Edit: Oops, it is /r/Tennessee, not /r/ProgressiveHQ
"Well, I do mind because I motherfucking live here, and I'm not having a good day. So how about you stop being a fucking knob and answer my question?"
Me too. What district?Is it a senatpr? I'm drowning in hopelessness over here.
Wow what a cunt of a mod
All Reddit mods are cunts. No exceptions.
Reddit is so wild now, man. I got a three day site-wide ban for commenting on a LAMF thread about Mitch McConnell not liking the direction of the Republican party now even though he was one of the architects. My comment agreed. Apparently I was harassing Mitch McConnell.
Why can a mod in one subreddit ban someone from the whole site?
Wow we can't even criticize our politicians anymore? Land of the free, my ass. And fuck reddit, toxic wasteland.
Haven't been to Tennessee, I went to Louisville Kentucky, I hated it there. It was like going back in time, all white people in suits, the only black person was homeless. The homeless guy was moving place to place so shop owners wouldn't have time to harass him. Nothing like a fancy meal in a high class restaurant full of well off white dudes and a homeless black guy outside the window.
Reddit mod moment ☕
Obligatory fuck reddit comment
I mean, Tennessee is as red as you can get. Except maybe Nashville.
Memphis checking in....
No outside political agitators (This is a broad one, but if we look at your post history and all you do is spam geographical subs stirring the political cauldron we will remove your post and ban you from this sub)
The lesson on Reddit (if you still use that platform) is to hide your history. I'm guessing they used this rule for the ban. Bans from subs should exclusively be for content posted on that sub. If something is bad enough to warrant a sitewide ban, that is another matter.
Anyhow, there are is another post about the election: https://old.reddit.com/r/Tennessee/comments/1p36q6s/millions_pour_into_tennessee_special_election/
That history can be made visible on the new layout with the complicated hack of going to the profile page, and using the search bar to search for a space or an asterisk.
Lol, what a garbage site. They have so many different layouts and versions of the site that I'm not surprised they fucked up on (at least) one of them.
The more complicated you make something, the more room you are giving yourself to fuck up.
So better lesson on Reddit: just don't bother with it.
This raises the question: Is there somebody else on that sub posting about the special election? There should be enough Tennesseans that at least one of them should post there.
Blue dots in a sea of red. I'm in a similar political geography and you see a similar pattern.
I'm sure there's been quite a few posts, but they just don't last.
Reddit is sort of dead.
Reddit sucks? Gosh, next you're going to tell me Twitter and Facebook are bad, too!
Twitter and Facebook are bad as well.
And what about /c/Tennessee on here?
From
The start page of the internet
To:
this tiny little corner on the internet
Reddit sure has come far
At one point it was a glorious place. Then 5 people became admins and mods of the most popular 100 sub reddits and began controlling the narrative to fit their beliefs. In my opinion reddit has been dead for at least 5 years now
Fuck reddit, and fuck censorship.
Lets be clear though, reddit is only worse than lemmy because it is centralized by one group of douchebags.
Lemmy has plenty of shitty moderation too, and arguably is worse at dealing with it within any given instance due to the lack of proper mod tools, the way posts that are deleted remove entire comment sections from being accessible, the lack of any appeals system and I'm sure a few other things I don't remember off the top of my head.
Its a people problem, and its a style of organization problem with this style of forum.
Lemmy has plenty of shitty moderation too
Oh absolutely. Not long after I created my account, I saw an obvious spam post on All, I downvoted it and went about my day. Turns out I was banned from that community because of that downvote. I asked why and was told that because I downvoted a post in a community I wasn't subbed to, I was banned for "brigading" even though it was a spam post. I wonder if I had upvoted despite not being a community member if I would have been banned?
More recently, I reported a comment for a common ableist slur (against someone else, not me), and the reply to the report was "doesn't break the community rules and also we agree with the guy who said it". I looked up their community rules and they specifically say all opinions are welcome and not to attack or harass others, which I would presume calling someone the "R" word for having an opinion would violate both tenets of that rule set. Nope, they support garbage like that despite what their rules say, so I told them to please ban me.
reddit is only worse than lemmy because it is centralized by one group of douchebags
That's a really big distinguishing factor though. When a group gets "too big to fail," it becomes a problem by giving said group too much control. Look at the genocide apologist mods on /r/worldnews .
The de-centralization / fragmentation of Lemmy is an important check against bad moderation.
You absolutely bring up good points yes, but at the same time, I don't think its a check, so much as a mild mitigation. Even on the lemmy verse there are still mega subs that take on the most activity and gain similar types of "too big to fail" critical user bases.
The core problem, is that when a group gains disproportionate control over what users can see, they can push their views/twist arms, and that ultimately isn't solved here.
I agree. Lemmy has a ton of awful moderators that abuse their power just to support "their" viewpoint.
Lemmy is better though because it at least has the potential for people to have better moderation, as well as a modlog that keeps mods somewhat accountable and let's people see what is being censored.
as well as a modlog that keeps mods somewhat accountable and let’s people see what is being censored.
I'm not sure if this is still true, but you can get around that though if you ban the person before removing the comment. Also, some communities have a delay on showing what's been removed.
and its a style of organization problem with this style of forum.
Which lemmy mitigates by being decentralized.
The mod of a fascist sub about a fascist state of a fascist country on a fascist website is behaving like fascist? I’m shocked.
Basically all the local subreddits have right-wing mods and a cadre of incels that try to drive the conversation constantly towards minorities who commit crimes
What a power-tripping little dick energy cunt. God I fucking hate reddit.
That is why Lemmy exists. And I hope that even more people will start using it since new harsh Reddit policies have appeared.
Lemmy has power tripping bastards too. it's just usually more transparent.
Abandon Reddit and leave it as a Government of Putin cesspool filled with Russian shills. If the Volunteer Oblast votes for Van Epstein, fuck them too for protecting pedophiles, rapists and felons.
A person in Tennessee defending pedophiles and abusing power in that pursuit?
Shocked, shocked I tell you.
Fucking wow man. Fuck reddit. I got perma banned for arguing with a FAR left mod 3ish years ago. Im liberal as fuck. Believe in rights for everyone, hate ice, despise Trump, believe in welfare, hate racist cunts etc, etc, etc. Politicians arent celebrities to be pit on a pedestal. They are public servants elected to serve.... the effing public. What i don't believe in is BLINDLY supporting someone just because they are affiliated with my party. And thats ultimately why I was banned, I argued with a mod that blindly supported democrats no matter what they did. In the end I took it on the chin and never looked back because fuck that
So stay the fuck off Reddit?
Wow. Just fucking wow.
Does Facebook and X do similar types of censoring when it comes to the Republican agenda?
Or is it somehow easier to install them as mods on Reddit subs, making it appear to be more “grass roots” without blaming the platform itself for censorship and bias?
I guess of fb you have “groups” (as opposed to subs) where you could install similar “mods.”
Of all people to claim is spam, Steve fucking Hoftstetter‽
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