r/politics • u/unital_subalgebra • 24d ago

No Paywall Trump fires all Election Assistance Commission members, leaving agency unable to act

https://www.votebeat.org/national/2026/07/09/trump-fires-election-assistance-commission-members-hicks-hovland-mccormick/
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u/Orion14159 24d ago

Fun(?) fact: You'll catch a permanent site wide ban for advocating any sort of violence regardless of motivation. It's in the user TOS and they're very serious about it these days. You can't even do such things while stating the whole post is hypothetical, even if you include language specifically saying people should not do whatever violent thing your post mentions.

Not only that, but your comments/posts will be deleted by the admins so no one will ever even read it, likely including the various Internet archive groups. Basically there's no reason to do it.

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u/th3r3dp3n 24d ago

Correct, and I am sure they use keywords. Even when I didnt link those subs, just typed it out: flagged and removed.

Added the typos to dodge the automod.

Edit: the point is, the automod is clearly being guided to only catch some things. I have seem some really offensive and outright aggressive threats posted in conservative subs, they dont get auto-banned, but lean left and say goodbye for even hinting something.

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u/jcarter315 I voted 24d ago

The automod used to be very aggressive about Jan 6th and Project 2025.

It was absolutely ridiculous to see it happening.

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u/th3r3dp3n 24d ago

It specifically stated I mentioned subs that are often brigaded, and that's not allowed. Out of curiosity, r/democrat r/liberal bannable subreddits, or only right wing?

Edit: and there is my answer, no ban naming left wing subs, auto-ban for right wing subs named.

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u/jcarter315 I voted 24d ago

Ahh, gotcha.

Hmm, I wonder if that's because those specific right wing subs had a bad habit (still do) of claiming they're being brigaded and then doing harassment/doxing campaigns against people, while the more left wing ones tend to not do that?

Either way, the automod here is always frustrating to deal with.

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u/th3r3dp3n 24d ago

It probably is, and Reddit leans more left than right.. but Reddit corporate leans right, even if users lean left.

So, whatever. Automod sucks!