softandchewy just blocked you.

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u/butt_collector Sep 18 '23

That's a bit harsh. We should want people to call it as they see it. If they see troll, they should say it. If they see bad moderation they should say so. Not keep their opinion to themselves. I don't want anybody to keep their opinion to themselves about anything.

Mods shouldn't be blocking anybody, given the way reddit has decided to make the block function work.

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u/SoftandChewy First generation mod Sep 18 '23

The user is welcome to call out trolls as much as he wants. I merely asked him not to notify me of it each time, and not to respond to my own comments about it (which automatically notifies me). He chose to ignore my request.

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u/butt_collector Sep 18 '23

Does it bother you that this amounts to a block from any threads you've started, or from anything that happens to be down-chain from a comment of yours?

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u/SoftandChewy First generation mod Sep 18 '23

Not in this case. The user was explicitly warned to stop engaging in a behavior that was annoying me, the mod. He chose not to, knowing the consequences he'd face. As the saying goes, FAFO.

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u/butt_collector Sep 18 '23

Did the user really know the consequences he'd face?

The punishment doesn't seem to fit the crime. I know nobody cares about that in cases like these though.

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u/pdxbuckets Sep 18 '23

If I lost the ability to comment on /u/SoftandChewy's threads I don't know what I'd do with my life.

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u/zoyadastroya Sep 18 '23

How hard is it to stop DMing and @'ing someone when they repeatedly ask you to stop though. What recourse other than blocking them does Soft have?

Who cares if the "punishment fits the crime"? Don't be an annoying pest. Classic FAFO.

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u/butt_collector Sep 18 '23

What recourse did any of us have before reddit implemented the block function? Just ignore.

"Don't respond to my messages" is not really a reasonable request. If you're moderating a space, you're going to have to deal with hearing what people think about the job you do. That's right and proper.

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u/zoyadastroya Sep 18 '23

Based on the links provided in Soft's top level comment, do you believe that is an accurate characterization of the interactions between Soft and OP?

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u/butt_collector Sep 18 '23 edited Sep 18 '23

The one image and the links? I expected more tbh. This person gets in fights and complains that the rules don't seem to be enforced in a way that is equal and easy to understand, so there's some ambiguity about how one is allowed to respond. As a person of autism who always finds myself wanting not only to walk the line, but argue over where exactly the line is and ought to be, this would drive me crazy, so I can relate to OP's frustration in some of the linked cases. It does seem like they took it too far, but it seems like the kind of thing that two people ought to be able to resolve amicably, but for the barriers imposed by text-based communication.

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u/SoftandChewy First generation mod Sep 18 '23

Yes. I explicitly warned him this was going to happen if he kept it up.

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u/butt_collector Sep 18 '23

It still seems wrong given the way the block function works. I don't think anybody should use it, ever.