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It's been going downhill for a while but I feel it's gotten exponentially worse. Someone made a post under "insane facebook people" which had a picture of a sign on a hospital patient's door that said "please knock before entering I wear a veil". I said "you have to cover your face or Mohammed will smite you!" (which is literally the reason they do it) and the mod perma-banned me for violating a "rule". I called them a power hungry loser and said it was clearly a sarcastic comment...and they responded by calling me a Republican (which confuses the hell out of me) and blocked me from responding to them for 3 days.

Someone else posted in the New York City thread saying "inflation is out of control, this place wants $15 for a bacon, egg and cheese!" and everyone there was supporting the place that charged $15. Any comment OP made was immediately downvoted to hell, regardless of the content.

People were calling someone from a story posted a "pedophile" in another sub because they found an adult (18 years old) attractive. When someone else was like "umm a pedophile is someone that's attracted to pre-pubescent children..." everyone was just like "shut up pedo! You just want to fuck kids!".

Everyone seems to have a hair trigger, is insane, or loves to rage-bait/troll just for the fun of it.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Your post trashy but I'll pick what I believe to be worthy out of it.

Three side effects of Greedy Pigboy screwing with Reddit in July were

  1. mods are less emotionally attached to their communities; why bother contributing with a platform that mocks them as "landed gentry"?
  2. your typical mod is dumber than before - because a lot of the insightful mods were aware of what was happening, and jumped off the ship.
  3. there are overall less mods, so they all got more work to do.

Overburdened, dumb, uncaring, and able to tell you what you should [not] do? That's bound to create grievances.

Reddit always had a disgusting acceptance of witch hunting*, based on witch hunters having "good intentions". Usually you'd get decent mods kicking the witch hunters out... except that this means actually understanding what's going on, cue to the above (overburdened, dumb, uncaring mods) - it's easy to leave the witch hunter alone and just remove the comment chain.

Same deal with trolls. Sometimes you only get a troll by investigating and looking at the context. But if there's something that dumb trash cannot do, it is to look at the bloody context of an utterance. So trolls got free reign there.

*witch hunting: to accuse someone of belonging to a group of morally or ethically undesirable people, based on little to no evidence or reasoning. Just like in the Middle Ages: "I assume that you're a witch, then you're a witch lol, time to burn you lmao".

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Definitely males sense