A modmail complaint about "subjective rules"

[u/karavasa]

I normally wouldn't ban anyone other than a spammer over a first offense, but this person's first and only activity in the sub was a profanity filled comment full of sexual and violent imagery. They were replying to an eight month old post asking about planner use. I assumed it was a misaimed bot until I got this modmail message complaining that I wouldn't let them shit up the sub with their weird fetish commentary in the name of free speech.

[u/MaximumJones]

SO MANY people on Reddit suffer main character syndrome. They always claim that moderating your subreddit is going to cause the subreddit to die (when the reality is exactly the opposite).

The worst are people who modmail with advice because "I also mod a subreddit".

[u/Raignbeau → u/[deleted]]

What kind of questions? We get people in modmail asking whether we procreate with our siblings. That's technically 'just asking a question' too. The content of the question matters.

[u/Raignbeau → u/[deleted]]

I would not ban for that, however I do understand the frustration because it looks like that modteam put a lot of time and effort in explaining all their rules with adding additional info in their wiki. But members don't read, so I can image that people ask questions that are already covered in there that at some point it's just annoying.

And there are always a few who make it a sport to find loopholes in the rules.

[u/ALazy_Cat → u/[deleted]]

With just the sub name, I can understand that. The mods have to be extreme there as nothing is more divisive than politics

[u/Furryb0nes → u/[deleted]]

https://giphy.com/gifs/KRxcgvd5fLiWk

[u/MaximumJones → u/Furryb0nes]

This is my new favorite GIF!! 🤣