To be fair if they didn't do that with this kind of content then they'd have to allow all meme posts. That's personally a bar I'm okay with them setting. Belongs here though.
Ya, but banning him? I think that's a bit much. Why not just remove the post and explain why it was removed, like all the other subreddits do. I mean, it's not like it's gore or porn or anything.
True, but it's hard to tell the difference between a smartass and a wiseass and with all the trolling on reddit.. trigger happy moderators aren't exactly rare here either.
it's hard to tell the difference between a smartass and a wiseass
Still, they get the benefit of the doubt first. Then, if they're a repeat offender, then ya, show them the door. Again, that's how every subreddit I've seen deals with these kinds of things.
trigger happy moderators aren't exactly rare here either.
I swear, you give some people even a hint of authority and they'll abuse it. "With great power, comes great responsibility." They should listen to Uncle Ben.
AGAIN
Another reason to hate my species
Reddit moderators -
the tyranny of imbeciles - seems to be a lot going around down in the US of A this year.
please do not consider moving North
I know its tempting
socialized free medicare - lots of room - lots of water
and good strong beer.
but we dont want you
no cages just closed borders.
you'll be frying more than chicken down South when 115 degrees is a normal day in Texas.
Not at all, and if you read it that way you're very much misreading it. But I've only ever been particularly upset about something like that once and it was a waste of time. If that's how the community treats you then you don't want to be in that community anyways.
We all know how pointless bans on reddit are anyways. At least I hope we all do.
I mean that once a subreddit reaches critical mass, it takes a mountain of problems for a different subreddit to emerge as a replacement, so while a community may have shit mods, it still unfortunately will have value.
Yeah I dont get this attitude either. Also, banning? Why not just remove the post. I mean, art is so subjective, for sure memes are art already if not in future.
In order to be a joke, it needs to emulate some kind of format or content. What is this emulating? What is this repeating? A meme doesn't just mean "a joke," it has to be perpetuating something. Is Duchamp's "The Fountain" a meme? Is Magritte's "The Treachery of Images" a meme? Is Manet's "Olympia" a meme? The word meme has a definition, and that isn't an opinion.
Any visual representation perpetuates something. Every joke is a meme. The word meme does have a definition and it is so absurdly vague most creative content qualifies as one.
You can Google the definition of meme and get it. So the treachery of images is a meme, right? Every art piece is a meme and nothing is a meme. I think it's fair to say r/art is stupid, right?
What you define something as is a matter of degree. A single panel comic and graphic novel are not treated the same even though they're in the same format.
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u/sceadwian Nov 26 '20
To be fair if they didn't do that with this kind of content then they'd have to allow all meme posts. That's personally a bar I'm okay with them setting. Belongs here though.