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Reddit sports mods, users calling for a ban on X links in posts

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Context: To curb endless link spam, there has been a longtime rule that Twitter is the only social network users could link to when reporting news from NFL insiders.

Even before the election, the transition from Twitter to X has been creating problems. First, the insiders have begun moving away from X and onto other networks. And more importantly, you now have to have an X account to see anything on X. So its usefulness as a link is pretty dead.

Right, the timing of this is an unfortunate distraction because the worsening of Twitter is significantly apolitical and nonpartisan.

seems to be growing in popularity. front page posts from r/LeopardsAtMyFace at 14k, r/magicTCG at 17k, r/formula1 at 19k, r/xmen at 12k . . .

I would take synchronized posts with a grain of salt. There are many groups that try to influence reddit politically. One significant strategy involves acquiring control over hobby subreddits to create the illusion of "non-political" people making a decision.

There's a far left mod /u/ZenOfPerkele in /r/Suomi who lies and shadow bans people who's messages he dislikes on ideological grounds.

I think he's dangerous

They most they can do is to remove your posts and/or ban you from actively participating in that one subreddit. But you can obviously still read it if you log out. So they don't sound very dangerous to me

He's lying about how they manage the sub-reddit. He's blocking people from engaging in discussions about things happening in Finland (Suomi). Just because he can't face the reality. Also, once he blocks somebody from /r/Suomi, that ban filter applies to /r/unitedkingdom too.

/u/ZenOfPerkele is only a moderator of /u/Suomi, based on the "moderator of" list on their profile. So it seems unlikely that they'd have direct power over /r/unitedkingdom. But even if they somehow had that power, that hardly makes them worthy of the label "dangerous"

I wrote a post on how some /r/Suomi mod tried to ban me from the whole of reddit. Yes, the whole of reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Suomi/comments/1i0kdf0/ep%C3%A4ilen...

The total reddit ban happened some hours after ZenOfPerkele banned me for this post for 3 days (it was later lifted when I made a complaint):

https://old.reddit.com/r/Suomi/comments/1he1lh1/keep_it_nord...

Check out the reasons why he permanently banned me from /r/Suomi:

> Tätä ei nyt jaksa enää kukaan. Sä tuhlaat omaa, muiden ja meidän aikaamme ottamalla jatkuvasti jäähyjä, kieltäytymällä ymmrätämästä minkä takia sun käytös rikkoo sääntöjä, ja sen jälkeen tuhlaamalla lisää kaikkien aikaa uhriutumalla metaketjuissa loputtomiin. Tästä turhautuu meidän lisäksi kaikki muut käyttäjät, eikä sulla ole selkeästi mitään halua tai kykyö muuttaa omaa toimintasi, joten parempi että etsit itsellesi toisen foorumin keskustelua varten, kun se ei täällä sääntöjen puitteissa selvästi onnistu. > Hyvää jatkoa!

So he's saying that the cause of the permaban is all mine, which is false.

I'm absolutely sure that this all comes down to me studying islam now for 9 years and writing about its harmful teachings in /r/Suomi when there's a subject where I can contribute. I have never started a thread just talking about islam.

ZenOfPerkele is a far left mod who hates it because he cannot defend that those teachings would not exist in the original sources of islam, in the quran and in the hadiths.

Then he's saying that I'm wasting other users' time with my criticisms. Since when are every user told to read each and every post? That's ridiculous.

I said he's dangerous because he wants to silence "wrong-think" and it doesn't bother him at all. Other people have noticed his behaviour and have commented that they can't say things they want to say because of a certain mod, meaning him.

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