Admins and mods have other tools to deal with those issues. But given that Reddit is a corporation it will likely also remove content that are in a murky area rules-wise, or given the current political climate selectively apply the rules. That creates a risk for redditors who try to use the site legitimately as well.
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misk@sopuli.xyz 1 month agoWhat Reddit believes to be bad content is often calls for violence or homophobia too. What they’re trying to fix now is that subreddits could be easily taken over by a brigade that could change the culture very quickly and mods are powerless to stop it because it’s a whack-a-mole when votes are not public.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 month ago
misk@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Mods don’t and mods do 99% of work.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 month ago
Mods can take subs private temporarily if they notice brigading. They can also contact admins who could use other tools at their disposal. Not fun, but effective.
misk@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Do you realise what it means to take a subreddit private? What tools specifically do you mean? Have you ever contacted Reddit admins? XD
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Reddit let trumps subreddit stay up for years, not to mention all the other vile and bigoted places
I do not put much faith in that reddit actually cares about homophobia
And calls for violence has always been selective. Has reddit ever banned anyone for supporting a state to kill people? For example, supporting death penalty, supporting cops shooting people, supporting Ukraine/Russia to kill Russians/Ukrainians, or supporting Israel killing Palestinians?
The whole subject of “calls for violence” has always been biased, because we see state actors being violent as justifiable, but non-state actors as not, so it’s not right to say they don’t support calls for violence, they only don’t support selective ones that they are not entirely clear about. They don’t support the people
misk@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
It doesn’t matter what Reddit’s policy is when they outsource decision making to India where decisions seem to be taken without context or at random. It’s usually up to volunteer moderators to set the rules and tone for a community.