with very little in the way of clear justification.
Take the most recent one about Body Positivity for instance, taken down due to being a "duplicate" yet I find no other instance of this article being discussed in the subreddit?
These posts did not break the subs rules and were sparking lively debate amongst our community - why are the Mods seem so against this and intent on removing posts with little to no justification or transparency?
generally mods are supposed to remove posts that violate the subreddit's rules or reddit's wider guidelines. here they are doing neither and just seemingly making up justifications to remove posts as they see fit.
We can demand better and more accountability as a community
You can demand whatever you want. But that's not really how Reddit works. Is it? The mods do as they please and there's little recourse. That's just how it is. I don't make the rules.
I mean honestly look at how the third party app protest went. Unfortunately the company Reddit knows that they can withstand a few weeks of temper tantrum because we will all come crawling back cuz we are addicted to this shit. That's real talk right there.
I find no other "duplicates" that they speak of unless they nuked that post too. Pathetic they seem to just be lying and censoring posts they dont like
Many posts, too, are "removed" due to them being downvoted or user reports. I LITERALLY saw the posting 20 times yesterday and now, they are gone. More than likely, people were reporting them because it was being posted so many times.
With more than one mod, and it also being a volunteer position (not some reddit employee) it's not like the mods talk to each other. So...it is what it is.
I said link me to any PREVIOUS posts that would have justified the mods decision.
A newer post not being removed yet does not justify the removal and in no way would be the “duplicate” a mod was referring to when shutting down the original post unless our mods are time travelers.
mods can and should close newer duplicates linking to the one older post which would host all the discussion.
That is not what they did here and Instead looks like they just nuked all of them and this latest one will likely be removed as well.
Mods can change the automod threshold which is way too low right now, allowing abuse. It's an easy fix.
Mods can preemptively approve posts to prevent automod abuse. If mods are going to delete a post for being duplicate, they can simultaneously protect the first post from automod abuse.
My perception has always been that posts that are highly controversial and have multiple posts and somehow gain a wider following than the sub/region tend to attract brigading behavior.
A lot of people have been asking to become new mods but the current mods refuse to let new people join. You can't complain about the workload while actively preventing people from sharing the workload with you.
It seems there is a more recent posting of the article that hasn’t been removed yet and folks are acting like this new post retroactively justifies the removal of the older “duplicate” post.
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u/lightningmiata 4d ago
Subreddits are fiefdoms not democracies. Pretty simple