I got banned from /r/geopolitics for linking a report about the effects of the 2019 American sanctions on Venezuela. I’ve been banned in /r/libertarian for linking and quoting the Libertarianism Wikipedia page. I got banned from /r/socialism for saying Henry Ford saw the value of a 40 hour work week.
If you stick around long enough, eventually you piss off some sensitive mod and they will ban you. Just the nature of online communities that have mods.
I think a better system would be an open and transparent tribunal. Where for example a user gets reported X amount of times and it goes to a new thread where there’s a discussion/vote by all the other sub’s users. Then it can be democratically decided whether or not user should be banned.
Then again, maybe that system would be worse because of mob mentality. At least it’d be transparent.
Mods being able to permanently ban people from subs or the site entirely with zero oversight has always been bad. Most people never really see the effects. I got banned from so many subs for innocuous shit. Just pointing out someone’s completely contradictory flawed logic is enough to get you banned from most subs if it’s the wrong person.
I got banned from /r/geopolitics for linking a report about the effects of the 2019 American sanctions on Venezuela. I’ve been banned in /r/libertarian for linking and quoting the Libertarianism Wikipedia page. I got banned from /r/socialism for saying Henry Ford saw the value of a 40 hour work week.
If you stick around long enough, eventually you piss off some sensitive mod and they will ban you. Just the nature of online communities that have mods.
I think a better system would be an open and transparent tribunal. Where for example a user gets reported X amount of times and it goes to a new thread where there’s a discussion/vote by all the other sub’s users. Then it can be democratically decided whether or not user should be banned.
Then again, maybe that system would be worse because of mob mentality. At least it’d be transparent.
Mods being able to permanently ban people from subs or the site entirely with zero oversight has always been bad. Most people never really see the effects. I got banned from so many subs for innocuous shit. Just pointing out someone’s completely contradictory flawed logic is enough to get you banned from most subs if it’s the wrong person.
Might be worth testing out, I’ll see if I can make a test community and modbot for that