Update: Comments on @rachelgilmore.bsky.social’s
video about me getting banned by Canada’s biggest subreddit have been locked by Canada’s other big subreddit (r/OnGuardForThee)
A pinned moderator’s note cites anti-harassment policies and a non-existent rule about not criticizing other subreddits
video about me getting banned by Canada’s biggest subreddit have been locked by Canada’s other big subreddit (r/OnGuardForThee)
A pinned moderator’s note cites anti-harassment policies and a non-existent rule about not criticizing other subreddits
Comments
All their posts say the same word "Edited"
However the Upvotes indicate that these used to be actual posts.
This is possibly a sign that the account may have been hacked and taken over.
There's usually a lot of posts dunking on r/Canada...
https://bsky.app/profile/paranoidfactoid2.bsky.social/post/3ldfdjt3wik2i
• Asking why news content was removed is grounds to be banned
• Asking why a journalist was banned for asking why news content was removed is also grounds to be banned
The interpretation of these rules is absurd and make it impossible to question or criticize Reddit while on Reddit
If they are gonna boot your content off, they should spell their reasoning in the proper Canadian English
Also, sorry about all this BS. Your content is real journalism. Keep up the excellent work
They just removed Rachel Gilmore's video altogether:
single men, no?) welcome to Reddit.
The first rule of Reddit is: you do not talk about Reddit.
The second rule of Reddit is: you DO NOT talk about Reddit!
The third rule of Reddit is: someone yells ‘stop!’, you say eff you and you keep doing what you’re doing Mr LeBrun!
As a platform, it's wildly imperfect and susceptible to interference from bad faith actors. But with no clear effort to maintain any semblance of neutrality at the mod level, that's a real problem. I'd like to see further effort to make them accountable.
You had to pay $10 to join. And even then, people were absolute garbage to one another. Even with the threat of being banned.
The idea of a forum open to the whole goddamn internet was just a bad idea. I’m not surprised this has happened.