for anyone who wasn't around for the dustup when r/ContraPoints declared war on the old subreddit, here's a sample of the moderation team's style:


I've asked you

TWO

Extremely clear questions.

ONE:

CAN YOU ABIDE BY OUR COMMUNITY'S RULES?

and

TWO:

WERE YOU TRYING TO CALL ME A LIAR?

These are questions I asked YOU.

You can answer them -- or not.

And you can participate here.

Or not.

The moderation team of /r/ContraPoints is the moderation team of /r/ContraPoints.

YOU are NOT on it.

Before 35 minutes ago, you'd never participated in our community.

How we run our community is our business, and the business of the people who participate here in good faith.

We don't allow disrespect; We don't allow verbal or emotional abuse; We don't allow people to brigade our subreddit and post off-topic posts and metadrama.

What YOU think you know about our moderation team is informed solely by third-hand hearsay and screenshots released by someone abusing their position, edited and therefore cherry picked to support a narrative.

That narrative is abusive.

It will not be allowed.

No one will be allowed to come here and back-seat run our subreddit, or light torches and brandish pitchforks.

So now,

THREE Questions:

The first two still must be answered,

and

AM I PERFECTLY CLEAR THAT YOU ARE NOT A MODERATOR OF THIS SUBREDDIT?

  • mrbigcheese [he/him]
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    edit-2
    4 years ago

    That describes like all reddit mods who take their shit way too seriously. I got banned from r/communism101 for asking a question a while back about the ussr, which means I'm banned from r/communism too. I got banned for 2 weeks from r/socialism for posting the new gravel institute video and the excuse they gave me was ridiculously condescending like "go learn what real socialism is" wtf lol these people gotta fucking chill jfc

      • TossedAccount [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Is that one of the left subreddits that filters out ableist language? That's the only reason that would make any sense.

          • mrbigcheese [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            i thought it was just an auto remove, they permabanned you for that?

              • mrbigcheese [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                weird didnt know they ban ppl for that, i mean not using ableist words is fine but they do have pretty strict rules about some i dont really agree with lol

    • SSJBlueStalin [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I am not sure why com101 banned me but I honestly think it was for saying in a comunist utopia there would be no tv commercials