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It's almost like the goal of all these complaints is to enable the leftist colonization and domination of a space they don't control, to censor... well, let's just quote them: "Those who engage in bad faith with intent of disseminating a worldview deemed unfit for civilized society"

I was a mod for a sub about a somewhat controversial figure for years. This is how it works.

It's an incredibly weird phenomenon, because I can't see what's in it for them, but you get these people cycling in and out and spreading negativity into every thread and demand censoring of this or that voice or topic. There'd be constant threads about The Rising Number of People Talking About X Thing The Mods Really Need To Clamp Down On.

It's almost like it's a matter of principle for them to not let People Being Wrong On The Internet have their own space. And they strongly intersected with sneerclub-style subs that hated said controversial figure.

The goal was basically too harangue and annoy the mods enough to either do their bidding or to mire the sub in so much negativity that their point of view predominates. This seemed to exhaust normal people who just liked the content, meanwhile they seemed to feed on it.

I think, at one point, a mod tallied the comments and found that one particular leftist grudge-poster was making like 2% of the comments.

I wonder a lot if I should have just had a purge tbh. Cause I got exhausted enough to quit and I don't think they did.

I think there is a psychological component that explains that behavior.

If you hold mainstream woke views. All of the Internet discussion places (especially Reddit) are practically yours. Everyone is a friend, every subreddit is a room in your house. One has a stake in maintaining order in his house. To not let in the (enemy) outgroup for he might scare away your friends or harm them.

When those with non-mainstream non-woke viewpoints carve out their space in a subreddit, it is the equivalent of the drug dealers and gang bangers in your neighborhood sitting in your friends living room associating with them. So you go and try to let them know "hey I don't think you should be hanging out with them".

And to them, being wrong is a moral evil. It's the utterance or the thought of wrong ideas itself. "Please don't take God's name in vain in my house", It's the exact same impulse. Please don't be a bigot in my house. (But eventually gtfo my house)

IMO, you probably ought to have just purged. Arguing for censorship of others should be an instaban, justified on the irony alone.

Oh, there was a good argument for it. And it was made by other mods.

In hindsight I really do wonder if I was just being pretentious about "principles" and missing the forest for the trees.

Seeing how other "jannies" have acted with no consequences since then has made me feel even more silly.