Holy shit.
I guess this is commendable, but it still feels like putting lipstick on a pig.
Or maybe that’s just me seeing reddit getting smaller and smaller in my rearview mirror.
Reddit only intervened and bought in new mods because the previous moderator team ragequit and locked the subreddit.
Five. THOUSAND. users. They were banned for no reason, yet people still defend visiting Reddit. Let it die…
More importantly is the actual ratio. If its 5k out of 500k that would means 1% of bans were unjust, which could just be explain as error margin, but this one is over 98% of the bans that were unjust. It is a blatant abuse of whatever perceived power there is.
How many ban reversals end up with the return of an active user? My guess is, “very few.”
Why were they banning so many people? Is it actually valid?
Here’s a literary recount of the events.
This stems from the r/art drama few days back, also posted and discussed here on this post:
basically after this they investigates the mod logs and found the skeletons in the closet. if really the 5K bans are only the one made in 2025, that would average to 15 bans per day, what a monster…
MOD:
No, I banned you for breaking our rules.
But I can remove all of your old posts as well if you’d like.Strawbear:
Just delete the comment and move on. Sorry I mentioned the word “print”
MOD:
Your history has been removed.
You’re welcome.Omg, so much rage! Some people don’t deserve to interact with humans.
I saw one of the reply in the post that i screenshotted where one guy mentioned 2 years ago while being depressed he was banned for some trivial reason and the mod even unbanned him just to dm him calling him an idiot and rebanned him immediately over and over again for few hours. I’m not sure how true is this but if it is holy fucking shit man…
Probably from power tripping mods getting in arguments or just not liking someone for an arbitrary reason. It’s very common for most power mod ran subs.
I’m sure other popular subs would have similar results if real human beings not trolls reviewed the reasons for bans.
Can confirm. When I used to participate on reddit I was permbanned from r/DemocraticSocialism for flagging a very obvious bot account, and permbanned from r/okbuddychicanery for linking a circlejerk subreddit the mods didn’t like because surprise! they’d permbanned the person that started that subreddit for reasons they completely made up.
Reddit mods are basement dwelling trolls.
