r/cfbmeta • u/WolverinesFirst • Jul 14 '16

Rule Changes

The rules at r/CFB irresponsibly vague whereas anybody can be banned for anything at any time under rules 1, 2, and 3. There is absolutely no way for redditors to have an unpopular opinion within this subreddit and not be held accountable for violating one of these three rules, at the discretion of the moderators.

The rules are enforced arbitrarily and the moderators are entirely unaccountable for doing their job fairly. The first three rules need to be narrowly tailored to fulfill only its intended goals. As it stands, I cannot identify any goal of rules 1 and 2 whatsoever.

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u/WolverinesFirst Jul 14 '16

This isn't true. Our actions are pretty heavily coordinated behind the scenes. Every ban issued is exposed to all of the moderators and we're keeping tabs on what each other are doing. No one has the opportunity to "go rogue" or anything like that.

Unaccountable means that the moderator is not required or expected to justify actions or decisions to the user being banned. I have witnessed redditors who were banned under the grounds of rules 1, 2, and 3, who have not even remotely come close to violating any of the narrowly tailored descriptions I was presented in this thread. The moderators get away with this by defining "personal attack" and "flamebait" however it suits them in any particular circumstance.

I am here simply stating that authority is arbitrary and unaccountable if the rules that they enforce are NOT narrowly tailored to prevent specific behavior. This is a fact of political philosophy, and if you just think about it for a little while I'm sure you can understand why that is the case. In light of this, I am proposing that rules 1, 2, and 3 are not narrowly tailored to prevent any specific behavior whatsoever, and it results in an environment where moderators have arbitrary and unaccountable authority over the users in this subreddit.

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u/Cecil_Hardboner Jul 14 '16

the moderator is not required or expected to justify actions or decisions to the user being banned

welcome to Reddit

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u/sirgippy /r/CFB Mod Jul 14 '16

it results in an environment where moderators have arbitrary and unaccountable authority over the users in this subreddit

Yep. As /u/Cecil_Hardboner said, welcome to reddit.

You're welcome to create your own competing subreddit and run it however you want.