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/TGotAReddit 23d ago

No warning, no violation, no notification.

Warnings are not required. Notifications are not required. They are a courtesy and useful for education purposes but are not a requirement.

If there’s no rule against it, how is it an offense?

Rule 2: Abide by Community Rules. Most subs will have rules against this kind of thing either formally or informally, or at the very least they will have a rule about following redditquette which explicitly says "Please don't [...] Repost deleted/removed information".

A rule that only works when people don’t notice is a weak rule.

Agreed but that doesn't matter.

Moderation should be transparent, not deceptive. If Reddit truly believed in its moderation system, it would inform users when their content is removed. Instead, shadowbanning hides it from public view while leaving the user completely unaware. That’s not moderation—it’s an attempt to silence users while avoiding backlash.

As a moderator of a subreddit, the only thing I can say to that is that it sounds like you are just hanging out in subreddits with bad mod teams because that's just straight up not how this works. At least not if the mod team isn't terribly bad at their jobs. Maybe try not going to subs with bad mod teams?

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u/chesterriley 23d ago edited 23d ago

Rule 2: Abide by Community Rules.

The automod config would have to be public information because that is the only complete set of rules of the sub.

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most automod configs aren't rules.

Automod configs are entirely rules. Why keep them a secret? It makes way more sense to be transparent than to have the majority of your real rules be Secret Rules

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u/TGotAReddit 23d ago

Not really. A ton of rules aren't in the automod config and most automod configs aren't rules. But you know what is a rule on any sub that makes the redditquette part of their rules? Not reposting removed things