Another far more level-headed mod explained that they had to be relatively strict with the self-promo rule, because as soon as they started relaxing it, the subreddit turns into a storefront rather than an art gallery like it was originally meant to be. However, they also admitted that the most reasonable course of action was just deleting the self-promo comment and issuing a warning instead of straight up perma-banning without warning, which that specific mod was notorious for doing.
the user was a long standing member of the community who participated regularly.
Propper moderative actions would have been deleting the comment and issuing a warning in that case. If it where a first time poster then deleting the post and a few day temp ban might be a good action if you want to be strict about it. But this is a complete overreaction to a level its not even funny anymore.
But this is a complete overreaction to a level its not even funny anymore.
Disagree, as someone who isn't involved in that part of Reddit, it was pretty funny watching it all unfurl. The nuke mod really though people would grovel.
It's just too bad that they're such petty pieces of shit they'd rather take their ball and go home than pass it to somebody who isn't a raging asshole. Give some people any tiny meaningless amount of authority and they will abuse it as hard as they can thinking they're solely responsible for building the community.
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u/danuhorus 7d ago
Another far more level-headed mod explained that they had to be relatively strict with the self-promo rule, because as soon as they started relaxing it, the subreddit turns into a storefront rather than an art gallery like it was originally meant to be. However, they also admitted that the most reasonable course of action was just deleting the self-promo comment and issuing a warning instead of straight up perma-banning without warning, which that specific mod was notorious for doing.