do no harm, take no shit

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[sygol]

Hi I'm 1 years old and learning to read through your posts. Cigarette.

very good job using your words! will someone get this toddling bitch a smoke

[dailycatsblog]

[sailermoon]

all my life I’ve felt like this guy

[atrusovaartist]

I always thought Reddit was a place where people could share things they created.A few days ago I posted one of my original paintings. People loved it. We had wonderful conversations about art, emotions, and how everyone saw something different in the same sunset.

About two hours later I was permanently banned from r/MadeMeSmile for “self-promotion.”

I accepted that different communities have different rules.But then something even stranger happened.Soon afterward, a moderator from r/pics started going through my account. Not just the new post—many of my older painting posts disappeared as well. One after another. Then I was permanently banned there too.

Maybe it was the same moderator. Maybe it wasn’t. I honestly don’t know.

What surprised me wasn’t even the ban itself. It was realizing how much power individual moderators have over what millions of people are allowed to see. One decision can erase years of posts from a community and instantly cut off your ability to participate, even if those posts had been happily sitting there for months or years.I’m not saying moderators shouldn’t have rules. Communities need moderation.But it does make you wonder where the line is between protecting a community and allowing a single interpretation of the rules to completely reshape what people can share.

The funny part?

I wasn’t advertising anything in those posts. I wasn’t posting prices or asking anyone to buy anything. I was simply sharing my original paintings because I enjoy discussing art with strangers from around the world.

Anyway…

Here’s the painting that apparently caused all the trouble. 🎨

[limp-macaroni-biscuit]

Midwest emo is a gateway to harder more addictive drugs like folk punk.

[aropride]

some birds are very intuitively named. looked up a sparrow going chipchipchip in my yard, it was a chipping sparrow. saw a black bird with red wings, it was a red winged blackbird. gray bird that sounds like a cat? gray catbird. the first time i saw a house finch it was perched on a windowsill. However, some birds are the red-bellied woodpecker

[someofusarequeer]

I gotta google something real quick

[someofusarequeer]

who named this bird

[official-ornithology-posts]

Official ornithology post

[quixoticanarchy]

I didn’t miss that social cue I just thought it was stupid 

[linskiiii]

"Another bit of unexpected honesty"

[kevindavidday]

a mother is a kind of person who is chronically offended by your existence

[thepeacefulgarden]

[emziess]

Shawn Hatosy as Dr. Jack Abbot The Pitt, 9:00 P.M

[alliwantismypartnerback]

Computah, he can fix him!

[plutoflwrs]

ok I've been looking at these for too long😖

[wetdirtguy]

Me spending time with people: joy abounds, we are all connected and there is hope!

Me 1 day later: I need to be left alone to gather the pieces of Me together

Me 2 days later: there is something very rotten at my core and I will almost certainly die unloved

[m1sery4me]

Drew the cuties again 🦊

[shesnake]

There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible.

[nanatsuyu]

I go for my top surgery consultation in a week (:

[deanwinchesterapologist]

Help

[saprophetic]

is this the post you were looking for

[chongoblog]

Tumblr > Google yet again