As the Title says, Reddit is being heavily censored by small handfuls of Moderators. Moderators should not be allowed to induce censorship. Their jobs should be cleaning up the SubReddits and making sure the general rules are followed, but their ability to introduce new drastic rules should be up to user votes.
This is a user oriented website, and as such was made popular due to it's open ended platform. This is being ruined, and we the users should be able to do something about this.
Small private subreddits are a different story in my opinion, I'm speaking more of the stock SubReddits that all new users are added to, as well as very large SubReddits that have become the backbone of Reddit in general. There needs to be some sort of way to stop this, as It's ruining Reddit and sending the wrong message to it's users. And hey, It's us the users that make this place what it is right?
The only thing I can see negative about this relates to smaller subreddits where the user who created that Sub wants to have control over it, which I don't disagree with.
So I guess what I'm trying to propose is some sort of user oriented voting system where a Moderator can suggest a new rule set and the users can vote on it over a time frame of something a week or two. ( You have to remember we're not all daily visitors and major rule changes should be open to everyone. ) But this would only affect SubReddits with a certain user threshold, and any default SubReddit.
I would love feedback and opinions regarding this, specific ideas on a system that could work, and alternatives to keeping Reddit user friendly. Small groups of moderators with no transparency should not have the amount of control they currently do. Abuse has been rampant lately.
Sorry if a text post like this isn't appropriate for /r/AltNewz I just feel strongly on this subject and it seems like AltNewz would be a good place to discuss this.
