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istara  ·  3480 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: If this is the beginning of the end for Reddit, then Reddit deserves to die

I really wish we could "lift the veil" on what moderators of major subs really do.

Because we don't actually congregate each morning for a virtual coffee, and plot how to further our communist/fascist/zionist/islamist agenda [select whatever is least like your own philosophy], and have daily competitions on how many people's free speech we can "ban" or truths we can "censor".

The disconnect between what people think we do, and what we actually do, is absurd.

Sure, once in a while you'll get a rogue mod, but for most moderators the sheer volume of shit is so much that after a while you really don't care which way the bias is, you're sick of the lot of it and want it cleaned up.

I easily delete and tag as many comments for being "anti-islam hate" as I do for being "anti-semitic hate". And I'm past caring which side they're on.