r/BannedSubs • u/Salt_Distribution862 • Feb 20 '24

r/RedditCensors banned over…. bringing the bullying and authoritarianism to light that some mods dabble in? Wild.

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A post in r/RedditCensors is what kicked it off I’m pretty certain, showcasing how a user was banned from WhitePeopleTwitter over correcting someone on the type of weapon that was used in a shooting or something like that. Within 24 hours, a bunch of people who had this post recommended to them (not even apart of the sub, mind you) who then left a comment, were also banned from WPT simply for association! Then as the subs goal, folks made posts showcasing the absolute hypocrisy of this site in which “everyone has a right to use Reddit free of harassment, bullying and threats of violence”… uh huh, anyway that sub is gone, wiped off the map, I wonder why.

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u/ImMeliodasKun Feb 22 '24

They were banned for brigading. Do I think that was the only reason? No. I'm sure they missed off some mods. But to say it was a pure power move by reddit mods is disingenuous.

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u/Salt_Distribution862 Feb 22 '24

Pretty sure there was no brigading, just folks posting their ban messages in the sub that got banned, which was the point of the sub, to showcase unfair user bans, which also was the large majority of the posts…. Unless u would consider that brigading??

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u/ImMeliodasKun Feb 22 '24

I am unsure of the exact details as these types of subs are not recommended to me a lot. That's just what I saw mentioned when I saw a thread mentioning it yesterday.

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u/Salt_Distribution862 Feb 22 '24

Yea that’s fair, absolutely could’ve been some brigading going on I can’t really say for certain. All in all just a shame, liked that sub for what is was worth.🤷‍♂️

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u/Safe2BeFree Feb 25 '24

I used to run r banned. We were accused of the admins of encouraging brifading, but they refused to show us a single piece of evidence to verify this. We had a welcome message telling people not to brigade, automod made a comment on every new post warning against brigading and telling mods of other subs to message us if they notice brigading coming from our subs.

Despite doing everything we could to stop it and the admins not providing any evidence of it happening, we were still shut down for "encouraging brigading."

It seems that "brigading" is just the go to excuse the admins use to shut down subs they don't like. It's an easy accusation because it's literally impossible to stop. There is absolutely nothing a mod of Y sub can do to stop a user from posting in X sub. But the mods of Y sub are still blamed if it happens.