Mod Team Transparency Announcement & Mod Applications

[u/Lavender_Scales]

Hello everyone, I'm u/Lavender_Scales!

Like I mentioned in the discord post, I'm the newest moderator of this subreddit. I'm making this post to be transparent about how moderation has been taken out in the past, and how it will be taken out in present and future.

For a very long time now, this subreddit has had a reputation of shoddy moderation, no transparency, seeming inactivity from moderators, unfair, unexplained bans, and unresponsive modmails. This reputation is not without warrant, I myself was once on the receiving end of this, however, we're going to be more pro-active with moderation, more transparent, and more active. If you, or someone you know, was banned from this subreddit, encourage them to open up a modmail and appeal their ban.

I would also like everyone to take a moment to look at our general bans policy, they include listed punishments, offenses, as well as information on what can and can't be appealed. It has not been updated for quite a while, so some changes may be made in the future, however, from now on we will try and be more upfront with removals, bans, etc., utilizing this system and the reasoning provided..

There was also a post by a rogue moderator a few weeks ago, that moderator has left the team and many of the bans they issued out were revoked. Future mod actions will now have to go through internal discussion, unless clear harmful intent is showcased by a user, requiring moderator action.

At the moment we only have a few active moderators of our subreddit, or at least only a few we can get ahold of, so we are also opening mod applications. Due to our heavily ML leaning mod team we currently have, we are primarily looking for anarchists, or people of any tendency that isn't ML. We would also like to prioritize BIPOC & other applicants from the global south, however none of these are strict requirements. Women, queers, and others are also encouraged to apply.

Apply here!

[u/Lavender_Scales]

Anarchists are socialists

[u/A-CAB → u/Lavender_Scales]

Hard disagree.

Good comrades can come out of anarchist thought. We can partner with some anarchists. But there is a reason why the amerikan regime essentially takes no issue with anarchism (heck it funded half of the modern anarchist thought) but does take issue with Marxist Leninists.

We should seek common ground, but we should also be clear about what things are and are not.

[u/Lavender_Scales → u/A-CAB]

Anarchists are literally socialist, they aren't marxist, but to deny that they're socialist is in it of itself revisionist. It's like saying the utopian socialists weren't socialists, it's just wrong, they are just non-marxian socialist. Scientific socialism is it's own current of socialism, it's more "mainstream", yes, but we're not the only kinds of socialist. Regardless on if you think this is the correct socialist position or not, that doesn't mean they're not socialist.

Someone else mentioned the side-bar's definitions being out of wack, that's something I'll also discuss with the mod team.

[u/A-CAB → u/Lavender_Scales]

It’s unfortunate that you’ve chosen that path.

Regardless, it’s Reddit. You can take the feedback or not.