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r/washingtondc on Reddit has banned crime discussion
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Anonymous
Funnily enough, it’s just now been resurrected. Have a look and you’ll see a post welcoming everyone back. What I understood is that the lack of moderation combined with the current political climate in DC attracted the interest of the Reddit overlords and that the sub was shut down as a result. That it’s now been allowed to resume business suggests that some form of moderation will now be taking place. |
Anonymous
| Pictures of the protests were apparently also deleted from some of the Virginia subreddits. Virginia and possibly Charlottesville … Reddit admins (the actual paid staff of Reddit, not the unpaid mods) have a lot of say in this. They don’t like the Luigi posts either. |
Anonymous
This is 100% accurate. I'm a 52 yo DC native (born at Georgetown), raised in the Palisades, but settled in Old Town after college and grad school out west. I was banned after getting into it with one of the mods (who was from f++king Ohio) about how he was more DC than I was because he lived in Navy Yard. I'm half embarrassed I even engaged with the moron, but that is who they are. |
Anonymous
I was threatened with a ban for reporting certain posters who were being abusive to others (a clear violation of the sub's "keep it civil" rule). The mod explained that because the posters I was reporting were being abusive to people who didn't toe the subreddit's preferred politics -- i.e., they didn't slobber GGWash; they pointed out that, yes, sometimes cyclists can be jerks; they dared point out that crime exists in DC -- those posters would not face any punishment. Fortunately, Reddit admins disagreed and at least two of the posters were banned, and the mods were reprimanded for not following their own rules. |
Anonymous
| A sub that covers up sexual assault and rape to worry about bike lanes. All you need to know. |
Anonymous
It's called free speech. |
Anonymous
Are you talking about how the government is reading it and punishing people for what they are writing? I’ve certainly heard of it happening recently but not on these subjects |
Anonymous
I don’t understand this response??? |
Anonymous
| There was a guy there who worked at the LOC who was completely batshit crazy and would post literally 250 times a day. I often wondered about letting the LOC know what he was doing during the workday. |
Anonymous
No stop with the propaganda |
Anonymous
That guy, jfc. He would brag about how little work he was doing on the taxpayers' dime, while also trying to portray himself as Mr. Hardcore DC (he was a privileged white mediocrity who grew up in AU Park). Looks as if he nuked his account a few years ago. Going to guess someone ratted him out to his bosses. |
Anonymous
reddit has ccp ties no? And we know who is now in charge of x Gonna need a new free speech platform in the near dystopian future. Thats assuming isps aren’t tagged to police |
Anonymous
Your tendency to weave bike lanes into almost any discussion - no matter how little it has to do with bike lanes - is a true joy to behold. |
Anonymous
Not as joyful as watching you try to minimize sexual assault for the gain of bicyclists. |
Anonymous
Grasping at very thin straws is apparently a full-time occupation for you. But I'll bite: what in the world are you talking about? |