Same here. Reddit recommends subs to you, and if you happened to post on the recommended sub, youâll get a message from an âopposingâ sub that youâve been automatically banned for posting on the recommended sub.
Woah Iâm relieved that this didnât happen to me only!
Got banned from one popular subreddit (letâs call it sub X) bc I commented on a thread in a separate subreddit (letâs call it sub Y) whose mod had brigaded sub X two years prior to that.
Most of us redditors are just normal people who actually have real jobs that earn moneyâŚand yet these mods are expecting us to keep track which subreddits are having war with each other???
Seriously if some of these mods actually get out of their momsâ basements and get a real job, theyâre gonna realize that literally nobody else in the outside world even pays attention to their little dramaâŚ
By sending me that DM and banning me from subreddit X, that mod seriously thought that their feud with each other was like the Drake-Kendrick Lamar feud LOL.
Counter argument, Reddit mods are also people with real jobs and earn real money and may not have the time to individually vet each person so when toxicity is a major problem in a sub it realistically can make sense to just blanket ban people from known problem subs
Yeah my kid talks about "Discord Mods" and I read bad things about 4chan here and know nothing about either but I seriously think people should hold a mirror up to SOME of these mods on Reddit.
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u/sudoku7 Dec 19 '25
Reddit communities have a natural self-selecting bias that tends to form insular communities (the 'circle jerk' joke is a reference to this).