Comment by johnnyanmac
5 days ago
>Could it be that sharing conservative ideas is against Reddit's community guidelines?
Sharing conservative ideas is not against reddit's community guidelines. the sitewide guidelines are pretty simple, actually:
https://redditinc.com/policies/reddit-rules
to summarize:
1. don't harrass people on or off-site, nor promote hate
2. no spam or content manipulation
3. no doxxing nor non-consential sexual material
4. no CSAM or CSAM-adjacent material
5. don't impoersonae others
6. label NSFW content
7. no illegal content
8. don't break reddit on purpose
other conservative subs have historically had issues with rules #2 and #8, so I'm sure Reddit is more sensitive to that. In addition, current conservative leaning subs do tend to have more issues with rule 1, even to this day. I imagine what you are seeing are content being pre-emptively removed to prevent potential harassment that can get the sub banned.
To the average reddit, simply being conservative or voting for trump is promoting hate. I guarantee you 100% they think this. Take a /r/all post that is anti trump and read the comments about republicans, they hate them.
Perhaps. But admins won't ban a sub for being conservative or voting for Trump alone. Admins are the ones who can ban subs, not mods.
Mods from there have absolute power, as long as they follow the above guidelines. As we know, the rules can be as petty as they want. Their only limit is that they can't ban someone who's never participated in a sub (so they can't pre-rmotively ban someone for existing)
/r/TheRealDonald was banned by admins.
Mods bots do ban you for participating in other subs. I was banned from a handful for posting in /r/JoeRogan