I just commented on this post and it got removed very quickly. Then I noticed that all of the comments had been removed and the post is locked.

I cannot understand why this happened, as the comments section had seemed pretty reasonable to me.

This seems like bad moderation and I’m now less inclined to post or comment in the world news community. What should I do?

I tried messaging a mod that is seemingly online and actively posting, but I got no response.

  • @Veltoss
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    91 year ago

    Something I always hated about some reddit mods is when they’d just lock and nuke a whole thread instead of targeting the people who were the problem. I get it’s a volunteer job and you can’t do that when it’s two thousand comments but sometimes they’re important topics on an important forum, I’d rather see a “unmoderated” flag put on a thread that has gone out of control than see it completely shut down.

    Maybe some alternatives to completely nuking threads, like an “unmoderated” tag for large threads that have gotten away from mod teams that they don’t want to just kill, could be a unique feature that could be implemented. Apps could give a “this thread is unmoderated and it’s contents might not follow community guidelines” warning, which users could disable if they wanted. It’d be a nice alternative to shutting down discussions entirely.