Comment by fancyswimtime
5 days ago
this seems to be happening on city based subs as well where the split is political; creating echo chambers for each side. This feels dangerous as any potential middle ground gets eroded away.
5 days ago
this seems to be happening on city based subs as well where the split is political; creating echo chambers for each side. This feels dangerous as any potential middle ground gets eroded away.
It's gone multiple ways in the past for not just city subreddits, but all kinds of regional ones. For example, r/canada has r/OnGuardForThee (because they thought the mods were allowing bigotry) and also (now private) r/RedEnsign (because, more or less, they thought the crowd making r/OnGuardForThee was falsely defaming them as bigots).
Example?
r/sandiego. The mods are political and territorial. I posted once about the suggestion to create a discord for the sub and they removed my post and DMed me this:
> What experience do you have modding such channels and the reddit community?
> Managing city subs are among the most difficult on the site... these are not single topic communities and discord is not organized in the same way so that bad actors can creep in and cause problems without being back lined to the site.
> There's more to this than people saying they're interested. It's also what kind of interest and what is being said and done that has to be in support of the sub and not a backdoor community that leeches activity from the sub / site and forwards it to something off site.
> Lots of concerns here.
Basically, we will not have the same kind of absolute power there that we have here, and we can't risk it becoming a rival community. This was to the innocent suggestion/question as to why there wasn't one already.
You can just do it yourself if you want. You don’t have to listen to them.
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/r/Seattle and /r/SeattleWA.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/54ie2t/seat...
/r/nyc had a homeless mod for awhile that was on a power trip for awhile. They would ban anyone who used the word "homeless". Not in a derogatory way, just type the word out. It took years to get rid of that person.
/r/Texas allows conservative discussion (it doesn't get banned) but nothing gets posted or voted on, effectively making it a sub of people who hate Texas.
r/Toronto and r/Toronto_Ontario
r/CanadaPublicServants vs r/CanadaPublicServants2 (banned) vs r/CanadaPublicServants3