/r/worldnews headmod maxwellhill keeps breaking his own subreddit rules to spam anti-Trump propaganda

129    28 Apr 2017 19:04 by u/G_Petronius

11 comments

38 u/G_Petronius [OP] 28 Apr 2017 19:05
In this case, the article is entirely US internal politics: it's a California representative saying something about a Trump adviser. The excuse maxwellhill uses is that since it mentions Russians then it has global relevance, but no actual Russian is involved in this piece of news, it's entirely about one rep's opinion of the situation. maxwellhill is the effective head moderator of /r/worldnews, a subreddit he uses to push his leftist agenda. He was previously a moderator of /r/technology, where he fucked up badly enough to have the subreddit removed from the defaults.
1 u/MyPostsAreCancer 13 May 2017 04:47
Lol, just look at his profile. Tons of new threads being posted in /r/politics every xxx minutes. A complete fucking cesspool
16 u/Neoxide 29 Apr 2017 02:07
Whenever I see anti-trump spam on that subreddit I always predict its him before looking at the submitter, and it usually is either him or 2 other accounts that always post these.
15 u/yuris104 28 Apr 2017 23:54
I have been banned from there for supporting trump in my comment
6 u/lockhherup 03 May 2017 11:04
Same. As assume most people house . go into a in there after a few hours and you'll see hundreds of removed comments.
2 u/theaussiewhisperer † 29 Apr 2017 08:54
Does this have anything to do with censors? Sure if he is breaking rules in the subreddit he should be exposed. But here?
12 u/G_Petronius [OP] [M] 29 Apr 2017 10:37
Yes, here. Mods abusing their own rules to push their ideology in subreddits that are ostensibly non-ideological is exactly what this subreddit is about. Censorship is the most common case, but not the only one.
2 u/theaussiewhisperer 29 Apr 2017 10:44
I agree with you in part. You are correct, the mod has abused the rules of their subreddit and has posted some crap. Maybe this is a good opportunity to define what this subreddit is about in the rules? At the moment the scarcity of rules in this subreddit makes the content somewhat vague and more of a "this is why I was banned from X subreddit" Given censorship is mentioned in the title of the subreddit, I feel it should be a part of the posts. Just a suggestion mate.
6 u/G_Petronius [OP] [M] 29 Apr 2017 10:49
The rules are already in place, as well as a sticky clearly delineating what the subreddit is for and what we expect from posts. Quoting from it: > Our goal here is exposing ideological censorship and similarly disingenuous modding practices. There isn't a significant problem with people not getting what content should be posted here; the main one we have is people not making an effort to document their posts, but it's very manageable.
-1 u/theaussiewhisperer 29 Apr 2017 10:56
But what was the rule which was broken? What part of the post was breaking the rules? It is very unspecific and as against trump as I can be (as an Australian), I can't see the relevance for this sub without further clarification than the title gives.
8 u/G_Petronius [OP] 29 Apr 2017 11:12
> But what was the rule which was broken? I posted a comment, which is the top comment in this thread, explaining that exactly. Did you somehow miss it?