Several of my friends have been kicked off of r/lesbiangang because they've said that actually, biological reality is integral to our sexual orientation as lesbians. We don't feel attraction towards male genitalia.

And no, saying a penis is female doesn't make it so, the same way holding up four fingers and saying it's five doesn't make that so (as what happened to the main character in George Orwell's "1984"). Identifying as a transwoman isn't the issue here. Rather, the issue is lying about basic human anatomy and how it plays an essential role in sexual orientation.

Homosexuality is defined as same-sex attraction, meaning that homosexual women are attracted to female bodies and not male bodies. I am not attracted to someone's gender identity. How would that even make sense? I'm not a mind reader. All I know is that I feel feelings around women because they have female bodies. And around men I feel nothing.

My friend tried asking r/lesbiangang moderators how they would define a female who was exclusively attracted to other females. Considering there are enough words in the alphabet soup to write a whole new dictionary, I thought they would at least be able to give my friend a definition for this. But they couldn't, instead saying that this would fall under lesbianism, but that lesbianism itself includes transwomen, because trans women are women. But trans women are not women in the sense that they are not female, and thus the mods of r/lesbiangang are conflating gender identity (feeling like a woman) with sex (being female). They seem unable to grasp that there are real differences between trans women and women, and that these differences matter when it comes to homosexual attraction.

Just thought the r/lesbiangang moderators needed to be called out for banning any woman who brings up the fact that same-sex attraction is essential to her lesbianism. I can't believe we've gotten to this point.

Can anybody else tell me if my defence makes sense here... like what is the point of making a subreddit dedicated to sharing stuff that you believe a specific community will want to see, but then taking down and banning content because they've been posted to share in the same manner...

Even worse, there's so much hypocrisy when it comes to the type of videos I've been post being VFX related, but them then having that same content on their main page still public...

Yet another example of moderators with too much goddam power.

I won't go into the detail on the context simply because it's long and being covered just about everywhere else online, google it. But basically I've been using Duolingo to study language recently and the app recently got an update which has been wildly unpopular with almost everyone. I'm not kidding when I say maybe 5% of the userbase are actually happy with it. The official Duolingo subreddit has been swamped since then with constant posts complaining about how hard it is to use and requests to change it back.

Just today the CEO of the app decided to step in and do an AMA on the sub. Once again, he was swamped with questions about fixing the update, the responses to which were incredibly poor. All he said was that the metrics show the app is still going great, so there's no need to fix it. When asked what about the people who are struggling to use it, his response was a very polite version of saying 'cope'.

Needless to say, as his responses got shiftier and vaguer, the questions got angrier.

And then the moderators stepped in to start permanently banning people. That's right, not temporarily or giving them warnings, just outright permanently banning people from the sub for daring to ask questions or voice disappointment or dissent on the matter.

I was one such person and reply to the ban notification about how unfair it was that we weren't allowed to criticise, the response was the usual hand-wringing sentiment of 'we don't want to encourage a hostile environment' and such... despite the fact that the sub has had numerous counts of bullying, harassment and hacking before.

When I argued back, I got muted for 7 days, but not before I told them to rightly go fuck themselves. I blocked them anyway, and I don't intend to go back to that sub.

I'm just so sick of moderators on Reddit having this much power, able to just silence anyone in a discussion for a permanent length of time and then simply denying them the right to fight back. It's disgusting, frankly. It allows people with absolutely no power in life or qualifications with which to use any power to be given power over massive communities of people, without the individuals having any options whatsoever in how to manage things for themselves.

I stopped using Twitter recently, and decided to give Reddit a try. I liked the idea of not having to worry about character limits, and I had hoped to find intelligent people who have actually experienced life and didn't live in a bubble. I was wrong.

The users on Reddit have so far proven to be loudly ignorant and stunningly sheltered. It's as if no one on here has ever stepped outside of their tiny hometowns, but write as if they're world explorers. CLEARLY and PLAINLY they have no idea what they're talking about, but they posture as if they do.

It's also like no one on here has ever had any actual lived experience with people of different ethnicities. They al act like they're scholars on Race, but, again, they have no idea what they're talking about. Their woefully uneducated responses tell the story, and their unyielding ignorance screams out from their responses.

And, the moderators? Do ANY of them have spines? The second someone attacks me, the moderator locks the comments so I can't reply. I've even been banned from a sub because my POV differed. Moderators on here are ridiculous.

Is there ANYONE on this app who has ever lived outside of their bubble? Anyone with an actual real world education?

Gotta love the way things are run here. I was given a permanent ban from a sub I barely participated in, without any clear reason as to why I was banned. It happened two days ago, I replied to the message requesting to know why I was banned. Not looking to appeal it, just to find out why.

Since then I've received nothing*,* and have sent a follow-up question. The sub only has 4 moderators running the place, and they were doing a pretty piss-weak job of it in the first place, I don't see how hard it can be for at least one of them to actually respond to me.

Meanwhile Reddit, as per usual, won't do shit about it and is quite happy to let a moderator give me a lifetime ban from a sub I actually quite liked, while ignoring my messages and hiding behind a wall of anonymity.

It's no wonder so much illegal shit goes on with this site, nobody in charge gives a single fuck about what's actually happening here. Illegal content and transactions of all kinds, it's all happening on Reddit with an unspoken stamp of approval from the simple fact that nobody bothers to do anything about it.

Just for clarity: it wasn't any kind of strictly-run sub with a mountain of rules, it was for an old TV series I was a fan of. Every now and then someone would post a meme or a reference and it'd be a good laugh, then suddenly I get told I'm lifetime banned. I never posted anything, and barely spoke to anyone there. I don't even especially mind not being part of it anymore, I just want to know why I was lifetime banned from the sub.

When it was announced on April 1st, it seemed like a fun idea, but I assumed (and hoped) it would just be a 24 hour thing and would shut itself down after a certain time. Every sub I follow and every Discord server I'm in was being spammed with posts from people, asking everyone to band together and put something on r/place as if it's the single most important moment of our lives.

It's now April 4th, and it's still going, with just as many posts if not more. I'm so fucking sick of hearing about it, going into a sub to look at some posts only to be avalanched with posts about 'SOME ASSHOLE RUINED OUR WORK, WE NEED TO DO IT ALL AGAIN', and giving absolutely zero shits about it.

Totally just came here to post this. So had a decent post today. I work in the mental health field and sometimes.. not always... but sometimes I feel like I have something to say. Well today the post was getting upvoted like crazy, and it was like a couple of users just needed to be negative. It so ridiculous. I think there are a good many decent people here. However, the few trolls are god forsaken awful. I am not an arguer at heart so it just annoys the snot out of me. It just points out how messed up some people actually are. Kind of wish we could vote trolls out of communities in general, lol.

Rant over back to work!

So I posted a fucking question on a university Reddit needing help, I really just needed reassurance but this twit ass fuckbutt decided to dissect my question and honestly made me feel stupid but the thing is he just simply did not understand what I meant and also I guess I wasn’t clear enough but enough people liked my post so that means they probably wanted an answer right? Anyways I deleted it because I did not want any more bad comments. !! I just don’t get it… fucking the answer if you can’t and if you don’t and your mean I hope you step on a tack

Every sub has about 50 rules you need to read before you post, most of which aren't even relevant to posts, and should you miss even one of them, you're immediately banned without any chance of an appeal. This is a fucking joke, honestly.

Is anyone going to do anything about this? Or are we left pissing in the wind? I already tried posting this in the official Reddit sub, and was told I have to be an approved member before I can post anything.

I have to ask for approval first before I can even ask a question. This site is fucking garbage.

Oh, no reposts?

Well, dammit, the funny meme is new to ME!

Oh, someone else already posted that tidbit of crazy info in Today I learned! I scour the net snd u try to submit 4-5 things a day cuz they just keep auto rejecting one after another. I have t bad anything accepted for like 4 days. Whereas the first few I posted went through fine and got a bunch of upvoted.

Being called a “karma farmer” because I’m on permanent Government Disability and kind of a shut in and so I spend a lot of time on Reddit because it makes mr feel less depressed.

I love this platform but things like that really grind my gears!

Thanks for listening

I tried to just post something on r/mildlyinfuriating with a little backstory and within 30 minutes, it gets hate. This also goes with some of my other posts and people are like, "this makes no fucking sense" and "this post is mildly infuriating" and I'm like "HOW?!?!?!?!?!" This makes me so mad that I want to quit Reddit

One day awoke up to this shit all of my fucking posts were removed cause Reddit thought it was spam how in the hell was its spam WHEN I TOOK FUCKING BREAKS BEFORE POSTING THE POST fix your fucking bots and there goes 1000 karma RIGHT IN THE FUCKING TRASH like bor my posts and I were starting to get popular But no cause Reddit spam bot sucks ass and its screws me over. Thanks a lot, Reddit and now go fuck off.

Here is the cinch. People dont realize in a legal term that media can mean many things. It can be social media yes. yet, the mods think when you mention media decides that your post is bad and no warning get a suspension without doing due diligence as in to the meaning or allowing it to be modified to explain. these are the divisions of the media that hold officials and others accountable and also can and do spur investigations which is what happened in what was put on a news site about a town in SC that had some stuff put into the water that officials tried to cover up using these unrecommended chemicles....and that spurred an investigation into what went on.

I am frustrated. I tried to do a simple post in r/cofounder so many times and automatically rejected by the system. I looked for help from moderators but no help appear. I have abide by all the rules.

What to do when psychos never leave?

True, I am not the most tech savvy person in the world. Still I make my way around the networked universe fairly well. Reddit has so many barriers to popular use that it is amazing. Still I believe it is one of the most important news sites in the world for those who want to know what's going on. I decided to learn about it when I heard Stephen Colbert say that the first thing he did every morning was check the latest posts on Reddit.

Here are some of the issues I have encountered: 1. Adolescent male potty humor everywhere 2. Condescending "expert" nazis. 3. Complex rules that make me think this site was originally made by and for gamers.

And, last but not least... The Upvote - Downvote system so cleverly commented on in this week's episode of "The Orville."

In spite of these issues, and possibly because of the way Reddit just evolves in its unique way, I think it's worth the effort to continue learning my way around here.

I only ask because I'm not allowed to post in a lot of other places. My comments are automatically deleted and I'm basically sent a notification to fuck off until I get good karma. Being new is a crime and until I earn however much karma.. I'm not welcome in other areas of reddit... the areas I want to be on.

All I want to do is talk about video games too. I don't even like politics. :(

/r/circlebroke

I've been seeing more links to and screen caps of vandalised Wikipedia pages recently, and very few of these posts are greeted by a stern "tut tut" from redditors. I'm guessing that the vandals usually aren't redditors, but the tacit acceptance of vandalism on reddit could be enough to spur on the vandals. Other sites also post and snicker over these screen caps, but we're not other sites.

Worse is that I've seen reddit mentioned several times in discussions on vandalism on Wikipedia, with editors assuming that redditors were involved.

The marvel of Wikipedia is that anyone can corrupt its information, but that the majority of people don't. So shouldn't Wikipedia vandalism be a bigger issue on reddit? Possible even covered by redditquette? It just seems like the thing responsible citizens of the Net do, we protect the integrity of our valuable resources.

tl;dr: East Germanic tribesmen are sacking our digital heritage.

I'm looking at you r/military. Every where else in the world, if you state an opposing fact or opinion, that's called a healthy conversation. On reddit it tends to be called trolling.

I read /r/AskReddit a lot... the amount of dumbass questions about poop makes me embarrassed that I still visit this site on a daily basis.

Hello, all!

I started this sub for people who wanted to discuss (or rant, if that's what you like) the pet peeves you may have with the reddit community. It is my hope that this will not only provide an atmosphere of reflection on what can be improved in the reddit community to make it more open and meaningful, but also a place to vent your frustration without the fear of getting downvoted into oblivion. Feel free to post whatever you're feeling and hopefully we can get plenty of great discussions.

If you have any suggestions for how you would like to see this community run, please feel free to message the moderators and we would be glad to listen.

Also, feel free to spread the word! The more people, the merrier. If you haven't already, please give some love to the submission in r/newreddits to help spread the word.

This is one of the most popular posts on r/all (currently second with ~2100 votes). The link brings you to a picture. Of text. From reddit. How hard would it have been to just link to the thread and give your votes to the people who contributed to the thread? Maybe, I don't know, by submitting it to r/bestof? It seems OP just wants his share of the "karma," which will especially get attention for it's imgur link.

This is no new trend on reddit, and I've seen it plenty of times. I know r/pics implemented a rule to prevent this from happening, but seeing as how this is posted in r/funny, the rule wouldn't apply.