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“This change not only puts pressure on users to correct their behavior—it makes users afraid to engage with voting. It puts pressure on mods to remove content before anyone sees it so that the user base isn’t punished.”

The mods said they had one instance when a user’s comment that simply read “agreed” was removed by Reddit.

They claimed, sharing screenshots with me, that the site is removing posts and comments and not putting them in the queue for mods to see, forcing them to manually snuff out instances of unfair retaliation.

“We know all of us are at risk of being banned or having the sub taken away at any time. We would rather that outcome than to censor anti-genocide posts or censor anti-Elon or anti-DOGE posts,” the r/SecularTalk mods wrote to me.

The mods manually approved it multiple times only to see it taken down by Reddit until the account was “suspended or banned.”