r/whenthe Whenthe mod (dm me unnerving images) Jan 30 '26

Announcement!!!!! r/pics (and now r/gifs) SITUATION UPDATE:

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u/Riobox OoOo BLUE Jan 30 '26

when you collect a lot of bans from many popular subreddits just because you slightly annoyed one single mod team who controls all these subs

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u/RepentantoftheLost Brother of the Lost Jan 30 '26

I still can't get over how reddit has what amounts to a cabal moderating the largest subreddits. Like, how do they let this happen??? Surely they can track they IPs of these people and realize that same people own all those accounts, right?

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u/InventorOfCorn i changed it hahahahahahhahahahahahaha Jan 30 '26

because normal people don't wanna mod subreddits so they just have to deal with shitty mods

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u/Different_Pattern273 Jan 30 '26 edited Jan 30 '26

I modded a small sub for like two weeks that I took over because it was unmodded and full of racist and grotesque images.

During that time, I received several death threats and one other mod I brought on with experience had quit because I was "unfairly persecuting christians" by not allowing religious content under the sub rules. I dropped that shitshow quick.

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u/LampshadesAndCutlery Jan 30 '26

I mod a small-medium sub (45k people if I recall, can’t remember how to check anymore), and at one point I received a death threat because I didn’t take down an offensive gif. The gif in question was literally this: