I was speaking about Putt himself and the global rules. But your point about private subs being prone to mod abuse without any accountability is also very true.
You may have noticed I never mentioned him. Cause he is only a pseudo ruler..
I believe the global rules are pretty wide open on system subs. Is there a specific case where they were not?
Enforcement is inconsistent and arguably biased. Nobody can claim they know exactly what rules like vote manipulation and doxxing cover. The most explanation given for the vote manipulation bans (rescinded) were +1 and -1. It only demonstrated voting pattern. A lot of the people banned could not make a public case because they didn't have alts and Voat went invite only shortly before the bans. If voting on links where one was pinged to was the problem, then why didn't it come up before? He claimed the activity was unnatural, but left it to a bot and didn't do a case-by-case basis. Me, along with 6 other users banned, were enveloped in the drama of another user that lasted quite a while over several threads and had justified reasons to engage, current and prior. I never had to find any of it through comments on a user page, ruling that out. So I'm led to believe that anyone who went and mass-downvoted Aged could've easily run afoul of Putt's shitty algorithm.
I'll agree that the drama and confusion surrounding that episode was uncalled for. Putt even said after the whole episode that he really should have not have been so involved and that mistakes were made.
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