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kleinbl00  ·  3213 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Reddit changes community guideliness, bans subreddits.

A casual user notices that everything on Reddit is reliant on voting up, voting down, and choosing communities to be a member of. It feels very democratic.

A moderator on Reddit notices that the votes don't matter, communities are fluid and that Reddit has a lot more in common with Somalia than Hellenistic Greece. A moderator has more in common with an afghan warlord than he does with a senator.

So if you're a casual user, you go "terk mah free speeches!" and rouse your rabble. If you're not a casual user, you go "dude. Votes don't matter and never did. Enjoy your ban." and thus do both corners come out swinging.