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[–]sometextPioneer Square 120 ポイント121 ポイント

This subreddit is not afraid of the downvote button, and irrelevant/spammy posts are quickly voted down. It's completely unnecessary for mods to be removing them.

[–]Schlaap 32 ポイント33 ポイント

I completely agree with this. The heavy-handedness by mods is not needed.

[–]MsCurrentResident 20 ポイント21 ポイント

There's a definite and distinct "culture" in here and if anyone says anything that doesn't line up perfectly with it, they get downvoted out of sight, no matter how valid the comment is. I don't trust the downvoters here. They are terrible and all they do is obliterate everything that doesn't match their dogma.

[–]tin_tin_can[S] 18 ポイント19 ポイント

That's bad, but it's even worse when mods "disappear" posts and comments entirely.

[–]MsCurrentResident 13 ポイント14 ポイント

Unless you're a fan of redundant sunset pics, it's pretty sucky in here.

[–]drflansCapitol Hill 0 ポイント1 ポイント

I haven't seen one in a while come to my front page.

[–]Ansible32 2 ポイント3 ポイント

The mods need to be focusing on removing pictures of the Space Needle from Kerry park.

Although I haven't seen any lately, so maybe they're doing a good job.

[–]heavyhebrewEverett 2 ポイント3 ポイント

How about pictures of Kerry Park from the Space Needle?

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    [–]gimme_some_more 61 ポイント62 ポイント

    Too bad zomboi will never step down or be held accountable. Posts like these happen about every month as someone notices this douchebag deleting stuff he doesn't like or doesn't understand and he gives bullshit reasons every single time. Removing a moderator is almost impossible because it requires the select few other mods to remove one of their own which they probably see as a risk to their own power.

    The official reddit solution to such situations is to create a new sub, however that doesn't work as well as it used to because communities become too big to fail.

    I'll see you next month on the next thread about moderator censorship.

    [–]yelperSeattle Expatriate 17 ポイント18 ポイント

    The mods here tend to make silly community-building decisions. They largely adhere to their Siderbar Rules, which notably prohibit spontaneous get togethers that they tag as 'classifieds', as noted by the musician networking threads that get shut down.

    /u/careless and /u/zomboi, please acknowledge and finally bring some discourse to these rules. Obviously, there's a vocal minority that wants to see it change, and deserve some sort of discussion.

    [–]charlesgrodinfanQueen Anne 10 ポイント11 ポイント

    which notably prohibit spontaneous get togethers

    Which I'm trying to solve with /r/SeaFriends. Come, be merry, and make friends.

    [–]pumpkincatCapitol Hill 11 ポイント12 ポイント

    Honestly, I see no reason for musicians not to be able to say "hey we have a show on x date playing x place, come out and see!" My old cities reddit had that all the time and most people liked it because it gave us heads up about new bands etc. Then again, it was a pretty small city, so maybe the sub would be flooded with this sort of thing in a big city.

    [–]jfawcett 31 ポイント32 ポイント

    I wish it were flooded with those posts. Musicians, artists and actors are what make this city interesting. They are a large part of the culture of this city and I see no reason why they should be excluded.

    [–]mood_velociraptorPhinney Ridge 1 ポイント2 ポイント

    with the music scene that Seattle has, and as many eyeballs as this forum gets- I'm sure it would get flooded...which is a pity, but I think true.

    [–]heavyhebrewEverett 0 ポイント1 ポイント

    Especially in a city renowned for its music scene.

    [–]dictator_careless 14 ポイント15 ポイント

    Since we're discussing the r/Seattle mods today, I'd like to remind people about this thread from last year. My thoughts? Let's elect new mods!

    [–]tannerzSouth Lake Union 3 ポイント4 ポイント

    Is electing new mods a thing?

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      [–]syngltrkmndWest Seattle 1 ポイント2 ポイント

      What is the likelihood of being summarily banned as a result of being a noisemaker?

      [–]AmericanGeezusKenton -1 ポイント0 ポイント

      You can make new accounts with just a username and a password.

      So, the likelihood is very little.

      [–]penguin_apocalypse 0 ポイント1 ポイント

      You can talk to the admins about the mods and they can do something about it if they care enough.

      [–]blow_hardUniversity of Washington 1 ポイント2 ポイント

      Has this ever happened in any other sub?

      [–]dgnw 3 ポイント4 ポイント

      This kind of happened in /r/discgolf

      I founded it but forgot my password shortly afterwards and didn't have an email associated with my account. Someone asked the admins if they could take over and they granted them moderator status instead of making them create a new subreddit.

      [–]b2kpm 0 ポイント1 ポイント

      Yea I did the same thing with /r/bellevue a long ass time ago and passed on the mod thing so they'd have a place to post their bellevuey things. Looks like it is actually getting some use now.

      [–]dubbyuh 0 ポイント1 ポイント

      Wait, you founded it? That's my favorite sub.

      [–]dgnw 0 ポイント1 ポイント

      Yes, but by the time I recovered my account the other mods had been in place for quite some time. They do a great job. I decided to stay out of the way as they had been running it for quite some time already.

      [–]RumInMyHammyGreenwood 2 ポイント3 ポイント

      /r/technology lost its default sub status due to bad moderation, enacted by the admins. I don't follow these things enough to know of any other examples.

      [–]StellarJayZBrougham Faithful 4 ポイント5 ポイント

      Losing default status and changing mods are two separate things, and this isn't a default.

      [–]blow_hardUniversity of Washington 0 ポイント1 ポイント

      thank god for that, although there's no reason a city sub would ever be default anyway so we can relax on that count

      [–]AmericanGeezusKenton -1 ポイント0 ポイント

      I don't have links. But there has been some admin actions on popular/goto subs with a narrow scope.

      [–]Jessonater -1 ポイント0 ポイント

      I sent them a message to clean up racist crap and all they did was heckle me and tell me they will never be removed. Its time. I've warned them about this for a while. Fuck them.

      [–]sscott54 1 ポイント2 ポイント

      Come and join us over at /r/SeattleWA!

      [–]Droidaphone 4 ポイント5 ポイント

      My, what active and flourishing subreddit you have there. /s

      Seriously, though. This is the problem with how subreddits function. It's really hard to get a replacement subreddit to launch and thrive.

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        [–]syngltrkmndWest Seattle 12 ポイント13 ポイント

        So non-icons like artists and musicians and personalities and comedians that fellow Seattleites are unaware of are also subject to ban too, because they are not" icons"???

        Bullshit.

        [–]jfawcett 15 ポイント16 ポイント

        Yep. Is love to tell you guys about all the shows I play, all the shows I'm looking forward to attending and all the shows that I can't make, but wish I could. All are a no go under these shirty mods. There are so many great events going on in this city and in my opinion this should be the place to post about them. I proposed that we start a weekly sticky thread devoted to events like this. The mods started the weekend event thread, which is a good start, but there are tons of things happening all week long in the city and many people would love to hear about these things more than a day or two ahead of time.

        I understand the need to remove spam, but this place should, in my opinion, be THE place to post about upcoming shows. There is a great community here and I think most of us see the difference between spam and supporting local and touring artists, musicians and actors.

        rule 6 needs to change.

        [–]Taggedtethered 7 ポイント8 ポイント

        That's actually why I subscribed.. I was hoping to get exactly that kind of content.

        [–]AphroheidiShoreline 0 ポイント1 ポイント

        +1

        I stuck around because there are other good discussions, but I'd welcome event/artist info and people's opinions. It seems ridiculous and counter-intuitive that we wouldn't have that here.

        [–]isiramgreenKent 118 ポイント119 ポイント

        That mod response speaks volumes.

        "Tyson is a reddit icon, Greenwald isn't."

        Not only is that bad standard for filtering posts, but we all know that is a complete bullshit excuse. It's all about political affiliation and any post not liberal is probably going to be deleted.

        This is a subreddit for a city, not the DNC or RNC.

        [–]amoore12 31 ポイント32 ポイント

        Kinda weird to make this a liberal/conservative RNC/DNC thing. I doubt anyone in either the RNC or DNC leadership thinks of Greenwald very highly...

        [–]bench-mark 6 ポイント7 ポイント

        Status quo / independent thought

        [–]heavyhebrewEverett 1 ポイント2 ポイント

        Both Clinton and Boener agree on hating Snowden and Greenwald.

        [–]sgguitar88 -5 ポイント-4 ポイント

        Liberal in the more general sense denotes "liberal democracy" which includes both the Republican and Democratic parties. As opposed to some forms of socialism, as well as all of communism and anarchism on the Left; also monarchism, theocracy, national socialism, and anti-state libertarianism on the Right.

        The comment was still confusing since Greenwald remains a liberal even in this perspective.

        [–]agent00F 0 ポイント1 ポイント

        He apparently removed it because he didn't know who Greenwald is, or IOW moderating from personal ignorance.

        Worst sort of mod, really, and of course exactly the kind who won't admit to error never mind correct it or step down.

        [–]h00nigan 25 ポイント26 ポイント

        So is this sub /r/seattle, or /r/redditinseattle

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          [–]h00nigan 40 ポイント41 ポイント

          Mods evidently dont allow discussion of general seattle events unless they tie directly back to reddit, or the people involved are reddit icons.

          So I think this sub should be renamed. /r/redditinseattle.

          I'm never happy when someone else decides what I can or cannot talk about.

          [–]BipolarsExperiment 13 ポイント14 ポイント

          /r/undelete

          /r/longtail

          That about sums up reddit these days, look over those subs and you'll be surprised about what can't be talked about here.

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            [–]h00nigan 25 ポイント26 ポイント

            I just hope the mods don't find out I actually live in port orchard, or they may start deleting my posts too. Especially as I'm not a reddit icon.

            [–]heavyhebrewEverett 0 ポイント1 ポイント

            I grew up in Seattle, probably spent more time in the city than all the mods combined but I moved to Everett. Will I be shadowbanned for not being an icon?

            [–]watchout5 11 ポイント12 ポイント

            I'm normally content with the moderation in this subreddt

            Sounds like someone hasn't tried to do a write up of what it's like to spend a day in king county jail downtown. Fuck the moderation in this subreddit. It's entirely shill based.

            [–]heavyhebrewEverett 1 ポイント2 ポイント

            You will notice an overlap between this sub and the MyNorthwest.com crowd, especially on moderation.

            [–]PsibrII 2 ポイント3 ポイント

            Maybe do one called /r/SeattleIRL so that people know it's for those who LIVE in Seattle, not the ones who hide in a basement and only come out when it's pitch dark on a moonless night just to get more ramens. :D

            [–]donkeynostril 0 ポイント1 ポイント

            The thing is, is that they have and do allow discussion of seattle events.

            [–]TreeMonger 17 ポイント18 ポイント

            For the lazy: NDT is a 'reddit icon' and Greenwald isn't.

            [–]iamsoserious 23 ポイント24 ポイント

            What a crock of shit.

            [–]pumpkincatCapitol Hill 12 ポイント13 ポイント

            Usually I read these types of posts and think "let the crazy witch hunt commence, now where is my pitchfork and villagers?!", but that explanation is so ridiculously insane and provided by the mod that for once I have to agree with the sentiment.

            [–]RumInMyHammyGreenwood 11 ポイント12 ポイント

            Yepppppp he deserves to be downvoted to oblivion for that. That is ridiculous, utter garbage.

            [–]compbioguy 2 ポイント3 ポイント

            We'll there goes our shot at becoming a default sub lol ... /r/subredditdrama here we come!

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              [–]charlesgrodinfanQueen Anne 5 ポイント6 ポイント

              [–]sitnizGreen Lake 2 ポイント3 ポイント

              Just adding my pitchfork. What a joke this guy is. Keep Ballard weird.

              [–]Dizzy8 -1 ポイント0 ポイント

              Who has never heard of Greenwald? I don't think you can read any sort of news outlet or watch cable news and not run into that name, particularly if you were at all interested in anything related to internet privacy. "I've never heard of Greenwald until I logged into reddit?" What is that?

              Anyway, I don't really care about this fight one way or the other, but that was pretty funny.

              [–]jebkerbal -1 ポイント0 ポイント

              I'm surprised that isn't an actual sub yet.

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                [–]jebkerbal -1 ポイント0 ポイント

                I have the power tools to make it happen!

                [–]casagorditaSeaTac 110 ポイント111 ポイント

                I have zero interest in going to hear Glen Greenwald, but I, too would like to hear the rationale behind killing those posts.

                [–]nrbartmanMagnolia 38 ポイント39 ポイント

                I have no interest in going ...but I'm interested in what's happening in my city and Greenwald speaking here is SOMETHING interesting worth being aware of. Mod got that one wrong.

                [–]watchout5 9 ポイント10 ポイント

                I'll go even more basic than that. Anything happening in Seattle under the official banner of non-profit should be fair game. Town Hall is about as non-profit as they come.

                [–]Bladley 8 ポイント9 ポイント

                Seconded.

                [–]readways 6 ポイント7 ポイント

                No you really don't want to hear the reasoning. Someone posted the mod response. It's total nonsense.

                [–]perfecttommy 75 ポイント76 ポイント

                A presentation by an internationally prominent journalist covering issues of global significance with significant local ties (Amazon, MSFT...) is hardly a "a personal project." This was a big blunder and badly needs an official response to reestablish moderator trust with the community.

                [–]BarbieDreamHearseUpwardly Mobile 15 ポイント16 ポイント

                I agree with the sentiment of your post, but regardless of what the mods do or don't do, people will keep posting here anyway.

                r/Seattle: Too big to fail!

                [–]donkeynostril 83 ポイント84 ポイント

                Given that all of the following lectures were considered acceptable submissions, /u/careless's removal of the Greenwald lecture doesn't make any sense to me. I would like to hear his/her explanation for deleting the post.


                • Seattle's Town Hall: Tonight's guest is Nick Sparks...Is anyone coming?

                • Reddit Founder - Alexis Ohanian - Speaking at Seattle Town Hall, October 14th. $5.

                • Town Hall 7:30pm tonight: Physicist Peter Hoffman discusses the role of molecular machines in biology.

                • Bill McKibben talks at Town Hall, Wed Nov 7th

                • Amy Goodman tonight at Town Hall

                • George R.R. Martin to be at Town Hall 7/3!

                • REALLY cool talk tomorrow night (Wednesday the 4th, 7:30PM) at Seattle Town Hall. More info in the comments.

                more..

                [–]juiceboxzeroBothell 24 ポイント25 ポイント

                Awww shit. Someone done schooled the mods' shitty reasoning.

                [–]watchout5 8 ポイント9 ポイント

                Don't forget the exciting Macklemore content!

                [–]agent00F 1 ポイント2 ポイント

                Who actually removed it? I thought it was /u/zomboi.

                Not that it matters, they'll circle the wagons to protect their own.

                [–]donkeynostril 0 ポイント1 ポイント

                u/careless

                [link]

                [–]AmericanDerpBrougham Faithful 6 ポイント7 ポイント

                None of those was removed?

                [–]BlueAlmondFederal Way 16 ポイント17 ポイント

                "Given that all of the following lectures were considered acceptable submissions..."

                [–]donkeynostril 2 ポイント3 ポイント

                none.

                [–]Quiznasty 61 ポイント62 ポイント

                Clearly the posts are getting in the way of all the great sunset pictures. We need more sunsets!

                [–]MilModWest Seattle 6 ポイント7 ポイント

                Why can't we have both?

                [–]barlister 17 ポイント18 ポイント

                That's not the package we purchased. We purchased the sunsets only package.

                [–]AnotherN 2 ポイント3 ポイント

                Fucking comcast.

                [–]StellarJayZBrougham Faithful -1 ポイント0 ポイント

                Then the filter isn't working. Someones regex skillz need updating.

                [–]sjn123Maple Leaf 22 ポイント23 ポイント

                Agreed, I like to hear about what is going on in the city, and I was bummed to find out that I had missed the Neal DeGrass Tyson lecture. I'll downvote if it looks like spam. This isn't spam. Thanks for your persistence on letting everyone know about this event!

                [–]seattle-freeze 40 ポイント41 ポイント

                http://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/kevqj/starcraft_bars_barcraft_rseattle_made_it_possible/

                Unfortunately then the /r/Seattle/[2] moderators banned me saying my events were spam and to be honest it really hurt. I was eventually unbanned, but I had already created my own subreddit called /r/BarCraft/[3] . Long story short, things exploded beyond my wildest dreams.

                [–]GodBrokenCapitol Hill 0 ポイント1 ポイント

                Wow that's really cool.... and the exact kind of post I'd like to see when I browse /r/Seattle

                [–]Awkward_Lubricant 8 ポイント9 ポイント

                Rule #6 only applies to personal projects (as it's written). How is a major modern polarizing figure speaking in our community considered a personal project?

                [–]blow_hardUniversity of Washington 0 ポイント1 ポイント

                Well you see, he's a person, and he probably has some projects, so there you go!

                [–]CiscoCertified 5 ポイント6 ポイント

                I would have no issue with them if they cleared up duplicates for once.

                I find it interesting that the one thing they decide to remove for once is this.

                [–]yourpicturesucks 14 ポイント15 ポイント

                It is fairly obvious nothing will change. This has been brought up in the past and every time the mods have made a weak defense using rule #6 as their excuse and then stopped participating in the discussion. Its their subreddit not ours.

                [–]FlattenHamster -2 ポイント-1 ポイント

                This is also why nothing will happen. They'll let people complain, and then those people will continue to come back to /r/seattle as usual. People don't get the big picture.

                Don't like what happened? Then leave and start your own renegade Seattle subreddit. Thing is... they won't, for many reasons.

                [–]ts87654 13 ポイント14 ポイント

                I had a post that saw some traction, sat around 10 upvotes with multiple people engaged in the comments, and it was removed under rule 6. When I messaged the mods for clarification (within minutes of it being removed) as I was genuinely confused as to why it was removed, I never received a response. I think the mods are taking a little too much power and not communicating with the community enough.

                [–]iloveliberals 23 ポイント24 ポイント

                This subbreddit has been banning people for different ideologies for quite sometime. Of course they will continue doing so, and it doesn't matter what you think about it.

                Understand why centralization is bad yet?

                [–]gimme_some_more 7 ポイント8 ポイント

                Exactly, I've watched posts critical of the mods also get "deleted" because they decided that the backlash was just too much. I'm surprised this one has lasted a few hours without the hammer.

                [–]andhelostthemHomeless 7 ポイント8 ポイント

                They'll wait a few weeks then delete it so it isn't on the list of top posts.

                [–]ir8prim8 14 ポイント15 ポイント

                I have also had posts killed by the mods here for no apparent reason. In one case it was un-buried after other commenters complained.

                [–]jfawcett 21 ポイント22 ポイント

                personally I think the mods here need to be replaced.

                [–]theGalationLower Queen Anne -4 ポイント-3 ポイント

                why?

                [–]1qwer 6 ポイント7 ポイント

                Nothing going wrong with asking why. Personally, in the context of the discussion, we need to look at this because mods shouldn't be removing any material that doesn't violate established rules.

                [–]VoltasPistol 6 ポイント7 ポイント

                I clicked on this thread expecting to hear a good old fashion mod smackdown of obnoxious spam posters who submitted the same thing 16 times... But it really does look like the mods goofed on this one.

                I know it can get tedious wading through "My shitty band has a show this Tuesday" and "My favorite,highly obscure author is having a reading this weekend and you're all sheeple if you don't show up" bullshit, but maybe it's time to loosen up a bit. Is it really so bad to have events announced?

                [–]charlesgrodinfanQueen Anne 6 ポイント7 ポイント

                Which has led to /r/SeattleEvents rise today

                [–]tehstoneFauntleroy 5 ポイント6 ポイント

                If we're really going to follow the rules then the problem is the posts about NDGT not the posts yesterday about GG. That being said, I don't think events featuring interesting people should necessarily be disallowed on this subr, you can't expect people to sub to all the smaller, more specific Seattle related subrs.

                So let's hear it mods! Are event postings allowed or not? If it's not out of hand with shameless self promotion what's the problem?

                [–]damnface -1 ポイント0 ポイント

                The rule is already clearly intended to address self-promotion, otherwise I would be curious to learn why the term "personal project" was used at all.

                [–]kurtnuke 18 ポイント19 ポイント

                They honestly tend to delete anything that makes people think, which makes me wonder who they are -- obviously they like to attempt to cover up certain stories. IE the University Place man who was tased and killed had a great thread on /r/Seattle up until peoples comments got critical of their use of force...

                [–]AmericanDerpBrougham Faithful 0 ポイント1 ポイント

                TIL SPD controls /r/seattle

                [–]StellarJayZBrougham Faithful 4 ポイント5 ポイント

                Nah man, it goes deeper than that. How far down the rabbit hole are you willing to go?

                And do rabbits actually live in holes, because for awhile there was a huge amount of them living on the side of 405 and that would be a lot of holes.

                [–]MsCurrentResident 20 ポイント21 ポイント

                For every one of these posts they remove, they have to remove four sunset photos. THEN let's see what happens!

                [–]theGalationLower Queen Anne 10 ポイント11 ポイント

                They remove the sunset photos? They're heroes!

                [–]MsCurrentResident 6 ポイント7 ポイント

                I'm just doing some Banana Stand math here.

                [–]SteamTradeEleven11 3 ポイント4 ポイント

                There's always math in the banana stand.

                [–]MsCurrentResident -4 ポイント-3 ポイント

                Good lord. I would never have thought that an AD comment would be downvoted on reddit. But this is r/seattle, I guess.

                [–]fuckyourinit 16 ポイント17 ポイント

                Not going to say there hasn't been allegations of payola.

                [–]charlesgrodinfanQueen Anne 6 ポイント7 ポイント

                Reddit bot survey: "Would you be more or less likely to visit /r/Seattle if you found out the mods were being paid to promote some content and remove others?"

                [–]bepdub 4 ポイント5 ポイント

                Please continue...

                [–]balancetheuniverseWest Seattle 19 ポイント20 ポイント

                [–]tin_tin_can[S] 6 ポイント7 ポイント

                Quickmeme is the worst I think.

                They literally made themselves millionaires by being shitty mods of popular subreddits.

                Millionaires! How crazy, eh?

                [–]bepdub 14 ポイント15 ポイント

                Awesome list. Anything specific about the mods of /r/seattle?

                [–]autowikibot 7 ポイント8 ポイント

                Operation Earnest Voice:


                Operation Earnest Voice is a planned astroturfing campaign by the US government. The aim of the initiative is to use sockpuppets to spread pro-American propaganda on social networking sites based outside of the US. According to the United States Military Central Command (CENTCOM), the US-based Facebook and Twitter networks are not targeted by the program, although US laws do not prohibit US state agencies from spreading propaganda among US citizens as according to the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012. However, Isaac R. Porche, a researcher at the RAND corporation, claims it would not be easy to exclude US audiences when dealing with internet communications.


                Interesting: Ntrepid | Sockpuppet (Internet) | Astroturfing | Web brigades

                Parent commenter can toggle NSFW or delete. Will also delete on comment score of -1 or less. | FAQs | Mods | Magic Words

                [–]Crackertron 0 ポイント1 ポイント

                No mention of u/saydrah?

                [–]inEmerald 7 ポイント8 ポイント

                New mods plz

                [–]ClassicSchmidt 6 ポイント7 ポイント

                Let's start planning a May Day protest for next year where we post threads on non-profit events that talk about governmental surveillance! These Mods are apart of the problem and probably working for the NSA! Bring them down!

                Totally joking. Don't ban me

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                  [–]AnotherN -1 ポイント0 ポイント

                  Classic Schmosby.

                  [–]fooliosisWallingford 6 ポイント7 ポイント

                  Wondering how long it will take for this to be removed...

                  [–]Letmefixthatforyouyo 1 ポイント2 ポイント

                  A couple of weeks, when the hoopla has died down. Can't have something critical of the mods near the top post in the subreddit.

                  [–]chimpancrazee 1 ポイント2 ポイント

                  Do they use any objecrive criteria for removal of posts? Like at least X reports?

                  [–]Letmefixthatforyouyo 1 ポイント2 ポイント

                  Yup. Its "do i personally see this as interesting to me?"

                  Its a strict system, but they let us know it was fair.

                  [–]conspicuous_color 1 ポイント2 ポイント

                  What happened to the guys post about getting a DUI? Did that fall under rule 6 as to why they deleted it? I think that story was very interesting and I really wish it wouldn't have been deleted.

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                  [–]astitious2 3 ポイント4 ポイント

                  Hopefully the idiot mod behind this steps down. What moronic reasoning on their part.

                  [–]NephystInternational District 3 ポイント4 ポイント

                  Not to mention they removed the IRC chatroom from the sidebar because they didn't have 100% control of it.

                  [–]MelestavMagnolia 3 ポイント4 ポイント

                  Rabble rabble rabble

                  [–]1ww1ww1 3 ポイント4 ポイント

                  New Mods time yet?

                  [–]JJGermsWallingford 0 ポイント1 ポイント

                  Too much yapping in this thread from the mods. Could y'all please keep it down so us userfolk can get our two cents in as well?

                  [–]ragold 0 ポイント1 ポイント

                  Had my non-commercial amateur podcast just promoting Free Adoption Weekend at the Seattle Humane Society removed by a mod last year. Still stings a little.

                  [–]kooshball- 0 ポイント1 ポイント

                  Ahhh, posts like this bring me back to my days as a mod on live journal.

                  [–]rattus 0 ポイント1 ポイント

                  Glen Greenwald is a dipshit, but such postings should be allowed to be here.

                  [–]dondox 0 ポイント1 ポイント

                  Is it time for a STIS?

                  A seattle true independent subreddit?

                  [–]charlesgrodinfanQueen Anne 1 ポイント2 ポイント

                  [–]soundkite 0 ポイント1 ポイント

                  I didn't understand the tolerance of advertising that Paramount show, but my comment about it being "blatant advertising" was downvoted. While on the topic of advertising, I don't understand why the Seattle Times logo is allowed repeatedly here, especially when their links are bait and switch pages which require paid subscriptions.

                  [–]StellarJayZBrougham Faithful -2 ポイント-1 ポイント

                  This is an issue that reddit itself has been so far unable to deal with. Personally, I enjoy it as a perfect example of why Libertarianism will never work, but luckily none of this actually matters.

                  [–]sage_jochFremont 1 ポイント2 ポイント

                  I see it as an example of why censorship is a lost cause in the information age. If the mods remove a post, any one of us can link to it from any other post, and ask why it was removed.

                  [–]StellarJayZBrougham Faithful 2 ポイント3 ポイント

                  Well that's oranges. The majority of the discussion right now is about whether mods have ultimate power, and in this forum they do.

                  There is no popular uprising, and as some state in the "too big to fail" comments, there won't be another /r/seattle because that's ridiculous. What, /r/realseattle? No. Of course not.

                  The same thing happened when the internet was new and people were buying up addresses and then later the entity it represents asked IANA to give it to them.

                  They did, and also official twitter accounts. At some point, reddit needs to understand that libertarian style "wild west" ideology will succumb to the fact that this is a platform that is used by a large population. You can't have the entire city of Seattle representation on reddit being controlled by people who have any agenda whatsoever.

                  This is my point. Reddit hasn't figured this out. They don't want to go against their original thought, but like a lot of successful people they've never thought that far ahead.

                  [–]sage_jochFremont 0 ポイント1 ポイント

                  The majority of the discussion right now is about whether mods have ultimate power, and in this forum they do.

                  They have the power to remove posts, but we have the power to add them back (at least in the comments). If the mods had ultimate power, why haven't they removed this post? Because they can't remove a post without people noticing. We all have power in this equation.

                  edit edited because the original comment was unnecessarily combative

                  [–]StellarJayZBrougham Faithful 0 ポイント1 ポイント

                  As long as people realize that, and are committed to following through, sure.