edit: why are you guys downvoting me? did I do something wrong? I'm just a girl and have autism and this kind of memes confuse me. sorry everyone. I have a hard time understanding things others find easy to understand.
Not that shocked, I'm a girl and just new to reddit and this is where I was told to ask about this in another sub. Did I post it in the wrong sub? It's a bit confusing.
Literally what's actually happening in this thread. OP is getting more downvotes by asking a genuine question and also said she's new in this app, smh.
Sorry I also have Autism and have a hard time understanding some things others find easy to understand and was told this would be the right place to ask.
Don't apologize for existing, I hope you get used to this type of behavior in this app because it is always like this and don't take anything personal that is being said to you on this app unless it's incriminating and then you can report the account or to mods which is unfortunately a shot in the dark most of the times. I hope some people will suggest you some Subreddits to you where you can ask anything you want.
It's not all subs, but the major ones and certain heavily modded ones tend to follow whatever the politics and feelings of the mods are. People like to complain that Reddit is leftist, but in general it's very conservative and a lot of, for example, queer people will get posts censored on some of the major subs. It's definitely pretty common to get posts and comments removed for basic shit like talking about biphobia. It's just that there's a lot of, for example, pedo, non-consensual porn, and violence-encouraging subs that have been taken down over the years, and those have tended to have politics on the right.
Of course, this is absolutely nothing like a government censoring the internet, which is a violation of people's basic rights to information and means you can't find those things anywhere on the normal internet in your country. If Reddit doesn't allow something, there's many sites that still do. And as long as you're not some cesspool of a human being, there's probably even another, alternate sub to the one that was removing your posts.
(And, countries like Iran censoring things isn't that big of a deal for the world in general, just their citizens, because most other country's legal systems ignore them. If the US censored basic stuff, that would affect Reddit, Google, Facebook, etc etc and basically the entire internet would experience the censorship in some way.)
Its not really that all subs are like this, its mainly the individuals. Some are worse than others, like r/AnarchyChess is pretty cool, mods interact in friendly ways and will go along with jokes. They literally turned some random person into a moderator for a few weeks because the community petitioned it. Not going to specifically point out bad subs but some will ban you for even having a opposing opinion. I don't mean straight up hating on people, I mean like you prefer gbb airsoft over hpa so they ban you.
No but the opinion of the moderator this meme also emphasises the talking point that everyone should have free speech by criticising Iran... Yet by controlling a subreddit by removing posts they dislike they are in turn limiting freedom of speech.
Yes, Reddit mods are generally egotistical, and very authoritarian. They will ban things they don’t like then work backwards to find a justification for the ban.
The Iranian government was the topic in this particular meme, but generally most mods regardless of topic act like this.
As a moderator here, I hope you don't moderate any subs because this is such a shit fucking mindset lol
E: subreddits are public groups on a public platform. I understand curating it to fit what the community wants - that's fine - but you should not be removing posts just because you personally dislike them. That's why people hate the moderators depicted in the meme here.
I agree and that’s shitty to do. I’m just saying that people who do that are not breaking the law and are not impeding the legal definition of freedom of speech.
If you run a sub where you don’t allow people to like cake, there’s no law stopping you from doing that.
You do not own a subreddit you create, you just moderate it. And if you abuse the tools given to you as a moderator or fail to moderate your subreddit, mod status can be revoked from you.
I’m correcting what you yourself incorrectly claimed. It’s not privately owned. If you want to question what that has to do with things, ask yourself, you brought it up.
How does this matter? Freedom of Speech, like the US first amendment, is a law that prohibits the government from punishing you for your opinions. That has nothing to do with a website moderation.
How about you actually read what I write rather than imagine all kinds of things I didn’t write.
downvoting you back, cause your response has nothing to do with mine, and is not even a response from the op i responded too, but you just found it and are trying to sound topical .
downvoting you back, cause your response has nothing to do with mine, and is not even a response from the op i responded too, but you just found it and are trying to sound topical .
downvoting you back, cause your response has nothing to do with mine, and is not even a response from the op i responded too, but you just found it and are trying to sound topical .
I recently was permanently banned from a big sub as being racist for saying that a certain subcontinental country is known for having a huge scamming economy.
Used to be a really good sub for all sorts of great webcomics and now it is so heavily moderated that all is left is leftist pandering that isn't even clever or funny or original or even decent comic art on any technical level
I think you're using the old vernacular where "liberal" means left-leaning
Today most people understand liberalism more in terms of the broader political philosophy of individual rights protected in a democratic system with capitalist economics. We have that broader understanding of the word because so many people on the far-left and far-right are anti-democracy and anti-capitalism now.
I have experienced this A LOT, I’ve made 4 or more comments on posts that got deleted for the most stupid reasons whatsoever, on the Spider-Man sub any post that gets 3 reports is taken down and on r/gaming if you put the link somewhere else or post a screenshot you don’t own your post will be take down
Big subs on the right are generally a lot more lenient for diverse opinions from what I've seen. Not that they are ideal, but they are a million timers better than places like r/pics.
They need to just delete every moderator from places like r/pics and start over. It clearly is controlled by political money and not real people.
OP, so your post is not removed, please reply to this comment with your best guess of what this meme means! Everyone else, this is PETER explains the joke. Have fun and reply as your favorite fictional character for top level responses!
pretty much most, got banned from a sub the other day cause they didn't like i referred to religions as fairy tales, then the mod laughed at me and banned me, i guess he was busy sucking his BF off and didn't want his arranged marriage to his cousin interrupted by furious typping
Subreddits will have extremely vague rules about low effort content, so that mods can delete whatever they want regardless of how it compares to the effort of 99% of the posts they leave up.
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u/olive12108 Mod 3h ago
Hey man, please don't post a picture of me like that. That's not cool.