r/MetaAusPol • u/evilparagon • 12d ago
Why can’t we mention specific media outlets?
I was typing a comment and the little warning popped up telling me that I couldn’t mention specific media outlets in my comment.
I’m sorry, what? How is this an acceptable form of moderation of an Australina politics subreddit? They are quintessentially part of Australian politics. I don’t want to sound like a child dancing around a subject.
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u/IamSando 10d ago
Just to note, you don't get this popup on old-reddit, and you also don't get notified when it's "paused for moderation" or whatever (I assume not automod given the lack of notification). The release will also be based on you as a user and not on your comment and whether it's just attacking the source rather than the content.
Our position has been that we can’t ban people for using a function of Reddit.
But you know, unannounced hidden rules that specifically disadvantages people using a reddit function and then ignoring them because of who they are is...you know...fair and reasonable.
Also of note...strangely enough only certain "news" sources have this "protection".
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u/Perthcrossfitter 12d ago edited 12d ago
You can and we may release it, but odds are, given our experience, that you're attacking the source rather than the content. There are plenty of subs you can attack media outlets on, our sub is for politics discussions.
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u/evilparagon 12d ago
My comment was referencing the influence of specific media on an old topic (voice to parliament).
I find the automod filters on the subreddit to be overly sensitive. When discussions are live, waiting for moderator approval is going to kill an argument. What’s worse is that it can lead to dogpiling, if someone is confidently wrong but your rebuttal is silenced until a mod comes along, you can be dismissed as wrong with many comments and downvotes against you when all you did was trip a robot flag. This means discussion is not about waiting for a mod to release it, it’s about dodging the flagged terms used.
It would be far better if most of the word triggers flagged for moderator attention rather than block comments from appearing until a moderator releases it.
As a moderator myself of a large sub, that’s how we do it, and the community is certainly healthy.
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u/Seachicken 11d ago
I find the automod filters on the subreddit to be overly sensitive. When discussions are live, waiting for moderator approval is going to kill an argument
The annoying thing is that regular users are aware that using the wrong word will trigger your otherwise valid comment vanishing into the void of a never to be corrected filter. So now the meta seems to be to put a space or a star or whatever to bypass the filter, and that's tolerated. Which means really the filter just gets people who are new or don't know any better. Maybe this is the goal, but it feels a bit silly
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u/DelayedChoice 12d ago
Not how the sub works, sorry.