Hmm, that might be the case then. Shame, that was a decent discussion.
Perhaps a bit paranoid, but I was wondering if admin were removing posts criticizing them and criticizing moderating Reddit in general (as they had deleted the r/drones post that started that conversation in the first place). But Occam's razor and all that
I've criticized Reddit pretty regularly for the actual deplorable things that management have done. My comment is actually the top one from a few weeks ago on that post.
Though Reddit being flooded with spam/bots now means that they're also a bit more "from the hip" on platform level bans. I've seen new accounts post on subs I mod with obvious nonsense, and be site level banned within 1-2 hours of posting
4. Some aspects of reddit's filtering can be controlled on a subreddit level by the mods but aren't controlled through automod. Like crowd control or post requirements.
5. Some subreddit mods run bots of their own to manage things.
6. Reddit admins -- also humans, but they act at a site level and presumably have access to more information than mods (like IP addresses, app IDs, better history searching, etc.) and have bigger hammers (shadowbanning, restricting functionality, deleting accounts, blocking IPs, etc.)
As a general rule of thumb, if the reddit admins are on your case, you done fucked up.
We could probably come up with even more details here if we tried.
There's the harrasment filter setting that you can turn on to make those posts show up in your mod queue! If that's what you mean? Otherwise those posts are by shadowbanned / banned accounts and don't matter either way.
Well they can still matter. Like this post for instance, idk what op got banned for but the post here is unrelated to that and had an actually interesting conversation. Which now people can't see without already knowing it exists
Well, the user u/ardi62 doesn't exist any more, so that's something.
Actually, no ... they still exist, but they're shadowbanned.
Here's the post in question.
Whatever they did to get them shadowbanned probably got reddit to remove all their posts.
Hmm, that might be the case then. Shame, that was a decent discussion.
Perhaps a bit paranoid, but I was wondering if admin were removing posts criticizing them and criticizing moderating Reddit in general (as they had deleted the r/drones post that started that conversation in the first place). But Occam's razor and all that
I've criticized Reddit pretty regularly for the actual deplorable things that management have done. My comment is actually the top one from a few weeks ago on that post.
Though Reddit being flooded with spam/bots now means that they're also a bit more "from the hip" on platform level bans. I've seen new accounts post on subs I mod with obvious nonsense, and be site level banned within 1-2 hours of posting
I have on occasion as well, hadn't seen any repercussions yet. But things can change
Wasn’t this the mod that understandably lost their crap when everyone was asking if any light in the sky were aliens or humans?
I had to go to the pushshift archive torrents to see what it actually said, but yes.
But it wasn't anything that should be objectionable and it doesn't appear to have gotten them banned, since that happened weeks later.
This was a meta post about that post/situation, yes
AFAIK there are three agents of moderation on Reddit:
4. Some aspects of reddit's filtering can be controlled on a subreddit level by the mods but aren't controlled through automod. Like crowd control or post requirements.
5. Some subreddit mods run bots of their own to manage things.
6. Reddit admins -- also humans, but they act at a site level and presumably have access to more information than mods (like IP addresses, app IDs, better history searching, etc.) and have bigger hammers (shadowbanning, restricting functionality, deleting accounts, blocking IPs, etc.)
As a general rule of thumb, if the reddit admins are on your case, you done fucked up.
We could probably come up with even more details here if we tried.
Enlightening. Thank you.
As dougmc pointed out, this appears to be category 1, due to OP being shadowbanned and nothing to do with the post.
I'm a mod of a sub and I have to go through "removed" section of the queue a few times a day because Reddit removes post for no reason I can see
There's the harrasment filter setting that you can turn on to make those posts show up in your mod queue! If that's what you mean? Otherwise those posts are by shadowbanned / banned accounts and don't matter either way.
Well they can still matter. Like this post for instance, idk what op got banned for but the post here is unrelated to that and had an actually interesting conversation. Which now people can't see without already knowing it exists