> Each sub-reddit has it's own moderation team that decides what's acceptable and then you opt-in.
It's a great concept, though it's worth pointing out that there's considerable overlap of moderators between subreddits (a.k.a. powermods).
In effect, you end up with a single system applied across hundreds of subreddits which may-or-may-not be appropriate, and if you happen to earn the ire of a powermod you find yourself banned from all the subreddits they moderate.
There's way way more censorship on Reddit than I think more people realize. Mods shadow delete your post so you can still see it but no one else does. Unless you have a habit of logging out and checking you won't notice when a post gets deleted.
Mostly quit Reddit when I realized about 5% of my posts were shadow deleted for holding the wrong opinion.
> Mods shadow delete your post so you can still see it but no one else does.
Mass taggers have historically been abused to ban or shadow-ban users who've posted in "bad" subreddits.
If you argued with someone in r/the Donald, you'd magically be unable to participate in a large swath of unrelated communities. Trying to appeal the bans would often result in you being permanently muted or receiving a snarky response from the mods saying it's your fault for engaging in said 'bad' communities.
Nah, this was a local sub and I participated regularly. That's why it was so shocking. I had hundreds to thousands of posts over a few years there and there was no indication ever that I was doing anything problematic. It was specifically the posts about local politics (zoning and such) that went against the zeitgest that were shadow deleted.
There were some grassroots efforts around 2015 to make the mod log public and transparent (so it'd say what was removed, by who, and optionally why), but it was unfortunately opt-in and never gained large adoption.
It's a great concept, though it's worth pointing out that there's considerable overlap of moderators between subreddits (a.k.a. powermods).
In effect, you end up with a single system applied across hundreds of subreddits which may-or-may-not be appropriate, and if you happen to earn the ire of a powermod you find yourself banned from all the subreddits they moderate.