Comment by bawolff
5 days ago
> You left out the fact that you can’t post to /r/conservative until the moderators there audit your post history and perform an interview with you to confirm your ideology matches theirs.
> If someone does pass the test they’re allowed to comment. If they make a comment that disagrees with the message the moderators want to push, their commenting privilege is revoked.
Be that as it may, i dont see how the solution to /r/conservative being a weird echo chamber, is for other subs to be an anti-/r/conservative echochamber. Seems like both are wrong, and two wrongs dont make a right.
I don't see an issue with it, if you are willing to put in the effort to swim in the cesspool that is /r/conservative you don't get to complain when other people find the smell objectionable.
if /r/conservative is a sespool, what is /r/politics? You're just pointing out your bias.
Oh I’m definitely biased, I’m not a huge fan of quasi-fascist morons hiding behind a thin veneer of legitimacy while breaking the law, electing a sex offender, destroying every relationship with their foreign allies and engaging in hilariously blatant corruption.
Nor am I fan of their voters/supporters.
At this point if you don’t oppose them you implicitly support them, the normal rules no longer apply.
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Parent poster isn't saying that r/conservative should be banned for that behavior.
Since that sub's arbitrary ban behavior is allowed, other subs banning people for similarly arbitrary reasons (like people who have been vetted by its mod circle into being allowed to post there) should be permitted.
They say "It’s not a real subreddit". I think its reasonable to conclude that they at the very least disapprove of that behaviour
To more precisely respond: "A eye for an eye leaves the world blind"
Someone disapproving of things isn't grounds for comparing it to a cycle of vengeance that leaves everyone blind.
If you think there's a better set of global rules that reddit should adopt, that's a fair observation. But until it does, it's not fair to call out other subs for mirroring the rules of a problem sub. If it can behave that way, so can they. If it can exist as a safe space for MAGAs, the rest of us are free to create a safe space from MAGAs.
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Huh? It sounds to me like this is arguing one should be OK with /r/conservative doing it (and joining up, even) but then not OK that other subs do it, too. That doesn't really pass the sniff test, so maybe I'm missing something.
I'm more trying to say, if you find it wrong that r/conservative does it, then you shouldn't do it yourself. Other people's bad behaviour should not be a justification for you own.
When it comes to morality, we can't control how other people act, we can only control what we ourselves do.
Especially when the "retaliation" is aimed at members and not the people implementing the mod policy.