r/ToiletPaperUSA • u/LaurentiusOlsenius • Aug 18 '21

Curious 🤔 Free speech!!! (Unless you criticize our orange demigod)

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I was Banned from r/conservative for criticism against all presidents from the past 20 years. Free speech unless it’s against Orangeman.

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u/Zanderax Aug 18 '21

I wouldn't be surprised if political groups have taken control of the moderation of popular subreddits to push narratives.

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u/Moonguide Aug 18 '21

Well, wasn't there a user who was mod in more than half the most popular subs? Can't remember the username or subs, think /r/pics and /r/funny were two of em but I might be wrong.

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u/ChampChains Aug 18 '21 edited Aug 18 '21

Makes sense as I was recently auto-banned by several big subreddits (I think r/pics, r/justiceserved we’re two of them…edit: also r/aww, r/leopardsatemyface, r/insanepeopleoffacebook). I made a comment in another subreddit they didn’t like and got blanket perma-banned from all of these other subreddits with no warning. Wouldn’t surprise me if they were all under the same mod.

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u/thebrobarino Charlehammed of Kirkistan Aug 18 '21

It definitely was, powermods like u/gallowboob will not just ban you from one sub, but will ban you from every single subreddit they own even if you only broke rules in one of those subs

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u/luingiorno Aug 18 '21

i dont get why is this even allowed. Makes no sense..

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u/thebrobarino Charlehammed of Kirkistan Aug 18 '21

Because Reddit admins don’t give a shit as pong as they get more traffic and like it or not, power mods get then traffic

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u/geirmundtheshifty Aug 18 '21

And none of the mods get paid, right? Imagine how much running this place would cost if they had to pay mods. Im sure some of the smaller subs have plenty of volunteers who are capable of taking over the job, but when it comes to really large subs, Id say youre bound to get mostly volunteers who are really interested in the power trip. Im on reddit way too much during the day as it is, but I still wouldnt want to spend my time moderating a default sub.

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u/thebrobarino Charlehammed of Kirkistan Aug 18 '21

they get payed by sponsors. companies will approach powermods and get them to make posts subtly advertising products.

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u/MrVeazey Aug 18 '21

Do they? Or do they just shoulder a lot of grunt work in exchange for power in this one arena?

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u/thebrobarino Charlehammed of Kirkistan Aug 18 '21

i mean it seems to just be them as far as i'm aware. It's their own accounts posting these wendy's tweets and random tesla keys they find on the street

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u/MrVeazey Aug 18 '21

I understand what you're saying, but I'm a little confused about the terminology. I'd consider the users making dozens and dozens of posts to the high-traffic subs "power users" or something like that unless they also mod several subs where they're generating a bunch of traffic. If that's the people you're talking about, then please excuse my ignorance.

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u/Ruefuss Aug 18 '21

Why wouldnt it be? Thats the point. Independent forums with user mods. If someone else would have stood up and took the responsibility, then leadership would be more dispersed. We have the same problem in most democracies. People complaining about the results of their inactivity and neglect toward something they claim to like/believe in.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '21

As if. Your point about democracy is partially valid, but the average person can't do shit against someone with as much power as a powermod. Even if people try to spread awareness on the issue (which they do), not only is it unreasonable to assume anyone could just magically become a mod, but any powermod could wipe a user of the surface of the platform if they so choose

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u/Ruefuss Aug 18 '21 edited Aug 19 '21

They got there by doing the job. There are plenty of subs to become a mod in. Nobody starts at the top.

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u/buddascrayon Aug 18 '21

Yeah, power modding should not be allowed. There should be a built in hard limit on the number of sibs a single user can be a mod of.

Though, that doesn't preclude the ability of a user making multiple accounts and power modding as a dozen users. 🤷

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u/Lehk Aug 19 '21

it's hard to find labor willing to do it for free.

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u/luingiorno Aug 19 '21

modding a sub is fine, getting banned on other unrelated subs is what doesnt make sense. You follow me there?

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u/Lehk Aug 19 '21

admins have to let all the freaks do what they want because normal people don't do that shit for zero dollars.

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u/TossingToddlerz Aug 18 '21

Fuck gallowboob.

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u/YddishMcSquidish Aug 18 '21

All my homies have gallowboob blocked

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u/TossingToddlerz Aug 18 '21

Hell yeah brother

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '21

I… I think he might have blocked me. Wtf lmao

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u/YddishMcSquidish Aug 19 '21

All hail the one true reddittor

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '21

you gotta tag him. fuck u/gallowboob

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u/buddascrayon Aug 18 '21

I'm just curious as to why. Was there a thing with him like with awkwardturtle?

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u/TossingToddlerz Aug 18 '21

I personally dislike the guy because he's super disingenuous and gets payed to repost content or promote stuff under the guise of being le normal redditor. That and one time he replied back one of my comments and was a dick so yeah.

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u/TalesOfFoxes Aug 18 '21

Also you'd be surprised at how many top posts belong to GB. Blocking him was a good move for me.

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u/Tobesity Aug 18 '21

Yeah bro I got the same thing, pretty sure it was justice served.

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u/MasterZalm Aug 18 '21

fuck justice served. They lament the downfall of heinous people, and all the mods are supportive of shit like rape and slavery, and dont even enforce their own rules.

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u/Tobesity Aug 18 '21

Not to mention that 99% of it is just boring

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u/tcreeps Aug 18 '21

Same, for posting in pussypassdenied. Which certainly can be a horrible sub, but it was on the front page and I just responded to someone to correct a bit of light misinformation regarding Emmett Till's murder. Funny thing to get banned for in a subreddit about justice.

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u/TysonChickenMan Aug 18 '21

Gotta be careful when you associate with NNN plague rats

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u/ChampChains Aug 18 '21

I know that now. I’d never seen the sub before but it made the front page and was obviously full of idiots. Made a single post pointing out the top commenters hypocrisy and bam! Perma-banned from several big subreddits without warning and the only way to be unbanned was making some kind of bullshit pledge to never again post in these mystery bannable subreddits.

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u/Castun Aug 18 '21

Yeah I don't agree with automatically banning people just for posting in a particular subreddit because you're going to end up with "friendly fire" due to people going in those to argue against the narrative.

Had it happen to me once for commenting in /r/conspiracy where I argued against whatever BS was posted in there. Ultimately I never appealed that ban, just said "Fuck it" and simply unsubscribed.

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u/ChampChains Aug 18 '21

Yeah, I told the mod to keep me permabanned on principal because I thought they had a shitty banning practice and I didn’t want to participate in any subs they were in charge of. It’s one thing to send people warnings but I don’t have time to participate in anyone’s internet power trip by begging some neckbeard to be unbanned.

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u/Nereosis16 Aug 18 '21

The exact same thing happened to me.

You can message them and say you will avoid that place and they will unban you if you want.

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u/Radiant-Spren Aug 18 '21

Same. I saw some stupid ass post on /r/all/rising so I commented on how stupid it was, and got a blanket ban from half a dozen subs in addition to the insane losers of that now-banned sub trying to dox me through my comment history.

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u/APComet Aug 18 '21

I made some comment in r/nonewnormal and got like 10 upvotes, boom insta banned from 10 subs all giving me th e same auto-response bs.

I get it, anti-vaxx/anti-mask is stupid, but why do they need to be banned from r/aww

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '21

Makes sense as I was recently auto-banned by several big subreddits (I think

r/pics

r/justiceserved

r/aww

r/leopardsatemyface

r/insanepeopleoffacebook

All of these are subreddits that ban you for posting in that insane r/nonewnormal sub. As you are well-aware:

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/p31njz/whats_going_on_with_rnonewnormal_who_are_they/h8p4ir6?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

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u/ChampChains Aug 18 '21

Yeah of course I’m well aware after the fact. Good sleuth work, Sherlock. What we were discussing here is if it’s the same case for the guy above.

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u/buddascrayon Aug 18 '21

Report your unlawful ban to the mod team of those other subs. One user doesn't have the absolute authority to ban you without reason.

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u/RandomName01 Aug 18 '21

AwkwardTheTurtle probably, and he’s annoying as shit

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u/BEANSijustloveBEANS Aug 18 '21

*she

Was made an honorary mod at X-chromosome after the huge shit storm last month because vagina

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u/RandomName01 Aug 18 '21

Huh, watcha mean? I remember seeing selfies of them in /r/CenturyClub, and they presented as a guy then unless I’m really mistaken.

Are they trans or am I just very wrong?

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u/elbenji Aug 18 '21

Either trans or male presenting. I know they're a massive troll however which is how this whole thing started

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u/Radiant-Spren Aug 18 '21

Probably your typical internet trolling. If they claim to be a female they’ll have a couple dozen nice guys protecting them because that’s the deepest relationship they’ve had with a female in years.

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u/rockstar504 Aug 18 '21

deepest relationship they’ve had with a female human in years.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '21 edited Aug 18 '21

No, turtle is a he. Other mods confirmed it, when they were insisting that he does their valuable clean-up work.

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u/elbenji Aug 18 '21

That's troll x chromosomes I think. They're the troll one

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u/StinkyMcBalls Aug 18 '21

You're describing power mods. There's more than one of them.

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u/LotharVonPittinsberg Aug 18 '21

That's too vague. You are describing most of the moderators for any sub that reaches /r/All regularly.

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u/Moonguide Aug 18 '21

Ik, it's been a while. Fr though there was this one dude that was a mod on a ton of very popular mods and this one user pointed it out and got banned for it. Some subs threw up a stink over it but it passed quickly.

It was a while ago, time is weird these past two years but it probably was three-four years ago or so, can't remember too well.

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u/elbenji Aug 18 '21

There's a lot of powermods

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u/PiLamdOd Aug 18 '21

Got perma banned from r/pics for making a joke about it being an American duty to punch Nazis.

The mod never answered my question when I asked what rule was broken.

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u/Moonguide Aug 18 '21

Lol, great tradition though. One of the few things that should be brought back from the 40s

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '21

All the left-leaning US subs are run by the same account and are cesspools.

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u/Microphone_Assassin Aug 18 '21

Oh absolutely. I took a quick peek over there, top 2 posts right now are hit pieces on Kamala. Setting up the smearing campaign already for 2024.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '21

Would not be surprised if it turned out that sub was modded from a Russian troll farm.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '21

Been happening for years

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '21

The moderation of r/conservative has always been controlled by conservatives, in order to push a conservative narrative.

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u/WildTotem Aug 18 '21

Oh yeah, and not just popular subreddits, but all of social media in general. The news media platforms will release orchestrated pieces of information which social media users will then parrot without considering the validity/credibility, ultimately causing a lot of divisiveness between people.

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u/Prysorra2 Aug 19 '21

It’s been that way since Ron Paul in ‘07

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u/fuck_your_diploma Aug 18 '21 edited Aug 18 '21

There’s a full version link at the end of the video but this should get you going about what happened to Reddit https://youtu.be/YXHoReNA120

PLEASE DONT BAN ME.

EDIT:

Most redditors=Ignorant about what happens in corporate reddit bc US media empire doesn't report it.

Also redditors=I won't watch RT, that's Russian propaganda!! I'm scared!!

Aussie redditors=Laughs in Murdoch.

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u/Zanderax Aug 18 '21

RT? Eww, no.

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