Keep calling them out on thier bullying tactics. Soon people will see what they really are. Propoganda mouthpieces.

I've been posting and commenting here for about 6 years without ANY problems or gripes. Maybe it's because I don't have an agenda.

No they won't.

Why don't you transparently tell us your alts first.

First off, #rekt.

Second off, people in positions of power should be held to a higher transparency standard than average citizens, since their decisions affect the lives of the citizens.

So, really #rekt #notrekt

1. Use uneddit (http://uneddit.com/)

2. Subscribe to /r/undelete, /r/longtail and other subs tracking removals.

3. Inform others about previous two steps to raise awareness.

I'd be seriously dubious about using uneddit in anything other than a sandboxed environment. fyi.

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The bookmarklet is essentially MITM'ing your reddit session, it's nothing as spurious as password hijack, but PMs, stuff like that are all proxied through uneddit. Given their forthright philosophy that everything on the internet is public forever. I'd not be keen on using that in any environment that mixes with your day to day browsing.

I just tried that uneddit in /r/worldnews top post Russia hacked the white house. The comments are fucking.hilarious.

This might be a violation of rule 1, the catch all for the mods to reign as dictators here.

You can't do it. You have no power.

They've shown you time..and time..and time again at this point that you do not matter.

This place belongs to them, to do as they please, with no regard to you. The conversation is theirs, the topics are theirs, if they don't like it. They'll put a stop to it with some rule or another. There's no place for you in that.

The sooner you realize that, the sooner you'll realize your singular only option is to leave.

That obviously won't happen. So get used to it.

If any change comes from any of the threads being made about this...I'll eat my hat. Give it a week at most, things here will be right back to exact replica of before.

Unless a mod is routinely deleting/blocking posts or blocking users I can't see how we have a big mod problem here in /r/conspiracy . If that kind of stuff is going on, it seems to only be apparent to a select few who complain about it.

These are Mods, not Admins after all. This whole Mod Drama in this subreddit smells of personality driven drama.

I think it comes about when god-forbid a Mod expresses an opinion or tries to participate. Then, BAM! Zeus can no longer be divine, for lo, he traipses in the shit like the rest of us while deflowering maidens in his swan form!

I've seen no evidence of heavy-handedness in this sub. I post here quite a bit, so what am I missing? Well, I abide by the sub's rules I guess; could that be it?

Intellectually I can't support any argument solely based on a person's religion or ethnicity, so maybe I dodged that bullet, eh?

My biggest beef with this sub is not the Mods, it's that we don't have as many intellectually honest people as we need for consistently good discussions.

Far too many single agenda driven posters who la-la-la, forever on one note and fail to recognize the composition.

I'm talking site wide

I'm still seeing an issue of severity, if the Mods are truly horrible doing things as I mentioned (deleting/blocking/biased actions) then that is a clear indication that that particular subreddit is toxic.

Now some people will be happy in those echo chambers, but if they are not happy, they should migrate to a sub that reflects their values. And that does not mean a "bunch of preachers preaching to the choir", but a place where people can discuss and share opinions on a certain range of subjects.

I Mod for two very small, new subs with only a few subscribers. My subs have a focus, one is rather broad and the other fairly narrow.

I hope to eventually attract people who are interested foremost in the sub's focus enough to discuss, share and debate related subjects. That's how it should be.

I refrain from /r/politics and /r/worldnews among various other subs because not only the Mods, but the majority of the sub posters in those communities, tend to enjoy the smell of their own farts more than having meaningful conversations or debate.

Subs like those have the Mods they deserve; the minority, non-consensus types will be miserable. But those Subs do not exist for contrarian opinions or intellectually honest debate; those Subreddits are for mutual masturbatory enterprises and rely on their Mods to accommodate them.

Thankfully, /r/conspiracy is still good for conversations perhaps with a notable exception or two.

And they are hopeless echo chambers, as well as being huge subreddits filled with people who have largely the same opinions and general outlooks on world views.

So does /r/conspiracy but in a far narrower scope: people that sub here, trollers excluded, will generally question everything but may wildly vary on details and conclusions. Thus making this Sub far more intellectually valuable.

Fuck the echo chambers, they can keep grazing their mental pasture lands; that's the community they want to have and their Mods deliver.

Every mod should need to verify their account with a IRL photo.

Reddit is not a democracy. Sub creators and their mods don't owe you anything.

I agree. Free speech doesn't apply on privately owned, free anonymous internet message boards. They don't owe anybody anything. Nobody does.

More accurately you're not legally obliged to treat users with any sort of basic speech rights. But maybe /r/conspiracy should be different. Not because it has to be but because it could be and it should be.

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Your* more retarded than you name implies.

*You're

Flawless victory.

Fatality.

Doesn't change anything.

Decreases the relevance of anything you say by an overwhelming 76%

You're right, but its what the mods should do. For example, we should know who voted for Flyvapes reinstatement. If we don't, then the mods will have conducted a secret election, and that will be another major decision made by them without asking us.

To me, illuminatedwax is the only one who's opinion matters. It's his sub. Start your own if you don't like this one. I think the mods should be told by illuminatedwax to start banning idiots, troublemakers and the like.

It'd be nice if illuminatedwax was actually around.

Reddit is not a democracy. Sub creators and their mods don't owe you anything.

This is an important point and where one should begin when embarking on this topic.

To me it's really simple: Not every subreddit (ie community) will be welcoming or attractive to every redditor.

It's too bad the sub name /r/politics and /r/worldnews are already taken; it sure would be nice to have a more balanced centered sub for discussing news events instead of left-right political nonsense. But, oh well, I don't sub those communities; and why should I?

Echo chambers are boring. Boring to me, but if you like the echo effect and it reflects your viewpoints, you might love it.

In media, an echo chamber is a situation in which information, ideas, or beliefs are amplified or reinforced by transmission and repetition inside an "enclosed" system, where different or competing views are censored, disallowed or otherwise underrepresented.

/r/conspiracy shares the same traits as /politics and the others but with a key difference: in this sub the majority of subscribers share a passion for questioning and parsing everything. That's the unifying principle, now what keeps this from getting boring or just one big mutual masturbatory orgy is the simple fact that all of us will have differing viewpoints in one degree or another on the things we question and parse.

This makes /r/conspiracy one of the healthier subreddits on Reddit. In fact, outside of the external brigader/manipulator factor; we got things pretty good.

This sub blew goats for about 2 years, and is great now, thanks to the current mods.

This sub already has mod transparency, see /r/uncensorship

First off, #rekt.

Second off, people in positions of power should be held to a higher transparency standard than average citizens, since their decisions affect the lives of the citizens.

So, really #rekt #notrekt