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Reddit banned Paul McCartney over phone-free concert photos post in their subreddit (piunikaweb.com)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Paul McCartney’s official Reddit account seems to have been banned. The account, u/paulmccartney, had just dropped a set of photos and videos from the first night of his shows at the Fonda Theatre. It went straight into the r/PaulMcCartney subreddit. Then, not long after, the whole thing disappeared.

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[–] 16 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Are you actively ignoring the similarities between these instances or do you genuinely not understand that they’re both examples of strange and excessive moderation?

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  • [+] -8 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    To me this seems like an auto mod fuck up that is quite reasonable and an embarrassing delay of manual review coupled with a classic dogpile.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    "manual review" ...

    ...rriiiiigghht...

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  • [–] -5 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    There is zero benefit to banning celebrities and taking the fallout. Why would they? If they are profit driven they wouldn't. Even if they were cartoonishly evil they only hurt themselves.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    ...you're almost there, keep thinking just a little longer...

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Maybe the mods try to sabotage the reddit stock by creating drama and a general mess. But that's paranoid reasoning.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I'm not here for mental gymnastics just to convince myself reddit doesn't suck.

    It's a shit platform. It used to be good, but they sold out. Now it's a publicly traded corporation with a for-profit motive and a business model based on ad revenue. It's been corrupted, and it will never again be what it was.

    Sorry if the truth is too much for you to handle.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    If it gets manually reviewed it’ll only be because this dogpile happened. Lots of people get banned like this with no recourse because they aren’t Paul McCartney

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  • [–] -2 points 5 months ago

    Probably true. Moderation and heavy handedness shouldnt go hand in hand. And permanent bans are stupid as people lose their legacy and incentive to be nice and constructive when losing their history.

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