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Paul McCartney’s official Reddit account seems to have been banned. The account, u/paulmccartney, had just dropped a set of photos and videos from the first night of his shows at the Fonda Theatre. It went straight into the r/PaulMcCartney subreddit. Then, not long after, the whole thing disappeared.

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[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

It's always interesting to see people commenting who don't understand how reddit works. Which is fair - you can have an opinion. But knowing how it works makes a difference in how seriously I can take your opinion.

Mods on reddit cannot do a sitewide ban. They can ban you from one or more subreddits they moderate.

Admins do sitewide bans, which is what's happened here, since you can see the profile has been banned.

And these days, with reddit's shitty AI moderation, it probably means a ban done by AI.

Because this is not a normal person, someone will probably take a look at it and overturn it.

If you're a regular joe, however, them taking a look at it even if you appeal is pretty damned rare. And as some have mentioned - things that trigger AI as a "threat of violence" that a normal human would easily see are not - doesn't matter, AI bans. You get a warning, 24-hour, 3-day, 10-day, 30-day, then permanent. Unless there's something that accellerates that.

As much as many people manage to survive without saying things AI picks up on, it's damn easy to get unjustly banned, and it's only gotten worse and worse over time.

Anyone in this thread talking about bans from mods is technically offtopic, except that reddit itself is also the topic, so that's fine, but you should understand that a mod banning you is not similar to what happened here. :P

[-] mimavox@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

Yep, I got a site wide ban for wishing a missile strike on Putin. "Threat of violence".. as if it was something that I threatened to do :/

[-] Benz@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 month ago

I once got a ban for quoting the current US president. Apparently when a random anonymous redditor says it, it's "inciting violence," but when the president says it, it's "patriotic."

[-] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

I got several bans for the same kind of thing.

didn't realize that clearly quoting somebody else's words so they could be discussed was me saying and meaning those words myself

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

not anymore they dont, they have AI moderation to do the sitewide bans/shadowbans, there is no input from the admins themselves.

[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

They have enough users that they don't care that they could be banning long term users. It is ironic that they have their filters set so hypersensitive for the appearance of purity but I can find tons of hardcore porn on it.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

or the fact that troll farms, palintir and israeli bots are very pervasive but almost never dealt with. Yet they are increasing thier sensitivity to non-propaganda bots.

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