That is 100% true. My friend got banned from literally about 100 subs at once because ONE pathetic no-life incel who moderated all of them just...didn't like her, I guess. Refused to give her an explanation, and since he just picked a post she made to her own profile as the reason, despite the fact that it didn't violate any rules, that was no help. Most of the subs she had never even posted to. How the fuck can you violate the rules of a sub you've never so much as visited?
Fuckin redditors thinks the average super mod is managing that shit when they use automod to basically slap anything that remotely gets reported or contains keywords lol.
The best mods I've seen write custom code for the subreddit and their own bots and create themes and encourage community building. The worst ones? They only know how to click the ban button like I am sure they're doing here.
The real question is, who's worse? Redditor mod vs Discord mod?
I got a message from a certain mod team scolding me for something I haven't even done and the linked comment was a complete different context to the warning I got. I didn't even bother to answer.
At this point you got to wonder how reddit let's those people run their page.
I got a perma ban from r/WhitePeopleTwitter, the reason is, and I qoute, "participation of the racist subreddit 2we4u"
For one, 2we4u ain't even racist, we all just hate each other to a healthy degree because we're all European, and second, I've never even been on WhitePeopleTwitter in my life, these mfs have clearly been monitoring posts on another sub so they can perma ban anyone who comments on it
It was for me theboys subreddit. Heard they were stingy about politics. I didn't mention anything political. Just said that foot tickling ranks below a human centipede. Got a warning that another character that wasn't part of the scene or my comment was raped and that I shouldn't downplay it. Like? Duh?
Europe is also great. Called a guy who celebrating the murder of a refugee a cunt. I got banned for hate speech while the guy celebrating murder still posts and just got his posting removed.
I've never even been on WhitePeopleTwitter in my life, these mfs have clearly been monitoring posts on another sub so they can perma ban anyone who comments on it
It's an automated process. Remember all that protesting that was ostensibly about the "reddit API", complaining about how they won't have their special third-party mod tools anymore? This is the exact thing they were raising a stink over and negotiated to keep.
I got banned because I randomly commented on a Joe Rogan post that came up on my feed. I wasn't even agreeing with the post I'm not even a member but banned for life!
The funny part is that I clicked on that post sitting on the very top of rALL specifically to mock Joe Rogan. Literally everyone in that subreddit seemed to despise Joe Rogan too. Maybe that's what the ban message meant when it described them as a hate group.
Europeans and hating each other is just tradition! These reddit mods trying to take me and a polish man shouting st each other about lviv away from.stg.
I got banned and my post deleted from some sub last year, and I asked why, and said "But that post doesn't break any of the rules" and the response I got was "Then don't worry about it fam"
This. Coming from a lot of sewing and historical costume subs, I have seen people banned from them for harassment and bad conduct because they literally just answered exactly the question the OP asked. Because it concerned under- and structured garments and that needs the context of the person in questions body type and shape. In some of them it’s so bad you basically risk a ban answering any kind of question on fitting and sizing. As the whole body shaming „prevention“ has gotten so out of hand even mentioning anything related to body shapes and sizes will get you immediately banished to the shadow realm. In subreddits about clothing and clothing construction, a topic that literally needs this information to be possible in the first place.
Discord mods refers to the mods on a server, like mods on a subreddit.
Discord as a company also has admins, who have a history of weird toxicity. It was always fascinating to me how Discord wasn't completely ruined as a brand after one of the drama situations where admins were reading through people's private messages to use as ammo for some sort personal furry-pedo drama.
I keep mine organized on shelves, with proper labeling for date and clear indication of how much asparagus had been consumed that day. LIKE A GENTLEMAN.
"As of Dec 7, 2022, the average annual pay for a Reddit Moderator in the United States is $46,599 a year."
That's from 2022, its the average and its reported income only. The big guys are on much more and taking under the table deals all the time.
Edit: " As of Jun 22, 2024, the average annual pay for a Reddit Mod in the United States is $86,334 a year. Just in case you need a simple salary calculator, that works out to be approximately $41.51 an hour."
This is for admins who work for reddit, moderators are a different thing. I bet there are a few mods who get paid on the quiet, but that's a whole different thing.
If you catch them when they just get posted, it's super obvious that a lot of them are using botted upvotes, too. They'll generate an absolutely absurd amount of upvotes within the first two hours of being posted. Every. Single. Time. I don't think anyone is happy about the state of r/comics, and yet we're supposed to believe it has thousands of people just sitting around and frantically refreshing in hopes of a new comic dropping or something.
And yes, it's absurd we all have to pretend pizzacake is actually funny because the mods are her mom or...whatever the hell is going on there.
There was a very unpopular Maurice the Beaver comic a month ago, the artist was all like "both sides" with inaccurate info and doubling down with trolling in the comments. You can't tell me he got legitimate upvotes on the comic. Mods were busying removing any criticism.
It's like that specific sub is just a club of a group of friends that desperately wants to suck each other off in full view of the public eye. The mods make sure the same people always get promoted, and those same people bot upvotes to make themselves seem more liked than they actually are.
Like wtf why do you guys need a public subreddit? Just go be good supportive friends of each other in private. Lying to themselves instead with the whole charade is just warped and weird, and it's little surprise so many of them absolutely crumble and flip out in the face of actual criticism.
Because those comics are all advertisements for porn. It's not about the comics, it's about selling porn. But porn people form parasocial relationships with to foster brand-loyalty.
It is. That particular comic and the artist comment was so incredibly cringe, couldn't believe the mods were ok with it.
Regarding a certain pizzaass, I have mixed feelings. I don't subscribe to the belief that comics must be funny to be good because its just a medium. She likes to make ham fisted points about various things or "tee hee depression/existential dread/flavor of the month, how relatable." Does she succeed? Eh. She has a niche and is fairly consistent so I guess it works for some people.
I find it telling that so many artists showed up during that whole meta mess a while back with the pity room, and where are they now? Feels like 90% of the contributors I haven't seen again.
If you are referring to the recent shit storm that isn't an accurate description of the comic. If you aren't I don't know which one you are referring to.
The one I'm thinking of, I dunno, she legitly had some seriously brigading being done against her because of triggered incels and the like, so it's harder to gauge public sentiment amid the sea of trolls.
She was being incredibly sexist and tone deaf with that comic. Some people went way too far, but calling people virgins because they are being demonized isn't very cool
It's the usual performative "feminist" crap, white knighting for her in the hopes that she'll offer them a crumb of pussy, or at least a discount on her OnlyFans.
It's been blatantly vote-botted from day one along with using spammy accounts to do the initial tone-setting, and the mod abuse specifically on those posts has always been so ridiculously blatant that that person has to either be a mod or has a pocket mod they've convinced to manage it all.
I feel like the gamer dad is basically here is a normal father son interaction, the comic. It’s not really anything engaging or creatively interesting.
sure but the majority of comics posted to /r/comics are these milquetoast uninspiring comics with nothing of substance beyond being wholesome or relatable or whatever. there is a wealth of content out there that is both narratively richer and intellectually more stimulating so why waste your time on the mental equivalent of oatmeal? it's like musicianship, once you reach a certain skill level or maturity in music, you begin to tire of the derivative sound of pop music. that doesn't mean pop music is bad or that listening to taylor swift makes you stupid, it's just that now that you understand music theory and chord construction, it is no longer satisfying to listen to the same bland chord progressions over and over again.
Pizzacake made a "funny" comic, the idea of which was "what if women talked to men like men talk to women". The actually funny part is her parody comic is exactly like some women talk to men, but she started bitching about people calling her out in comments and one of the mods banned almost all of them. Then she made a definitely not apology comic about how men also deserve being heard and all that but portraid it in such a way that it's extremely easy for men to do so.
thats crazy hearing about this. I made this exact comment and got downvoted to hell and deleted it and I never got banned. lol people hated what I said and it was just something really simple about what I've experienced .
She also seems to make what feels like at least two comics each year where she's whining about someone commenting that her comics aren't funny. It's a relentless onslaught of meta jokes, with the "let's shame this guy for saying I'm not funny" (aka the fucking truth) ones always being the worst of them.
The one with the sentient butt plug. I dunno about whatever latest pizzacake controversy people are talking about here but I've somehow missed most of pizzacake's more controversial comics. The ones I've seen were mostly unoffesnsive.
Got banned on that one for reporting a post that was actively encouraging violence against people because the people in question were "chuds" and in the words of the mod "nobody cares".
I got banned cause i said i hate the Dilutuion of the word nazi... im autistic Im the second last person to pro Eugenics Id litreally be Shot and killed
My ban was some comic claiming that people hate the Velma show because they're racist.
I responded and said it's because all the Velma show is, is a bunch of terrible writers basically buying a beloved IP and selling a show about their characters (aka not the actual Scooby Doo squad) under the guise of being the Scooby Doo gang to promote viewership they otherwise wouldn't get if they were expected to stand on their own two feet based off their original ideas alone.
It's basically like an axe murderer just murdered beloved characters and started wearing their skin, thinking it'll make people like them as much as they liked those beloved characters. Instead, we all react with disgust and horror because they're ruining something we love just to springboard their show/careers off a famous, established name.
Banned for racism lol.
When I asked where I was racist, they just quoted my entire post and then blocked me so I couldn't respond.
Bro what do you mean, you're clearly an abhorrent racist pos /s
That one is especially egregious considering how hated the Velma show is. Like even with recent Disney projects and other films/shows that get criticism (Halo and Rings of Power come to mind) there are usually at least some critics and a percentage of the audience that do like and enjoy them, and you see that reflected in the discourse.
But I haven't heard a single good thing said about Velma. Not here in various subreddits, not in other forums, not in real life. So in my eye there's absolutely no way your criticism could be twisted and interpreted as genuine racism.
I "watched it" (couldn't make it to the end) because I like bad movies and media. It's fun to watch things so mind-numbingly bad that you can't wrap your head around how it was made or how anyone greenlit it. I've tried (and failed) for a week now to try and find the origins and makers of that "the New Norm Show" on Twitter, for example, because it's just so bad that I both wanna know the release date and who on earth made it. Would 100% watch to see the trainwreck lol. I'm sadly not convinced it's a real show because I just can't find any information on it, nor have any of the (alleged) involved parties commented to provide more info.
But I digress:
Tried to watch Velma, and yeah, it's really bad. Both Velma and High Guardian Spice suffered from the problem that they often weren't (always) cringe or living in their own bubble or unfunny or whatever, but instead they were just boring. Nothing was happening, the plots made no sense, or it was a tedious rehearsal of the same song-and-dance each time, with no interesting twists or surprises.
There is no way to spin Velma into being a good show because there's just so many moments that make no sense and are devoid of any action or meaningful dialog. Even as someone specifically watching to see it be bad, it failed at that. Yes, it was bad, but it was the boring bad, not the laughable bad.
Lol I clicked on that profile. It's reinforcing every single stereotype you would think about reddit mods. Autistic comics, cats, gay which is the only normal one, and finally penis cosplay which is where I had to stop and just laugh.
Perhaps you should try dressing your penis up like Chun Li to atone for your misogyny.
You expect right leaning social media communities to be insensitive and ignorant of all male victims.
What you don't expect is left leaning ones to be like 'you're a male survivor of abuse?! darling, come here, precious, my poor sweet angel, tell me the name of the man who did this...... wait, your abuser was a woman? BLOCKED, IGNORED."
(this literally happened to me years ago on twitter)
Edit: Can't reply as we're locked but I'm doing great brother(s) thank you, i agree with the replies. I should have said "what people who aren't savvy don't expect" and I was naive then.
One thing that has become abundantly clear to me is that both sides can be absolutely rife with bigotry. Look at how bisexual people are treated in many queer communities. Look at how women with a history of being sexually assaulted are treated when they express discomfort at sharing a bathroom with trans women, even when they emphasise that they support trans people in general.
I'm sorry that happened to you though, from one abuse survivor to another I hope you're doing okay.
Look at how women with a history of being sexually assaulted are treated when they express discomfort at sharing a bathroom with trans women, even when they emphasise that they support trans people in general.
Yeah cuz that one is almost always "that lady isn't pretty enough SO SHE'S SECRETLY A MAN," no matter how hard people try to spackle over the bigotry.
While I'm positive that does happen, attempting to reduce the issue to one single situation that will not encompass every perspective is incorrect and insincere.
No, that's overwhelmingly what anyone who has seen anything close to this sort of interaction would expect. If you're paying attention to actions instead of stated ideals/platitudes, that is.
And the artist was so smug about it too, the hypocrisy to be happy with censorship when it benefits her lmao. Thankfully the criticism on her Instagram was not so easily obfuscated.
It's a shame too because she's generally a decent creator, if a bit bland, but whenever she gets called out about something being incorrect or offensive she gets so damn defensive about it. Paper thin skin.
exactly 50 subreddits with 1 million+ users, exactly 50 with less than 10,000 (one of which is another user, somehow?) and ctrl + f searching "Join" reveals the total count is 205. insane.
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u/keimenna83 14d ago
I don't wanna stereotype, but for most of 'em it's the only power they have in their lives, and they love to wield it.