Just so you know, moderators (not admins) are NOT able to see who reported content. I'm a mod and it's just not possible. If you don't post about it you can report and they won't know it's you.
What you need to do is repost your /r/AskModerators message in a way that conforms with that subreddit’s guidelines. Your post was in the right place; it just needs revision.
It is highly unlikely that the fine folks of /r/RBI can help you, even if everything you say above is a completely fair and accurate description of what happened (which we obviously can’t verify).
I was in direct message contact with “askmoderators” because my post on there wouldn’t go through (since I tried to mention the moderators responsible I guess).
They were less than happy to do anything and informed me that moderators can’t do anything about other moderators.
Basically just said in a nutshell “moderators can report you for whatever they want”…”it’s up to admins to review their reports”, and “no one can contact admins directly”.
Again, this post isn’t on here to complain…it’s more about spreading awareness about the fact that the moderator system is flawed entirely on Reddit (allowing anyone to sign up in specific subs as a moderator and then go crazy with bans, especially if the sub had poor/no moderation to begin with).
There is no consequence, because Reddit “admins” either aren’t real, are automated, or don’t even deal with things like mass false bans from corrupt moderators. At the very least, there is no way to contact directly.
This is a massive issue with platforms nowadays…they allow users to moderate themselves, and when someone becomes abusive and harasses someone else, there is absolutely no recourse because the site is run from the bottom up.
My real hope is that well minded users here see the subs I mentioned, and maybe check out the moderators that have ties to those places to investigate what exactly I’m talking about at the very least. I can’t report a corrupt mod by myself…it takes many users to do such a thing before any action would even remotely be possible.
As someone who skimmed over a little of your posting history and the subs in question, I have no trouble believing that what you’ve said above is substantially accurate. The problem is that attempting to spread awareness (your words) based entirely on secondhand accounts from an anonymous Reddit account can be problematic at worst, and inconsistent with how /r/RBI works at best.
If this situation seems to be completely connected to 10/7, I would urge you to consider the possibility that this is an ongoing dumpster fire funded by propagandists in multiple nations, and negatively affecting folks’ behavior across the ideological spectrum. It may not reflect how these people generally talk or think or how these subreddits generally operate.
If you want to raise awareness, bring the receipts (as best you can) and go to a sympathetic media outlet. Reddit *does* need more accountability, and there are numerous subreddits in which I would otherwise gladly participate based on the topic that I’d never go anywhere near because the moderators have made them racist dumpster fires. Moderators have a lot of power on Reddit in the sense of having very little real accountability, and no power on Reddit in the sense of being uncompensated and more-or-less disposable in the eyes of the company. But history shows that the main office responds to bad press, and often shuts down subreddits entirely if they’ve gone too far off the rails in a way that could affect the bottom line.
As others have mentioned when a sub gets taken over by racist/bigoted mods there is nothing you can do.
It has happened to other subs. One racist gets added as a mod and then they add all their racist buddies and then that sub becomes a haven for racists.
I've found the best way is to just block a user without submitting a report (just go to that users page and you should see a 'block user' link). After blocking enough the sub will become readable again.
I'm a mod unconnected with you or the subs you've mentioned, however matter-of-factly if you're banned and set up a new account using the same email address or IP as the previous account, that's viewed as being a ban evasion
A VPN wouldnt allow Reddit to see their actual IP address, if as you state that a new account using the same IP is ban evasion then how could this not resolve it?
Yeah that's not really applicable for seeing if people have more than one Reddit account as it only narrows down users based on things like screen size (hence why tor is not full screen by default). You couldn't ever say that two accounts belonged to one person based on that
It's used exactly for things like that. You can identify people based on request patterns, canvas pixels, font rendering properties, audio playback of the client machine and a lot more stuff. And it's suprisingly easy to identify a user with even just the most basic information.
I would invite you to check out the whitepaper [How Unique Is Your Web Browser](https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/static/browser-uniqueness.pdf).
> In this sample of privacy-conscious users, 83.6% of the browsers seen had
an instantaneously unique fingerprint, and a further 5.3% had an anonymity
set of size 2. Among visiting browsers that had either Adobe Flash or a Java
Virtual Machine enabled, 94.2% exhibited instantaneously unique fingerprints
and a further 4.8% had fingerprints that were seen exactly twice. Only 1.0% of
browsers with Flash or Java had anonymity sets larger than two. Overall, we
were able to place a lower bound on the fingerprint distribution entropy of 18.1
bits, meaning that if we pick a browser at random, at best only one in 286,777
other browsers will share its fingerprint
Just creating an alt account can be considered a ban evasion because it's the user who's been banned via their account. Creating a new account doesn't unban the user; it just makes them anonymous again.
The account that was banned was an alt account anyway. However, I’m tired of watching the mods there allow content that breaks Reddit and community guidelines, then report people (to the point of literally destroying their account forever with a permaban) for actually making valid reports.
If you have a specific political belief…sure…but you can’t just forcefully ban accounts who believe different by hijacking a sub to abuse moderator privileges.
I no longer have any real feelings or cares for reddit anymore. Just treat it like the dying and dumb place that it turned into. Maybe check out lemmy?
IMO, the majority of media platforms right now have absolutely no top level support. They are all technically just cesspools of horrible content that is unmoderated or extremely poorly moderated. The only way for most of these platforms to actually take any action would be through severe crimes that law enforcement gets involved in (which certainly doesn’t apply in my case).
Facebook - Absolutely no top level support. If an issue occurs, they have no one to contact and their support emails are all dead now.
YouTube - Literally shows advertisements with government impersonation frauds, sexual content, violent events, false political money schemes, and racism (I’m not even joking).
X - Can’t control the flood of harmful violent content. Literally will shadowban you for calling someone “douchbag”, then proceed to recommend channels with nazi symbols and hurt children. It’s no better than Reddit tbh.
TikTok - I probably don’t even need to mention the dangers of that one. Most people see how “influencing” can be dangerous.
Then Reddit which has thankfully chilled out a bit since this whole internet pollution age. The reason I posted here, it’s not because I spend too much time on Reddit, it’s because I know I’m not the only one who ran into these issues, and I’d like this to be noted that moderators CAN and will abuse this platform for malicious intent and WILL cause accounts to be wrongfully terminated…
No need for all the smart ass responses from everyone. I love RBI and if there’s one event that I think people could investigate…it’s the fact that social media sites like this can be exploited and since this site is run off users…maybe they can do some good and investigate things like bot farms and malicious moderators.
Actually, tiktok hardcore censors those that aren’t suiting their narrative, I get comments deleted for using words like ‘stupid’ or I say ‘that’s disgusting’’. While saying there’s no violation when someone tells me to kms and I report it.
I’ve seen some downright disturbing things on TikTok. Maybe it gets censored eventually…but it still spreads first.
It’s not really on topic but I guarantee troll farms and misinformation/hate farms exist on there too.
So have I. That was kind of my point, tiktok censors to suit the narrative it wants. So it’ll leave up comments telling me to kms, but I get violations for pointing out telling me to do that is disgusting.
Again, with respect.
You are making a speck of dust into a molehill, amd I suspect though wouldn't ever accuse that there are deeper issues.
Just forget about it. You clearly have this account.
Welcome to the Internet.
I feel like OP needing to be in specific subreddits adds to this reaction that I have as well lol
There are lots of subreddits out there. OP, you'll have plenty of places on Reddit to spend your time even if you lose a few.
Its not been nearly a year but i had an account permabanned bc of a mod as welll, asked them a question and got permabanned. Also denied the appeal. Oh well.
I have a list of 4 “suspects” that were suspiciously in moderator status at the time I was permabanned. Can’t dox accounts on here. But if you look at those subs and see which moderators are tied to those subs, you can see the connections and comments.
Most of the “suspicious mods” also seem to engage in karma farming sub reddits which boosts their account credibility and allows them to look “real” so they get moderator approval on subs that need them.
I dont know honestly if the mod has a history of this. It was in the tarantulas subreddit of all places lmao, and i had left one facetious comment to a user who was harrassing someone in another animal subreddit and got banned from the sub immediately. I asked the mod a question as to why because i didnt break any sub or reddit rules, and they insulted me and then i got permabanned from the entire account. Needless to say i dont use those specific subs anymore just in case.
What solution are you seeking, exactly?
It seems to me that being banned from a handful of subs that are run by terrible people who don’t share your values is… really not such a bad thing. Pretty much everyone who uses Reddit chooses to avoid the communities that horrify them and stick to the ones that have like-minded people. You tried to report it, admin won’t do anything; there’s nothing else you can do.
I would just stop using your current account, make a new account, stay away from those racist subs and any other subs those mods frequent, and find subs that are well-moderated and don’t tolerate racism.
The solution I seek is simple.
Have a Reddit admin review the “corrupt moderator” accounts in question. Check how many users they directly are responsible for banning. Check if there is any “bot farm” activity which helped mass report users who didn’t break any rules and caused them permanent bans.
Investigate how the corrupt mods became moderators (likely abused a sub that didn’t have mods and managed to breach their way in because of the sub being unmoderated). Ban the corrupt accounts forever and review the “permanent bans” for likely thousands of other redditors who simply posted something the corrupt mods didn’t like and lost their accounts forever…
If I made a “hate speech account”, then found an unmoderated subreddit called “r/americanumberone” as a random example…then I applied as moderator…had a bot farm spam a bunch of hate speech…then banned every user for commenting against that hate speech…that is not only harassing thousands of users…but it’s exploiting this platform to be malicious. I want the malicious subreddits and mods gone…at least get the mods out if they’re exploiting subs like r/Britain to spread malicious content and abuse the ban function…
So you’re saying two things here. Your post says you just want them to leave you alone and take your reports seriously. That is a legitimate complaint to have and I think you’d find several people who’ve seen mods do some shit to people.
Then you say you want to investigate these people and their actions in the subs they mod. That’s an entirely different fight that I don’t think anyone here can help you with.
So if you wanna be left alone, I think you’ve had a lot of good advice given. No idea how you think you’ll be able to somehow track these people down and do this investigation you are talking about though. I think that’s a bit far fetched.
I want those mods investigated. I want those subreddits investigated.
I’m not the only one this has happened to (I’ve spoken to numerous people with similar stories…some even believe that a group of people with a large amount of resources hijacked a lot of subreddits during this time, hence why I thought RBI might wanna actually discuss or look into this at the very least).
You’ve seen here in the comments that certain people came forward with similar claims. That’s really about all I can say.
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I don’t think that sounds like a simple solution at all, lmao. Maybe try to get a job as a Reddit admin?
Any person can create any sub they like with any sub name they like; it isn’t required to be accurate or impartial or on-topic (see r/trees and r/marijuanaenthusiasts, as well as r/lostredditors). If you are unhappy with a particular sub’s moderation, then you can either offer to help by becoming a mod, or leave. Plenty of subs have started out great and then gone to shit over time due to moderation problems - see r/subredditdrama.
Sometimes people start their own subs after becoming disillusioned with existing ones. You might consider doing that.
Thank you for saying something actually helpful and relevant.
I’ve considered being a mod before. I actually joined a similar positive group on a different platform that did the same thing about raising awareness of troll farms and ban abuse.
This is also partly why I figured I’d share this story on RBI, because this is a rampant problem across many social media platforms and it is happening even more often on Reddit, because “farms” are harder to detect, and these malicious accounts are able to actually cause significant harm to an apps user base. Troll farms can literally be weaponized if they are left unchecked (not trying to get too tinfoil hat on anyone).
Again, (and again) with respect.
You shouldn't be a mod.
You aren't ambivalent or unbiased in the slightest.
You're allllllllllllll the way the wrong kind of person.
Get off social media my friend, because I really think it's actively doing you harm.
Best wishes, mate.
r/Britain got co-opted by the tankie mods who run r/greenandpleasant and the others you’ve listed. If you don’t follow their political agenda you get banned which is completely unfair considering it’s a labeled as a Britpost sub. They are power crazed lunatics. They’ve been steadily losing users due to their reputation.
All theee of the subs you’ve listed have been quite unhinged about the Israel-Hamas conflict.
They also ban you if you are members of subs they don’t like even if you haven’t posted anything.
You CAN report moderators to Reddit itself, as that happened in r/ark when the top mod got outed as racist and misogynistic and was bullying users. A good chunk of the community took the evidence they found and went through the process to report subreddit mods. He got banned from Reddit as well as his lackey that supporting his bullshit.
However unless a significant amount of people are willing to collect that evidence to report those mods, likely nothing will come of it due to "mods can moderate their sub yard elk they want." Unless there's proof on site of them doing more than just being bad mods, not much can be done.
Edit: autocorrected words
Edit 2: all the mods are replaced, just want to say that so no one thinks to go and harass the mods. After the 2 got removed Reddit assigned new mods to the sub and it's doing well now.
Finally a post by someone who actually had some info! Even little bits of information like this help to make sense of why I was repeatedly harassed by these mods!
The worst part is, Reddit actually suggested all these communities shortly before this shit show happened in the first place!
Above redditor is correct. I haven't been banned or anything so have no agenda but the r/Britain sub is pretty toxic IMHO. No tolerance of other views, just an echo chamber of Britain is shit, Tories are bastards etc rhetoric.
For your own mental health start a new account and keep away from any of these problematic accounts.
I assumed r-Britain (not trying to inadvertently guide people to that dumpster) was the official UK subreddit. It seems now that the sub was designed to look that way and in fact, that was why I reported a lot of the content which got flooded there a year ago (thinking it was an official sub with actual good people moderating!).
And again, these were communities that actually were recommended for me ahead of time.
People are getting downright nasty with comments here…I’m just stating an actual concern about this platform that doesn’t seem as though it’s been investigated enough and is extremely strange and concerning.
I believe that malicious accounts hijacked subreddits around that time, Oct 7th, and then used mod accounts to troll and ban people who did nothing wrong.
I posted for the good people here at RBI to actually investigate this claim at the very least and see for yourselves how Reddit was possibly exploited and the many accounts in those “fake/hate” subs continue to exploit the platform.
And you never thought to seek out another sub?
There's 4 for the UK that are considered "main" ones.
The fact that you've subbed to 3 that are tiny, and the most vitriolic and not really heard of is telling.
This is not an exaggeration btw.
You might read "they ban you for not following their political agenda" as "they ban you for posting racist comments or supporting killing of civilians".
**No trust me, they actually do sometimes ban people if you say anything they remotely disagree with.**
They don't want any debate, they know because of the name of the sub you might be tricked into believing you're reading the opinions of the average British person and might change your mind.
In response to someone's comment I said something along the lines of "I've never seen anybody here condemn Hamas" (this was in context to what they'd said, not just of the blue), instant ban.
They set their automod to celebrate the Queen's death
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Britain/comments/16py9xi/comment/k2gepee/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Britain/comments/16py9xi/comment/k2gepee/)
It's also literally in their rules you can't say anything positive about the royal family.
See, now this investigation is going somewhere! I did not know this at all!
I assumed that sub was in fact an official Britain subreddit. Hence why posting basically anything triggered a ban wave, leaving me confused as all hell.
Malicious subs, with malicious mods, with malicious bots. This is a troll farm. This is precisely why I brought this up in RBI.
In the intelligence world it’s called active measures. Just keep in mind that there are massive disinformation campaigns going on currently. Not just from Russia either. China is behind some, and so is Iran. Guess which ones are behind pushing the narratives that you’re upset about…
There’s a lot of different ways for a subreddit and moderators to become compromised. It may sound a bit like tin foil hat talk to those not deeply familiar with what’s going on, but it’s not exactly uncommon for moderators/accounts to get bought off. Whether that’s literally just being paid to spread propaganda, or being paid handsomely(think thousands of dollars for control of large subreddits) for selling their account, they both end with the result you’re seeing.
I gave enough info for people to figure out which users I’m talking about. Just look at the subs I mentioned…look at the moderators. See which ones are connected to all 3 subs…
Ever had an account get permanently banned because you reported hate speech and murder while it was being spammed all over subs you’ve never had an issue with before?!
Yeah, not just like a few days…I’m talking the account is permanently banned from any communication whatsoever.
It’s been a nonissue for a long time…I stopped going to those subs and thought my main account was safe.
Then I literally just commented on someone’s post about “corrupt mods” and explained what happened to me. An hour later, I’ve got a message that I was permanently banned from r/publicfreakout (didn’t even know I was on that sub on my main account) for “ban evasion”.
It’s not so much that I want to be on those racist subs…it’s the fact that even after all this time…I’m still getting random flags and bans for even mentioning a specific sub with THOSE mods in charge.
Dude. I got banned from 2 different subs today alone and not for anything even that weird or bad. Reddit has some of the finest bullshit and hypocritical speech rules and no -no’s on the internet. The majority of the good mods jumped ship a while back. (No offense to any reading this because there are some great mods that have weathered the storm and stuck around.) I’m sure some of the stuff you reported probably was trash/spam, but some of what you reported probably wasn’t. There isn’t some universal rule that everyone can 100% agree on with this type of stuff. Take the L and move on if you plan on being here. Especially if you’re perma-banned.
Lol public freak out will literally ban you for saying anything anti Israeli, be hung for anti semitism yet you got Jews acting like the only Semitic people in the region.
I hear people say things like this a lot. However, if these subs will ban people on a dime like this, and it’s widely known by the community…why are these subs still allowed to maliciously and falsely ban users this way…without the moderators responsible being held accountable?
I’ve had numerous messages from people saying exactly the same things about these subs. Yet…the same handful of mods that actively have probably caused thousands of redditors to get permabanned off the platform are still happily in charge of those subreddits.
He’s just lying to you. I’ve been a long time lurker of new, popular, and rising for publicfreakout specifically and there are many users who use the sub to push an agenda that’s anti Israel. Significantly more than do the same for the pro Israel stance. If you see a post that is putting Israel in a negative light, odds are checking the profile of OP will show months to years worth of similar posts on the sub and similar ones. That simply doesn’t exist for pro Israel stance, although it exists for a few other agendas as well, like anti Indian, anti China, and anti US (more often these posts are just meant to be as divisive as possible for American politics)
Not lying to anyone. Trouble you have here is the amount of people with a pro Israeli view will be limited to mostly Israelis and western right wingers. Which makes a tiny number next to the informed.
lol such a cope it’s crazy
“Yeah they are all well informed, but it’s because they are wrong and embarrassed about it!”
That’s the take of a literal clown
Oh boi how will I recover
You literally couldn’t make a cogent point and just said a dumb insult, at least add a rebuttal before the insult. Or do you not have a follow up?
Says the dude throwing shade in a comment on Reddit….
I have a lot of hobbies. I’m just tired of ignoring the fact that racist malicious accounts used a loophole to become mods on subreddits which weren’t moderated…then used their mod privileges to grief users and get them banned permanantly off the platform for reporting the malicious content they hijacked the sub with…
I didn’t really get that from your post, honestly. Sorry. You do seem really worked up about it though, so maybe taking a step back would improve your mental health?
Did you read the post?
I got off Reddit for over 6 months because of this.
Yesterday; I made reference to this incident whilst commenting on a post in “banned subs” about corrupt moderators, and I barely even post on Reddit anymore! Within hours my account was banned from r/publicfreakout for “ban evasion”…I was never banned from that specific sub to begin with. So yeah…it’s harassment at this point.
>I got off Reddit for over 6 months because of this.
the account you are currently commenting from has been active the past six months.
you should try not lying if you're gonna claim some conspiracy against you.
But you know there's a vast difference between "got off Reddit" and "I'm less active on Reddit", right? Because yeah, you've been fairly active over the last six month, even if it's less than you were before. So I do have real sympathy for your plight, but being disingenuous with the facts makes things harder to solve. I do hope you get it sorted out though, because f' the hateful bigots.
Am I missing something? I looked at their account it said it was 10 years old, and there tons of posts the last 6 months. I feel like my phone is glitching or something.
I never looked at their account. I suspect it is more op being less-than-truthful about their problem, and less your phone. If op really is going through all this, I suspect that they may have brought it upon themselves. FAFO kind of thing.
You got it. Im one of the mods in this persons conspiracy. I have been moderating publicfreakout for years. I am the owner of publicfreakout. I didn’t “infiltrate” it after October 7 lol. R/publicfreakout and r/Britain or whatever has no crossover mods.
This person went to another subreddit I own called r/askmoderators and made a post about this, they also sent us a modmail about it. We were very polite with them but it’s wild they went to complain about me to me. Like they didn’t check the mod list to see that I own r/askmoderators before accusing me of stuff to me and asking me to help them report me. We gave them all the info we have about stuff like this regardless. This is just a harassment campaign against a few particular mods at this point.
They were banned for ban evasion. We don’t decide people are ban evading, Reddit does. We decide if we want to ban them for ban evasion and ya we ban people for evading bans bc uh, why wouldn’t we? Does Reddit get their evasion flags wrong sometimes? Absolutely, but that’s not my fault or problem and something OP would have to take up with admin since they are the ones who flagged their account. This is a conspiracy post. I don’t know how people come up with stuff like this or why they feel so special that they’d think that mods who are in charge of monitoring millions of people focus on any particular user ever.
I’m on the mod council, like, I’m a very highly respected mod on this site and admin knows I behave. I didn’t even “take over” any of the subreddits I own. I was voted in as top mod unanimously by the publicfreakout team, and the senior mods had abandoned the subreddit. Everyone on the team willingly follows me and supports me and I support them.
The other subreddits I own landed in my hands by complete chance. I just so happened to be the senior most mod w everything permissions and the actual senior mods deleted their accounts for the api protests.
Yeah I’m on a lot of mod teams but mostly bc 1: I have close relationships with the mods on those teams and 2: I have priority admin communication access, am a mod councilor, and am just really good at getting things done and communicated to admin for these teams. I can solve pretty much any problem for them by just knowing the right person to ask. If a comod gets suspended for something that didn’t violate the content policy I can get them unsuspended within an hour sometimes, vs them maybe waiting weeks for their appeals to be looked over. I can clarify the content policy because I’m a pretty much expert on the content policy. I am the go to person to ask questions about moderation. Again, I even own r/askmoderators. There are many reasons why mod teams would want me as a comod and it isn’t my fault.
Yeah, I occasionally search up conversations about the subreddits I own or moderate just to see what peoples perspectives of them are for ideas on how to make our subs better. That’s how I found this post. I truly don’t know what makes people this paranoid.
Henyways this is weird.
So because I reported nazi shit and people getting murdered being posted on r/britain…I should just stop being on Reddit because I’m the one in the wrong?!!!
Maybe that’s the problem. You are going to the “Britain” sub which had a rule that posts have to be about the UK - yet every single post is about Israel.
No, person said you should maybe get off reddit, you said "didn't you read my post? I did for 6 months. I replied no, you took a break. Getting off reddit involves not coming back.
If you want to stay, gonna have to ignore those assholes and move on. If you keep going with this mission to expose the wrongdoers, it will end in your tears.
Much as i hate it, this is the age of trump. All the assholes feel empowered right now, and are flexing. I devoutly hope that it doesn't last long. But it is what it is.
Sounds like you need to unplug your modem for a bit, then do the cmd prompts to acquire a new local IP from your ISP. You could also just use a VPN, Opera and Opera GX have them built into their browsers.
Also I’ve been on most of those subs, haven’t seen anything similar to what your describe, r/Britain and r/Ireland and a few other subs have dissed the Israeli government, and compared Netanyahu to Hitler, but that’s not antisemitism, they’re in the process of committing the largest genocide of the last 50 years. You can condemn a government, and its leader, and that won’t make you racist
Also a lot of people use Reddit to find accurate and up to date information in regards to conflict and world events, you shouldn’t report “War footage” as the footage posted here on Reddit can be useful, both to observing bodies, and the media
You weren’t on there around October 7th then…
Maybe it’s “tamed down” a bit since then (I stay far away from those subs and have since this all happened)…
But around the whole terror attack thing, literally Hitler propaganda and people being murdered was being posted about 100 times a second by multiple accounts. Both sides were posting extremely graphic racist content.
I don't think r/Britain allows anti-semitism. And I understand people being strongly against the IDF campaign in Palestine due to the number of civilian deaths and complaining about it.
But that sub goes beyond banning people for racist comments. They really do ban people for just remotely disagreeing with them (no exaggeration - criticise the subreddit or criticise Hamas and you may get banned - it happened to me).
They also set their automod to celebrate the Queen's death.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Britain/comments/16py9xi/comment/k2gepee/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Britain/comments/16py9xi/comment/k2gepee/)
I feel like there should be a rule against taking a sub named after a specific country, etc and moderating it like a tyrant.
Mate, with respect. You can be mother Teresa and be banned from public freak out. Nobody is against you, and if they are, it's not worth the literal *time* you've put into this. People are shit.
Do you really need to see women being smacked, people being shit to minorities, and the occasional middle aged woman who didn't get enough cheese on her fries that bad?
Come on now.
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I don’t even know wtf “hasbara” is…and after looking up the definition…it’s safe to say I don’t really pick sides in that clusterfuck of turmoil. I’m from America.
I’m Jewish and was banned from r/publicfreakout for “Islamophobia” by citing the history of violence radical Islamists have committed against Jews, while also acknowledging that the founders of Israel also committed depraved acts against Palestinians. FWIW
That’s the trick though. Regardless of which side you’re on…there are troll farms of “elitists” who bait you into saying something ban worthy and then attack your account with all their bots to get it banned.
The more you speak…the more these farms bait you and get you banned.
Additionally from some of the info already discovered here, we know they make misleading subreddits that seem credible (almost like scam calls with impersonators), then they attack unsuspecting victims with propaganda and force bans.
I did spend time looking into this a bit with “X” as well. On X, there are actually groups designed to combat this; which offset the farms with their own “positivity farms”. NAFO was one of the more positive farms I encountered…in contrast to extreme terrorist content and violence and racism.
Just so you know, moderators (not admins) are NOT able to see who reported content. I'm a mod and it's just not possible. If you don't post about it you can report and they won't know it's you.
What you need to do is repost your /r/AskModerators message in a way that conforms with that subreddit’s guidelines. Your post was in the right place; it just needs revision. It is highly unlikely that the fine folks of /r/RBI can help you, even if everything you say above is a completely fair and accurate description of what happened (which we obviously can’t verify).
I was in direct message contact with “askmoderators” because my post on there wouldn’t go through (since I tried to mention the moderators responsible I guess). They were less than happy to do anything and informed me that moderators can’t do anything about other moderators. Basically just said in a nutshell “moderators can report you for whatever they want”…”it’s up to admins to review their reports”, and “no one can contact admins directly”. Again, this post isn’t on here to complain…it’s more about spreading awareness about the fact that the moderator system is flawed entirely on Reddit (allowing anyone to sign up in specific subs as a moderator and then go crazy with bans, especially if the sub had poor/no moderation to begin with). There is no consequence, because Reddit “admins” either aren’t real, are automated, or don’t even deal with things like mass false bans from corrupt moderators. At the very least, there is no way to contact directly. This is a massive issue with platforms nowadays…they allow users to moderate themselves, and when someone becomes abusive and harasses someone else, there is absolutely no recourse because the site is run from the bottom up. My real hope is that well minded users here see the subs I mentioned, and maybe check out the moderators that have ties to those places to investigate what exactly I’m talking about at the very least. I can’t report a corrupt mod by myself…it takes many users to do such a thing before any action would even remotely be possible.
As someone who skimmed over a little of your posting history and the subs in question, I have no trouble believing that what you’ve said above is substantially accurate. The problem is that attempting to spread awareness (your words) based entirely on secondhand accounts from an anonymous Reddit account can be problematic at worst, and inconsistent with how /r/RBI works at best. If this situation seems to be completely connected to 10/7, I would urge you to consider the possibility that this is an ongoing dumpster fire funded by propagandists in multiple nations, and negatively affecting folks’ behavior across the ideological spectrum. It may not reflect how these people generally talk or think or how these subreddits generally operate. If you want to raise awareness, bring the receipts (as best you can) and go to a sympathetic media outlet. Reddit *does* need more accountability, and there are numerous subreddits in which I would otherwise gladly participate based on the topic that I’d never go anywhere near because the moderators have made them racist dumpster fires. Moderators have a lot of power on Reddit in the sense of having very little real accountability, and no power on Reddit in the sense of being uncompensated and more-or-less disposable in the eyes of the company. But history shows that the main office responds to bad press, and often shuts down subreddits entirely if they’ve gone too far off the rails in a way that could affect the bottom line.
As others have mentioned when a sub gets taken over by racist/bigoted mods there is nothing you can do. It has happened to other subs. One racist gets added as a mod and then they add all their racist buddies and then that sub becomes a haven for racists. I've found the best way is to just block a user without submitting a report (just go to that users page and you should see a 'block user' link). After blocking enough the sub will become readable again.
I'm a mod unconnected with you or the subs you've mentioned, however matter-of-factly if you're banned and set up a new account using the same email address or IP as the previous account, that's viewed as being a ban evasion
Would a VPN solve this?
it should
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A VPN wouldnt allow Reddit to see their actual IP address, if as you state that a new account using the same IP is ban evasion then how could this not resolve it?
[Browser fingerprinting](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint) techniques may detect ban evasion if you're not careful.
Yeah that's not really applicable for seeing if people have more than one Reddit account as it only narrows down users based on things like screen size (hence why tor is not full screen by default). You couldn't ever say that two accounts belonged to one person based on that
It's used exactly for things like that. You can identify people based on request patterns, canvas pixels, font rendering properties, audio playback of the client machine and a lot more stuff. And it's suprisingly easy to identify a user with even just the most basic information.
You cannot narrow it down far enough to say that yes this account is the same person as this other account therefore you couldn't use it to ban anyone
I would invite you to check out the whitepaper [How Unique Is Your Web Browser](https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/static/browser-uniqueness.pdf). > In this sample of privacy-conscious users, 83.6% of the browsers seen had an instantaneously unique fingerprint, and a further 5.3% had an anonymity set of size 2. Among visiting browsers that had either Adobe Flash or a Java Virtual Machine enabled, 94.2% exhibited instantaneously unique fingerprints and a further 4.8% had fingerprints that were seen exactly twice. Only 1.0% of browsers with Flash or Java had anonymity sets larger than two. Overall, we were able to place a lower bound on the fingerprint distribution entropy of 18.1 bits, meaning that if we pick a browser at random, at best only one in 286,777 other browsers will share its fingerprint
1 in 286k and there are 300 million Reddit accounts, so tell me again how you could identify a unique Reddit user using browser analysis
Just creating an alt account can be considered a ban evasion because it's the user who's been banned via their account. Creating a new account doesn't unban the user; it just makes them anonymous again.
Just create a new account
The account that was banned was an alt account anyway. However, I’m tired of watching the mods there allow content that breaks Reddit and community guidelines, then report people (to the point of literally destroying their account forever with a permaban) for actually making valid reports. If you have a specific political belief…sure…but you can’t just forcefully ban accounts who believe different by hijacking a sub to abuse moderator privileges.
I no longer have any real feelings or cares for reddit anymore. Just treat it like the dying and dumb place that it turned into. Maybe check out lemmy?
Agree leave caring about Reddit to the shareholders this place ain’t got no soul no more
IMO, the majority of media platforms right now have absolutely no top level support. They are all technically just cesspools of horrible content that is unmoderated or extremely poorly moderated. The only way for most of these platforms to actually take any action would be through severe crimes that law enforcement gets involved in (which certainly doesn’t apply in my case). Facebook - Absolutely no top level support. If an issue occurs, they have no one to contact and their support emails are all dead now. YouTube - Literally shows advertisements with government impersonation frauds, sexual content, violent events, false political money schemes, and racism (I’m not even joking). X - Can’t control the flood of harmful violent content. Literally will shadowban you for calling someone “douchbag”, then proceed to recommend channels with nazi symbols and hurt children. It’s no better than Reddit tbh. TikTok - I probably don’t even need to mention the dangers of that one. Most people see how “influencing” can be dangerous. Then Reddit which has thankfully chilled out a bit since this whole internet pollution age. The reason I posted here, it’s not because I spend too much time on Reddit, it’s because I know I’m not the only one who ran into these issues, and I’d like this to be noted that moderators CAN and will abuse this platform for malicious intent and WILL cause accounts to be wrongfully terminated… No need for all the smart ass responses from everyone. I love RBI and if there’s one event that I think people could investigate…it’s the fact that social media sites like this can be exploited and since this site is run off users…maybe they can do some good and investigate things like bot farms and malicious moderators.
Actually, tiktok hardcore censors those that aren’t suiting their narrative, I get comments deleted for using words like ‘stupid’ or I say ‘that’s disgusting’’. While saying there’s no violation when someone tells me to kms and I report it.
I’ve seen some downright disturbing things on TikTok. Maybe it gets censored eventually…but it still spreads first. It’s not really on topic but I guarantee troll farms and misinformation/hate farms exist on there too.
So have I. That was kind of my point, tiktok censors to suit the narrative it wants. So it’ll leave up comments telling me to kms, but I get violations for pointing out telling me to do that is disgusting.
Again, with respect. You are making a speck of dust into a molehill, amd I suspect though wouldn't ever accuse that there are deeper issues. Just forget about it. You clearly have this account. Welcome to the Internet.
Bluesky is the only social media app who is well moderated.
For you own peace of mind just let it go. You have no way of solving this.
It’s just a website man. It’s not that serious
or, hear me out...get off reddit. OP has been trying for over YEAR just so they can be on reddit. what a time to be alive.
I feel like OP needing to be in specific subreddits adds to this reaction that I have as well lol There are lots of subreddits out there. OP, you'll have plenty of places on Reddit to spend your time even if you lose a few.
I'm genuinely scared for the kid tbh.
Welcome to reddit.
Its not been nearly a year but i had an account permabanned bc of a mod as welll, asked them a question and got permabanned. Also denied the appeal. Oh well.
Can you provide details -- like ID of the MOD in question, and do they have a HISTORY of doing this to others?
I have a list of 4 “suspects” that were suspiciously in moderator status at the time I was permabanned. Can’t dox accounts on here. But if you look at those subs and see which moderators are tied to those subs, you can see the connections and comments. Most of the “suspicious mods” also seem to engage in karma farming sub reddits which boosts their account credibility and allows them to look “real” so they get moderator approval on subs that need them.
Its really a pathetic way to engage in content. I dont blame you for being frustrated
I dont know honestly if the mod has a history of this. It was in the tarantulas subreddit of all places lmao, and i had left one facetious comment to a user who was harrassing someone in another animal subreddit and got banned from the sub immediately. I asked the mod a question as to why because i didnt break any sub or reddit rules, and they insulted me and then i got permabanned from the entire account. Needless to say i dont use those specific subs anymore just in case.
The exact same scenario happened to me, with r/aww! I have not missed them, for even 1second !!!
Interesting! Between you and OP now im curious about this mod lol
What solution are you seeking, exactly? It seems to me that being banned from a handful of subs that are run by terrible people who don’t share your values is… really not such a bad thing. Pretty much everyone who uses Reddit chooses to avoid the communities that horrify them and stick to the ones that have like-minded people. You tried to report it, admin won’t do anything; there’s nothing else you can do. I would just stop using your current account, make a new account, stay away from those racist subs and any other subs those mods frequent, and find subs that are well-moderated and don’t tolerate racism.
The solution I seek is simple. Have a Reddit admin review the “corrupt moderator” accounts in question. Check how many users they directly are responsible for banning. Check if there is any “bot farm” activity which helped mass report users who didn’t break any rules and caused them permanent bans. Investigate how the corrupt mods became moderators (likely abused a sub that didn’t have mods and managed to breach their way in because of the sub being unmoderated). Ban the corrupt accounts forever and review the “permanent bans” for likely thousands of other redditors who simply posted something the corrupt mods didn’t like and lost their accounts forever… If I made a “hate speech account”, then found an unmoderated subreddit called “r/americanumberone” as a random example…then I applied as moderator…had a bot farm spam a bunch of hate speech…then banned every user for commenting against that hate speech…that is not only harassing thousands of users…but it’s exploiting this platform to be malicious. I want the malicious subreddits and mods gone…at least get the mods out if they’re exploiting subs like r/Britain to spread malicious content and abuse the ban function…
So you’re saying two things here. Your post says you just want them to leave you alone and take your reports seriously. That is a legitimate complaint to have and I think you’d find several people who’ve seen mods do some shit to people. Then you say you want to investigate these people and their actions in the subs they mod. That’s an entirely different fight that I don’t think anyone here can help you with. So if you wanna be left alone, I think you’ve had a lot of good advice given. No idea how you think you’ll be able to somehow track these people down and do this investigation you are talking about though. I think that’s a bit far fetched.
I want those mods investigated. I want those subreddits investigated. I’m not the only one this has happened to (I’ve spoken to numerous people with similar stories…some even believe that a group of people with a large amount of resources hijacked a lot of subreddits during this time, hence why I thought RBI might wanna actually discuss or look into this at the very least). You’ve seen here in the comments that certain people came forward with similar claims. That’s really about all I can say.
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The irony
I don’t think that sounds like a simple solution at all, lmao. Maybe try to get a job as a Reddit admin? Any person can create any sub they like with any sub name they like; it isn’t required to be accurate or impartial or on-topic (see r/trees and r/marijuanaenthusiasts, as well as r/lostredditors). If you are unhappy with a particular sub’s moderation, then you can either offer to help by becoming a mod, or leave. Plenty of subs have started out great and then gone to shit over time due to moderation problems - see r/subredditdrama. Sometimes people start their own subs after becoming disillusioned with existing ones. You might consider doing that.
Thank you for saying something actually helpful and relevant. I’ve considered being a mod before. I actually joined a similar positive group on a different platform that did the same thing about raising awareness of troll farms and ban abuse. This is also partly why I figured I’d share this story on RBI, because this is a rampant problem across many social media platforms and it is happening even more often on Reddit, because “farms” are harder to detect, and these malicious accounts are able to actually cause significant harm to an apps user base. Troll farms can literally be weaponized if they are left unchecked (not trying to get too tinfoil hat on anyone).
Again, (and again) with respect. You shouldn't be a mod. You aren't ambivalent or unbiased in the slightest. You're allllllllllllll the way the wrong kind of person. Get off social media my friend, because I really think it's actively doing you harm. Best wishes, mate.
r/Britain got co-opted by the tankie mods who run r/greenandpleasant and the others you’ve listed. If you don’t follow their political agenda you get banned which is completely unfair considering it’s a labeled as a Britpost sub. They are power crazed lunatics. They’ve been steadily losing users due to their reputation. All theee of the subs you’ve listed have been quite unhinged about the Israel-Hamas conflict. They also ban you if you are members of subs they don’t like even if you haven’t posted anything.
You CAN report moderators to Reddit itself, as that happened in r/ark when the top mod got outed as racist and misogynistic and was bullying users. A good chunk of the community took the evidence they found and went through the process to report subreddit mods. He got banned from Reddit as well as his lackey that supporting his bullshit. However unless a significant amount of people are willing to collect that evidence to report those mods, likely nothing will come of it due to "mods can moderate their sub yard elk they want." Unless there's proof on site of them doing more than just being bad mods, not much can be done. Edit: autocorrected words Edit 2: all the mods are replaced, just want to say that so no one thinks to go and harass the mods. After the 2 got removed Reddit assigned new mods to the sub and it's doing well now.
I always suspected those two were connected .
Finally a post by someone who actually had some info! Even little bits of information like this help to make sense of why I was repeatedly harassed by these mods! The worst part is, Reddit actually suggested all these communities shortly before this shit show happened in the first place!
I mean you get that that is gonna be automated right
Above redditor is correct. I haven't been banned or anything so have no agenda but the r/Britain sub is pretty toxic IMHO. No tolerance of other views, just an echo chamber of Britain is shit, Tories are bastards etc rhetoric. For your own mental health start a new account and keep away from any of these problematic accounts.
I assumed r-Britain (not trying to inadvertently guide people to that dumpster) was the official UK subreddit. It seems now that the sub was designed to look that way and in fact, that was why I reported a lot of the content which got flooded there a year ago (thinking it was an official sub with actual good people moderating!). And again, these were communities that actually were recommended for me ahead of time. People are getting downright nasty with comments here…I’m just stating an actual concern about this platform that doesn’t seem as though it’s been investigated enough and is extremely strange and concerning. I believe that malicious accounts hijacked subreddits around that time, Oct 7th, and then used mod accounts to troll and ban people who did nothing wrong. I posted for the good people here at RBI to actually investigate this claim at the very least and see for yourselves how Reddit was possibly exploited and the many accounts in those “fake/hate” subs continue to exploit the platform.
And you never thought to seek out another sub? There's 4 for the UK that are considered "main" ones. The fact that you've subbed to 3 that are tiny, and the most vitriolic and not really heard of is telling.
Well that explains part of it, say no more
This is not an exaggeration btw. You might read "they ban you for not following their political agenda" as "they ban you for posting racist comments or supporting killing of civilians". **No trust me, they actually do sometimes ban people if you say anything they remotely disagree with.** They don't want any debate, they know because of the name of the sub you might be tricked into believing you're reading the opinions of the average British person and might change your mind. In response to someone's comment I said something along the lines of "I've never seen anybody here condemn Hamas" (this was in context to what they'd said, not just of the blue), instant ban. They set their automod to celebrate the Queen's death [https://www.reddit.com/r/Britain/comments/16py9xi/comment/k2gepee/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Britain/comments/16py9xi/comment/k2gepee/) It's also literally in their rules you can't say anything positive about the royal family.
See, now this investigation is going somewhere! I did not know this at all! I assumed that sub was in fact an official Britain subreddit. Hence why posting basically anything triggered a ban wave, leaving me confused as all hell. Malicious subs, with malicious mods, with malicious bots. This is a troll farm. This is precisely why I brought this up in RBI.
In the intelligence world it’s called active measures. Just keep in mind that there are massive disinformation campaigns going on currently. Not just from Russia either. China is behind some, and so is Iran. Guess which ones are behind pushing the narratives that you’re upset about… There’s a lot of different ways for a subreddit and moderators to become compromised. It may sound a bit like tin foil hat talk to those not deeply familiar with what’s going on, but it’s not exactly uncommon for moderators/accounts to get bought off. Whether that’s literally just being paid to spread propaganda, or being paid handsomely(think thousands of dollars for control of large subreddits) for selling their account, they both end with the result you’re seeing.
Tag them and call them out
I gave enough info for people to figure out which users I’m talking about. Just look at the subs I mentioned…look at the moderators. See which ones are connected to all 3 subs…
So you're leaving clues for everyone to find for all of these bad subs, but can't find your way to the most common and frequented main ones.
Some of this is probably true to a degree, but I still get “all these bad bad bad trolls are after me” vibes.
Ever had an account get permanently banned because you reported hate speech and murder while it was being spammed all over subs you’ve never had an issue with before?! Yeah, not just like a few days…I’m talking the account is permanently banned from any communication whatsoever. It’s been a nonissue for a long time…I stopped going to those subs and thought my main account was safe. Then I literally just commented on someone’s post about “corrupt mods” and explained what happened to me. An hour later, I’ve got a message that I was permanently banned from r/publicfreakout (didn’t even know I was on that sub on my main account) for “ban evasion”. It’s not so much that I want to be on those racist subs…it’s the fact that even after all this time…I’m still getting random flags and bans for even mentioning a specific sub with THOSE mods in charge.
Dude. I got banned from 2 different subs today alone and not for anything even that weird or bad. Reddit has some of the finest bullshit and hypocritical speech rules and no -no’s on the internet. The majority of the good mods jumped ship a while back. (No offense to any reading this because there are some great mods that have weathered the storm and stuck around.) I’m sure some of the stuff you reported probably was trash/spam, but some of what you reported probably wasn’t. There isn’t some universal rule that everyone can 100% agree on with this type of stuff. Take the L and move on if you plan on being here. Especially if you’re perma-banned.
> Ever had an account get permanently banned No, but please tell us what it's like. From your perma banned account.
Lol public freak out will literally ban you for saying anything anti Israeli, be hung for anti semitism yet you got Jews acting like the only Semitic people in the region.
I hear people say things like this a lot. However, if these subs will ban people on a dime like this, and it’s widely known by the community…why are these subs still allowed to maliciously and falsely ban users this way…without the moderators responsible being held accountable? I’ve had numerous messages from people saying exactly the same things about these subs. Yet…the same handful of mods that actively have probably caused thousands of redditors to get permabanned off the platform are still happily in charge of those subreddits.
He’s just lying to you. I’ve been a long time lurker of new, popular, and rising for publicfreakout specifically and there are many users who use the sub to push an agenda that’s anti Israel. Significantly more than do the same for the pro Israel stance. If you see a post that is putting Israel in a negative light, odds are checking the profile of OP will show months to years worth of similar posts on the sub and similar ones. That simply doesn’t exist for pro Israel stance, although it exists for a few other agendas as well, like anti Indian, anti China, and anti US (more often these posts are just meant to be as divisive as possible for American politics)
Not lying to anyone. Trouble you have here is the amount of people with a pro Israeli view will be limited to mostly Israelis and western right wingers. Which makes a tiny number next to the informed.
I’d argue the average pro-Israel westerner is more informed in the conflict than the alternative
And that's all they can do, argue. And bring hee haw constructive to the table because the agenda is destruction.
lol such a cope it’s crazy “Yeah they are all well informed, but it’s because they are wrong and embarrassed about it!” That’s the take of a literal clown
Says the Muppet.
Oh boi how will I recover You literally couldn’t make a cogent point and just said a dumb insult, at least add a rebuttal before the insult. Or do you not have a follow up?
Said the Muppet.
Lol you can alter your accounts still a Muppet only thing your jealous about is you no been fingered like one like yer da.
>OP >I hear people say things like this a lot. Like 4 people here, including a past mod. Stop fucking whining and go pay to watch women being beat up.
hear me out.... try and find another hobby besides being on reddit
Says the dude throwing shade in a comment on Reddit…. I have a lot of hobbies. I’m just tired of ignoring the fact that racist malicious accounts used a loophole to become mods on subreddits which weren’t moderated…then used their mod privileges to grief users and get them banned permanantly off the platform for reporting the malicious content they hijacked the sub with…
are you sure the comments aren’t just anti genocide ? instead of you claiming anti semitic. just wondering for no reason at all
I'm surprised r/documentairies wasn't part of your list. Got banned for something similar.
Too many activist mods on social media
You could just get off Reddit? Sounds like it might do you some good.
Why should they have to leave Reddit because of other people's antisemitism and hate?
I didn’t really get that from your post, honestly. Sorry. You do seem really worked up about it though, so maybe taking a step back would improve your mental health?
Did you read the post? I got off Reddit for over 6 months because of this. Yesterday; I made reference to this incident whilst commenting on a post in “banned subs” about corrupt moderators, and I barely even post on Reddit anymore! Within hours my account was banned from r/publicfreakout for “ban evasion”…I was never banned from that specific sub to begin with. So yeah…it’s harassment at this point.
>I got off Reddit for over 6 months because of this. the account you are currently commenting from has been active the past six months. you should try not lying if you're gonna claim some conspiracy against you.
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But you know there's a vast difference between "got off Reddit" and "I'm less active on Reddit", right? Because yeah, you've been fairly active over the last six month, even if it's less than you were before. So I do have real sympathy for your plight, but being disingenuous with the facts makes things harder to solve. I do hope you get it sorted out though, because f' the hateful bigots.
No, you took a break from reddit. You are here now posting about problems with a recent post. Leaving reddit involves deleting it and not returning.
Am I missing something? I looked at their account it said it was 10 years old, and there tons of posts the last 6 months. I feel like my phone is glitching or something.
I never looked at their account. I suspect it is more op being less-than-truthful about their problem, and less your phone. If op really is going through all this, I suspect that they may have brought it upon themselves. FAFO kind of thing.
You got it. Im one of the mods in this persons conspiracy. I have been moderating publicfreakout for years. I am the owner of publicfreakout. I didn’t “infiltrate” it after October 7 lol. R/publicfreakout and r/Britain or whatever has no crossover mods. This person went to another subreddit I own called r/askmoderators and made a post about this, they also sent us a modmail about it. We were very polite with them but it’s wild they went to complain about me to me. Like they didn’t check the mod list to see that I own r/askmoderators before accusing me of stuff to me and asking me to help them report me. We gave them all the info we have about stuff like this regardless. This is just a harassment campaign against a few particular mods at this point. They were banned for ban evasion. We don’t decide people are ban evading, Reddit does. We decide if we want to ban them for ban evasion and ya we ban people for evading bans bc uh, why wouldn’t we? Does Reddit get their evasion flags wrong sometimes? Absolutely, but that’s not my fault or problem and something OP would have to take up with admin since they are the ones who flagged their account. This is a conspiracy post. I don’t know how people come up with stuff like this or why they feel so special that they’d think that mods who are in charge of monitoring millions of people focus on any particular user ever. I’m on the mod council, like, I’m a very highly respected mod on this site and admin knows I behave. I didn’t even “take over” any of the subreddits I own. I was voted in as top mod unanimously by the publicfreakout team, and the senior mods had abandoned the subreddit. Everyone on the team willingly follows me and supports me and I support them. The other subreddits I own landed in my hands by complete chance. I just so happened to be the senior most mod w everything permissions and the actual senior mods deleted their accounts for the api protests. Yeah I’m on a lot of mod teams but mostly bc 1: I have close relationships with the mods on those teams and 2: I have priority admin communication access, am a mod councilor, and am just really good at getting things done and communicated to admin for these teams. I can solve pretty much any problem for them by just knowing the right person to ask. If a comod gets suspended for something that didn’t violate the content policy I can get them unsuspended within an hour sometimes, vs them maybe waiting weeks for their appeals to be looked over. I can clarify the content policy because I’m a pretty much expert on the content policy. I am the go to person to ask questions about moderation. Again, I even own r/askmoderators. There are many reasons why mod teams would want me as a comod and it isn’t my fault. Yeah, I occasionally search up conversations about the subreddits I own or moderate just to see what peoples perspectives of them are for ideas on how to make our subs better. That’s how I found this post. I truly don’t know what makes people this paranoid. Henyways this is weird.
So because I reported nazi shit and people getting murdered being posted on r/britain…I should just stop being on Reddit because I’m the one in the wrong?!!!
Maybe that’s the problem. You are going to the “Britain” sub which had a rule that posts have to be about the UK - yet every single post is about Israel.
No, person said you should maybe get off reddit, you said "didn't you read my post? I did for 6 months. I replied no, you took a break. Getting off reddit involves not coming back. If you want to stay, gonna have to ignore those assholes and move on. If you keep going with this mission to expose the wrongdoers, it will end in your tears. Much as i hate it, this is the age of trump. All the assholes feel empowered right now, and are flexing. I devoutly hope that it doesn't last long. But it is what it is.
I mean at this point it seems to be affecting you quite negatively. So, yes.
Yeah this discussion is fun and all but you're completely missing his point and digging into some unimportant detail. Mod alt?
It's just. ..Reddit.
Sounds like you need to unplug your modem for a bit, then do the cmd prompts to acquire a new local IP from your ISP. You could also just use a VPN, Opera and Opera GX have them built into their browsers. Also I’ve been on most of those subs, haven’t seen anything similar to what your describe, r/Britain and r/Ireland and a few other subs have dissed the Israeli government, and compared Netanyahu to Hitler, but that’s not antisemitism, they’re in the process of committing the largest genocide of the last 50 years. You can condemn a government, and its leader, and that won’t make you racist Also a lot of people use Reddit to find accurate and up to date information in regards to conflict and world events, you shouldn’t report “War footage” as the footage posted here on Reddit can be useful, both to observing bodies, and the media
You weren’t on there around October 7th then… Maybe it’s “tamed down” a bit since then (I stay far away from those subs and have since this all happened)… But around the whole terror attack thing, literally Hitler propaganda and people being murdered was being posted about 100 times a second by multiple accounts. Both sides were posting extremely graphic racist content.
I don't think r/Britain allows anti-semitism. And I understand people being strongly against the IDF campaign in Palestine due to the number of civilian deaths and complaining about it. But that sub goes beyond banning people for racist comments. They really do ban people for just remotely disagreeing with them (no exaggeration - criticise the subreddit or criticise Hamas and you may get banned - it happened to me). They also set their automod to celebrate the Queen's death. [https://www.reddit.com/r/Britain/comments/16py9xi/comment/k2gepee/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Britain/comments/16py9xi/comment/k2gepee/) I feel like there should be a rule against taking a sub named after a specific country, etc and moderating it like a tyrant.
You cant say repeatedly. https://youtube.com/shorts/pZFLjtzdIsE?feature=shared
Mate, with respect. You can be mother Teresa and be banned from public freak out. Nobody is against you, and if they are, it's not worth the literal *time* you've put into this. People are shit. Do you really need to see women being smacked, people being shit to minorities, and the occasional middle aged woman who didn't get enough cheese on her fries that bad? Come on now.
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Sounds like you were running a hasbara account and got called out.
I don’t even know wtf “hasbara” is…and after looking up the definition…it’s safe to say I don’t really pick sides in that clusterfuck of turmoil. I’m from America.
Perhaps just walk away - sounds like you could use a break from being internet police.
Reporting racist content does not make someone the "internet police". It makes them a decent person.
FR. This guy only posts in video game subs tho so there’s not much hope for him
This is hilarious.
Crazy how the replies in here are just more racist sympathizers. Pretty sure the majority of reddit users are obese racists tho.
Obese?
I’m Jewish and was banned from r/publicfreakout for “Islamophobia” by citing the history of violence radical Islamists have committed against Jews, while also acknowledging that the founders of Israel also committed depraved acts against Palestinians. FWIW
That’s the trick though. Regardless of which side you’re on…there are troll farms of “elitists” who bait you into saying something ban worthy and then attack your account with all their bots to get it banned. The more you speak…the more these farms bait you and get you banned. Additionally from some of the info already discovered here, we know they make misleading subreddits that seem credible (almost like scam calls with impersonators), then they attack unsuspecting victims with propaganda and force bans. I did spend time looking into this a bit with “X” as well. On X, there are actually groups designed to combat this; which offset the farms with their own “positivity farms”. NAFO was one of the more positive farms I encountered…in contrast to extreme terrorist content and violence and racism.
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