
I personally think the story is OK so I've unbanned the user and post." After we sent questions by email, one moderator restored the user, telling us that "each moderator has a different policy. One moderator told us that "the post was considered not relevant to technology," and that "one issue I saw was that it included a link to a private pastebin conversation." The moderator had no immediate answer on why user CivAndTrees was banned. We contacted multiple Reddit moderators to comment on the situation, but have not received a definitive response.

In addition to banning the user, moderators unlisted the submission - effectively censoring the article and the conversation about it from readers both in r/technology and the front page audience of. Reddit is getting bigger and bigger, and it seems some people are trying to control what is seen and not seen on this website," CivAndTrees wrote. But being banned from r/technology like that for a simple post really disturbs me. "The message was not even sent from a moderator, it was sent from r/technology." CivAndTrees said that the site is being "infested" by overreaching moderators. No reasoning," CivAndTrees wrote in a private message to The Verge. "Reddit is getting bigger and bigger, and it seems some people are trying to control what is seen and not seen on this website." The action follows several efforts by Reddit's most prominent and secretive moderators to control the spread of information about leaked user Violentacrez, who was responsible for the creation of controversial subreddits containing hateful speech and sexual content involving minors. The submitter of the article, user CivAndTrees, told us they were banned from r/technology without warning or explanation.

Without a hint of irony, one or more of the moderators for r/technology, one of Reddit's largest communities, banned a user for submitting a report on the site's moderation problems last night.
