1 day ban is probably easier than a warning - if a couple of the subs that I mod are anything to go by, you get a shitload of offtopic posts to wade through in your modqueue every time you log in (hence why I use an alt acct for my general Redditing to give me a break once in a while).

That's an interesting call. I think it risks coming off as heavy-handed, which is what happened here. But it need not be so; the second mod who responded to my complaint about the one-day ban did a great job simultaneously drawing a firm boundary while also communicating in a mutually respectful way. In general, I've seen a policy of escalation work better: Delete the offending post and issue a warning, in the event of a repeat or particularly egregious offense (as in severe abuses of reddiquette, hate speach, vote begging, etc.) issue a temporary ban, in the event of continued bad behavior issue a perma-ban. Bans work best when they're commensurate with the degree of offense.

A simple 1 day ban gets the message across without you having to note down names of frequent posters who break the posting rules. You only got your perma ban after whining to them. Their response to me shows that they have to deal with this a lot and have probably lost patience with people claiming "well it was an interesting picture!".

This is a biased statement. Yes, I protested the ban. No, I did not "whine" to them. My protestation was well warranted as they issued a ban for something that didn't happen, then--in the case of the head mod--used some fairly incendiary and progressively illogical language to enforce their errant ban. I agree with you that this sort of thing could be irritating to a mod, but that's their own damn fault if they create the conditions that provoke protesting bans. Namely, issuing them for the wrong reasons and then enforcing them after the fact with shaming language. That's a clear abuse of moddiquette, and I'm surprised to hear you defending it.

They don't want it to become a sub overrun with posts consisting of nothing but pics, and I don't blame them.

I don't blame them for that, either. I think you and I just disagree about the best ways to accomplish this goal. And that's okay :)

As for the wrong reason stated for your 1 day ban - he probably just selected the wrong option when hitting the button, it happens sometimes.

Perhaps you're correct about that. The follow choice of language was intentional, though, and most unfortunately erodes any benefit of the doubt an initial slip of the click might enjoy.

Did you miss the part where I mentioned that this post had already been liked and reblogged a bunch on other platforms before I submitted it to Reddit? This was not an assumption; it was a conclusion based on other real people's interactions with it.

Just because something is suitable for one place, doesn't mean it is suitable for another. A pic of the SSL C200 and rack of vintage gear I was using today might go down well in /r/audioengineering - doesn't mean it's suitable for WATMM or other music related subs.

This is pretty close to moving the goalposts. I'm disputing your claim that I "assumed" other people would be interested in the submission. I did that by reminding you that other people actually were interested in the submission on other platforms such that my actions followed from that concrete reinforcement.

Matters of taste can be pretty tough to nail down, and your example illustrates this. I think a photo of an SSL C200 could be a well warranted submission on WAtMM, but I suppose other people might disagree with that. If you took some effort to clear that hurdle of making the submission "genuinely interesting, relevant, or educational," then it's best for the community to weigh in on that matter in aggregate through voting.

That said, I'm having a hard time taking your defense of the sub seriously unless you prefer to post under an alt account. From what I can tell, you've posted no content there at all over the six months you've held this account;

Yes this is an alt acct. My main acct is mainly for modding (not WATMM) and 'serious' redditing. Whether someone posts in a sub doesn't have any bearing on the validity of their opinion or points of discussion.

I'm asking because you're making claims that seem counterfactual based on what you've posted through this account. This is back-assed argument from authority; I'm just trying to learn whether you're bullshitting me or not. Thanks for clearing that up!

I wasn't posting a photo of gear alone; I was posting a photo of me producing tracks tracks for a variety of music that one probably would never hear in a coffee shop like that right there in the coffee shop.

It was your mac, ableton and your push. You even had to mention it was a fairtrade coffeeshop for that extra hipster appeal (ironic considering you called the WATMM mods hipsters)

Godammit--this was part of the point of the post! Have you been to Nashville? When's the last time you heard a garage track anywhere within several hundred miles of that town? And do you think the people listening to garage as they pass through Nashville are likely to hang out in a coffee shop like that? Part of the fun I was trying to poke in that post is exactly the thing you find so ironic--because thatsthejoke.jpg