r/technology • u/Well_Socialized • 24d ago

Social Media Reddit Is Restricting Luigi Mangione Discourse—but It’s Even Weirder Than That: The website is attacking the users that made it the front page of the internet.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250313203719/https://slate.com/technology/2025/03/reddit-elon-musk-luigi-mangione-censorship.html
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u/punninglinguist 24d ago

Unless Reddit starts paying mods, that's how it's going to be.

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u/NonbinaryYolo 24d ago

Are you too incompetent to recruit?

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u/punninglinguist 24d ago

as a former mod of a hobby sub...

Are you too incompetent to read?

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u/NonbinaryYolo 24d ago

Sorry sorry sorry... Wwwwwere you too incompetent to recruit?

Is that better?

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u/punninglinguist 24d ago

No, i was not. But "dealing constantly with the worst people on this sub, for no pay" is a difficult position to fill.

When new mods don't just lose interest and quiet-quit, it's usually because they learn how to make their job easier by using automod. Which brings us back to my original point.