Reddit announces ability for moderators to remove content sitewide and new limits on moderating large subreddits

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ForgTheSlothful@reddit

Getting banned by spineless children because you made a comment elsewhere so a bot flags you is stupid and old these days.

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Ashkir@reddit

There’s a major tv show subreddit where the mods will ban you if you say anything negative whatsoever. You can say 99 good things the moment you say one negative it’s a ban.

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Good luck in the cats sub. Just dealt with them removing posts, comments & banning because they didn’t like what people were saying. The cherry on top is they deleted comments of people asking why they had removed a post.

Full on power tripping cops over there.

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Cee_U_Next_Tuesday@reddit

God forbid you say anything negative about the Daily Mail while in r/popculture

The editors must all be admins.

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HueyLovestain-@reddit

Can't wait for dig2.0

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IlIIllIIIlllIlIlI@reddit

About 14 years ago I moderated a small sub I had started and I honestly don't understand what people get out of it on a personal level.

I've been banned so many times just for disagreeing with a mod or even just for warning other users to be careful about how they respond to a mod.

But like what's the satisfaction people get from it? having to sift through dozens of reports a day and having to police the community and spending your free time cleaning up the worst comments imaginable. I don't get the drive to want to do that for so many subs.

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solarus@reddit

Imagine you're fat, ugly, and unpopular. No one in your family takes you seriously. You cannot get a date because of aforementioned ugliness and unlike-ability. Suddenly you have dominion over others - you balk as they plead for mercy but when was mercy ever granted to you? In righteous hands moderation is gardening, but see, well adjusted people garden in real life not on the internet. They have hobbies. No, its the losers that have nothing that you find clutching this something and exercising power with disdain suckling these cheap little thrills.

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Darksirius@reddit

I was the primary admin on a car forum for many years. It was practically a job - well I was getting paid to do it. However, the mod team would discuss any reports among each other and decide how to handle whatever situation popped up.

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ReMeDyIII@reddit

How does someone get paid to be a Reddit mod and how much did yours pay?

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Darksirius@reddit

I was never a reddit mod. And this was an actual forum online in the late 90's to early 2,000's.

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PersonalityUpper2388@reddit

I've been kicked out of subs and banned from my account so many times for expressing an opinionthat, didn't suit some d1ckl3ss moderator, that I've lost count.

Reddit is a stinking pile of garbage, but unfortunately it has wiped out almost all alternatives. But the arrogance of many moderators here is a serious problem, and Reddit urgently needs to do much more about it.

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rockstarsball@reddit

i read 13 pages of people celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk while i am permanently banned from the subreddit for correcting someone blatantly lying about what happened in the Kyle Rittenhouse incident while the trial was going on.

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DoncicLakers@reddit

Moderating isn't something you do for money it's something you do as a service to the community because you are passionate about the topic. It's a privilege.

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ResolverOshawott@reddit

People relentless shit on mods/admins in community spaces until they need them.

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reddit_top_mind@reddit

they're narcissists. petty tyrants.

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LoquendoEsGenial@reddit

The moderators will be more "powerful" than a certain ruler of North Korea...

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BigPhilip@reddit

WE ARE ACCOMPLICES OF GENOCIDE

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ResolverOshawott@reddit

Comparing this to genocide is so silly, lmao.

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BigPhilip@reddit

LOL

Then one day there will be no more news about wars, and who knows why? It will mean that all wars have stopped, right.

I mean, we can't be accomplices if all we do is scrolling for cat videos, right?

WE ARE ACCOMPLICES OF GENOCIDE

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CyberBerserk@reddit

Most sane pally

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BigPhilip@reddit

LOL

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ResolverOshawott@reddit

This comment is so unserious, lmao 💀💀💀

"People use reddit, which means they support genocide."

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BigPhilip@reddit

Does the country you live in recognize the State of Palestine?

If not, better keep scrolling for them nice cats

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ResolverOshawott@reddit

You talk like an AI bot specifically programmed to be a conservative's definition of "woke".

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BigPhilip@reddit

Too bad for you, don't waste your time with me then.

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ResolverOshawott@reddit

I recommend you learn what the word "genocide" means before using it willy nilly.

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BigPhilip@reddit

Ok zionist boi.

If I'm a bot, you're no better that those who have ChatGPT as their girlfriend. Maybe your are.

Maybe if you are a good boi, good old Bibi will buy you a girlfriend when the genocide is over

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ResolverOshawott@reddit

>Misuses the term genocide

>Gets called out

>"You're a zionist!"

Impressive olympics tier mental gymnastic there.

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BigPhilip@reddit

IT IS A GENOCIDE BUT IT IS MORE URGENT THAT YOU GET A GF OUTSIDE OF CHATGPT

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ResolverOshawott@reddit

lol

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flassif@reddit

We are doomed boys

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AManOnATrain@reddit

This isn't the case for all mods but I suspect it is for a large number of them:

These people feel powerless over their lives outside of their sub and Reddit. They feel they don't have much control over their own lives and aren't respected the way they feel they should be. Becoming a mod lets them regain some of the power and control aspects back. They also probably don't feel very respected in real life and lack the ability to change that narrative without substantially changing a large part of their identity. Moderating allows them to silence anyone disrespectful to them without having to change anything about themselves and usually in a space that they already feel very comfortable and secure.

Im not a mod or a psychologist so I could be way off base with my beliefs here, but this is what I imagine is happening to some of these people

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