I’ll be honest, I noticed that in my last few months of using the UK Pol on Reddit that the mod team seemed to lean in a particular direction politics wise. I realised after reporting transphobia a few times it was actually comeing from a few of them.
I’m happy to allow all sides here as long as it’s respectful. I’m not going to give much truck to right leaning ideas myself but nothing is banned.
I’ll be honest, I noticed that in my last few months of using the UK Pol on Reddit that the mod team seemed to lean in a particular direction politics wise.
I’m glad it’s at least become visible. It was quite hard to see it at one point because there was still some participation occurring from the soft-left. We did an awfully large amount of work at gap to create conditions that make it more visible.
The biggest problem on reddit is that subreddit moderation is a black box. It is extremely easy as moderators to moderate along ideological lines and hide that from the userbase, I say that because we moderate ideologically in many subreddits and it’s completely hidden. Not because we want it to be hidden of course (I am happy to speak openly about it) but because that is just how it is on reddit. It’s impossible to make it clear or visible that it’s happening and you can’t actively inform the userbase of a community who are unaware of it from within that community when the modteam is actively suppressing it.
A few times we tried to address this with r/ukpol, even explicitly offering to have marxists join the modteam for more balance and to represent the 33% or so of the UK that isn’t currently represented there. This was rejected most likely because it would have given access to the history of their moderation, automod rules, etc etc and made clear just how bad it is. 3 or 4 times we went through the motions of trying to achieve this kind of thing and it ended up being wasted effort every time.
I’ll be honest, I noticed that in my last few months of using the UK Pol on Reddit that the mod team seemed to lean in a particular direction politics wise. I realised after reporting transphobia a few times it was actually comeing from a few of them.
I’m happy to allow all sides here as long as it’s respectful. I’m not going to give much truck to right leaning ideas myself but nothing is banned.
I’m glad it’s at least become visible. It was quite hard to see it at one point because there was still some participation occurring from the soft-left. We did an awfully large amount of work at gap to create conditions that make it more visible.
The biggest problem on reddit is that subreddit moderation is a black box. It is extremely easy as moderators to moderate along ideological lines and hide that from the userbase, I say that because we moderate ideologically in many subreddits and it’s completely hidden. Not because we want it to be hidden of course (I am happy to speak openly about it) but because that is just how it is on reddit. It’s impossible to make it clear or visible that it’s happening and you can’t actively inform the userbase of a community who are unaware of it from within that community when the modteam is actively suppressing it.
A few times we tried to address this with r/ukpol, even explicitly offering to have marxists join the modteam for more balance and to represent the 33% or so of the UK that isn’t currently represented there. This was rejected most likely because it would have given access to the history of their moderation, automod rules, etc etc and made clear just how bad it is. 3 or 4 times we went through the motions of trying to achieve this kind of thing and it ended up being wasted effort every time.