calebw50•1mo agoMost Upvoted

Hit 500 flagged posts in a single subreddit last night

I was checking my moderation log on a politics forum I help run and noticed I've personally flagged exactly 503 memes for removal since January. Most of them were just screenshots of tweets with no context, but three actually got the whole subreddit quarantined for a day. That number surprised me because I thought I was being pretty lenient, but 503 in 6 months tells me the platform's rules are way too vague. Has anyone else kept count of how many posts they've seen get pulled?

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robin_wright1mo ago

Oh wow, that reminds me of something that happened to a friend of mine who runs a local gardening forum. He had this one user who kept posting links to a seed company that was clearly a scam, just copy pasting the same paragraph every day. My friend flagged about 200 of those posts in two months before the user finally got banned. The problem was the rules said "no spam" but didn't really explain what counted as spam, so the user argued it was just sharing helpful information. It took a formal warning from Reddit admin to finally put a stop to it. So I get your frustration with vague rules, things get messy fast.

nathan5451mo ago

503 flagged posts just shows the system is working, vague rules are better than over-censoring free speech.