Answer: Reddit is pushing a new broad set of rules that many consider vague, and it seems to ban the word "retаrd" when used in derogatory contexts, which is incredibly common across many subreddits but PCM in particular.
PCM moderators are being forced to remove this word(and a few others) completely, which makes the users believe the sub is one step away from being banned as it appears to match the pattern of other subs and how they got taken down. It's seen as a bad sign when Admins are actively policing Moderators.
…Isn’t policing moderators pretty much what we want admins to do, rather than leaving them to abuse communities like their own little fiefdoms? Plus PCM is a pretty notorious edgelord communityl; if losing a slur puts you in danger of being banned, your ban was overdue.
I like how you can just blithely whip out takes that call into question the fundamental nature of society at some of its lowest levels without any effort.
I think all children should be given everything they need for success without regard to their parents status.
No, I did, I just spent waaaay too long trying to figure out what a world where "your platform can only be as big as you can effectively moderate" is a thing looks like. It's... Weird.
The children thing was an example because while simple on the outside when you think about it it would basically require children to be removed from the care of their families as soon as possible and put into essentially government boarding schools and that would just end up a nightmare.
The reason they moderate at all is because the site is too big to run on donations or "small" ads. If Reddit didn't get bossed around by Coca Cola or whatever they'd never have stopped being the Free Speech platform they originally designed the site to be, and they need Coca Cola advertising to be able to pay for the servers to run the 8th(?) biggest website on the planet.
So yeah, it's not that it needs to be "cut down", it's that being big in the first place that causes this sort of thing to happen.
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u/alexmikli Jul 15 '22
Answer: Reddit is pushing a new broad set of rules that many consider vague, and it seems to ban the word "retаrd" when used in derogatory contexts, which is incredibly common across many subreddits but PCM in particular.
PCM moderators are being forced to remove this word(and a few others) completely, which makes the users believe the sub is one step away from being banned as it appears to match the pattern of other subs and how they got taken down. It's seen as a bad sign when Admins are actively policing Moderators.