I doubt I was seen as “high value”, or much of anything really, as I mostly lurked.
No, my crime was simple: I pissed off some power mods by reporting posts that broke the stated rules, but not the implicit ones.
It’s well known that various groups are abusing Reddit’s reporting systems in order to control opinion and get rid of people who might disagree with them.
Right, and that ties in to what I was speculating about above.
One idea being that if you’re going to ‘throw your weight around,’ it might be risky to do so as just a lurking-type user. Whereas if you’re someone with a high internal score, it would likely be harder to get permabanned, which of course is something that traditionally needs some level of admin intervention to make happen. Mods can at best only ban from communities they’re a part of.
I doubt I was seen as “high value”, or much of anything really, as I mostly lurked.
No, my crime was simple: I pissed off some power mods by reporting posts that broke the stated rules, but not the implicit ones.
It’s well known that various groups are abusing Reddit’s reporting systems in order to control opinion and get rid of people who might disagree with them.
Right, and that ties in to what I was speculating about above.
One idea being that if you’re going to ‘throw your weight around,’ it might be risky to do so as just a lurking-type user. Whereas if you’re someone with a high internal score, it would likely be harder to get permabanned, which of course is something that traditionally needs some level of admin intervention to make happen. Mods can at best only ban from communities they’re a part of.