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0 sympathy for reddit on this one. you guys have a major problem with abusive moderators that will permaban users from large communities with no appeal path to go above and beyond that team.
hell, you have large subs with millions of users that will use bots and your api to automatically ban users simply because the participate in subs that the mod team doesn't like.
this is a classic case of "you reap what you sow".
hopefully the courts set a very clear precedent that the way you guys (and the "landed gentry" as spez referred to entrenched mod teams as) run things is unacceptable.
Comment by BlackScienceManTyson at 21/02/2024 at 21:15 UTC
11 upvotes, 2 direct replies
The problem is that people don't know where reddit (as a company) ends and the volunteers begin. All they see is some immature and rude anonymous ban message from subreddit. Of course people are going to blame reddit the company. You can't appeal. You can't complain. You just get muted and cursed at.
Comment by lol_u_r_FAT at 22/02/2024 at 14:44 UTC
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Yup. You have some mods that moderate 200 subreddits. If they see a comment you don't like, they will use a bot to ban you from every subreddit they moderate without mentioning which rule you broke (since you didn't break any rules).
And if you ask for a clarification from the moderators, you get muted from mod mail.
Fuck them.
Comment by wickedplayer494 at 21/02/2024 at 23:58 UTC
5 upvotes, 1 direct replies
1000% agree. Some of them need to squirm at least just a little under threat of a ruling by gavel against them, however remote that chance may be and even if they get white-knighted into having a case tossed on some technicality. The admins sure wouldn't be comping their expenses when they come knocking after all's said and done.