Reddit Bitcoin moderators tantrum

[Apocollapse]

Yet people said this forum is harsh for newbie.

I can't imagine what are those people reaction when the moderators give a long explanation that disagree with their posts and attack them personally.

So far the moderators in this forum only pointed out the rules you broke and sometime sarcasm, they didn't hurt the users.

[Casdinyard]

I've got two DM's from reddit Bitcoin moderators after I posted comment on one of the posts titled:

Bitcoin is protection from your government.

And also got banned and comment removed, this was my comment:

    

Bitcoin is a surveillance coin, a wet dream of the government - a fully transparent database of transactions

Not once did I mention Monero and this is what I've got:



They are very insecure, Hilarious.

I agree there is illegal mining going on but so is in Bitcoin, with stolen hardware and stolen electricity as police catch them from time to time.
So it's a funny argument.

Not trying to be the devil's advocate here but the thing is you didn't provide enough context to support your argument. It's easy to say that bitcoin's a surveillance machine, but it's hard to say how it's a surveillance machine by the government is it? Why not next time provide enough context to support your argument, and just stop being very ambiguous with what your saying so you can't be misconstrued by people, even those who are argumentative.

To flip the script though, it's fucking funny how these motherfuckers jumped into you being a monero apologist though, didn't see how that ties in with the comment you made or whatever and it just goes to show how fucking fragile Reddit has since become ever since 2015. You can't even make a sensible discussion in there without getting banned or stuck in post purgatory cause the mods are either lazy, snowflakes, or just flat out dead like the site itself. So sorry this happened to you too considering that was previously a hub for bitcointalk guys too in the past.

[mindrust]

Reddit is a woke/democrat shithole. Never ever get into politics/anti-gov talks there. At best your comment will be buried to the magma. At worst, you'll get banned like you experienced. I occasionally find very good information there but I never read any of their views on politics because it is totally pointless to have a debate. They have made their mind and you did yours. It is kind of same in this forum too. (some people got negative trust ratings for their political views) The good thing is we don't have that downvote crap here. I remember some users proposed to have a de-merit feature in the past. Imagine the amount of censorship that would create.

[MeGold666]

The good thing is we don't have that downvote crap here. I remember some users proposed to have a de-merit feature in the past. Imagine the amount of censorship that would create.

True, reddit is heavily attacked by bots this days who try to control the narrative.

Few of my friends had their comments downvoted for months, getting like -70 points regardless of the comment so it won't get displayed.

System like this is just asking to be abused by bad actors.

Not trying to be the devil's advocate here but the thing is you didn't provide enough context to support your argument.

Of course it doesn't prove itself in anything, I did hope to discuss it further.

[Hamza2424]

It's been a long time since I haven't used Reddit, almost around 2 years, a long time ago I was quite active there, reading and posting stuff. TBH Reddit was fun but with time when I got familiar with the forum, haha Reddit slowly got swapped with the forum activity, there are many reasons this forum is better than Reddit for discussing anything related to Bitcoin and crypto, and one of the reasons is mentioned by Op inefficient moderation nd stupid community rules.

[ABCbits]

This should make us thankful that we have an administrator on this website that allows all discussion, within reasonable limits.

A lot of communities end up becoming echo chambers if comments that dissent from the administrators opinion are always deleted.

To be fair theymos is one of the admin of r/Bitcoin too. And IMHO r/Bitcoin admins are doing bad as they hire drama-queens as mods/keep them once hired. So theymos is directly or indirectly one of the cause of this shit.

r/Bitcoin is a shitty place, badly moderated. I think this subreddit is just failing as most of people are going to post in r/btc (which is bch fanboys subreddit) because of nazi moderation. People comes to talk about BTC and finish on a BCH subreddit 

Do we know whether theymos is still moderator on Bitcoin subreddit? Do we even know list of moderator on Bitcoin subreddit? I just visited it, but couldn't find such list (maybe i missed it).

[paid2]

Do we know whether theymos is still moderator on Bitcoin subreddit? Do we even know list of moderator on Bitcoin subreddit? I just visited it, but couldn't find such list (maybe i missed it).

You can find the full list from the app, sorry I didn't find how to share the page inside the app, so here it 2 screenshots:

[dkbit98]

And also got banned and comment removed

Not sure if theymos is still active there, but he is one of the moderators
I don't like what Reddit is doing, they recently became very restrictive, they don't even allow reading of reddit posts for people who are using Tor and vpn.
Only way you can freely browse reddit now is if you are using Redlib or some alternative frontend, and this could be gone soon.

[MeGold666]

That's a long list of moderators, maybe too long 

I gave up on reddit, too North Korean for my taste.

I doubt you can even fix it as this moderators send this messages anonymously, I don't see any signature.

[ABCbits]

Do we know whether theymos is still moderator on Bitcoin subreddit? Do we even know list of moderator on Bitcoin subreddit? I just visited it, but couldn't find such list (maybe i missed it).

You can find the full list from the app, sorry I didn't find how to share the page inside the app, so here it 2 screenshots:

Thanks for the screenshot. Anyway, almost 30 seems a lot since i don't feel there are many post created on that subreddit.

[HeRetiK]

Not sure if theymos is still active there, but he is one of the moderators

Theymos' last Reddit posts were more than 2 years ago, so I guess he isn't paying much attention to the sub these days.

Thanks for the screenshot. Anyway, almost 30 seems a lot since i don't feel there are many post created on that subreddit.

How else are they supposed to keep public opinion in line? 

To be fair, it does seem to roughly track for a sub of this size.

[NotATether]

That's a long list of moderators, maybe too long  

That is definitely too many. It's more than two dozen moderators for one subreddit. In fact I think half of them are not even active any more, so why keep them around?

Although I don't expect shrinking the moderation team will actually fix the problem, since the people who stay on will most likely be the ones who banned OP because they don't want to hear bad talk about Bitcoin.

[Maus0728]

These moderators seem very biased are they supposed to be talking this way? Lol.

Reddit needs to closely monitor their moderators as well. Moderators are not reddit employees and most of the time just do whatever they want to do inside that community. I think it’s very harsh to be immediately banned permanently unless you don’t have the cleanest track record. A warning or a suspension for a couple of days would have been enough of a lesson.

You can't expect that kind of thing in Reddit, that's why it's really difficult to have a discussion there, the moderators in most subreddit are pretty much childish and they can't handle the smoke that's included with the discussion especially if it's a heated one, it's also really weird that moderators are allowed to say that kind of thing, I mean is there like any other way that you can have the ban handed to the person without being a piece of shit? Pretty sure that everyone knows how to do that but it seems that this moderator don't seem to know what they're doing. I've recently visited the subreddit and although it looks like there's some discussions here and there, you really can't disagree on the views of other people there, most of the people there don't seem to have a really good conversation with others because disagreements are so heavily restricted.