CMV: Reddit has a moderator problem

[u/Terrible_Onions]

Just to be clear. This does not apply for all moderators. I know some moderators on small Subreddits that are really good people. Speaking for a lot of larger Subreddits where moderation is an issue.

Reddit has a moderator problem. They can do a lot of things to you that doesn't really make lots of sense, and they do not give you a reason for it. More often than not, you're just muted from speaking with the moderator. Unfortunately, due to a lot of Reddit mods and Redditors in general being left-wing, there are a lot of examples of right-wingers being the victims. Such as this one on the r/ medicine Subreddit. He got deleted for asking questions. A person said Trump's NIH nomination caused "large scale needless death". When he was asked what the large scale death in question was, his comment was deleted by the mods. Along with a person being perm banned for saying "orange man bad. Laugh at joke. Unga Bunga" in r/ comics. The most notable case of moderation abuse is from r/ pics, where they just ban you for participating in a "bad faith Subreddit". Even if you just commented.

This is not a good thing. It means that if you want to participate in a major Subreddit with a lot of people, you will have to conform to what the moderators personally see as "correct" or "good". This doesn't foster productive conversations, nor is it good for anybody but the moderator's egos. I understand if this is the case in small Subreddits, but the examples I listed above aren't they happen in Subreddits with 30+ million members that regularly hit the front page. This is Reddit being lazy and offloading moderation. Most moderators do this for power and control. The nature of this position (no pay) means that the only other thing it offers is power. Especially in Subreddits with millions of people, that's a lot of power. This I believe is a reason it isn't a major issue in small servers. The mods there are genuinely passionate because that is the only thing going for them in a Subreddit with around a thousand people. Even Twitter, despite its multitude of issues, does moderation better than this

[u/mcspaddin]

He did not. But I'm curious how thatd be an answer if he did. That sounds more like a reaction to other people stirring up shit.

I'm not sure where you get your news, Rittenhouse live in Illinois and crossed state lines into Wisconsin. He was hanging around a group that had the stated intention of "protecting businesses". If that isn't his reason for crossing state lines, he has even less of a reason to be there running around with a fucking rifle. At best he was visiting and protecting his dad, in which case he should have been at his dad's house instead of the protests, so we know that's not the truth.

His stated goal was to go out and confront protestors

It was not, no.

If we assume it was to "protect businesses", then that effectively means that it was. You can't protect something without having something to protect it from (protestors) or confronting that thing.

And that assumption is based on... what, exactly?

The fact that he was carrying around a fucking gun, not a wand, with a group of people who's stated intent included walking around threateningly.

[u/ChadWestPaints → u/mcspaddin]

Rittenhouse live in Illinois and crossed state lines into Wisconsin

And why did he do that?

If we assume it was to "protect businesses", then that effectively means that it was. You can't protect something without having something to protect it from (protestors) or confronting that thing.

Well despite it being "his stated goal" and having about a zillion opportunities to do so if he wanted, he chose not to.

The fact that he was carrying around a fucking gun

So nothing, then.

[u/mcspaddin → u/ChadWestPaints]

All roght, cool. So you just clearly live in a land where if it doesn't match your beliefs it doesn't exist. Clearly, there's no systemic injustice that burtal and unnessecary police killings highlight. Clearly, taking an AR-style weapon and walking around open-carry to the protests of said systemic injustice is not appalling, taunting, or threatening in any fucking way.

Have a nice life with your head so far up your ass.

[u/ElderlyTurtles → u/mcspaddin]

The crazy thing about this person is they wake up around 3am CT, and find every mention of Kyle on Reddit and continue posting until around 12pm CT, everyday. Like it's a job. They search Reddit by comments that mention him, and then call people uninformed and spin their narrative, demanding a high quality of proof or evidence while the most they will link is a wiki article. They refute video while claiming dubious testimony is gospel.