Comment by Wyboth on 24/07/2014 at 01:19 UTC

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View submission: [Updated] Who runs /r/Holocaust? Each line represents a moderator overlap. [OC]

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I wish I could see him banned, too, but, from the admins' perspective, what reason is there to ban him? After all, he hasn't broken any of reddit's official bannable rules. Subreddit squatting is heavily frowned upon, yes, but the admins can't ban for that. Really, the best thing to do would be to use common sense when banning instead of guidelines, so long as the admins are reasonable and unbiased (which isn't guaranteed to be true). But even if they were reasonable and unbiased, knowing how redditors are, they wouldn't be okay with this, because they would want a laundry list of guidelines spelled out incredibly clearly for when to ban users. Could those work? No, because loopholes keep popping up. For example, the "voting out moderators" idea is flawed, because one subreddit could brigade another subreddit's vote. Making it so only long-time subscribers could vote would eliminate part of this risk, but it doesn't stop people from creating multiple alt accounts and having them subscribe in case a future vote comes up. Besides, it might prevent a large part of the active community from voting. We could keep coming up with checks to these loopholes, but it seems like wherever you close one, two more open up. So, really, there is no good solution to this. I'd suggest the "lesser of the evils" option, which I believe is the admins using their common sense, but I have no say in how reddit is run.

Sorry, that got very long, but I've been wanting to write down my thoughts on this issue for a little while.

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Comment by AnSq at 24/07/2014 at 01:28 UTC

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I generally agree with you, but

but the admins can't ban for that

They can ban anyone for whatever they want.

For example[1]:

1: http://www.reddit.com/help/useragreement#p_4

Without advance notice and at any time, we may, for violations of this agreement or for any other reason we choose: (1) suspend your access to reddit

or[2]:

2: http://www.reddit.com/help/useragreement#p_28

Moderating a subreddit is an unofficial, voluntary position. We reserve the right to revoke that position for any user at any time.