I'm upset at r/tarot. It's an extremely unpleasant place where moderators act like they're in middle school and abuse their power.
Let me relay my story: When I first joined, I had hoped to become a part of a community that could help me to learn tarot. I had hoped that I could grow in my understanding of tarot by discussing ideas and sharing interpretations.
'Lo and behold, there is a list of rules in sharing interpretations. My first two posts were taken down about an hour after I posted. I realized that I may not have followed site rules, so let it go and decided to do better next time.
I posted another interpretation/spread today, like I had seen SO MANY other users there do. Many, many people take pictures of their spread, write titles not even as informative as mine (e.g. "Look what I got today"), and usually include in a comment info about the deck, their interpretations, etc.
Well mine was taken down within 20 minutes. It was so fast. I realized that within that span I was still writing my comment to include required information. I had to go through the trouble of asking that my post not be deleted.
Upset about my experience (since I had seen SO MANY posts just like mine or worse going up and nothing happening), I posted a complaint. What happened was... jaw dropping.
No sooner had I posted, my post was immediately taken down under the false accusation of discriminating against other users (what?!). I then was told that "we won't hesitate to ban you" for "stirring up shit" when actually I was relaying a disheartening experience. I then told them that the way they responded to an unhappy user was inappropriate, and I was then told something to the equivalent of "WeLl LoOk At yOu."
I have screenshots--
I don't recommend this PoS sub to anyone. Find a forum, hopefully one where there aren't teenagers running the site.
I reported the place for abuse of power, and blocked all participating mods and the subreddit itself. I can't believe that a complaint about moderation on reddit resulted in a threat to ban and impinging on my freedom of speech; that's disgusting.
I am quitting reddit for not better enforcing that users should be able to complain about moderation in subreddits, and even their own subreddits. Coming from the USA where we can tell Trump to his face that he looks orange and not be arrested, this is so fucked up. Unless reddit improves its policies on abuse of power, I'm gone forever and I would implore other users to do the same.
Thanks for the thorough report! Now we know one more place to avoid.
But Reddit generally is a cesspool, see .
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