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One of the absolute best features of lemmy is that everyone is simply allowed to post. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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automod filters made reddit an absolute nightmare. pouring my heart out on the depression sub and getting it removed because it didn't have 300 characters or it was image post saturday or god knows what. you basically just don't get to post on any sizable sub

before it was at least a lottery! post, see if people will like it! but now you can't even get a post through!

there are 50 automod filters on everything, forbidden words or topics, perfectly good questions cast away to megathreads no one reads!

it's a dire, awful landscape, and really terrible user experience, having something on your chest and wanting to post, but oh hey this won't be posted until our 'mod team' 'reviews' it. isn't that what voting is for? please stop treating me like a spambot or troll by default!

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Plus the number of times I got banned from what is this thing because my comment didn’t meet their standards.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's like r/history and r/science. Every single comment thread was completely empty with nothing but [removed] over and over. Why the fuck even have a sub at that point? And then anytime anyone mentioned how ridiculous it was, in other subs even, they'd get piled on by people defending it somehow. It's like being in the fucking twilight zone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I fucking hated those subs for that exact reason. What's good about a thousand comments saying "removed"? How does that help anyone? It's so asinine, and then the little goober defenders cry about how it's to keep the level of discussion high. What discussion? Discussion is blatantly not allowed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

EXACTLY. could not stand that shit. smug and obnoxious. it makes sense to promote good answers, sure, but don't remove everything else! what if i don't need a PHD-level answer to something? can't you use flairing to showcase good answers instead of deleting everything?