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The PC Gaming subreddit (r/PCgaming) is now fully compromised, too.

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Just a quick head-up for casual posters who occasionally crossed that place, as I did.

Apparently r/PCgaming, the biggest PC-gaming-focused subreddit, is now openly tainted by ResetEra-style lunatic moderation.

I've been just permabanned from there today.
My specific offense?
In a thread titled "IO Interactive confirms the new Bond will be adapted to appeal to a more modern audience" yesterday I had the audacity of posting the following comment:

"Seems like a great recipe to get a shitty James Bond".

That's it. Word for word. No other replies on my part before or after that for days.
So, basically it's once again a case of zero tolerance for "Wrong-think", like our beloved purple forum.

To be clear, I'm not writing this looking for sympathy, consolation nor I have any hope (or interest) in protesting to reverse the ban. What's done is done, and if this is how it's going to be I have very little desire to keep interacting with these rabid spastics anyway.
Consider this just a PSA, to let you know with what people you are going to deal with if you go there.
 
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Yeah, it's reddit. Not saying you did something wrong, but you should've anticipated a ban with that comment.
 
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You Redditted wrong.

You don't go to Reddit to talk, you go there to lurk or feed the hive mind on bigger subs and ask questions on the smaller ones.
 
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Alas, from what I've observed - reddit is a lunatic asylum in most discussion themes. Just take a look at what's trending on Popular for a glimpse of madness.

I'm subscribed to one or two specific subreddits like "Kingdom Come Deliverance", but still rarely participate in discussions.
 
Welcome to Reddit, the place where you can't even post in /conservative as an actual conservative without getting banned. It's a shithole and has been for a while. The only time you should ever be using reddit is in Google, just add reddit to the end of your question and you'll likely get a decent answer. But for actual ongoing conversations, or live type information, steer clear.
 
Most Reddit subs are modded by loons.

I was banned from the Naked & Afraid sub for saying some dudes cock was the reason the water pot fell off the fire.

His partner couldn't stop staring at it all episode, and then stupidly burnt herself for not paying attention to the pot.
Guy had an absolutely massive wang on him. Even I'd fucking stare.

I stereotyped the women as a slag, apparently lol.
 
r/gaming and r/games are another piece of crap, everyone there seems to know everything. It's very difficult to swim against the tide.
 
I got permbanned from various major subreddits because I commented that "racism is illegal according to law". I still don't get why that comment got me banned( know it was that comment because the message I got said I was banned for it).
 
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LOL I got banned from r/movies because in the discussion of the Glass Onion trailer I posted "guarantee you the culprit is a white person"
 
I had a look yesterday for the first time in a while, and discovered I'd been banned from posting in the sub-reddit.

News to me.
 
diffusionx said:
It's reddit, bro, what the fuck do you expect?
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Yep, there was a post stating how Nigerian leaders had stolen billions from their people over the past few decades. I commented that this was one of the reasons Africa remains so poor; the corrupt leadership. Then I got banned with a message saying it's forbidden to spread hate speech against marginalized groups.
 
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March Climber said:
Not how the site works. Each r/ community is run by different people and there are too many communities to count.
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That's not true, because that's exactly how Reddit has worked for years. There are* a handful of moderators that run thousands of subreddits. Almost every popular subreddit, until recently* has the same mods, or a portion of them.

*Reddit in August, after 20 years of letting these powermods run rampant, finally started limiting how many subreddits a single mod could be a part of. Many of them just opened second accounts, and the limits are still stupid high, letting them still mod a few high traffic subs and a hundred little ones.

I remember like 5 years ago it was a half dozen mods ran 20% of the most popular subreddits on the platform, and a couple years later it was even worse. That's 6 people controlling 1/5 of a platform with over 1 billion monthly users. It's the entire reason Reddit is such a shithole. They let .000001% of the people cultivate 99% of the discussion, and ban everyone else for wrong think, for two decades, and now it can't be fixed.
 
Sentenza said:
Just a quick head-up for casual posters who occasionally crossed that place, as I did.

Apparently r/PCgaming, the biggest PC-gaming-focused subreddit, is now openly tainted by ResetEra-style lunatic moderation.

I've been just permabanned from there today.
My specific offense?
In a thread titled "IO Interactive confirms the new Bond will be adapted to appeal to a more modern audience" yesterday I had the audacity of posting the following comment:

"Seems like a great recipe to get a shitty James Bond".

That's it. Word for word. No other replies on my part before or after that for days.
So, basically it's once again a case of zero tolerance for "Wrong-think", like our beloved purple forum.

To be clear, I'm not writing this looking for sympathy, consolation nor I have any hope (or interest) in protesting to reverse the ban. What's done is done, and if this is how it's going to be I have very little desire to keep interacting with these rabid spastics anyway.
Consider this just a PSA, to let you know with what people you are going to deal with if you go there.
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These people don't enjoy playing video games, there's clearly something wrong with them.
 
RafterXL said:
That's not true, because that's exactly how Reddit has worked for years. There are* a handful of moderators that run thousands of subreddits. Almost every popular subreddit, until recently* has the same mods, or a portion of them.

*Reddit in August, after 20 years of letting these powermods run rampant, finally started limiting how many subreddits a single mod could be a part of. Many of them just opened second accounts, and the limits are still stupid high, letting them still mod a few high traffic subs and a hundred little ones.

I remember like 5 years ago it was a half dozen mods ran 20% of the most popular subreddits on the platform, and a couple years later it was even worse. That's 6 people controlling 1/5 of a platform with over 1 billion monthly users. It's the entire reason Reddit is such a shithole. They let .000001% of the people cultivate 99% of the discussion, and ban everyone else for wrong think, for two decades, and now it can't be fixed.
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Deficit said:
The big subs, are ran by the same 25-30 people.
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The keyword you keep saying here is 'popular'. I'm talking about the website as a whole.

It doesn't work that way and can be completely avoided if you simply don't constantly browse just the popular subs.

It is built in a 4chan style, where the community from one place on the site don't care about the people from another place and there are very, very few overlaps.
 
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Yeah, reddit moderators are for the most part, extreme left leaning and basement dwellers. I use reddit for gaming related stuff but you have to navigate around your words in that place

Dont take it personally, reddit is just retardera 2.0
 
Gaiff said:
Yep, there was a post stating how Nigerian leaders had stolen billions from their people over the past few decades. I commented that this was one of the reasons Africa remains so poor; the corrupt leadership. Then I got banned with a message saying it's forbidden to spread hate speech against marginalized groups.
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"Marginalized group", native people in African country ruled by Africans...
 
March Climber said:
The keyword you keep saying here is 'popular'. I'm talking about the website as a whole.

It doesn't work that way and can be completely avoided if you simply don't constantly browse just the popular subs.

It is built in a 4chan style, where the community from one place on the site don't care about the people from another place and there are very, very few overlaps.
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all of reddit - 100% of it - is designed to enforce a top-down social consensus, which is broadly globalized liberalism. It's designed to work this way.

Every single subreddit will ban you if you step out of line on that consensus, all of them, also the ones that didn't hew to that were purged long ago.
 
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March Climber said:
The keyword you keep saying here is 'popular'. I'm talking about the website as a whole.

It doesn't work that way and can be completely avoided if you simply don't constantly browse just the popular subs.

It is built in a 4chan style, where the community from one place on the site don't care about the people from another place and there are very, very few overlaps.
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You do understand that the popular subs are what control the population of the site, right? It's like anywhere else where the most popular aspect is what draws people in and then they spread out into other aspects. If you have a handful of people controlling discussion, and bans, on the most popular parts of the site, those are the kind of people who will make up the majority of who visits, and moderate your site. Go look at the purple place. The way that they moderate their gaming forum is exactly why every other forum on that site exists as it does, it's why the users on their off topic forums are as left leaning as humanly possible. This doesn't happen in a vacuum and it's intentional.

Outside of the very niche and tiny subreddits, every medium to large size sub is moderated exactly how the popular subs are because it's the same people, or people approved by those people. It's an old boys club for leftist losers, which why you can get banned on /conservative for having a conservative viewpoint or get banned on /games for saying Aloy is ugly. There are a handful of "containment" subs that they allow to stay open that are where all the "chuds" end up, but the the site, by and large, is all run by the same groups and kinds of people. There is no openness to Reddit. Either you are part of the larger group, the contained group, or you're too small to notice...yet.
 
I don't have an account but Batmanarkham was fun to browse for a while. Unfortunately, if you've seen it in the past week or so there is a clear effort to try and ruin the fun for that one now too.
 
Most large entertainment communities skew left ideologically nowadays. It's not just Reddit and something everyone has to realize.
 
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TheAtomicPile said:
I don't have an account but Batmanarkham was fun to browse for a while. Unfortunately, if you've seen it in the past week or so there is a clear effort to try and ruin the fun for that one now too.
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Is there any lore reason why you dont have an account? Are you stupid?

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r/ranma is full of Akane Tendo fans who attack Shampoo. Shampoo merch sells out way faster than Akane Tendo merch but reddit and twitter would make it seem like Akane Tendo is more popular.
 
HRK69 said:
At this point, isn't that just Reddit as a whole?
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Yes, even the "right wing/conservative" subreddits are compromised to the point where you can't talk about certain things or criticise certain people (troons, gays, etc) without getting banned.

Reddit is worthless, unless you are looking for answers to questions on very specific topics that are apolitical, and even then it's 50/50 if left-wing BS gets injected into the conversation or not.

At this point, I only really use reddit via google searches, when I'm looking for stuff like character builds for games, 3d printing info, etc., and honestly a lot of those searches are being replaced by AI
 
Reddit's always been full of clowns. It's a good resource for info on obscure or older games at times because it's frequented by fairly obsessive autists… but as a place to discuss things? Absolutely not.
 
Ellis said:
Most Reddit subs are modded by loons.

I was banned from the Naked & Afraid sub for saying some dudes cock was the reason the water pot fell off the fire.

His partner couldn't stop staring at it all episode, and then stupidly burnt herself for not paying attention to the pot.
Guy had an absolutely massive wang on him. Even I'd fucking stare.

I stereotyped the women as a slag, apparently lol.
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Lebron James What GIF by SB Nation
 
They should change their slogan to "the ass of the internet".

The whole place is full of retards or people, who were bullied as kids and now want to take revenge for that by bullying others.
 
I'd recommend never fully investing in reddit communities, ever. My account is 15 years old, and it's only gotten worse over time, lmao. But I've neverrrrrr gotten invested. I follow my subreddits, I comment occasionally, but VERY rarely. I recommend everyone do the same if they choose to reddit, lol.
 
diffusionx said:
It's reddit, bro, what the fuck do you expect?
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Could end the thread right here.

I had my reddit account banned from a whole bunch of subs I had never posted in simply because I was a member of /r/Conservative and /r/Libertarian. Just participating in those subs was enough to get me blanket banned from places I hadn't even visited. Reddit is a cesspool and the internet would be better off without it.
 
March Climber said:
Not how the site works. Each r/ community is run by different people and there are too many communities to count.
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Fair enough. My experience with Reddit is mostly dog videos, movie reviews and the occasional Eminem thread

Still, even if communities are run independently, the front page does give off a pretty clear zero-tolerance vibe overall
 
RafterXL said:
You do understand that the popular subs are what control the population of the site, right? It's like anywhere else where the most popular aspect is what draws people in and then they spread out into other aspects.
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Yes, the same way /b/ draws in people to 4chan. That doesn't make every part of 4chan a reflection of /b/ and thinking that to be the case would be a big mistake.

Reddit is similar. Not saying it's perfect, but you can definitely find some darker and danker corners with decently sizable communities if you go looking.
 
Reddit is like that, full of crybabies and loons that can't stand a different opinion. Gaf is much better because here discussions can get heated enough but at the end of the day we just laugh and don't take ourselves too seriously, you have to say something way too controversial to get banned here.

On Reddit I have been banned just by saying I prefer to play on PC than consoles.
 
Sentenza said:
Just a quick head-up for casual posters who occasionally crossed that place, as I did.

Apparently r/PCgaming, the biggest PC-gaming-focused subreddit, is now openly tainted by ResetEra-style lunatic moderation.

I've been just permabanned from there today.
My specific offense?
In a thread titled "IO Interactive confirms the new Bond will be adapted to appeal to a more modern audience" yesterday I had the audacity of posting the following comment:

"Seems like a great recipe to get a shitty James Bond".

That's it. Word for word. No other replies on my part before or after that for days.
So, basically it's once again a case of zero tolerance for "Wrong-think", like our beloved purple forum.

To be clear, I'm not writing this looking for sympathy, consolation nor I have any hope (or interest) in protesting to reverse the ban. What's done is done, and if this is how it's going to be I have very little desire to keep interacting with these rabid spastics anyway.
Consider this just a PSA, to let you know with what people you are going to deal with if you go there.
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That sub used to be cool. It got hijacked sometime in summer of 24 I think. I got banned for posting in r/kotakuinaction. Lol
 
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