tangential, but that graveyard sort of reminds me why I left reddit. I understand that there are a lot of off topic comments, but surely there must be some better way to encourage proper moderation than having a mod delete 80% of the comments, remove the post (which in and of itself wasn't rulebreaking AFAIK), then lock the post. Then after all that have the mod speak from an ivory tower about how "Y'all can't behave". It just all feels a bit power-trippy in my eyes.
I can't particularly agree in this case. I don't think /r/legaladvice is better off having a thousand incorrect, off-topic responses to a question. It was locked when I saw it first and I didn't think that was weird- they usually do that once approximately correct advice has come in but people are still replying. The post being removed surprised me but then again, I don't know that there's really an actionable legal question here, so it was mostly just a lightning rod. And complaining about how people can't behave feels reasonable to me when people aren't following the rules. I got plenty of issues with reddit but I don't actualy agree with any of your complaints here.
> And complaining about how people can't behave feels reasonable to me when people aren't following the rules.
The customer service side of me wants to agree with you. But we both know in reality that yelling at customers never ends the way we desire. I guess that's the primary issue. It FEELS right but I have long since learned this isn't how you deal with people if your goal is a civil community. But ofc reddit does tend to strongly go off of gut feelings.
In addition, many of reddit's moderation tools are designed to be hostile to the user, and only got more hostile overtime. It's not made with the intention to clean up spam and ignore the trolls, but to chastise others at large and belittle them. The old trick where you punish the class because the class clown acted up... except you may never even see the clown in this case. Some troll in some subthread in a 1000 comment post acting up? Better lock the entire post so no one can discuss.
It's no wonder it becomes so easy for users to disdain the moderators when they use those tools.
> The post being removed surprised me but then again, I don't know that there's really an actionable legal question here, so it was mostly just a lightning rod.
I imagine that's why that user made the post there. If you were punished for not knowing your legal rights in your area than I question why the sub exists.
Granted, I'm also biased in that I feel the internet is the worst place to get legal nor medical advice, and any legal/medical issue should be answered with Contact a Lawyer/Doctor.
It's terrible. It's like forums, except there are bots doing it now and things don't disappear, instead they flood the field with automod comments and empty spaces so the thread is useless.
