Q: Why do jannies insist they have such a difficult job?
Given that banning people you don't like is obviously not difficult, I think likely the biggest reason is because these mods are emotionally triggered by exposure to what are perceived as right-wing views - as in, watching a clip of Tucker Carlson or Donald Trump speaking on any subject, or reading somebody describe the benefits of ivermectin is literally, physically intolerable. They then work backward from the premise that expressing certain ideas or even using certain words signifies, at best, a host of incorrect and misguided beliefs, at worst that you have a portrait of Hitler on your bathroom wall. And if you're of that disposition, seeing even an innocuous remark that may or may not hint at 'alt-right' or bigoted views is going to happen very frequently, hence the very, very generous meaning of the word 'hate'. They simply don't consider what they're doing censorship, because they're not censoring alternative viewpoints, they're protecting the truth from 'distortion'. Whatever you think of the Trump Administration's positions, they've enabled enormous amounts of online censorship by using the term 'alternative facts'.
I used to be a head administrator for a gaming forum and a server for a dead game, and the number of new people every week who failed to follow very simple and clearly signposted instructions took it's toll, and that's not even counting dealing with the enormous number of bizarre people that somehow found their way there. Now imagine instead of just dealing with tech-illiterates and Russians on psychedelics, it's would-be white supremacists with dangerous ideas that could poison the well of your little subcommunity and you can probably imagine how they live in a nightmare of paranoia. A part of the reason they seem to covet so much redundant power is because they genuinely think they need it, believing as they do the Internet is literally awash with evil people trying to do everyone harm, instead of themselves being a minority in a sea of people who don't think like they do. You'll notice troon rhetoric is little different, and why they both share a sense of disconnected self importance.
Depending on the forum, online moderating, I would argue, is actually difficult if you practice restraint, because it means dealing with people for an extended period you don't like and who may not like you for a variety of reasons - the only reason Reddit mods make it difficult is because they're deeply hypersensitive to ideas that upset their worldview - they've been convinced that only evil or irredeemably stupid people could disagree with them and that the average American is too gullible to think for themselves, hence the 'thought police' complex. I didn't however, realize it had gotten to the point where they were using mass auto-moderation tools, which I think should disqualify you from moderating your own Skype calls, never mind thousands of communities.
Q: Why do people everywhere take Reddit posts at such face value?
In the name of positivity, assuming bad actors making fake posts is a mindset that's deterred on most subreddits. It's not even that it's always enforced - as we have seen from the Jannycaust, most Redditors are by and large, normal people, and normal people generally don't expect fellow human beings to make up posts to karma farm or push a narrative, because it either sounds too sad or too insidious to be true. Like try and imagine the mindscape of the kind of creature that would pay thousands of dollars to bot upvote their own posts. A well-adjusted person doesn't assume that because it's an insane thing to ascribe to somebody.
In principle, it's a well meaning attitude- so a hundred fake stories get a few asspats and sympathy advice, what's the harm if it helps one person in need? It does, of course, lead to the self-perpetuating perception that the average Redditor is an emotionally stunted, reclusive basketcase that is a paper-cut away from launching themselves off a tall building, and it also means a very misleading picture of a place or situation can be created without challenge, as with that description of DeSantis' Florida above.
I have noticed that Redditors are more careful with news from official sources or publications - they may not disagree with the sentiments or views of the article, but they do point out bias, misleading information or lack of context - and unlike our own A&H board, they do make a habit of reading beyond the headline.
The reason that KiwiFarms take Reddit stories by troons at face value is because they're already so beyond the veil of credulity in their beliefs and narratives that there's basically no point in distinguishing fact from fiction. Trannies somehow resent negative characterizations even as they willfully cast themselves in the worst light possible. Really, you skipped work and cried in your car for five hours because the Starbucks barista misspelled your name? Probably true, yeah.
Q: Why do they take pedophilia accusations so personally and why is Sound of Freedom associated with QAnon?
Libs simply don't understand why people voted for Donald Trump, joined QAnon or why people support right-wing or conservatives causes at all. The only thing they seem to have grasped about QAnon is that it's virulently anti-pedophile vis-a-vis the Hillary Clinton Pizza Parlour Child Rape Conveyor Belt meme. Liberals obviously recognize pedophile rings exist and are a big no-no, but because it was QAnon that made it a political issue, they equate everything to do with conspiracies about pedophile rings and the like, including a film that probably wouldn't have been controversial when it was due to be released, as a right-wing political attack. This is the reason why 'groomer', which was specifically about LGBTQWTF retards trying to teach gender and sexual stuff to children, became equated with generalist Trump talking points about liberals and the causes they support. Thus, pedophilia, ironically, becomes a 'moral panic'.
Of course, we can say they take it rather too personally, but they would turn around and say 'aren't you guys a little too obsessed with hunting pedophiles? Does thou not protest too much?'. As before, they don't make a habit of assuming people to be pedophiles - unless they're Catholic priests, because all they've heard about the Church in the last few decades is scandal after scandal, and, more importantly, it fits the stereotype they have of conservatives and religious types as hypocritical, sanctimonious moral busybodies who have held too much power and privilege for too long. The reason the sexuality of the offender or the age of the victim get overlooked is because the hypocrisy and religious repression is what's considered the root problem. Problematic statistics of minorities, whether it be gays, trannies or Muslims or blacks are dismissed as either a distorted narrative or a direct result of disenfranchisement almost by rote - even if members of those communities bring up those statistics.
Q: Why are they all such massive losers?
Beyond the obvious attention-seeking, it's become en-vogue to portray yourself as much of a worthless, unhappy loser as possible, because it's relatable and because celebrating overt success is seen as in poor taste and evidence of privilege - what it seems people do is they couch a single true aspect (that they want to boast about) in a sob story as a wierd kind of humble-brag . I'm willing to bet quite a few of those r/DepressionMeals posts are made by people who once had a bad relationship that they've long gotten over but thought "huh, I've got a 1kg carton of Ben and Jerries", or "huh, this meal I've made looks edible for once, may as well show it off. But how to do that without looking like an insecure faggot?". Sometimes this mindset is channeled positively - subs like r/DIY and r/cozyplaces generally promote an attitude of self-betterment and work ethic.
Q: Why do they worship Communism when they clearly have no understanding of it?
I personally believe not a single person on Reddit actually believes in Communism in any practical sense, but they larp as them for the same reason people 'come out' as non-binary - it's political poseur counterculture, a way of saying that they reject, or more accurately, identify against the evil oppressive system of late-stage "right-wing" capitalism that grinds the ordinary working man into the ground without actually putting any skin in the game, or, you know, working - some of them probably even believe that just exploring the idea is virtuous enough or that Communism as a concept has been demonized by the West. I certainly met people who thought this way in university. It's very easy to promote egalitarianism and sharing the means of production when your social reference point is a tiered Discord server filled with the professionally unemployed. As we all know, colonial-era impositions like "work" are just conspiracy theories created by The Man to keep honest people down.
Abstract Communist sentiments make for popular Tumblr shares, but I think what happened specifically to Reddit, as I saw it over the years, was the popular Democratic Socialism that was advocated for by Bernie Sanders got distorted in the pipeline - the long-standing resentments toward Wall Street fraud and bailouts and Sanders' left-of-center rhetoric on billionaires paying their fair share of taxes and expanding social services to make America more in line with Europe ended up becoming 'eat the rich' and 'free college'. This idea that American capitalists pigs screw people left, right and center felt like it emerged practically overnight and ended up meshing very nicely with ideas about systematic white supremacy and all that.
