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Who subs have gotten shut down because Reddit administrators accused the local mods of failing to curtail it.
The application of the ban rules tend to be arbitrary and highly political. But guillotine jokes absolutely get accounts banned. And moderators who fail to consistently ban certain accounts were targeted for removal very aggressively over the last four years.
I use Reddit. This joke is still insanely popular even on the generic default subs. No one cares enough about this to shut down /r/gaming or /r/funny. Reddit is already pretty bad in reality, there's no need to fantasize about it being even worse.
This has the same vibe as the hundreds of posts that appear on there every single year around the Tiananmen Square massacre anniversary saying stuff like "Reddit is owned by Tencent!!!!1! and they're banning everyone who mentions Tiananmen Square!!!!11!!!!" despite there being literal thousands of posts about the massacre on the platform.
Yes, the anti-China trolls love to insist they're speaking truth to power rather than just echoing a bit of recycled propaganda from the 1990s.
No, that doesn't change the fact that Rule #1 gets invoked on guillotine posts regularly.
There's really no point in continuing this, but again, I use Reddit. I see these posts all the time. I'm not saying no one ever gets their posts removed or banned from communities or whatever, but they're insanely popular to the point someone like me who uses the platforms every few days sees it all the time.
That crazy, because that's exactly what I'm saying. And yet we're stuck here with you calling me a liar.
Why do I do this to myself.
This implies every post of this kind gets the user banned on Reddit. That is verifiably false. If that were true or even common enough, these posts wouldn't be as incredibly popular on Reddit as they are. Shifting your argument so you can pretend we agree is insane behaviour.
And no, I had never called you a liar until this point. I don't assume people are liars - extreme world views often lead people to have biased interpretations of reality, but that doesn't make them inherently evil or liars. Now you are lying, though.