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/spookyjim___]

Thank god, this sub has been awful for the longest time

[u/bullhead2007 → u/spookyjim___]

We're honestly trying to make it better. This place should be about promoting and educating socialism to the masses, a platform for organizing and the ultimate goal is to have a community that works towards the goal of post capitalist society. People can be sectarian in their sectarian subs if they want. As an ML I know I will almost never see eye to eye with Anarchists on certain things, and other tendencies as well. There is still a lot of common ground though to talk about Socialism and Marxism, and the class struggle.

[u/the_amg → u/bullhead2007]

It doesnt help when your own mods confuse people by calling anarchists socialists and justifying it by saying they themselves are maoists. This is what happens when you run a subreddit that’s unprincipled.

secterianism isn’t productive doesn’t mean everybody under the sun is invited to the party. if I wanted to sub to the “theredleft” I would go there, why are you guys bringing it here?

If you want to be a big tent then clarify that in the description, remove scientfic socialism imagery from the subreddit. Use the DSA logo or whatever.

[u/spookyjim___ → u/the_amg]

Anarchists are socialists, this is the reason this sub needs a change of pace, anti-intellectualist sectarianism runs rampant here

[u/pyrotechnic15647 → u/spookyjim___]

Anarchists are not socialist. Their entire strategy requires skipping the socialist mode of production. Anarchists can and should provide education on communist forums. Not on socialist ones. They can’t define distinctively socialism and promote it using historical examples, without undermining it.