A community gets ruined either by getting too large (Eternal September, evaporative cooling effect) or moderator ineptitude. I respected that this socialist subreddit could somewhat maintain its niche character while allowing good-faith opposition. 90% of their userbase still sucked at counter-intuitive concepts in social-science, but that's true of many remaining centrist or conservative subs on Reddit (eg. r/timpool, r/theleftcantmeme, r/conservative).
Today, I noticed my flair had switched from the unique [malthusian ancap] to the [regarded lolbert] dunce cap. I find out that a recent comment of mine had unceremoniously removed, rather than collecting dust. In fairness, I wrote that on 2 hours of sleep and realize that the incomplete 2nd sentence might have been misconstrued as attacking the parent comment instead of critiquing Sowell. Still, my suspicion is that a trigger-happy janny saw my 3rd sentence as more threatening to their narrative than the usual right-wing comments they leave up. That's a red flag towards what other content they've been pruning, left or right leaning.
My fault for having any faith in tarts who have a century-long tradition of using the incoherent definition of liberal. Side-note: I also noticed that r/outoftheloop lost the neutral PoV it had 9 years ago.
I'm posting here since r/kia2 used to vet based off activity in anti identitarian subreddits, including stupidpol. I'm also asking if this thread about only spam-marked comments becoming invisible was or still is accurate.
Stupidpol's moderation is unique. They have like 50 mods, most of whom can override each other, so how that sub is run can vary from thread to thread, day to day. Mods aren't typically booted unless their behavior is especially bad, with their behavior being overlooked since they'll get shuffled in and out of the role anyways.
That said, Stupidpol is a schizophrenic place. That the userbase is "classically Marxist," for lack of a better term, means they don't really have much in common with the typical lefty. Even still, none of them developed their beliefs in a 19th century world. They're all the product of turn-of-the-millenium politics. You can see that in how many still hold onto prog beliefs, or how, despite being an "anti-idpol" sub that defines right-wing political labels as a form of identity politics, they still identify as "left." For all their posturing at being above modern politics, you can still see the conditioning from 2000s-2010s lib programming like The Daily Show.
It's still the culture war, it's just them shadowboxing 2009's culture war. For as much as it would make them seethe, they're not all that different from many conservatives in that respect.
To your side note, OotL was the first subreddit I noticed made heavy misuse of spam filters to delay anti-establishment comments to allow the narrative time to establish itself. A comment supporting the political orthodoxy appeared instantly, one that didn't was delayed for at least 12 hours, but sometimes days, long enough to effectively not exist on Reddit.
Some leftists and post-modernists make profound insights into sociopolitical phenomenon, which is why I bothered in the first place. Even then, I always see their preferences making their findings undependable.
A week ago, I was looking up min. wage stances both for another post and to judge which subreddits to ditch. I found one decent upvoted take directly addressing why such pollicy is dumb. The rare economically (or socially) literate socialist would favor basic income over min. wage. For reasons you've better explained, I find any further enlightenment from stupidpol limited.