SocraticGadfly: Thoughts on various sub-reddits

September 08, 2025

Thoughts on various sub-reddits

Per my other site, I got banned by Nazi mods at r/AcademicBiblical and per her, I got banned by left hand of the duopoly tribalists at r/NationalPark and r/TexasPolitics. (They can both continue to fuck off.)

 I'm going to write here about some other subs where I'm semiregularly active.

R/mlb is trying to get to be too much like r/baseball, but hasn't gone fully down that road yet. The only thing I don't like is that I can't post videos via a link, like an ESPN or YouTube link. Mods could change that if they wanted; it's not something structural to Reddit. But they haven't.

R/Cardinals allows that and is pretty chill.

R/Butterflies is pretty chill and recently did the good thing of banning any more posts about home-breeding butterflies. It's all au naturel stuff now.

R/Dragonfly is also all good.

R/Flowers, where I haven't posted in little while? Ditto.

R/AskHistorians is .... interesting. I think whether or not your answer is considered "in depth" enough depends on what mod looks at it. And, not being able to cite myself, even though in this case, I have relevant academic background? I guess I can halfway understand that, but not totally. tribalist librulz (or maybe a few pseudoleftists) who have banned me for not following the party line.

R/RoadTrip used to be known for karma farming, followed by being known by me for mods tolerating that.

I'm a member of r/politics, to be technical, but refuse to post there because of BlueAnon tribalism. I stopped posting at r/NBA after they did a head fake on pretending to back subs' strike against Reddit a couple of years back, but mods secretly kept running the sub between themselves. 

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