I appreciate that this may seem trivial in /s/censorship, though for what it's worth - particularly regarding complaints about Reddit's censorship - I want to mention an ethical problem at Saidit (and I will not discuss users, it's just a question about ethics). As a moderator, I deleted a duplicate post in /s/politics, 24 hours after it had been posted, and there were no comments on the post, whereas the same link to the Jimmy Dore video by another user had comments and thus had already been discussed. Moderators like me regularly remove duplicate posts, often at the moment that they appear. This actually helps the OP of the removed duplicate, who may have other posts that he/she wants others to see on the /s/politics front page, rather than have it covered with duplicates, by him/her or anyone else. The result of my removal of the duplicate was that I had been removed as a moderator for /s/politics. Perhaps this is worth discussing as a censorship issue at Saidit. I do not want to mention users or moderators, as this question has nothing to do with them or with me, and I think one can discuss censorship without discussing the people involved. This post is purely about the moderator responsibilities on Saidit (and perhaps Reddit), not about people. Without considering the specific post or people, what do you think about moderator responsibilities and duplicate posts/links?
EDIT: 22 hours later: Thank you - everyone - for your comments, which have been helpful and informative. I think I can see sufficient evidence here that I was unfairly banned as a moderator of 2 subs because of the complaint of one user that he didn't like my responses to him and others. My responses were normal arguments - much more polite than the responses of others on Saidit - that did not break the rules of Saidit (or I'd be banned also from Saidit). Rather, the stated reason for banning me as a mod was that I removed a post (the 1st post I've removed as a mod in /s/politics). The post in question was a 24-hour-old duplicate with no comments on the front page of /s/politics, directly below an identical post that had received comments. Thus removing this duplicate made it possible for the same OP to share one more of his posts on the /s/politics front page, where on some days he posts 70% of the submissions that remain at the top. Thus it seems there was not a good reason to remove me as a mod of /s/politics and /s/WorldNews, for reasons summarized here, and noted in the threads below. Other users might want to consider this development.
As a website that supports dissent and is against censorship, Saidit seemingly does not promote the equal treatment of moderators, or especially the equal treatment of those who can potentially help Saiditors understand arguments against those they disagree with. It's perhaps not terribly important to anyone here that I am censored, but it is important that we especially at Saidit understand censorship, including the censoring of mods, especially when banning a mod is a potential double standard, and thus itself a violation of a core principle for Saidit: that it's a free speech alternative to Reddit. Free speech for whom, however?
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