At least 3/5 times, my post gets removed either because:
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it violates some subsection of some dot point in those extensive sidebar rules that I didn’t study thoroughly enough, or
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some mod decides it would be better if I posted as a comment in their dedicated mega thread on the subject, or
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the Automoderator removed it without explanation, and the mods are all currently on holiday or too busy to GAF.
Anyone else have this problem? And is lemmy any better?
This has been my experience as well. I am leaving Reddit less because of the corporate ownership and more because I can’t stand the mods. Last September, I posted a question in r/JapanLife about Internet routers, and the mod removed it and banned my account. Last week, I replied to a thread I saw on the Popular feed, and didn’t notice it was in JapanLife, and Reddit suspended my account for it. That was the last straw, so I deleted my accounts on Reddit and came here. I guess there’s nothing to stop the mods from Reddit coming here and bringing their toxicity with them though.
Definitely. I posted on r/DIY with a picture of a ceiling I was patching in my house. My house is old and I wasn’t familiar with the construction style of my ceiling. I was already well into the job: light fixture removed, ceiling joists exposed, new sheetrock going up. But I wanted to know what the old construction material was and if it was known for being hazardous. So I posted a picture of a chunk from the ceiling with my clearly-already-very-much-started project in the back. Within 15 minutes a mod removed it because “no asking the community how to get started with a project.” I try and fight it but they weren’t having it.
Over the next week I watched so many posts get very popular on the sub with just a picture of a floor, or wall, or bathroom with a title like “thinking of adding outlets to this wall but don’t know how to start. Help.”
I…can’t say I had the same issues regarding this honestly. I think I had maybe 2-3 moderated posts in like 5 years. And I can recall for one of them I was definitely going overboard with the posts (devolved into flame war)
Lemmy will not prevent you from having to read the rules of your community, nor your instance.
For best results, in any online community, it is wise to read the rules before you contribute.
For best results, in any online community, it is wise to read the rules before you contribute
Well if you read my post, sometimes it’s not just a question of reading the rules - you have to literally study them. Sometimes they are voluminous, and contain caveats.
Can’t say I ever experienced that in the 11 years I had my reddit account. Perhaps you and I post differently?
I dunno. I’m an autistic anxiety-sufferer who scours subreddit rules before I ever try to post anything, specifically to avoid the embarrassment and shame of doing it “wrong”, and some of those subs are still impossible. Have you ever tried to post anything in r/Showerthoughts? The rules absolutely don’t cover all the things the automod will instantly remove. It uses some kind of keyword tagging system that is never explained in any of the sidebars or wikis. I tried maybe a dozen different thoughts over the course of a couple months and not one of them got past the automod (well, except for the one that a mod reposted as their own 24 hours after mine got deleted, but that’s gotta be a coincidence).
Or, my second-favorite, the one where your post gets autoremoved for “Rule 4”, but there’s no list of numbered rules anywhere on or linked to the subreddit. I think that’s a “feature” of New Reddit, where Old Reddit users can’t see the sidebars anymore under certain conditions, but I’m not sure.
And then, third favorite, are the ones OP is probably talking about, where the rules amount to a college textbook’s worth of pages that have been through no developmental editing or copyediting, so they’re more vague than 5e’s description of the Magic Jar spell, but whatever interpretation the mods are using, it’s not the obvious one… or the second-obvious… or the third-obvious…
I was never able to post anything to Showerthoughts, and not for lack of trying. One time the automod even said my post was unoriginal despite me having already done a Google search for it. This was before AI got big, so I can only imagine they had some super advanced AI that could understand context and make judgements.
Anyway, I unsubbed after seeing the 5th repost of the same old showerthought content and never looked back.
Yeah this post is just a griefing troll. Reddit is losing so there’ll be more of it for a while. Thanks for pointing out what should have been obvious to op.
I love the fact that there’s no “automoderator” or “amputator-bot” on Lemmy.
That shit was obnoxious.
Automod was a useful tool, there’ll be a version here I’m sure.
