Spent a week tracking deleted Reddit threads and found a pattern

Last Tuesday I started screenshotting every political post that vanished from a few subs I follow. By Friday I had 47 examples where the removal reasons didn't match the actual content. One mod told me in a DM that they got pressure from higher ups to take down anything even slightly critical of a specific company. Has anyone else tried documenting this kind of stuff before it gets scrubbed?

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kai_bennett4d ago

Are you sure this is really that big a deal? I mean, mods have their own rules and sometimes they just make bad calls. Sounds like you might be reading too much into a few weird removals.

skyler_anderson654d ago

Oh man, you know what this reminds me of @kai_bennett? I saw a mod on a gardening forum delete someone's post about tomato blight because they said it was "off topic" but then pinned a post about lawn mower oil two hours later. Stuff like that makes you wonder if there's some personal beef or just total randomness going on behind the scenes. I'm not saying it's a huge conspiracy or anything, but weird one-off bad calls can add up fast when they keep targeting the same kind of content.