I always get nervous when someone vaguely references their free speech. Aside from it being a poor argument against most censorship, it also doesn’t include any context. There is nothing in this post to suggest the removed comments were anything but spam and threats.
Now I do know a little bit about how Reddit mods operate, and I can fill in some gaps, but I have no reason to believe these were helpful or insightful comments that were just unpopular.
Exactly. Some of the best subreddits were so great because they had heavy moderation.
Probably the best example of this is askhistorians. Made a comment that was on topic but had no sources? Removed! With a clear (and public) comment of why it was removed. It was clearly stated in their rules that this was required, so it was absolutely justified.
We have no idea what these comments were and whether they were in violation of the sub’s rules.
Let’s shit on reddit for the actual things that are going wrong. This seems more like getting outraged over a picture of your ex with another guy/girl/whatever gender their interested in in the background.
AskHistorians may be my favorite corner of the Internet ever. What a great sub and mod team.
What a great sub and mod team
Until the day you write an extensive answer to a question, which is not released, and upon requesting an explanation why, you get a really weird response with criticism that doesn’t actually make sense, only to then find that the mod who responds to you (and who did not have any expertise at all on that topic) just took your comment, rewrote it, and posted it himself.
Really great sub, that one.
I’m all for shitting on Reddit, stupid mods, stupid AEO, etc. but this has literally 0 context as to what those comments content was and a big dosage of SAS in the title.
Edit: Not sure why this became a reply instead of a top comment.
I mean it’s a moderated forum, not a public square.
Lemmy isn’t different in this regard, and comments also get deleted here by mods.
Reddit has been like that for years, sometime around 2016 it started to get bad and has just slowly been moving to even worse
Are we going to start pretending this is something new to bash on reddit?
Given the lack of context the mods might be in the right here, what is up with the expectation you can just barge up to a community and say whatever you want, there are rules for a reason.
Sure let’s circlejerk
