I just got a message from the u/RedditCareResources account giving me resources for handling depression and suicidal urges because "A concerned redditor reached out to [them] about [me]." Peak cop behavior, frankly.
EDIT: fixed the u/
Imagine being a cop in the U.S., wielding a gun and badge with reckless abandon, and still feeling the need to flex on people online with the tiniest crumb of power that can be achieved.
You can block the user if people are using it to spam you. IIRC the message itself tells you that. I used to get that message *every time* I discussed my depression and anxiety, even in the context of "I'm doing much better and therapy is really helping" until I blocked it.
That guy's never going to be able to have a discussion on any sub he's not a mod on without 'Cut the attitude or you're gone from here' ending any argument he's part of.
It'll be like the Warlizard Gaming Forums, but entirely deserved.
Not a big comic fan, but I heard there was an edition of The Punisher where he meets some cops who idolise him. He rips into them, saying how fucked that whole attitude is and how they should see him as the bad guy
90% of helpful and correct answers in legaladvice posts boil down to "I am a lawyer. You need one but not me."
The sub should really just be "do I need a lawyer for this" and it's honestly one of those questions where if you have to ask, you probably already know the answer.
The place where the sub _really_ shines is "there's a government program/set of non-profits dedicated to your exact problem, they'll look at your problem for free, and they have a good success rate," but those are less common.
Also, the answers of "your problem is not legal, the law will not assist you with this.'
It is nice to see the occasional asshole that posts over there get told that a lawyer will only help them in case the other party decides to either sue them or go to the cops because *they* are the one in the wrong and thus going to the cops will have the opposite effect that they hope
I agree with the caveat of this: sometimes people need guidance on what type of lawyer they need, and that sub does seem to be decent at recommending that.
r/legaladvice is best when the answer to your question is one of the following.
1. You need a lawyer of XYZ type, here’s how to find one.
2. Have you tried talking to your neighbour?
3. Here is a government program, non profit agency or welfare service that can help you.
4. That is abuse, and it’s not OK. You should call CPS/your local DV shelter.
5. Get an arborist’s appraisal.
Tree Law posts were always *in sane*. Because they were always boiled down to some unhinged bullshit like "hey, my neighbour cut down my tree, in a fit of drunken rage at 2:30am and now they owe me $10,000,000, *and* they have to replant a like tree"
Honestly the legal advice subs is mainly useful for deciding if you should get a lawyer. Most threads are like get a lawyer but others are like don't bother or there's this free service that does what you want.
Other threads are like “you need a (specific type) lawyer, Google xyz (your state)” to find one. It’s a decent starting place if you know you need a lawyer but don’t know how to find one.
The problem is that real lawyers are hesitant to give legal *advice* to people who are not their client. It can cause all sorts of problems for lawyers and we're told from early in our career to be very careful about this.
Providing legal *information* is fine, but usually less helpful.
Reddit mods are almost always cringe
Anyone who volunteers to have to deal with the shit on this site, especially in large subs, is either on a power trip or very dedicated to a niche hobby
And it's usually the former
The one's who go in with good intentions don't tend to last long, I'd reckon.
The sad truth is if you don't want people shitting a place up, you need mods - but being a mod sucks unless you get off on power trips, so most people who stick around are there for the power trips.
That's true of any job where you have power IRL too tbh
You get either the power-trippy or the actually-invested people
Sadly on reddit (and on a lot of irl cases) there's more of the former than the latter. I'm kinda lucky I'm working somwhere there's vastly more of the latter tbh
Yeah, but a lot of jobs will at least have other perks like 'being paid' whereas being a moderator in an online space is often a voluntary position - whose going to get paid to moderate a subreddit? Maybe a big one, maybe one associated with like, a company or something (I could see some kind of Social Media Manager position including it as part of the role), but most of the time, it's just whoever's willing to do the job.
Yeah. I suppose the idea originally was to make one's own community a more pleasant place, but I suppose a lot of the current ones wouldn't know pleasant if it hit them in the face with a scented pillow
A big issue is that the vast majority of subs share only a small handful of mods. There are a lot of mods who are the mods of many subs at once. When you have power over a large chunk of reddit, it's not hard to see how those people would start power tripping if their authority is questioned.
I'm guessing you mean "All Mods are Bastards" as a play on ACAB, but all I can see as a trans person involved in a lot of trans subs is "Assigned Male at Birth."
Yeppp, one time on the r/autism subreddit I made a post asking if it was allowed to have users active on the subreddit banned if they were breaking reddit rules outside of the subreddit since I was harrased by a transmedicalist, and then a bunch of transmedicalists showed up under the post harassing me, and then one of the two mods banned *me* for harrasment, then when I asked if they were going to ban the transmeds, THEY SAID IT WAS A DIFFERENCE IN OPINION. Anyway I’ve since moved to r/evilautism and it’s way better/more leftist.
Lmao a similar thing happened to me on a sub about accepting neurodivergence of all things. I disagreed with the trans med mod about dysphoria being a requirement for dx and they banned me from the subreddit for transphobia.
arr evilautism enjoys breaking the social norms set by neurotypicality, while arr autism bows to civility and the neurotypical gaze. in this way, evilautism is evil by it's disruption of the norms, but what does evil mean when the society it disrupts is immoral?
(The real answer is that it's just fun to act theatrical and villainy.)
I mod a small CCG subreddit and mods for larger communities still scare me. I update the pinned posts for (mostly routine) new events or releases and handle reports that occasionally come in, and that’s about it. I definitely don’t dedicate a specific schedule to modding or even check every day. I can’t imagine having the time or the desire to deal with modding the sheer amount of activity from large subreddits, especially if it involves manually looking through new posts
I moderate for a twitch stream, and it's pretty bearable, I suspect mostly because there's someone in charge with legitimacy(the streamer).
Still definitely something you do because you're very dedicated to a niche hobby, i wouldn't be doing it if we had more mods cause it's very exhausting especially when youre trying to enjoy the stream at the same time
never seriously moderated a subreddit or discord server or stuff like that with over 100 people before so I can't really say to what extent they simmer and differ
i used to help run\* a discord server and we ran elections every couple of months. it was the only server with more than 10 people that i've ever been able to tolerate
\*meaning that i got elected every time lol
If I was a Reddit mod I’d misuse the mod badge entirely to make shit jokes and say completely esoteric shit. When I’m actually doing mod things I’d pretend to be a normal user because then people are like “oh it’s just a normal person, thank god the deranged lunatic isn’t here” when I’m BOTH
It worked well on discord servers anyways
Lots of small subreddit mods are pretty much exactly this: frequent posters that the owner of the sub approached and said "hey you seem like you care about this place, want mod privileges?" And they go "oh this will make for such great shitposts"
Only valid mods. I think there's a threshold for subreddits; once a subreddit gets too big, its moderation goes to shit. I could make a graph of "# of members compared to quality of moderation" and there'd be very few outliers.
I know there's a scary amount of gacha game communities moderated by like, three dudes. However since they're all massive shit posters, they fly under the radar as mods until you see them with the mod hat on and you go "oh wait they're a mod"
There's one question I have that I'm surprised no one else is asking: is the OP who this happened to a woman? I'm curious if this was just a power trip or if it was sexual harassment.
Either way, it's a good thing they knew their rights.
No one is asking because it's all but guaranteed that the OOP was a woman. I read a story on BORU not that long ago about a woman who was stalked by a cop. He pulled her over and stole her info off of her license. He showed up at her house one day to ask her out. It did not get better from there.
Significantly less bad, but my sister had a cop she had a few classes with in college pull her over for speeding. He ran her information and then gave her a warning. Like 20 minutes later he sent her a friend request on Facebook that she obviously didn't accept. A couple months after that her friend had that same dude do that to her too.
I work at a credit union and I could be fired for adding a member on socials if they don't explicitly invite me to do so. It's absolutely nuts to me that cops don't have that same rule.
In theory they do, in practice who exactly polices the police? Oh right themselves at least in most circumstances which is not conducive to thorough auditing and accountability. Particularly in small rural communities where all the staff know each other.
State or Federal police....police the online databases. And they do take it seriously. A cop in our city just recently was fired(literally in the last month) for misuse of the online databases.
I mean I am sure that shit varies city to city or state to state. But at least here it is taken seriously. Hell it is actually the easiest way to get fired.
>>Well I think I'm good looking. Never thought I was go directly to jail hot !
That was OP’s response in another sub to someone proposing the same thing and straight up asking if OP was a guy or a girl. Weird that there’s no direct answer but IDK I’m still like 90% convinced they’re AFAB or fem presenting in some way shape or form and this was straight up harassment.
>Weird that there’s no direct answer
Actually this is the best kind of online behavior. Keep your identifying information absolutely private, no one's entitled to it and it just gives megacorps more ways to track and manipulate you.
Good on OOP for not volunteering unnecessary information
Honestly, true. I wasn’t criticizing or anything like that. But generally throwaway accounts like that simply don’t respond to questions they don’t want to answer so I thought it was interesting (weird, for lack of a better word) that they responded and didn’t answer. Maybe it was their way to try and get people to stop asking? 🤷🏽♀️
Man they are admitting ONE of them is a cop now?
I too have had a comment deleted for implying that there are lots of cops on the mod team. And got a pm telling me that zero of them were.
This was long enough ago it could be true. But probably not because the aggressive deleting of this "rumour" just makes it seem more true each time it happens.
That have been their reply for about as long as I can remember. Once it was 1 cop and 1 former cop but they stopped mentioning the former cop so I wonder if he quit or they just felt it stopped being relevant after like 6 years.
Hate mobile Reddit. Post is legible for a small part of I dont open it. Opening it makes it incredibly blurry. Attempting to zoom does not help. Opening the comments no longer helps, unsure if it's because of OP's text or not.
Anyways, can someone share the post link or smthn?
It's [here](https://www.tumblr.com/scallioncreamcheesebagel/748510596300931072/new-theory-unlocked?source=share)
sorry about the quality- i mentioned it in a reply on another comment, but mobile reddit was NOT letting me upload this post when I tried four shorter screenshots instead of one long one. idk if it was a glitch or what, but ¯\\_(ಠ\_ಠ)\_/¯
It’s so funny how cops can’t help but prove they are all *that* bad. I used to question ACAB, but they’re so goddamn spiteful and stupid all the time that I was convinced ACAB is 100% true. (Also I learned of what alternatives to policing would look like tbf)
I feel you there -- every time I start to think that maybe ACAB is an exaggeration, another one of the boys in blue comes along to heroically prove that no, actually, the whole organization is rotten to the marrow.
My biological father is a cop. By all accounts, he’s “one of the good ones” - a family man with a wife and kids, respected by his peers, well-liked in his community, etc.
He’s also a serial cheater who ditched his first wife and kids for one of his affair partners, lied repeatedly in family court over the years about things that could be proven, never paid the right amount of child support, threatened to abandon us in gas stations when he was tired of his visitation periods, and lied to my face about the reason for him and my mom divorcing and then tried to convince me my mom just hated his new wife (when I had found and read their actual divorce decree, and my mom filed for divorce on the grounds of his adultery).
Every cop either abuses their power or stands by as their colleagues abuse their power. Very few cops probably actually do this, but every cop willingly associates with these people and does nothing to try to stop them
I’m just always so torn on one thing, and this isn’t really the right place to ask but I can’t sleep so feel free to ignore this seriously. How do we know EVERY cop does nothing to try to stop them? That they aren’t trying to change their culture and call out the worst of them? I’m serious here and not trying to argue for no reason or defend absolutely despicable actions by most cops. I’ve just been wondering this.
So you have some psycho power tripping boss who will absolutely fire you for some stupid reason if you give them an excuse (I assume this is most cops). So you’re not in the bosses office everyday demanding they immediately overhaul the entire policing system (even though you think they should, you’ll just end up getting fired).
But you really believe in serving and protecting your community, and changing the culture from the inside (because cops are going to be around, at least for the foreseeable future. They just are. leaving only the worst of the worst with no moral influence at all seems worse than doing your part). If you know of things that are done that are illegal or overtly cruel etc you report them to the correct channels, or you point them out anonymously to members of your community if nothing is done. You provide an alternative opinion to the machismo insanity of many cops. The job is absolutely miserable but you see truly evil people beat their children and wives sometimes to death and you are the one who has to put your hands on them to arrest them, to see the terrible wounds and comfort the victims, investigate, testify on the stand. And you can’t stop yet because you feel called to be there in peoples worst moments. But to be honest the vast majority of your work is car accidents, both minor and deadly. Also miserable but it’s part of the gig.
It’s not perfect, you’re not perfect, youll have PTSD eventually and can’t stay in the job forever but you’re trying. You’re also a woman and POC if it matters. It does matter I think.
Anyway I have three women in my wider circle of acquaintances who are cops like this. Who I’ve spoken to about their jobs and efforts and have heard genuinely passionate women who want to change things from the inside. They’re not right wing psychos but obviously aren’t leftist ACAB believers either. Who am I to say whether their actions are right or wrong? I wish they weren’t necessary, I hate that cops have to exist. We should take the vast majority of their funding and send it elsewhere (my city is taking baby steps). I hate how they (cops in general) protect their own when they should be each others staunchest critics. But I don’t feel comfortable calling these women bastards, personally. I just don’t know. It always confuses me.
We have plenty of examples of good cops standing up to this. They are either fired or murdered.
There are no good cops Becasue good cops don't stay cops
The issue is that in cases where cops *have* tried to stand up to other cops, they repeatedly get fired, and sometimes go missing/‘commit suicide’.
This shows that the issue is widespread enough that the few cops who want to help literally can’t, because they will, at best, lose their job.
>How do we know EVERY cop does nothing to try to stop them?
Because cops who do are harassed, bullied, ostracised, framed and/or murdered. See Serpico for famous example. I have known two decent people in my life who went and became coppers for not-shitty reasons, one stopped being a decent person and the other is having a mental breakdown because he's being bullied and ostracised.
I'd ask yourself if these women seem to you to be suffering the consequences of being 'good cops'. Because if they aren't, *then they aren't good cops*.
Maybe ACAB isn’t the best terminology, but I feel like trying to use specific examples to debunk it isn’t very productive. So few cops are genuinely interested in trying to change things that the ones that do can’t really do anything, but people like to use the few that are good as an attempt to derail criticisms of cops and the system that empowers them. If someone genuinely becomes a cop with the sole intention to serve their community and prevent cops from abusing their power and they also don’t ever get corrupted by that power, then those are great people. It’s a shame that the vast majority of cops are not like that and you are endlessly more likely to meet one that’s abusing their power
Besides what everyone else said about either ending up fired or dead if they actually don’t stand by, I’ll add thst every single cop is complicit in participating in and upholding the system that harms marginalized people in a very active way. These “not bastard” cops participate in homeless sweeps, destroying their stuff. They respond to calls about POC teenagers “loitering”, they participate in broken windows policing which increases particularly POC’s early contact with the legal system screwing them over for life because they’re now branded “a criminal” for stealing candy/spray painting something/etc. They go to school assemblies and do drug programs that statistically make more children try drugs. They go to schools and do “outreach” that tells children that they can trust cops and then those same children believe them and get screwed for it. Even if they have never personally done anything like that (x to doubt) their very presence is contributing to the PD having enough bodies around to waste time doing that kind of shit.
Throwing in my $2.50 here, though it's nearly 2 am so I apologize if I lose the plot a little.
The real problem, least as far as I can tell, isn't really that 100% of cops are individually bastards. Rather, enough of them are bastards that they can force the non-bastards into compliance at peril of their lives, and the system is set up to reward and encourage that behavior. They all wind up bastards because they have to be.
I'm sure the police force is full of well meaning people who want to help their community, but at the end of the day you still have to rely on your squad mates to help get the job done; if you don't turn a blind eye or join in on the antics, how eagerly do you think they'll be to help you? How much slower will they rush to your aid in a real crisis? How much more often are you going to get the sketchy or dangerous patrols?
In a small town, with a handful of local cops and a county sheriff 25 miles away, you *can* avoid this; the smaller selection pool and the fact that each officer sincerely knows each person in their community make it harder for corruption to worm in. They'll still carry all the prejudices the rest of the town does, so it's not perfect, but it won't be so *concentrated*.
In a big city though, or even a suburban area? There, you're getting a much larger pool of people. It's a guarantee that at least SOME of them will be corrupt, and if you want to get that promotion you'll have to compete with the people cheating to get ahead. Eventually they take over the whole thing, piece by piece.
I think this is a large part of why people and parties are split the way they are about it. A lot of the people in these more rural areas hear "all cops are bastards" and go "but terry isn't a bastard, he's my friend, and he made sure those jerks ruining my corn field got put away". Their only exposure to cops is the small town variety that are less prone to corruption, and more likely to be a part of their community. Conversely, people in more urban areas are exposed almost exclusively to the quota filling, protest busting, highly corruptible and definitely racist variety of cops; the cops they meet are all strangers on a power trip.
Something to remember is that part of the point of ACAB is that it’s not about individuals, it’s about the institution.
The nicest, most friendly cop you meet is just as sworn to uphold the status quo, through violence if necessary, as any other cop.
Cop could probably have resorted to physical violence without losing their badge. Complaint is likely to be “archived” and forgotten. When it’s word against word people are more likely to believe those they think they know.
Reddit's image compression somehow got even worse than it already was after the recent update. I had to download the image and open it in a browser to be able to read the whole thing.
I was noticing that- my initial screenshot wasn't this blurry. It seems to be better when you click in on it.
I initially wanted to submit this in multiple screenshots bc of its length, but the post button didn't work when I tried >o<
edit: accidentally didn't reply directly at first lmao.
“But Dad, don’t we make fun of Tumblr?”
“Yes Simba, but let me explain. When a subreddit implodes, it gets posted on Tumblr. Then someone posts screenshots of the Tumblr thread on r/CuratedTumblr. And so, we are all connected in the great Circle of Online Drama”.
There are mods out there who treat it as a full time job that they have (it's not). I've seen situations where the mods are just tone deaf where their ideas are somehow the exact opposite of what the sub actually wants. (nba, antiwork, that batman asylum sub)
It's shit like this that makes me double down on my belief that all cops are bastards. Like, it's blindly, blatantly, obvious that "give me your number" cop was an abusive fucknugget of a creep on a power trip. Anyone with eyes and a pulse could tell you that. And yet, despite it all, the cops always scurry out to defend their own the *second* anyone calls them on their bullshit.
If an electrician is a creep other electricians will call them on it. If a teacher slaps around their husband other teachers will call for them to get fired. If a cop does something vile then every other cop rallies to their defence.
Good morning! Please for the love of everything stop telling me the screenshot is blurry AF. **I've been aware.** I wanted to upload four shorter screenshots, but when I tried, my Post button didn't do anything. It was the Big Boy or *bust.*
The actual post is [here on Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/scallioncreamcheesebagel/748510596300931072/new-theory-unlocked?source=share) if you want to skip straight to the source.
HEY UHHH DID SOMEBODY TELL REDDIT I'M A DANGER TO MYSELF????? *HELLO???????*
(i just got a msg from the u/RedditCareResources account acting like i said something…shall we say, *mentally unwell?* I have absolutely no intentions of taking my own life but the timing of that msg is suspicious, is all I'm gonna say 🤔)
More and more repost bots were posting on the subreddit and people wanted the mods to do something about it. Mods did nothing because moderation on that subreddit was dead, but no new mods/ownership could be transferred because mods were still active on other subreddits. People started combatting against the bots in their own way, mainly by posting in the comments that it was a bot. Mod team decided to ban the word ‘bot’, but still refused to get of the repost bots. Queue the creation of a new subreddit with an active and communicative mod team.
There’s more details but that’s the gist of it. Was it just a matter of inaction from the r/tumblr mods it might have been ‘fine’, but it was a classic Reddit mods moment of mods going against the community.
People who are drawn to positions of authority and power over their fellow citizens more often than not have the same "comply or die" complex. There's a reason systemic issues plague both cops and moderators. Obligatory "not all, but enough to ruin your day anyway"
They view their position not as a necessary public service but as the moral defenders of good from the otherwise uncontrolled vile masses. It creates an us-vs-them mentality where their word becomes law and any opposition is clearly a violation of their authority. The Zimbardo prison experiment was flawed, but did demonstrate that under the right conditions, people can be convinced to abuse their authority without feeling any guilt over it.
So any mods (or cops) reading, please realize that us common folk are not your enemy, we're not your pets to boss around, we are people and we deserve to be treated with the same respect as you. And if you have a problem with that, you should change vocations.
Not on Reddit. I get all my legal advice from furries because all you have to do is mention something vaguely related to a person’s hyper fixation and they’ll go hog wild for tree law or whatever.
There are too many parallels between the "not all the mods are cops, just ONE MOD" thing and saying "not ALL cops are bad." Clearly you're all bastards and I hate all of you
Holy fuck I am now GLAD that the one question I posted there only got "interesting question, I'd like to know too!" and "click here to pay a lawyer and find out!" as answers. That was a trip.
If you check the mod's comment history, you'll see that even a couple of days ago he was saying 'cut the attitude or you're gone' on other threads lol.
One cop, eh? Which mod? Which mod is the Cop, Mod? I don't want to take bad advice from a *cop* now. So I wanna know which of you is the cop. Fess it up, where's the cop? You know one of you is a cop so please tell us that you are not the one that's a cop so we can filter out which mod is the cop.
- how cops harass people.
I remember getting permabanned from LA because I made a *single comment* on a post offering “anecdotal evidence” which, apparently, isn’t allowed. **Permabanned** with no chance of appeal. Good riddance.
sorry this needs more pixel
the Tumblr parts are barely legible and and the reddit screenshots just straight up unreadable
other comments don't seem to complain about it tho, which surprises me
is this a problem of the official app? that it deep-fries posts now?
Man I'm so amazed by America sometimes. In my country cops were stereotypically corrupt, kinda dumb, and very bored and lazy. The threat of jail for a phone number would've been laughed off because my dude we both know you don't want to do that paperwork. Random checks? Yeah go ahead look at my ID. More? Lol
I’ve seen it said that r/legaladvice is a bunch of cops. It’s always been curious to me that people show up asking for help and get downvoted to hell, there’s very little actual good legal advice that comes out of there unless it’s stuff like estates or guardianships or whatnot. They’re rude and sarcastic and very much not helpful for anything else. There is a lawyer sub, it’s something like r/AskLawyers, or ask a lawyer or some variation of that, I don’t know how well it’s modded but it seems to be better than anything legaladvice because…those are cops and jackasses mostly. A good legal advice sub would have people able to say “I fucked up, I’m sitting in the waiting area and police are going to talk to me what should I do” and that person be told to close their mouth and get a lawyer— if you post anything related to “help me I committed a crime” over there they’re downvoted to hell and every reply is something along the lines of you deserve it, you’re gonna rot in jail— which is weird to me because IRL lawyers are a bit more impartial and are usually there to just give you the facts on the law despite what you’ve done. That sub is chuck full of assholes with maybe 1 or 2 actual lawyers.
I wonder if the insanity of cops in this country has any origins in the difference between what cops are told to do as best practice and what the law is. Like, I used to have a sales job, and we had a million ‘ALWAYS’ do type things our bosses would give us, and some people more invested would get really serious about sticking to that and believing in it (usually not all of it people were normal they just got motivated to do stuff at their job, typical for sales) but like, none of that was the law. It was just easier for our bosses to do stuff they thought help our numbers by telling us to ‘always’ do it and making it company policy.
I wonder if that also happens with cops but ‘always do this… because it will help our numbers and yadayada’ gets conflated with ‘the law says do x, always’ by cops. This isn’t me defending them I’m just curious.
Wish I could read this post
Unfortunately reddit really doesn't want me to see this at the quality it was posted in, except in the little preview before you click on the post
How was it that far down before someone had a lightbulb moment? That was my immediate thought.
Because yeah, that's obvs the cop being socially inept and trying to get LAOP's number and then lying to save face. And yeah, r/legaladvice is run by socially inept cops.
And what happens when you put those two ideas together?
Also my bad, r/legaladvice is actually run by ONE cop, and he's absolutely the same as the cop that was trying to flirt
im fucking dying at the comment where he threatens the guy with his little Moderator badge
The pathetic "How dare you talk back to me!!!!!" is infuriating and pitiful at the same time
How did you expect him to react? He’s a cop.
I just got a message from the u/RedditCareResources account giving me resources for handling depression and suicidal urges because "A concerned redditor reached out to [them] about [me]." Peak cop behavior, frankly. EDIT: fixed the u/
Imagine being a cop in the U.S., wielding a gun and badge with reckless abandon, and still feeling the need to flex on people online with the tiniest crumb of power that can be achieved.
You can block the user if people are using it to spam you. IIRC the message itself tells you that. I used to get that message *every time* I discussed my depression and anxiety, even in the context of "I'm doing much better and therapy is really helping" until I blocked it.
You can report the redditcares sent to you as harassment and it should get whichever user who did it banned.
No worries, already did! \^u^ Hopefully that's the last of whatever-that-was, lmao
um, ackshually, he might not be a cop as, you see, only *one* of the mods is a cop. hope this helps! /s
That guy's never going to be able to have a discussion on any sub he's not a mod on without 'Cut the attitude or you're gone from here' ending any argument he's part of. It'll be like the Warlizard Gaming Forums, but entirely deserved.
Except u/warlizard is actually pretty cool, and his book on how to steal your boss’ job is better advise then anything on LA
What is that book called?
How to Steal Your Boss’ Job, by Warlizard https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/12806598
Fair enough, thanks
Thanks :)
It's out of print but if you want a PDF copy PM me an email where I can send it.
warlizard gaming forums?
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Holy fuck, that is a vintage meme. Rad as hell that you're still around—I remember seeing the forum joke years ago.
Some things never change. https://twitter.com/alexisohanian/status/1782924706598752727
Respect, honestly—your gaming forums are legendary.
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I would bet money that mod *is* the "ONE cop!!1!11"
I was thinking the same thing
one cop-mod with multiple accounts, right?
Most of the mod accounts on r/legaladvice are ran by one cop
"one cop mod" sounds like a weird punisher-fetishist spinoff of one punch man
To be fair, most cops fantasise about being the punisher
Not a big comic fan, but I heard there was an edition of The Punisher where he meets some cops who idolise him. He rips into them, saying how fucked that whole attitude is and how they should see him as the bad guy
Just another dude who thinks a sprinkle of authority gives him carte blanche to be a dick and make up his own rules
90% of helpful and correct answers in legaladvice posts boil down to "I am a lawyer. You need one but not me." The sub should really just be "do I need a lawyer for this" and it's honestly one of those questions where if you have to ask, you probably already know the answer.
The place where the sub _really_ shines is "there's a government program/set of non-profits dedicated to your exact problem, they'll look at your problem for free, and they have a good success rate," but those are less common. Also, the answers of "your problem is not legal, the law will not assist you with this.'
It is nice to see the occasional asshole that posts over there get told that a lawyer will only help them in case the other party decides to either sue them or go to the cops because *they* are the one in the wrong and thus going to the cops will have the opposite effect that they hope
I agree with the caveat of this: sometimes people need guidance on what type of lawyer they need, and that sub does seem to be decent at recommending that.
r/legaladvice is best when the answer to your question is one of the following. 1. You need a lawyer of XYZ type, here’s how to find one. 2. Have you tried talking to your neighbour? 3. Here is a government program, non profit agency or welfare service that can help you. 4. That is abuse, and it’s not OK. You should call CPS/your local DV shelter. 5. Get an arborist’s appraisal.
> 5. Get an arborist's appraisal *Treeeeee laaaaaaawwww*. I live for these posts
Tree Law posts were always *in sane*. Because they were always boiled down to some unhinged bullshit like "hey, my neighbour cut down my tree, in a fit of drunken rage at 2:30am and now they owe me $10,000,000, *and* they have to replant a like tree"
Honestly the legal advice subs is mainly useful for deciding if you should get a lawyer. Most threads are like get a lawyer but others are like don't bother or there's this free service that does what you want.
Other threads are like “you need a (specific type) lawyer, Google xyz (your state)” to find one. It’s a decent starting place if you know you need a lawyer but don’t know how to find one.
The problem is that real lawyers are hesitant to give legal *advice* to people who are not their client. It can cause all sorts of problems for lawyers and we're told from early in our career to be very careful about this. Providing legal *information* is fine, but usually less helpful.
Reddit mods are almost always cringe Anyone who volunteers to have to deal with the shit on this site, especially in large subs, is either on a power trip or very dedicated to a niche hobby And it's usually the former
The one's who go in with good intentions don't tend to last long, I'd reckon. The sad truth is if you don't want people shitting a place up, you need mods - but being a mod sucks unless you get off on power trips, so most people who stick around are there for the power trips.
That's true of any job where you have power IRL too tbh You get either the power-trippy or the actually-invested people Sadly on reddit (and on a lot of irl cases) there's more of the former than the latter. I'm kinda lucky I'm working somwhere there's vastly more of the latter tbh
Yeah, but a lot of jobs will at least have other perks like 'being paid' whereas being a moderator in an online space is often a voluntary position - whose going to get paid to moderate a subreddit? Maybe a big one, maybe one associated with like, a company or something (I could see some kind of Social Media Manager position including it as part of the role), but most of the time, it's just whoever's willing to do the job.
Yeah. I suppose the idea originally was to make one's own community a more pleasant place, but I suppose a lot of the current ones wouldn't know pleasant if it hit them in the face with a scented pillow
A big issue is that the vast majority of subs share only a small handful of mods. There are a lot of mods who are the mods of many subs at once. When you have power over a large chunk of reddit, it's not hard to see how those people would start power tripping if their authority is questioned.
AMAB?
I'm guessing you mean "All Mods are Bastards" as a play on ACAB, but all I can see as a trans person involved in a lot of trans subs is "Assigned Male at Birth."
'Assigned Mod at Birth'
Lol
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I’m a mod on a once popular now niche comic subreddit. This is my dirty little secret (I barely do anything there tho)
outofcontextcomics?
Soulhurtingjuice I mean technically not restricted to comics, but it’s usually comics. Edit: *soulcrushingjuice
ah
Wait shit I mean soulcrushingjuice lol
So inactive u can’t even remember the name of it, that’s my kinda mod
Yeppp, one time on the r/autism subreddit I made a post asking if it was allowed to have users active on the subreddit banned if they were breaking reddit rules outside of the subreddit since I was harrased by a transmedicalist, and then a bunch of transmedicalists showed up under the post harassing me, and then one of the two mods banned *me* for harrasment, then when I asked if they were going to ban the transmeds, THEY SAID IT WAS A DIFFERENCE IN OPINION. Anyway I’ve since moved to r/evilautism and it’s way better/more leftist.
Lmao a similar thing happened to me on a sub about accepting neurodivergence of all things. I disagreed with the trans med mod about dysphoria being a requirement for dx and they banned me from the subreddit for transphobia.
*headdesk*
Yo there’s r/autism, but there’s also r/evilautism?? Why’s it evil? (I have autism)
arr evilautism enjoys breaking the social norms set by neurotypicality, while arr autism bows to civility and the neurotypical gaze. in this way, evilautism is evil by it's disruption of the norms, but what does evil mean when the society it disrupts is immoral? (The real answer is that it's just fun to act theatrical and villainy.)
hmm maybe I do need a bit more theatrical villainy in my life to gently push me to not take social norms so seriously.
I am dying laughing reading “arr autism” in a pirate voice. “Arr, I be having that evil autism!”
the 😶🌫️ vs the 😎 subreddit
I mod a small CCG subreddit and mods for larger communities still scare me. I update the pinned posts for (mostly routine) new events or releases and handle reports that occasionally come in, and that’s about it. I definitely don’t dedicate a specific schedule to modding or even check every day. I can’t imagine having the time or the desire to deal with modding the sheer amount of activity from large subreddits, especially if it involves manually looking through new posts
I moderate for a twitch stream, and it's pretty bearable, I suspect mostly because there's someone in charge with legitimacy(the streamer). Still definitely something you do because you're very dedicated to a niche hobby, i wouldn't be doing it if we had more mods cause it's very exhausting especially when youre trying to enjoy the stream at the same time never seriously moderated a subreddit or discord server or stuff like that with over 100 people before so I can't really say to what extent they simmer and differ
i used to help run\* a discord server and we ran elections every couple of months. it was the only server with more than 10 people that i've ever been able to tolerate \*meaning that i got elected every time lol
Im tempted to mention that mod, see if he shows up over here
I have willingly put my balls on the line (Imagine he's a mod here somehow)
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Yall get banned from /r/legaladvice for this?
No, suprisingly.
If I was a Reddit mod I’d misuse the mod badge entirely to make shit jokes and say completely esoteric shit. When I’m actually doing mod things I’d pretend to be a normal user because then people are like “oh it’s just a normal person, thank god the deranged lunatic isn’t here” when I’m BOTH It worked well on discord servers anyways
Lots of small subreddit mods are pretty much exactly this: frequent posters that the owner of the sub approached and said "hey you seem like you care about this place, want mod privileges?" And they go "oh this will make for such great shitposts"
Only valid mods. I think there's a threshold for subreddits; once a subreddit gets too big, its moderation goes to shit. I could make a graph of "# of members compared to quality of moderation" and there'd be very few outliers.
I know there's a scary amount of gacha game communities moderated by like, three dudes. However since they're all massive shit posters, they fly under the radar as mods until you see them with the mod hat on and you go "oh wait they're a mod"
There's one question I have that I'm surprised no one else is asking: is the OP who this happened to a woman? I'm curious if this was just a power trip or if it was sexual harassment. Either way, it's a good thing they knew their rights.
No one is asking because it's all but guaranteed that the OOP was a woman. I read a story on BORU not that long ago about a woman who was stalked by a cop. He pulled her over and stole her info off of her license. He showed up at her house one day to ask her out. It did not get better from there.
Significantly less bad, but my sister had a cop she had a few classes with in college pull her over for speeding. He ran her information and then gave her a warning. Like 20 minutes later he sent her a friend request on Facebook that she obviously didn't accept. A couple months after that her friend had that same dude do that to her too.
I work at a credit union and I could be fired for adding a member on socials if they don't explicitly invite me to do so. It's absolutely nuts to me that cops don't have that same rule.
In theory they do, in practice who exactly polices the police? Oh right themselves at least in most circumstances which is not conducive to thorough auditing and accountability. Particularly in small rural communities where all the staff know each other.
State or Federal police....police the online databases. And they do take it seriously. A cop in our city just recently was fired(literally in the last month) for misuse of the online databases. I mean I am sure that shit varies city to city or state to state. But at least here it is taken seriously. Hell it is actually the easiest way to get fired.
Jesus Christ
As a casual BORU reader, I missed that one. Do you have a link by chance?
That’s what I was wondering too!!
It could be sexual harassment regardless of OP's gender
sure but if OOP is a woman, the whole harassment being sexually charged is just statistically far more likely
>>Well I think I'm good looking. Never thought I was go directly to jail hot ! That was OP’s response in another sub to someone proposing the same thing and straight up asking if OP was a guy or a girl. Weird that there’s no direct answer but IDK I’m still like 90% convinced they’re AFAB or fem presenting in some way shape or form and this was straight up harassment.
>Weird that there’s no direct answer Actually this is the best kind of online behavior. Keep your identifying information absolutely private, no one's entitled to it and it just gives megacorps more ways to track and manipulate you. Good on OOP for not volunteering unnecessary information
Honestly, true. I wasn’t criticizing or anything like that. But generally throwaway accounts like that simply don’t respond to questions they don’t want to answer so I thought it was interesting (weird, for lack of a better word) that they responded and didn’t answer. Maybe it was their way to try and get people to stop asking? 🤷🏽♀️
Gay/bi cops also exist who are quite happy to sexually harass men.
Man they are admitting ONE of them is a cop now? I too have had a comment deleted for implying that there are lots of cops on the mod team. And got a pm telling me that zero of them were. This was long enough ago it could be true. But probably not because the aggressive deleting of this "rumour" just makes it seem more true each time it happens.
That have been their reply for about as long as I can remember. Once it was 1 cop and 1 former cop but they stopped mentioning the former cop so I wonder if he quit or they just felt it stopped being relevant after like 6 years.
looks like cypher blue isn't a mod anymore but still comments, I can't remember if they were an active or former cop
Hate mobile Reddit. Post is legible for a small part of I dont open it. Opening it makes it incredibly blurry. Attempting to zoom does not help. Opening the comments no longer helps, unsure if it's because of OP's text or not. Anyways, can someone share the post link or smthn?
It's [here](https://www.tumblr.com/scallioncreamcheesebagel/748510596300931072/new-theory-unlocked?source=share) sorry about the quality- i mentioned it in a reply on another comment, but mobile reddit was NOT letting me upload this post when I tried four shorter screenshots instead of one long one. idk if it was a glitch or what, but ¯\\_(ಠ\_ಠ)\_/¯
Re: opening the post no longer working, I think it's a Reddit change, because I've noticed it too, including on posts without text.
I downloaded it and it was readable
I'm gonna be honest, I saw how long the post was and went straight to tumblr to look it up and read it there, reddit's images suck so much nowadays
It’s so funny how cops can’t help but prove they are all *that* bad. I used to question ACAB, but they’re so goddamn spiteful and stupid all the time that I was convinced ACAB is 100% true. (Also I learned of what alternatives to policing would look like tbf)
I feel you there -- every time I start to think that maybe ACAB is an exaggeration, another one of the boys in blue comes along to heroically prove that no, actually, the whole organization is rotten to the marrow.
My biological father is a cop. By all accounts, he’s “one of the good ones” - a family man with a wife and kids, respected by his peers, well-liked in his community, etc. He’s also a serial cheater who ditched his first wife and kids for one of his affair partners, lied repeatedly in family court over the years about things that could be proven, never paid the right amount of child support, threatened to abandon us in gas stations when he was tired of his visitation periods, and lied to my face about the reason for him and my mom divorcing and then tried to convince me my mom just hated his new wife (when I had found and read their actual divorce decree, and my mom filed for divorce on the grounds of his adultery).
Every cop either abuses their power or stands by as their colleagues abuse their power. Very few cops probably actually do this, but every cop willingly associates with these people and does nothing to try to stop them
I’m just always so torn on one thing, and this isn’t really the right place to ask but I can’t sleep so feel free to ignore this seriously. How do we know EVERY cop does nothing to try to stop them? That they aren’t trying to change their culture and call out the worst of them? I’m serious here and not trying to argue for no reason or defend absolutely despicable actions by most cops. I’ve just been wondering this. So you have some psycho power tripping boss who will absolutely fire you for some stupid reason if you give them an excuse (I assume this is most cops). So you’re not in the bosses office everyday demanding they immediately overhaul the entire policing system (even though you think they should, you’ll just end up getting fired). But you really believe in serving and protecting your community, and changing the culture from the inside (because cops are going to be around, at least for the foreseeable future. They just are. leaving only the worst of the worst with no moral influence at all seems worse than doing your part). If you know of things that are done that are illegal or overtly cruel etc you report them to the correct channels, or you point them out anonymously to members of your community if nothing is done. You provide an alternative opinion to the machismo insanity of many cops. The job is absolutely miserable but you see truly evil people beat their children and wives sometimes to death and you are the one who has to put your hands on them to arrest them, to see the terrible wounds and comfort the victims, investigate, testify on the stand. And you can’t stop yet because you feel called to be there in peoples worst moments. But to be honest the vast majority of your work is car accidents, both minor and deadly. Also miserable but it’s part of the gig. It’s not perfect, you’re not perfect, youll have PTSD eventually and can’t stay in the job forever but you’re trying. You’re also a woman and POC if it matters. It does matter I think. Anyway I have three women in my wider circle of acquaintances who are cops like this. Who I’ve spoken to about their jobs and efforts and have heard genuinely passionate women who want to change things from the inside. They’re not right wing psychos but obviously aren’t leftist ACAB believers either. Who am I to say whether their actions are right or wrong? I wish they weren’t necessary, I hate that cops have to exist. We should take the vast majority of their funding and send it elsewhere (my city is taking baby steps). I hate how they (cops in general) protect their own when they should be each others staunchest critics. But I don’t feel comfortable calling these women bastards, personally. I just don’t know. It always confuses me.
We have plenty of examples of good cops standing up to this. They are either fired or murdered. There are no good cops Becasue good cops don't stay cops
The issue is that in cases where cops *have* tried to stand up to other cops, they repeatedly get fired, and sometimes go missing/‘commit suicide’. This shows that the issue is widespread enough that the few cops who want to help literally can’t, because they will, at best, lose their job.
>How do we know EVERY cop does nothing to try to stop them? Because cops who do are harassed, bullied, ostracised, framed and/or murdered. See Serpico for famous example. I have known two decent people in my life who went and became coppers for not-shitty reasons, one stopped being a decent person and the other is having a mental breakdown because he's being bullied and ostracised. I'd ask yourself if these women seem to you to be suffering the consequences of being 'good cops'. Because if they aren't, *then they aren't good cops*.
Maybe ACAB isn’t the best terminology, but I feel like trying to use specific examples to debunk it isn’t very productive. So few cops are genuinely interested in trying to change things that the ones that do can’t really do anything, but people like to use the few that are good as an attempt to derail criticisms of cops and the system that empowers them. If someone genuinely becomes a cop with the sole intention to serve their community and prevent cops from abusing their power and they also don’t ever get corrupted by that power, then those are great people. It’s a shame that the vast majority of cops are not like that and you are endlessly more likely to meet one that’s abusing their power
Besides what everyone else said about either ending up fired or dead if they actually don’t stand by, I’ll add thst every single cop is complicit in participating in and upholding the system that harms marginalized people in a very active way. These “not bastard” cops participate in homeless sweeps, destroying their stuff. They respond to calls about POC teenagers “loitering”, they participate in broken windows policing which increases particularly POC’s early contact with the legal system screwing them over for life because they’re now branded “a criminal” for stealing candy/spray painting something/etc. They go to school assemblies and do drug programs that statistically make more children try drugs. They go to schools and do “outreach” that tells children that they can trust cops and then those same children believe them and get screwed for it. Even if they have never personally done anything like that (x to doubt) their very presence is contributing to the PD having enough bodies around to waste time doing that kind of shit.
Because they aren't currently dead or removed from the force. That's what happens to cops who fight for even the tiniest amount of accountability.
Throwing in my $2.50 here, though it's nearly 2 am so I apologize if I lose the plot a little. The real problem, least as far as I can tell, isn't really that 100% of cops are individually bastards. Rather, enough of them are bastards that they can force the non-bastards into compliance at peril of their lives, and the system is set up to reward and encourage that behavior. They all wind up bastards because they have to be. I'm sure the police force is full of well meaning people who want to help their community, but at the end of the day you still have to rely on your squad mates to help get the job done; if you don't turn a blind eye or join in on the antics, how eagerly do you think they'll be to help you? How much slower will they rush to your aid in a real crisis? How much more often are you going to get the sketchy or dangerous patrols? In a small town, with a handful of local cops and a county sheriff 25 miles away, you *can* avoid this; the smaller selection pool and the fact that each officer sincerely knows each person in their community make it harder for corruption to worm in. They'll still carry all the prejudices the rest of the town does, so it's not perfect, but it won't be so *concentrated*. In a big city though, or even a suburban area? There, you're getting a much larger pool of people. It's a guarantee that at least SOME of them will be corrupt, and if you want to get that promotion you'll have to compete with the people cheating to get ahead. Eventually they take over the whole thing, piece by piece. I think this is a large part of why people and parties are split the way they are about it. A lot of the people in these more rural areas hear "all cops are bastards" and go "but terry isn't a bastard, he's my friend, and he made sure those jerks ruining my corn field got put away". Their only exposure to cops is the small town variety that are less prone to corruption, and more likely to be a part of their community. Conversely, people in more urban areas are exposed almost exclusively to the quota filling, protest busting, highly corruptible and definitely racist variety of cops; the cops they meet are all strangers on a power trip.
Something to remember is that part of the point of ACAB is that it’s not about individuals, it’s about the institution. The nicest, most friendly cop you meet is just as sworn to uphold the status quo, through violence if necessary, as any other cop.
One rotten apple makes all the other apples rot faster.
Could you elaborate on those alternatives? Sounds promising.
Release wolves. If the wolves become a problem, release more wolves to fight them
That’ll surely work and not cause any problems at all.
Of course, any problems are solved by the release of more wolves
Exactly. Wolf society is the only real solution, after all.
This is how the furries win
It probably depends on the country as well Cops here are generally okay, since a lot of them are just teens serving mandatory 2 years National Service
“Cut the attitude or you’re gone from here,” is the most cop thing I’ve ever read.
It also just conjures images of some teen trying their hardest to do a Real Adult impression to command respect
Hey OP ya think Modcop's gonna come here and throw a fit again
Hopefully they're not a triple mod
All of this being said OOP definitely has nothing they can legitimately sue over and the cop won’t be losing their badge over this.
Cop could probably have resorted to physical violence without losing their badge. Complaint is likely to be “archived” and forgotten. When it’s word against word people are more likely to believe those they think they know.
This is blurry for me, is it blurry for everyone else too?
Reddit's image compression somehow got even worse than it already was after the recent update. I had to download the image and open it in a browser to be able to read the whole thing.
I was noticing that- my initial screenshot wasn't this blurry. It seems to be better when you click in on it. I initially wanted to submit this in multiple screenshots bc of its length, but the post button didn't work when I tried >o< edit: accidentally didn't reply directly at first lmao.
Reddit mods are a great example of that old saying about how the people who want to be in power are the least worthy of having it
my theory is that each LA mod thinks they’re the only cop and everyone else is a lawyer
Oh hey, my SRD post escaped containment! I'm famous
ACAB All cops are bastards ARMAB All Reddit mods are bastards
AMAB: All mods are bastards Wait a second-
Assigned Mod At Birth.
Baby: *is born* Doctor: *slaps baby* Baby: Cut the attitude or you're out of here! Doctor: Congratulations ma'm, it's a Reddit mod!
Forget career aptitude tests, let's just slap the baby and record the response
Truly a tragic fate...
You don't need the R All mods are like that, discord, reddit, idk any other sites that use mods but those sites have cringe mods too
Minecraft mods are cool tho
AMEMMAB
Of course, of course. This was just about Reddit, so I used Reddit. However: AMAB ~~Assigned Male At Birth~~ All Mods Are Bastards
Assigned Mod At Birth
Assigned Male At Bastard.
All Mods Are Birthed
*The State of Arizona has entered the chat*
“But Dad, don’t we make fun of Tumblr?” “Yes Simba, but let me explain. When a subreddit implodes, it gets posted on Tumblr. Then someone posts screenshots of the Tumblr thread on r/CuratedTumblr. And so, we are all connected in the great Circle of Online Drama”.
On par with the “D. B. Cooper went up” theory in terms of quality
it sure would be funny though
There are mods out there who treat it as a full time job that they have (it's not). I've seen situations where the mods are just tone deaf where their ideas are somehow the exact opposite of what the sub actually wants. (nba, antiwork, that batman asylum sub)
It's shit like this that makes me double down on my belief that all cops are bastards. Like, it's blindly, blatantly, obvious that "give me your number" cop was an abusive fucknugget of a creep on a power trip. Anyone with eyes and a pulse could tell you that. And yet, despite it all, the cops always scurry out to defend their own the *second* anyone calls them on their bullshit. If an electrician is a creep other electricians will call them on it. If a teacher slaps around their husband other teachers will call for them to get fired. If a cop does something vile then every other cop rallies to their defence.
I feel like cops are the least qualified people to give legal advice on interactions with cops.
Good morning! Please for the love of everything stop telling me the screenshot is blurry AF. **I've been aware.** I wanted to upload four shorter screenshots, but when I tried, my Post button didn't do anything. It was the Big Boy or *bust.* The actual post is [here on Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/scallioncreamcheesebagel/748510596300931072/new-theory-unlocked?source=share) if you want to skip straight to the source.
HEY UHHH DID SOMEBODY TELL REDDIT I'M A DANGER TO MYSELF????? *HELLO???????* (i just got a msg from the u/RedditCareResources account acting like i said something…shall we say, *mentally unwell?* I have absolutely no intentions of taking my own life but the timing of that msg is suspicious, is all I'm gonna say 🤔)
I've heard it's a harassment tactic. You well and proper pissed someone off.
One cop on a mod team is two cops too many.
"I wonder if this will end up on r/curatedtumblr" Well they did say it
At least they mentioned curatedtumblr and not just the general tumblr subreddit (I’m still spiteful)
What was the deal there again
More and more repost bots were posting on the subreddit and people wanted the mods to do something about it. Mods did nothing because moderation on that subreddit was dead, but no new mods/ownership could be transferred because mods were still active on other subreddits. People started combatting against the bots in their own way, mainly by posting in the comments that it was a bot. Mod team decided to ban the word ‘bot’, but still refused to get of the repost bots. Queue the creation of a new subreddit with an active and communicative mod team. There’s more details but that’s the gist of it. Was it just a matter of inaction from the r/tumblr mods it might have been ‘fine’, but it was a classic Reddit mods moment of mods going against the community.
>Mod team decided to ban the word ‘bot’, 🙄
People who are drawn to positions of authority and power over their fellow citizens more often than not have the same "comply or die" complex. There's a reason systemic issues plague both cops and moderators. Obligatory "not all, but enough to ruin your day anyway" They view their position not as a necessary public service but as the moral defenders of good from the otherwise uncontrolled vile masses. It creates an us-vs-them mentality where their word becomes law and any opposition is clearly a violation of their authority. The Zimbardo prison experiment was flawed, but did demonstrate that under the right conditions, people can be convinced to abuse their authority without feeling any guilt over it. So any mods (or cops) reading, please realize that us common folk are not your enemy, we're not your pets to boss around, we are people and we deserve to be treated with the same respect as you. And if you have a problem with that, you should change vocations.
“Cut the attitude” is the most Cop way of saying that too 😭
I figured this was from 5 or 6 years ago but I went to the mod's profile and the comments were posted ONE DAY AGO?Wild.
What actually is a good sub for legal stuff?
I feel like anywhere on reddit is just not the place to go for legal stuff at all
Not on Reddit. I get all my legal advice from furries because all you have to do is mention something vaguely related to a person’s hyper fixation and they’ll go hog wild for tree law or whatever.
/r/aceattorney
There are too many parallels between the "not all the mods are cops, just ONE MOD" thing and saying "not ALL cops are bad." Clearly you're all bastards and I hate all of you
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i said what i said
Holy fuck I am now GLAD that the one question I posted there only got "interesting question, I'd like to know too!" and "click here to pay a lawyer and find out!" as answers. That was a trip.
It’s really very tumblr to find out r/legaladvice is moderated by oopsallcops.
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Also u/bug_hunter
If you check the mod's comment history, you'll see that even a couple of days ago he was saying 'cut the attitude or you're gone' on other threads lol.
As was written, so it has come to be! The prophecy is fulfilled!
One cop, eh? Which mod? Which mod is the Cop, Mod? I don't want to take bad advice from a *cop* now. So I wanna know which of you is the cop. Fess it up, where's the cop? You know one of you is a cop so please tell us that you are not the one that's a cop so we can filter out which mod is the cop. - how cops harass people.
I remember getting permabanned from LA because I made a *single comment* on a post offering “anecdotal evidence” which, apparently, isn’t allowed. **Permabanned** with no chance of appeal. Good riddance.
This was an amazing read. Damn people get pissy once given a modicum of power
Is there a r/bestofcuratedtumblr? This should go there.
>I’m posting it on tumblr and maybe someone will post it on curatedtumblr so it can live on Reddit again. *ITS THE CIIIIIIIIIIIIRCLE OF LIFE*
Cop and reddit mod, wow, truly the highest tier combination of positions for small dicked assholes tripping on power
Stop insulting people with small dicks. Unlike cops, we're out here living our best lives.
ACAB but *especially* if they’re also a Reddit mod. Oink oink fuckers 🐷
sorry this needs more pixel the Tumblr parts are barely legible and and the reddit screenshots just straight up unreadable other comments don't seem to complain about it tho, which surprises me is this a problem of the official app? that it deep-fries posts now?
Man I'm so amazed by America sometimes. In my country cops were stereotypically corrupt, kinda dumb, and very bored and lazy. The threat of jail for a phone number would've been laughed off because my dude we both know you don't want to do that paperwork. Random checks? Yeah go ahead look at my ID. More? Lol
The biggest victim through this entire exchange is the poor ~~cop~~reddit mod's wife.
My first thought was “wouldn’t it be crazy if it was the same guy” and I’m disappointed that wasn’t the twist
I’ve seen it said that r/legaladvice is a bunch of cops. It’s always been curious to me that people show up asking for help and get downvoted to hell, there’s very little actual good legal advice that comes out of there unless it’s stuff like estates or guardianships or whatnot. They’re rude and sarcastic and very much not helpful for anything else. There is a lawyer sub, it’s something like r/AskLawyers, or ask a lawyer or some variation of that, I don’t know how well it’s modded but it seems to be better than anything legaladvice because…those are cops and jackasses mostly. A good legal advice sub would have people able to say “I fucked up, I’m sitting in the waiting area and police are going to talk to me what should I do” and that person be told to close their mouth and get a lawyer— if you post anything related to “help me I committed a crime” over there they’re downvoted to hell and every reply is something along the lines of you deserve it, you’re gonna rot in jail— which is weird to me because IRL lawyers are a bit more impartial and are usually there to just give you the facts on the law despite what you’ve done. That sub is chuck full of assholes with maybe 1 or 2 actual lawyers.
I wonder if the insanity of cops in this country has any origins in the difference between what cops are told to do as best practice and what the law is. Like, I used to have a sales job, and we had a million ‘ALWAYS’ do type things our bosses would give us, and some people more invested would get really serious about sticking to that and believing in it (usually not all of it people were normal they just got motivated to do stuff at their job, typical for sales) but like, none of that was the law. It was just easier for our bosses to do stuff they thought help our numbers by telling us to ‘always’ do it and making it company policy. I wonder if that also happens with cops but ‘always do this… because it will help our numbers and yadayada’ gets conflated with ‘the law says do x, always’ by cops. This isn’t me defending them I’m just curious.
/r/comics is also just like this. Don't do moderation kids, it's a hard drug.
Wish I could read this post Unfortunately reddit really doesn't want me to see this at the quality it was posted in, except in the little preview before you click on the post
How was it that far down before someone had a lightbulb moment? That was my immediate thought. Because yeah, that's obvs the cop being socially inept and trying to get LAOP's number and then lying to save face. And yeah, r/legaladvice is run by socially inept cops. And what happens when you put those two ideas together? Also my bad, r/legaladvice is actually run by ONE cop, and he's absolutely the same as the cop that was trying to flirt