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I think many people don't care about Reddit at all and perceive these discussions as off topic and uninteresting. There are better spaces to discuss those, such as /r/SubredditDrama/.

If this were a new article on the subject, it might fit. But links to Reddit threads while the drama is happening live? To me, that's gossip.

Edit: Disclaimer because that's how it is on the internet, I am transgender. Yet I have never heard of this person before and only learned their gender identity in the comments here. I don't care about Reddit or UK Politics.

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Perhaps, but I'm surprised given the level of influence Reddit has these days. Reddit reaches about 500 million people per month, probably more. It's not "just a silly message board" anymore.

They have a comparatively tiny number of employees and those people have a very real power to control narratives. We're seeing just the tiniest glimpse of that here because the employee in question has done so in an incredibly egregious manner. The question this whole incident should raise is "what else is going on, that we haven't yet seen?". The specifics of this particular example are uninteresting.

Not least, this is a site wide action by the staff without regard to subreddit mods.

And it's been done without any transparency at all. That is telling in a larger sphere, even if the details might not be so interesting.

> There are better spaces to discuss those, such as /r/SubredditDrama/.

But see, we can't discuss this there.

The Reddit admins have since then issued a statement saying that the auto-moderator was set too broadly. They have since corrected the issue are are investigating the bans.

Looking at the "other conversations" tab on the linked post displays 12 active conversations. The "rules" as presented on the /r/ukpolitics were speculation by its moderators.

As I said elsewhere, it was pretty much gossip at that point. This is Reddit drama and it should stay there (or at least, until another website reports about it). Linking to live threads is just asking for confusion.

Some threads, before I log out of Reddit until the next drama:

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/mbeycw/whats_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/mbcls0/ongo...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/mbqgx2/a_clarif...

https://www.reddit.com/user/Blank-Cheque/comments/mbmthf/why...

https://old.reddit.com/r/DeclineIntoCensorship/comments/mbe2...

This is absolutely the case.

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