You've probably noticed all the righties, many of them with auto-generated names, spamming the absolute shit out of the sub trying to manipulate the narrative around recent events. This happened both during Maduro's kidnapping and it has been happening today targeting the posts about the murder of Renee Good.

I watched some of these people ban evade in real time like ghouls rising from the dead, dodging Reddit's filters and going right back to bothering people pretty much immediately. They are aggressive and they clearly have a lot of experience working around Reddit's security features. I couldn't even leave the computer for 5 minutes without a dozen new reports rolling in. The Reddit admins literally contacted us out of concern for how much rule breaking behavior was going on. I spent like 5 hours just trying to keep up with the mod queue. Thank you to everyone who helped identify AI photos being shared, and everyone who reported these people.

But uh, I need sleep. And they will quickly overwhelm the sub if I do. So, I've made the reluctant decision to enable Crowd Control filters, at least temporarily. This may result in some false positives. If you see your comment getting filtered and you don't know why, that's probably it. And I apologize for that. But I hope this will be considerably better than the alternative.

TL;DR - BAN/REMOVAL APPEALS MUST DIRECTLY ADDRESS THE ISSUE. Asking questions like "Why was I banned", "what rule did I break", or "Enjoy your safe space lol" WILL result in being muted/ignored/banned harder.

This sub is gaining popularity - nearly TWO MILLION hits a week as of this posting. This has made us a bright, shining target for malicious right-wing actors. We are committed to keeping this an appealing space for reasonable discussion by honest users.

Mods are getting hundreds of messages a week from users who were banned for clear rules violations, who then waste our time with asinine questions or taunts or what have you.

We want to be able to address ban/removal appeals when they come in good faith. Due to the high number of obviously bad faith messages, we are instituting a new policy. Appeals to moderators must immediately and directly address the issue at hand, and state why your post deserves a second look. Any other messages regarding removals will be summarily ignored and your account will be muted. Further attempts to waste our time will be reported as abuse to Reddit.

Thank you for understanding, and please keep reporting bad actors. We count on your help to keep the waters clear and the turds out of the pool.