Reminds me of one time I got a really popular post on mildlyinteresting with thousands of upvotes and nearly every comment was positive and engaging towards my picture. Was becoming a really fun conversation with everyone and people had their own stories to share and questions to ask me and I even learned some new things.
Then ONE random guy comes along and quotes one of the rules saying “this is just a picture of X. Not interesting. Breaks Rule Z.” I go through his post history and he has nothing but this on multiple posts all over Reddit. He’s not even a mod anywhere! Just a random dude going around calling out posts for random rules. A few minutes later, my post gets taken down citing that rule he quoted. I decide he’s a fucking weirdo and I’d like to post his history on another sub, can’t remember which sub, and I censor his username but show the weird ass comments he makes and note that he isn’t a mod, just a guy who goes around snitching on people. That post starts getting traction and people are upvoting it and calling the unknown user a weirdo, etc. He followed me through my post history to that post and commented on it and reported it and those mods took it down because it was supposedly harassing him despite me making no mentions of who this user was. The guy outed himself!
Tyrannical mods are one thing, but they even got regular users being tyrants too! Lol
Dam what a real loser. I’m sorry that happened to you :/ I’ve even heard of ppl getting stalked on reddit like you did, but to the point where they had to get law enforcement involved.
It’s wild.
There’s also the mods over there that shadow remove your comments. The rules for these subs never said they would do this, and it’s not like they had a public list of topics of words to avoid using or else they would shadow remove your comment. Such bs.
What broke the camels back for me with the mods over there was that I was supporting human rights in the news sub and my comment got shadow removed. I reached out to the mods to reinstate my comment and then they permabanned me on that sub, saying I should vaguely “read the rules” as my ban reason. Denying my 5+ appeals and muting me for a week each time. A bunch of cowards and inhumane posers those lot are, they don’t give a shit about the free press if that’s how they act on their own sub.
I’ve learned to never reach out to the mods. They’ll only ban you if you do that for harassment. It’s really a trap in my Opinion
Maybe, but it’s some grade A bs. For me, it was a big enough issue to make noise about it since I did not see other comments defending human decency.
If mods can’t judge by the rules they set forth, they have no right to be mods. Shadow rules and made up rules that are not listed to me indicate the mods are not acting in good faith. As mods they should be acting at a higher standard. Unfortunately the admins of Reddit are just as corrupt. There’s not even a straightforward way to report moderators for following their own rules. Imo, if it’s not in Reddit’s rules or the subs rules then the issue should result in a warning at most, with the mods taking action to make it a rule.
