The /r/news subreddit mods once again abusing their positions to push their own agenda by deleting articles about the suicide of a person being bullied.

41  2017-12-08 by UnluckyIdiot

When Chester Bennington committed suicide, we saw the thread on /r/news

When Aaron Hernandez committed suicide, we saw the thread on /r/news

When a 13-year old girl committed suicide after being bullied, we saw the thread on /r/news.

When a 10 year old boy committed suicide after being bullied, we saw the thread on /r/news.

But August Ames, a porn actress, kills herself after being bullied, and /r/news removes any post of it, claiming that "it has already been submitted." When pressed, they say, "Use /r/entertainment." I don't remember Chester Bennington's suicide article being removed and people told, "Use /r/music." So why is it that August Ames' suicide isn't "news worthy?" Because she was being bullied for supposedly being homophobic, which she wasn't. But they don't want that out there, they want to abuse their positions as moderators to push their own agenda and views and not allow any story that doesn't agree with them.

It's not just this one incident, this has been going on for YEARS, and I won't be surprised when /r/news ends up with praise for Ajit Pai and removing any news article that shows the underhanded bullshit that's going on, because that's how they are. They abuse their positions as mods and /u/spez and the other admins let them, because they only care about pushing their own views onto others.

Get rid of every single person on the /r/news moderator team, because none of them follow their own rules, they remove valid news stories they don't agree with, and they delete information about blood banks during mass shootings. Of course, they get away with using a scapegoat, one of the moderators alt accounts, because why admit that there is a problem when you can simply hide it and put all of the blame onto one and act like it's not there anymore.

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This sounds like bullshit. But I believe it.

Post removed saying "Already Submitted"

Post removed saying "Use /r/entertainment"

If you also search for any record of the original article, the one that was first submitted, allowing them to remove re-posts...it doesn't exist. So, what was the reason for the original articles removal? Why doesn't it appear as the first post with the reason it was removed? Because it broke no rules, they are just bullies.

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It's basically

SLUT SHAMING!!!

She's a "whore" so she doesn't deserve the same spotlight according to them. I mean Chester Bennington? Literally who? Ugh

Removing a news worthy story because they don't want to moderate the comments is not a valid excuse. It's one thing when a post gets comments and they get out of hand so they lock it, but to remove a post because you think that might happen isn't moderating, it's censorship.

Sorry that's not what I meant. I mean both of the reasons I mentioned are not excusable. They're shit mods for doing it.

I understood what you meant, I was just stating what you were in the process of building to. This isn't the first time this has happened, it's been going on for years from what I've gathered, but it seems Reddit Admins don't even want to enforce their own rules to do something about it. I guess when you look at it, /r/news is a great example of what repealing Net Neutrality will bring...censorship and the pushing of the company agendas,

You're right.

it seems Reddit Admins don't even want to enforce their own rules to do something about it. I guess when you look at it,

Are there any rules for moderators? Or simply guidelines to which they are not bound in any way?

Actually there are! Here they are

Moderator Guidelines for Healthy Communities

Remember the Content Policy

You are obligated to comply with our Content Policy.

Maybe I'm wrong but I don't think these are enforceable. I've always heard the moderators are like "dictators". If I make a sub and mod it myself. I can do what ever I want and won't get banned for it unless I don't follow the general site wide rules for all Redditors.

Healthy communities have agreed upon clear, concise, and consistent guidelines for participation. These guidelines are flexible enough to allow for some deviation and are updated when needed. Secret Guidelines aren’t fair to your users—transparency is important to the platform

Basically what this says is that they must adhere to the rules of their subreddit. They can't remove posts that follow the rules just because they don't like them, but they also need to be flexible enough to allow other content. For example, /r/news does NOT allow politcal articles, it's instant removal if it is involving politics. However, some major stories are still let through, even though they are 100% political.

Unfortunately, Reddit admins don't care to enforce this and do allow moderators to have free reign over the subreddits and do whatever they want.

We know management of multiple communities can be difficult, but we expect you to manage communities as isolated communities and not use a breach of one set of community rules to ban a user from another community. In addition, camping or sitting on communities for long periods of time for the sake of holding onto them is prohibited.

This is the other bit that's just not at all enforced. You can look at some moderators on many subreddits, and they have been inactive for a year, sometimes even more than that. But they are allowed to continue being a moderator on 50 different subreddits, even though they are inactive accounts.

Thank you for the explanation. Admins need to start giving a shit about all this

It says the complete opposite, they're guidelines and they can be pricks as much as they want. They're recommended not to, but no rules are broken.

Cry more.

Yep, pretty much every time I've been banned, those rules have been severely violated.

They don't want the work, they just want the power.

If someone already submitted it then stop reposting it? Not that hard.

Except that's my whole point. The original submission does not exist. Search on the /r/news subreddit, you'll find no article covering this, because everything is completely removed and erased. They want to censor it by not allowing it, and claiming "already submitted" is how they go about doing it.

IT'S ABOUT ETHICS IN SUBREDDIT MODERATION.

Honestly who GAF?

The sad part is, I think that some people actually do.

Doesn't make OP's post particularly interesting, but still.

The people who go to /r/news to get news are the same mong inbred retards who watch CNN because it's "fair and balanced"

The entire problem is that /r/news mods are so insane and powercrazy with censoring everything. If you had decent mods, it would actually be a great subreddit to allow news to be posted and available. But yes, as it is now with these fuckheads modding it, it's completely fucked.

Imagine being as retarded as OP.

Imagine being as pathetic as you, sniffing your moms dirty underwear.

Tell us what it’s like.

I don't give a fuck about your dead cum dumpster, go srspost somewhere else.

She was a national icon KYS

I thought she was a leaf

literally why do you care about any of this you useless sperg

swallow cyanide

CHEW SOAP

Got banned from news long ago, like a good redditor would

What the fuck is a good redditor..?

It’s a joke.

YOU'RE A JOKE

That's a nice effort post you got there.

News mods = NAZIS

Nazis at least gained something from their bullshit. The news mods do it simply because they can. So, in a way...they are worse than Nazis.

They gain scorn, it's their coin of the realm.

You didn't hear? JaQuwan died in a car crash, some asian lady in a BMW swerved into oncoming traffic and his airbag didn't deploy. Was sad.