/r/Tennessee doesn't want people posting about the Tuesday election

Reddit is so wild now, man. I got a three day site-wide ban for commenting on a LAMF thread about Mitch McConnell not liking the direction of the Republican party now even though he was one of the architects. My comment agreed. Apparently I was harassing Mitch McConnell.

Why can a mod in one subreddit ban someone from the whole site?

Wow we can't even criticize our politicians anymore? Land of the free, my ass. And fuck reddit, toxic wasteland.

"Well, I do mind because I motherfucking live here, and I'm not having a good day. So how about you stop being a fucking knob and answer my question?"

Me too. What district?Is it a senatpr? I'm drowning in hopelessness over here.
- I am not, haha, sorry. That was just my hypothetical response.

Wow what a cunt of a mod

All Reddit mods are cunts. No exceptions.

Haven't been to Tennessee, I went to Louisville Kentucky, I hated it there. It was like going back in time, all white people in suits, the only black person was homeless. The homeless guy was moving place to place so shop owners wouldn't have time to harass him. Nothing like a fancy meal in a high class restaurant full of well off white dudes and a homeless black guy outside the window.

I mean, Tennessee is as red as you can get. Except maybe Nashville.

Memphis checking in....

We MUST Protect Jeffrey Epstein!

-Republicans!

We need to stop attacking pedophiles!
Ted Cruz
- *Can we
  But yeah fuck Raphael

This is why Reddit is garbage and anyone that still has an account on there is only fueling the fire. Fuck Reddit and their mods

I get so mad whenever I see a post hating on Reddit, but yet they are still there and making posts. Like wtf, Lemmy is great, a lot more people should’ve migrated here, but it’s like they like the abuse.
Reddit's glory days were when it was big enough to have consistently interesting stuff, especially in the niche subs, but not so big that bad actors (corporatization, foreign influence, domestic partisan bots, hate groups) could enshitify it. Now it's practically unusable.
- Ice soap and 2AM chili were peak reddit.
You think Lemmy is better? Mods here are engaging in the same shitty behaviours. Lack of moderator accountability is a serious issue on this platform.
Edit: brigading just proves my point, you dumb fucks.
- Public mod log is a big accountability improvement over the absence of information Reddit has
- I absolutely have observed mods on Lemmy engaging in the same shitty behaviors (I am sitting on a post about a little cabal of !progressivepolitics@lemmy.world people who seem to be trying to rig the discourse in a particular direction to meet their electoral goals). But the simple fact of it being less centralized and more transparent (and with more of a culture of effective pushback against the mods) makes it a lot harder. They can't just say "lol get fucked" like the mod from this post did and have that be the end of the story.
- Honestly yes, I have not had much problems with mods (and admins!) deleting the words I've taken time out of my day to write.
  Free Luigi Mangione!
- i mean lemmy def is better. we dont have one ahole controlling everything here.
- Modding attracts a certain type.
- Exactly
I hope you realize Lemmy is just as bad, maybe even worse
- We have MAGA mods suppressing voter turnout?
- Shirley, you jest..
  (and yeah, am calling you Shirley..)
I finally left the platform entirely a few months ago, but for a time I maintained an account for discussion on hobby and niche topics. Nothing political, and it would be a real stretch to call any of it controversial. After I got a very dubious account suspension, I just said "fuck it" and moved on.
Can't say I miss it either. It's a fucking cesspool.

What a power-tripping little dick energy cunt. God I fucking hate reddit.

That is why Lemmy exists. And I hope that even more people will start using it since new harsh Reddit policies have appeared.
- Lemmy has power tripping bastards too. it's just usually more transparent.
- How is Lemmy different? As far as I know it just comes down to chance, hoping the first user to start the community is fair.
Pretty common if Reddit mods and admins these days. I've been banned from so many communities for being right in the face of mod ignorance.

From

The start page of the internet

To:

this tiny little corner on the internet

Reddit sure has come far

At one point it was a glorious place. Then 5 people became admins and mods of the most popular 100 sub reddits and began controlling the narrative to fit their beliefs. In my opinion reddit has been dead for at least 5 years now

A person in Tennessee defending pedophiles and abusing power in that pursuit?

Shocked, shocked I tell you.

Wow. Just fucking wow.

Does Facebook and X do similar types of censoring when it comes to the Republican agenda?

Or is it somehow easier to install them as mods on Reddit subs, making it appear to be more “grass roots” without blaming the platform itself for censorship and bias?

I guess of fb you have “groups” (as opposed to subs) where you could install similar “mods.”

Facebook, Twitter and Reddit all have a history of silencing by shadowbans and most people have no idea. There's a billion different ways to silence you on each of these.
Reddit moderation has been pretty comprehensively captured by bad actors.
I think left wing content on Xitter just gets suppressed, not deleted. Since buying a checkmark gets your posts boosted to the top of the algorithm, and right wingers are far more likely to give money to the Nazi bar.
But, I haven’t used it in a long time, so I could be mistaken. When I gave up on it, I was being shown almost nothing but alt right shit regardless of how many accounts I blocked/muted or what posts I interacted with, though. (And pretty much the only other content I’d get was porn and gore that I didn’t want to see.) And every search would show me a hearty mix of Nazi propaganda and porn, no matter how irrelevant.
X probably does. Facebook seems to be more impartial. Not that it speaks much against Zuck's support for the administration.
- New study shows just how Facebook's algorithm shapes conservative and liberal bubbles
  The answer seems to be yes. After analyzing popular political news links posted on the platform between September 2020 and February 2021, the researchers found that there's not much overlap between political news consumption within the two camps. Segregation also increases as a news link moves from being selected by the algorithm, to being seen by a user, to being interacted with.
  That ideological gap was larger than what other research has shown for overall news consumption online and in traditional media.
  "This borders on an indictment of Facebook's algorithm," said Laura Edelson, a computer scientist and postdoctoral researcher at NYU. She was not involved with the project but has done similar research and reviewed the studies' findings. (In 2021, Edelson and her team were blocked from accessing Facebook after a clash over the data they were collecting.)
- I assume with X you need to directly manipulate the algorithm to manipulate what appears in feeds. Which means you don’t have this plausible deniability by blaming a third party mod. OTOH it’s more difficult for a user to detect the platform doing algorithm manipulation and call out the platform because it’s just a black box to them.
I would expect Twitter to be a huge conservative circle jerk, but it really is not. I think the fighting between the two sides is good for business. I also would expect TikTok to do so as well, and maybe it will once Ellison takes over, but so far that's the best boots on the ground source for seeing real events happening in real time, even if it conflicts with whatever bullshit narrative is spun out of the event.
- Is Oracle really going to host TikTok? That’s been a rumor for like two years now. Even if they do host it on their servers, what kind of administrative or moderation control are they expected to have?

I'm not surprised the amount of propaganda here in Tennessee about that race is staggering.

I'm not in that district... But we still have commercials, radio and television along billboards and small signs.

So much spin both sides.

So weird to imagine having political adverts on television.
We have them here for big elections, kinda, but they're special government mandated broadcasts that each party have access to in order to get their message out for free to ensure equal representation, otherwise you could have a situation where the party with the most money to burn could sway the election results in their favour with a bigger ad campaign.
- the party with the most money to burn could sway the election results in their favour with a bigger ad campaign
  in the US we get around this problem by having the same corporate and 1% donors funding all 2 of our political parties. so whether you vote for wage slavery or you vote for begrudgingly agreeing to wage slavery, you know your voice will be heard and you will die penniless and starving.
- Citizens United says that money is free speech.. so all the adverts by all the political action committees
  Practically the GD dog catcher gets pac money. :/
  Shits absolutely stupid
- The easy way to avoid them is just to not watch broadcast television. Something I've been doing for a decade now. I haven't seen a political TV ad since then.

Reddit has really gone down the hole and sucks Republican cock hard.

Yeah but greedy little pig boy Spez just became a billionaire, so it was worth sacrificing your speech for his wealth.
To which I disagree.
With all the cases on reddit where it seems that outcome serves republicans - there is a counter-argument of how most major subs are democrat-sided subs. Maybe mods are republicans, but still user base is majority of democrats. r/pics, r/adviceanimals, r/therewasanattempt, r/clevercomebacks, r/facepalm - these were never primarily about politics. And now they are and these are only democrat-sided.
Or, maybe, it is astroturfing and political bots swarm these subs. Who knows at this point?

Fuck reddit, and fuck censorship.

Lets be clear though, reddit is only worse than lemmy because it is centralized by one group of douchebags.
Lemmy has plenty of shitty moderation too, and arguably is worse at dealing with it within any given instance due to the lack of proper mod tools, the way posts that are deleted remove entire comment sections from being accessible, the lack of any appeals system and I'm sure a few other things I don't remember off the top of my head.
Its a people problem, and its a style of organization problem with this style of forum.
- Lemmy has plenty of shitty moderation too
  Oh absolutely. Not long after I created my account, I saw an obvious spam post on All, I downvoted it and went about my day. Turns out I was banned from that community because of that downvote. I asked why and was told that because I downvoted a post in a community I wasn't subbed to, I was banned for "brigading" even though it was a spam post. I wonder if I had upvoted despite not being a community member if I would have been banned?
  More recently, I reported a comment for a common ableist slur (against someone else, not me), and the reply to the report was "doesn't break the community rules and also we agree with the guy who said it". I looked up their community rules and they specifically say all opinions are welcome and not to attack or harass others, which I would presume calling someone the "R" word for having an opinion would violate both tenets of that rule set. Nope, they support garbage like that despite what their rules say, so I told them to please ban me.
- I agree. Lemmy has a ton of awful moderators that abuse their power just to support "their" viewpoint.
  Lemmy is better though because it at least has the potential for people to have better moderation, as well as a modlog that keeps mods somewhat accountable and let's people see what is being censored.
- reddit is only worse than lemmy because it is centralized by one group of douchebags
  That's a really big distinguishing factor though. When a group gets "too big to fail," it becomes a problem by giving said group too much control. Look at the genocide apologist mods on /r/worldnews .
  The de-centralization / fragmentation of Lemmy is an important check against bad moderation.
- and its a style of organization problem with this style of forum.
  Which lemmy mitigates by being decentralized.

Can't except much better from a reddit mod team.

Shiiet. At least they awnser. Other mods just mute you for 30 days for asking and report you for harassment if write again afterwards.
Yikes on bikes.
Expect?
- Exactly!
*expect

If I recall a similar thing happened to the San Antonio subreddit. Something like it was taken over during the mod revolt, and the new mods seem to have very specific interests.

The /r/canada sub has long been controlled by far right people as well. There's been an effort to seize control of city / state / country subs.
- There are three Seattle subs because of this shit.
- Not surprising. Most of the left-leaning people would've left by June 2023.
The San Antonio sub is the only one I’ve been banned from and all I did was make a well educated argument for a massive voter initiative. Fuck those guys.

The mod of a fascist sub about a fascist state of a fascist country on a fascist website is behaving like fascist? I’m shocked.

So what you're saying is that it's a small corner of the Internet problem eh? ;)

They have been playing ads on TV consistently for them. Hers saying she wants to help try to keep health insurance available, not get premiums raised and help the people of Tennessee.

His saying she's a radical that was opposed to ICE agents and trying to bully them by blocking them with her car.

His ads have nothing policy based ever said, because it sounds like none of his policies help the people. I guess he is pro tariffs or something, idk

The right never campaign on policy because if they did they wouldn't get any votes.
- In first-past-the-post election systems, campaigning on fear is well established as the winning strategy. In this case the fear the D candidate is playing on - loss of health care access - is more fact-based than the fear the R candidate is playing on - xenophobia - but both campaigns know fear-driven turnout is the only way to win.
  I hope ranked choice voting makes more inroads. I am under no illusion it would break the two party system (Australia has used it for eighty years and still has two main parties), but by making second choices relevant it gives a winning election path to a pro-cooperation, get-things-done style of campaign.
His saying she's a radical that was opposed to ICE agents and trying to bully them by blocking them with her car.
Shit, that makes me want to vote for her more than her own ad. Someone willing to personally take action to stop the Gestapo?

Fucking Reddit.

Of all people to claim is spam, Steve fucking Hoftstetter‽

What does progressivehq have to do with the Tennessee subreddit?

Oops, you are 100% correct, I fixed the title.

Obligatory fuck reddit comment

That's why Reddit is the shit hole it is.

Abandon Reddit and leave it as a Government of Putin cesspool filled with Russian shills. If the Volunteer Oblast votes for Van Epstein, fuck them too for protecting pedophiles, rapists and felons.

Guy should do an AMA and then bring this up

Reddit sucks? Gosh, next you're going to tell me Twitter and Facebook are bad, too!

Twitter and Facebook are bad as well.

Typical reddit situation. When someone does something the GOP doesn't like, it's spam or fake news.

I'm deeply offended that you're posting Steve's personal propaganda claiming he's a comedian.

The guy literally does comedy tours. I guess I'll just go ahead and buy those tickets...
- I saw him recently. I had a blast!
- You would torture yourself to make a point on Lemmy?
  Please, go right ahead.
Why? Isn't he a comedian?
- No, but he does play one on YouTube.

Man, fuck reddit. If you aren't a conservative anything can get you modded or banned.

Its fucking wild seeing people still talking about how biased reddit is against people on the right. Go onto any big subreddit and you'll see their no politics rule means no left wing politics.
- Yup. They whine constantly when they're the ones getting left alone to say whatever horrible racist shit they want.
- got to fan that flame as much as you can, the entire US right-wing identity is built around making "the left" suffer.
Same with Lemmy but in reverse…
- Given that conservatism is just bigotry in a trench coat, I've no issue there.
- Structurally, I don't think anything is stopping a conservative safe space community from being spun up on one of the more neutral instances. But if conservatives have mainstream safe spaces already on x, Facebook, reddit, and smaller more extreme places like patriot.win, why would they come to lemmy?
  "Conservative" can mean a really wide variety of things to people who identify that way. Like the other reply to you, I am not sad there aren't lemmy communities dedicated to celebrating bad things happening to brown or non-Christian people. But it does seem like a hole to be missing discussions of fiscal responsibility (actual responsibility, not the "two Santas" scam) or how to effectively increase the proportion of children in two-parent households (actual increase, not the "redirect welfare money from poor people to middle-class marriage counseling").
  US conservatism broadly used to have policy pieces I agreed with, but the fake implementation in the times and places they have had power has made me really disillusioned.

So stay the fuck off Reddit?

No outside political agitators (This is a broad one, but if we look at your post history and all you do is spam geographical subs stirring the political cauldron we will remove your post and ban you from this sub)

The lesson on Reddit (if you still use that platform) is to hide your history. I'm guessing they used this rule for the ban. Bans from subs should exclusively be for content posted on that sub. If something is bad enough to warrant a sitewide ban, that is another matter.

Anyhow, there are is another post about the election: https://old.reddit.com/r/Tennessee/comments/1p36q6s/millions_pour_into_tennessee_special_election/

That history can be made visible on the new layout with the complicated hack of going to the profile page, and using the search bar to search for a space or an asterisk.
- Lol, what a garbage site. They have so many different layouts and versions of the site that I'm not surprised they fucked up on (at least) one of them.
  The more complicated you make something, the more room you are giving yourself to fuck up.
  So better lesson on Reddit: just don't bother with it.
This raises the question: Is there somebody else on that sub posting about the special election? There should be enough Tennesseans that at least one of them should post there.
- Blue dots in a sea of red. I'm in a similar political geography and you see a similar pattern.
  I'm sure there's been quite a few posts, but they just don't last.
  Reddit is sort of dead.
You are guessing, but they already said why, so we have no need to guess.

Basically all the local subreddits have right-wing mods and a cadre of incels that try to drive the conversation constantly towards minorities who commit crimes

Reddit mod moment ☕

Time to get in touch with Mr. Hoffstetter and point him and his millions of followers in this direction.

Personally i stopped liking reddit , bunch of cry babies on the sub Reddits .To many power tripped mods for my liking .I got banned from Reddit over power tripped mod who cried reddit . I was legitimately explaining my issue with meta and experience i had .

Edit i am Dyslexic and i have a hard time with my writing. I basically tried to say i hate reddit because of the mods being overly sensitive and having a power trip. That for my liking is to much . I got perma banned because mod cried to Reddit because they did not like my post nor comment in regards to meta and my experience/issues i had.

I haven’t posted on reddit in a while but my last post was to my local cities alt subreddit about the a transit situation (that is still ongoing months later and people still post almost daily about being stranded) and got my post removed for saying I don’t care about upvote karma in the comments replying to someone saying I was farming karma to post in the main city subreddit lol. I don’t get why people care so much about internet fantasy points on a site that’s mostly anonymous.
- It is annoying

Fucking wow man. Fuck reddit. I got perma banned for arguing with a FAR left mod 3ish years ago. Im liberal as fuck. Believe in rights for everyone, hate ice, despise Trump, believe in welfare, hate racist cunts etc, etc, etc. Politicians arent celebrities to be pit on a pedestal. They are public servants elected to serve.... the effing public. What i don't believe in is BLINDLY supporting someone just because they are affiliated with my party. And thats ultimately why I was banned, I argued with a mod that blindly supported democrats no matter what they did. In the end I took it on the chin and never looked back because fuck that

I think we live in unprecedented times and we need to correct a clear abuse of power before we have the luxury to return to how we would want to do things.
- Yea but how the heck do we accomplish that? Im not disagreeing with you. It just seems like an impossible task...
See, funny thing is, my two sub bans and my temp bans were because i pointed out that voting against fascism was still a decent way to spend a tuesday.

On one hand, I think this is why social media should be introduced to governments in an "official" capacity, kinda like how former Presidents and other officials would use twitter as a way to reach the masses about important news or whatever. There should be "official" accounts that are tied to certain positions that would be used to moderate different communities, such as city- or state-wide ones like r/Tennessee.

But then, there's the whole deal of America very quickly spiraling into fascism.

This is where the fediverse could shine. For example, the House of Representatives could have a server, and each member would have a username on that server. Much like how email currently works. It wouldn’t be beholden to the whims of a corporation.
- As a gay black man....
- Does it have to be feta? What about BlueCheeseProto?
- Exactly. Like a state-run online community moderated by federal or state workers. That way it would still be kept on-topic but (hopefully) without the power-tripping that usually happens with free-market moderators.
  Ideally there'd be some kind of supervisor/admin above them that they'd report to.
  But again, run by the state and not a company.