Somebody's long rant about "guilty until proven innocent" just got upvoted to the frontpage of /r/TwoXChromosomes in less than 30 minutes, then promptly got deleted by moderators
215 12 Dec 2017 16:01 by u/EMILY_WAS_HERE
It was a huge thoughtful essay by u/outerwings (sorry if sharing your name is bad, I can remove it if you want) and I was one of the first people on the thread. I actually found it by sorting by new. I even gilded it once I realized it was becoming popular.
But the thread got [removed], and even my encouraging comment got moderated too. I posted some more things after, but when I logged out I found out that all my posts were getting silently deleted (effectively, I was banned). I wouldn't doubt the OP was also banned, as well as a bunch of other people with high voted comments in the thread.
For the record, people were incredibly in favor of the subject of the thread. All I saw was replies that were entirely in agreement with what the OP was saying. It was actually embarrassing because my comment was about how the thread will certainly be downvoted, but it ended up being received very positively. So the swift and silent deletion just makes it more eerie... Not that we've never seen anything like that before.
The thread was here, I wish I saved it, may it rest in peace: https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/7jaod8/guilty_until_proven_innocent_is_not_the_way_to_go/
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71 u/Welcometodafartparty 12 Dec 2017 16:17
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51 u/Throwaway_Sobriquet 12 Dec 2017 17:15
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26 u/Zahn1138 12 Dec 2017 18:56
9 u/EMILY_WAS_HERE [OP] 12 Dec 2017 19:11
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