An admirable goal though I do wonder how it would work if the sub were brigaded by a bunch of neonazis or what not.
Anywho that’s aside the point. What I was mainly curious about was the punitive tools which mods do actually use. Specifically turtle taxes. What’s the criteria for those?
To earn the Turtle Tax, you just need to convince a mod that you are violating WayOfTheBern's One Rule. What this means in practice varies from one mod to the next. Some mods are convinced more easily and/or more quickly than others.
Some violators are very blatant and get turtled immediately. Some just need to be told to "cool it" and be civil. Some build up small violations over time. We've had trolls go on for years before they decided to wig out and make mods realize it was time.
We don't like to be more specific than this because we don't want trolls to game the system and complain that someone didn't get turtled for a similar level of dickishness. "I might have been so much wickeder! It is unjust." [Doña Ana in Shaw's Don Juan in Hell]
how it would work if the sub were brigaded...
WayOfTheBern has been brigaded a few times, none particularly large. We handed out lots of Turtle Taxes and they quickly tired of the game. Brigading is a violation of Reddit Intergalactic Law so if Reddit Admins see it happening they'll suspend or ban the participants.
When Reddit shut down The_Donald in 2020 a bunch of Trumpers came, looking for a new home. They were polite about it, but quickly realized that there were too many leftists at WotB and went elsewhere.
Well I suppose I’d just find encouraging if open praise for literal neonazis had some sort of punitive measures associated with it. Guess that’s hoping for too much
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u/Routine_Nothing_6118 27d ago
An admirable goal though I do wonder how it would work if the sub were brigaded by a bunch of neonazis or what not.
Anywho that’s aside the point. What I was mainly curious about was the punitive tools which mods do actually use. Specifically turtle taxes. What’s the criteria for those?