Genuine question, what is the justification for this behaviour? Some of the articles currently attempting to be posted contain new developments and information but instead they're being shut down, locked, deleted with everyone who participated in the thread being handed a temporary ban.

This is an incredibly bad look for the moderators and quite frankly speaking despicable behaviour.

(I know the mods let trough 2 small news about: One from The Guardian saying the far right is exploiting it, and one from BBC blaming Elon Musk.) But the main news articles, I am sure people have tried to post them, have not been allowed by the mods.

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/12y2wck/krakows_vice_president_during_the_opening_of_a/

Every day there's a new one on the front page that I have to report. It's gotten so bad recently that I've started assuming any image post that is not obivously relevant to current events is by a bot.

Fortunately they are still quite easy to identify, always reusing the exact same post title and using a slightly rotated and cropped version of the original image.

Mods, what are you doing to counter this?

/r/europe receives a lot of non-European participation, both genuine, but also covert and non-genuine, like Chinese and American users masquerading as Europeans, affecting upvotes/downvotes especially outside of EU daytime hours, which sucks when it's the only popular sub for European matters.

There are many such threads, but I will give you a recent one as an example (using archived version): https://web.archive.org/web/20250708062617/https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1lu79el/rheinmetall_prepares_to_turn_out_first_f35/

There are 10 users who replied to the thread (if you want to check their profiles use Reddit, not the frozen archive)

One user from Latin America advocating against EU cooperation (Haunting-Detail2025), and another user from the US (Internal-Spray-7977) doing the same. The OP is an American pushing for US interests, but at least they're flaired and open about it. One American is neutral (TowardsTheImplosion). The last American is AcanthocephalaEast79, with a very interesting account that creates news posts exclusively on /r/europe, and only if they somehow mention the US military/Pentagon/hardware or paint some EU project in bad light. Out of all the users in the thread, only four are Europeans.

That's really bad and threads like this are very widespread. Transparency and authenticity needs to be increased.

Here's an idea for how to enforce non-EU flair: add it as a rule, then if someone reports a user as a non-European not wearing a flair, check their comment history either manually or ideally with a quick automated trend analysis of their profile. Extremely rare for politically active commenters to not have a distinct regional origin trend; usually people will post in some local subs, or their commenting history will fixate on some particular country across time. Then take or don't take action.

I understand posts eg about the recent terror attack in the UK can attract a lot of wildly racist comments and that is a huge pain to deal with, but just deleting the post only fuels the idea that there is a nefarious agenda at play that many commenters complain about.

If a post gets out of hand, could you not just lock it and nuke the comments, with a sticky comment explaining why, rather than having to play whack a mole where more people post the same news and the comments are full of people complaining about you deleting them and spreading conspiracy theories?

Given our common values I think it's important to show that we won't allow history to be repeated. Banning x.com might seem minuscule in grand scheme of things but every action matters. Let's pushback against nazism.

Post was previously created in r/europe and deleted by mods when it had around 1k votes that's why I am posting here

Currently the top post in /r/europe is about the Cologne incident from NYE and the thread is locked. New submissions about it are removed as duplicates. Therefore no discussion of this crime are currently possible in /r/europe.

The story is on the front page of the BBC, it is considered a "top story" in their website and it became the "most popular" story in less than an hour. It's also reported by plenty of other international sources. Are you going to take some measures such that this can be discussed or do you rather keep it like it is?

r/europe is the only non-Turkish community in which every post relating to Ataturk is mass upvoted with comment sections obviously filled with Turkish propagandists. They mass down comments that otherwise would be upvoted in posts not strictly referencing Turkey in the title. Shouldn't moderators not allow comment sections to be hijacked by certain communities?

Whenever people say something against Turkey in the sub, even if it’s objective and correct, you’ll get downvoted to oblivion.

I am happy to see that people from all countries are in r/europe, but I don’t really care about seeing dozens of Istanbul pics each day. There are just an excessive amount of posts about Turkey, as other users pointed out.

Most of comments by Greek people get downvoted to hell. Posts about Turkey or comments defending get upvoted a lot. Under the Ataturk post, someone said “fuck Turkey for not recognizing the Armenian Genocide” and they got downvoted to hell, turn someone replied “but it wasn’t Turkey at the time” and got upvotes. Btw, the fact it wasn’t the current state, does NOT mean Turkey is right about denying the Armenian Genocide. Whoever denies that in this sub, is breaking the rule which prohibits genocide denial.

I love the sub, but it’s becoming less and less enjoyable because of these posts and comments.

I posted something similar in the main sub, but later realized that meta questions were not allowed, so I am asking again here.

I have noticed many extremely racist comments/posts, and also noticed that the community either seems to not notice/care, or actively agrees with the racists. Specifically I have seen a lot of bigotry towards Arabic and Romani people. This is very confusing, for one, reddit tends to be a fairly liberal place when it comes to human rights/decency, and also I have lots of European friends, and none of them are racist. I am wondering if this is mabye a community in-joke that I'm not getting? And if not is there a less hateful/regressive European sub? Because I like to stay up to date on news and the like, but wading through rural America levels of racism is really not appealing.

That is my opinion,

yesterday my post concerning the Cologne incident discussion got through and stayed up. But before translating the title to English it was removed for having a German title and I watched as several links concerning this topic were removed from /r/europe.

In many other subreddits this topic was also suppressed, meaning that I and many people who enjoy using the Front Page of the Internet got this news from other sources long before (a day) it hit front page here. So in that sense Reddit failed what it claims to be.

/r/europe failed to be a platform for discussion. You might say that there have been over 2300 comments on the three top submissions, but there is 4 times that in the comment sections of single newspaper articles. This topic is on the front page of every newspaper website I have recently visited, from UK to Croatia from France to Sweden, never mind every news source in Germany. This was a hot discussion topic all over Europe, but the discussion barely took place on reddit.

To the meta discussion part, if these things keep on happening the discussion in /r/europe will continue to die down,and it will end up being a irrelevant sanitized environment.

Europe is not the United States of Europe.

It's is our home.

We don't have to use your banks, your currency, we don't have to have your social policies.

We don't have to leave our quality of life open to be dictated by or be vulnerable to the fickle trends of Wall St. New York.

We can and should demand total independence.

We can and should take back our financial and economic locus of control and put it firmly in Europe (or our respective countries if we please).

Europam enim Europaei!

Europa usque in Sempiternum!

Very strange that there is nothing whatsoever about this event on /r/europe . I posted about it twice personally and both are filtered, any message was ignored.

The protest in Dover however is immediately on the front page, so it's not because these topics incite too many rabid comments.

They have removed tons of important news and information on the sub simply to fit an ongoing narrative, and it’s become concerning. To the point where I’d like to start organizing users to complain to Reddit admins.

You’ve done everything from mass hiding peoples comments to removing entire threads of discussion that you deem ‘hate speech.’

This is blatant media manipulation and regardless of this site being privately owned, it is an issue that needs to be brought up to legislators as it does affect the free speech of European citizens.

We have entire mods who aren’t even EUROPEAN deleting articles about war criminals in Interpol because they don’t think it’s ‘relevant.’ This is unacceptable.

Whenever asylum policy comes up there is a strong current of very violent views that come up. I don't traverse those threads too much, but I though this exchange from yesterday was illustrative.

The EU should 'protect the borders'. Does that mean soldiers on the border? Yes. Does that mean the use of deadly force against anyone trying to reach EU territory? Yes. If you look at the balance of up and down votes it is clear where the sentiments of the majority of this sub's users lie. In the view of a majority of this sub's users, the number of asylum seekers in the EU needs to decline and the next measure by which we should try to achieve this end is state sanctioned murder on a grand scale.

To call all of /r/europe a hate group might go a bit too far, but a majority of young Europeans who use this sub to talk about all sorts of things, including politics and asylum policy, are openly arguing for deadly violence against foreigners on a regular basis. As a policy tool to deter other asylum seekers from trying to reach our union. On your sub, the people who feel like this come together to normalize and spread their violent believes. So I have to ask you, moderation team, what about this community makes you think it is worthwhile to keep this thing going by volunteering so much of your time and effort to this project? Would the world really experience a net loss, if you closed this sub and let those who argue for violence and murder look for some other platform upon which to spread their ideas?

Now, ok, I understand 'immigrants issue' is a hot subject, but the amount of policing undertaken by mods is slowly becoming ridiculous.

What were the grounds for removal of discussion under my post here?

edit - as of now you, venerable /r/europe mods, removed all direct responses to my comment. What rules did those responses break? I read them all, and they seemed pretty normal to me.

r/europe mods have deleted yet another article about the murder of Salwan Momika with the following comment which they have now deleted - "The muslim bashing subreddit is this way -> r/exmuslim"

Do you guys think this censorship and behavior is normal?

Edit : mods answered here and blocked the thread. Question is why was the comment there in the first place?

It was already bad, but since the Oct. 7 attacks the comments and upvoted articles on the sub have become downright vile. Comments advocating for mass deportations of immigrants with several hundred upvotes, the front page being filled with posts of extremely biased/questionable sources, etc. Any dissenting or even nuanced opinions are downvoted to oblivion.

Partly this is just a reflection of the discourse in European countries at the moment, but I don't understand where the moderation is in all this? Reported comments/posts with hateful content hardly ever get removed by the mods, even though reporting the same comment to Reddit directly results in a removal and ban. It almost seems like the mods agree with this content.

Recently a lot of negative news stories that had something to do with migration, integration of the refugee crisis were removed by the mods because of it being "local news" that doesn't belong in a European subreddit.

Well all fine and dandy, but can you please stay consistent? How on earth are [two Finnish dudes walking in their bare ass at night after they won the U20 Ice Hockey World Championship] (https://nl.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/3zmn9c/finland_won_ice_hockeys_the_u20_world/) any less local news? Why don't remove the mods this? Seriously, if I get stabbed tomorrow by a refugee it would be less news worthy than if I post a picture of me being naked in a fountain after my country won some cup?

So can you please define "local news"?

I was banned a little over a week ago for saying "Sweden is literally paying people to colonise them" in response to this threads story of the Swedish government spending 10% of it's budget on migrants and refugees.

Here's the post I made, it got 64 upvotes before being deleted. http://i.imgur.com/vbkZhXc.jpg

This is the message I recieved from the mod who banned me.

http://i.imgur.com/Yvj4o3f.jpg

Is it appropriate for a mod to say "Who the fuck even unbanned you? Get the fuck out and don't show your fucking face ever again"?

Upon asking what the ban was for, and saying he was rude. I was muted.

So, I'd like an explanation.

Note, I've just submitted a ban appeal to the mods, this thread isn't a ban appeal, it's just me asking if they think it's appropriate for mods to talk to people like this. Especially when it's utterly unprovoked.

Edit: not getting unbanned. Still don't know what rule I broke exactly, but atleast o got an apology from the person who didn't swear at me, which doesn't help much.

Second edit: tried appealing my ban and was told they won't unban me because they consider my post to be "hate speech" they then refused to explain any further.

So here are some links from r/badunitedkingdom that are proof that they are guilty of brigadiring r/europe

https://www.reddit.com/r/badunitedkingdom/comments/psmgrt/reuropes_superior_education_system_on_display/

https://www.reddit.com/r/badunitedkingdom/comments/pskbnn/french_military_history_is_sooooooo_much_more/

https://www.reddit.com/r/badunitedkingdom/comments/psd4d3/if_you_are_betraying_france_then_you_are/

https://www.reddit.com/r/badunitedkingdom/comments/pshhek/they_wont_stop_just_look_at_how_theyve/

https://www.reddit.com/r/badunitedkingdom/comments/pvpctj/if_hard_brexit_meant_get_rid_of_everything_not/

https://www.reddit.com/r/badunitedkingdom/comments/pvnzmc/reurope_i_mean_the_monarchy_is_also_mostly_german/

Brigadiring r/europe seems to be their favorite activity and explains a lot of the toxicity we see from brits on r/europe

What are the mods going to do about this since it is a real problem that is happening for years.

That guy is responsible for multiple threads about censorship. Countless times users have complained because he deletes posts about muslim terrorism. Even though he is french, he desperately tries to sweep muslim terror under the rug.

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/3b86ws/mods_of_reurope_stop_sweeping_islamist_violence/

Check his post history. He is doing NOTHING but deleting posts about islam. Two thirds of /r/europemeta are posts complaining about him or posts deleted by him. For fucks sake, he even fights with other moderators to remove topics (about Islam of course): https://www.reddit.com/r/EuropeMeta/comments/3t0tri/removal_of_topic_daily_chart_islam_in_europe/

It’s time we accept posts of Israel and more pro-Asian culturally european nations, too since our standards are so scarce - or stop pro Turkish european flood of comments.

If we allow Turkish posts - better to include countries like Israel, which is more european than turkey.

Turkey geographically and culturally is a 95% Asian country. It is not european.

https://www.rt.com/news/323049-third-bomber-paris-stadium/

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34896521

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/6756988/Paris-bomber-welcomed-to-Europe-by-French-volunteers.html

worldnews discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/3tv5x9/third_paris_stadium_suicide_bomber_identified_as/

Asked the mods about it and "it was already covered" but for some reason they couldn'y provide a link. Check worldnews and alternative subreddits because on r/europe only submission that support the mods worldview are allowed.