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Cake day: July 30th, 2023

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    • Read the room. If it looks like a glorified echo chamber you’ll get downvoted to oblivion. If you try to debate you might get banned. This is usually the case with news and political groups.
    • Don’t get pulled into pointless fights with trolls. You can usually spot them because they try to take the discussion on a radical detour or pointless pick a fight. Don’t let yourself get baited.
    • Don’t tell people to “google it”. They are probably looking for other’s insights. If you can’t answer their question or add to it then don’t respond.
    • If a topic is upsetting and you feel the urge to rant it is best to just walk away from it.
    • Try to take the high road and be polite even if they aren’t. Win by being nice, others will notice it.
    • Finally, if someone is just totally unreasonable or even sounds nuts don’t engage them. Block them if necessary.



  • The use of automated tools that blindly ban based on keywords and the subreddit is out of control. As you found there is NO attempt to put anything in context. Truly moronic administration that violates their claim to be a “place for discussion”. I got in trouble because I left a comment questioning antivaxxers in an antivax subreddit and suddenly got flooded with bans across reddit because I had left a comment in a politically incorrect subreddit. They use scripts to moderate. Of course there is NO recourse, no mods will listen to you, no reddit admin of the mods to contact, nothing.

    My feeling is reddit has reduced discourse to bad puns, nothing even slightly controversial, must agree with the sub’s echo chamber and ads, lots of ads. If you go against the herd you will be culled. Just smile and nod.