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Elon Musk may be causing Reddit to censor Luigi Mangione posts

by DocFeind on 3/14/25, 3:35 PM with 12 comments

• by duxup on 3/14/25, 3:54 PM

  The guilty by association by upvote system doesn't make any sense. It's not how users work, intent aside, users don't don't care about if the content is appropriate or not. Post a cute cat photo to a "no cats" sub and it will get upvoted by users who don't know / care about the rules.

  It's a dumb policy disconnected from how users operate.

  The rest of this article was painfully hard to read reddit inside baseball that I honestly can't figure out if anything is validated to be 1:1 as far as the reasons for anythign that happened go...

  One question:

  How do reddit admins even operate? I've had limited contact but my experience is they seem to all operate individually. If you catch the attention of one moderator who is helpful, all good. Others you don't get any response, and yet others ... I swear I've seen them protect bad actors for the longest times for the same actions that other admins might lay down the hammer.

  Reddit administration seems very amorphous and rules vary by administrator.