I got banned simply for logging into the site with a VPN supposedly for ban evasion. I had never been banned previously.
You're not alone and it really is that pants-on-head dumb. They have so many users that it doesn't matter. They don't care if some legit users get banned.
I got banned from pcmasterrace for mentioning the old precursor to hydrohomies. Seeing as how it contained the "n word", I took precaution to censor myself and use asterisks, "water******". I was banned just for insinuating the name of the subreddit. Nevermind the subreddit was good-natured, open and friendly to all (except soda drinkers). And of course the mod that banned me was was telling me bullshit in my appeal like "quit trying to be cute". What an asshole.
Apparently there's very few actual mods, so they've all become jaded fuckasses who just automatically assume you're the most low down scum imaginable if you break the rules and appealing the ban is just you trying to get a platform to sea lion at them.
Yeah, I really hate "career mods" who run hundreds of subreddits. Theres people who do it because they love their community and want to see it thrive, and then theres career mods who do it because they lust over having power.
I don't feel sorry for them at this point.
I would be bitter too if I did free work for a guy making 190 mill a year. Reddit mods are the saddest of usefull idiots
I got permabanned for making a topically-relevant meme reference lol
Yep. Bunch of silly ban-happy assholes in charge these days. I never even got so much as a warning on one account when it was suddenly permabanned. The comment that got me the ban? Agreeing with OP in a thread just like this that bans were getting out of hand…
And it’s happened to many, many others as well.
After the app protests, they basically put the shittiest, power tripping toadies in charge of a lot of subs, after the decent mods left or were kicked out. Well, fuck ‘em.
if ~~droids~~ Spez could think, there'd be none of us here.
It doesn't matter to him. Have you ever seen the home page of snapshot? That's what he's going for.
Just browse it logged off on the old site on a desktop. Or better yet, stop visiting that website entirely.
I got not only a permaban, but an IP ban for saying 'Punching nazis is a moral good' in a thread about people discussing how best to drive cars into crowds of peaceful protesters (with diagrams).
No one else in the thread got banned.
Fuck reddit, fascist shithole. Used to be the best site on the internet till the alt-right took over.
I never thought that I'd be deleting my reddit account before facebook.
What sub was that in?
it was one of the 'dank' subs that I found browsing /new, not dankmemes but adjacent.
/dankwolfpack or something
I got a permaban for telling a Nazi to follow Hitler's example and shoot himself. Oopsie. 10/10 would do it again.
(That's actually what triggered me to look for Reddit alternatives, years ago. Or rather the fact that they left my mod account unbanned, even banning all the others.)
. Earlier this month the humorless admins of /r/teslamotors banned me for posting a video of my custom charge port cover.
This was one of reddit mod's famous rando-bans. Something you could have never foreseen and a warning would have solved.
3rd time will be an admin permaban. This is part of the enshitification that mismanagement paid for.
I got permabanned for asking mods to do something about the shit posts that violate their rules.
that's what drove me away too!
well it was a comment on worldnews, while it was getting pro-israel spammed...
i was temporarily banned... like 3 days... then i forgot while on another account, and on christmas they permanently banned both accounts... one of which was 18 years old
my comment that "circumvented the ban" was a very innocent pun... one sentence of just some super cheesy wordplay
....
appeals were denied without any explanation or human response.
and there's just no way to have a conversation with any human involved.
fuck reddit
meanwhile the place is crawling with sock puppets with 40 accounts, but they pay so they don't get banned.
i'm pretty sure they're just trying to purge way for the capitalists and their ipo
Well, I think federation is the way, it doesn't seem perfect (I've had a couple of issues with lemmy) but this feels like a step in the right direction. Reddit has definitely tainted the link aggregator site, and concepts like shadow bans and vote fuzzing are just really terrible. I am new to Lemmy but I don't feel like I am using something inhuman, it's back to feeling soulful, whereas when using Reddit I can't get it out of my mind that it's this evil monolithic machine.
Any system capable of growth will never be perfect. But it will be more resilient than a monolith.
I think federated systems (and more broadly, open models in general) will be more successful in the long run.
I had a 3 day ban earlier this month for my first bad report lmao. To me, it read as hate/violence, and I had been curious as to what was actionable vs. not. Had 5 reports sent, first 3 successfully acted against (blatant racism/calls for genocide etc.). First one that was flagged as bad got me a 3 day ban. The second bad report didn't seem to do anything but have a message sent my way.
Had a second ban recently and decided I was sick of fighting their garbage system. I had paused scrapping my 10 year old account due to a lot of the account tools breaking down, but I've found one that let's me alter all old posts and scrub them, so I've resumed that.
And now they want to sell the content of my old banned account while refusing me access lmao.
They're banning for reporting now‽
Yup. Not op but I sure did. It's an "abuse of the report feature" and bannable if an administrator thinks you're being too uppity.
I made a habit of mass reporting all the very obvious spambots clogging up my favorite subs and that got me banned suddenly, with no warning, for report abuse. You're not allowed to interrupt their stream of fake bot traffic that drives up the valuation.
No joke. Blew my mind.
Just to be clear, I mean full on reddit account ban, not subreddit ban.
Guy on Reddit: Fat people are disgusting!
Me: the coolest people I know dont give a shit, they have better things to do than get upset that someone has a weight problem
Reddit guy: Your a loser!
Me: Get a life! You must be projecting your dissatisfaction with your own body.
Permabanned for harrassment. Didnt bother fighting it. Couldnt be happier, not enguaging with 50 thousand teenagers has helped my sanity
I remember being (temp) banned from the Signal subreddit for daring to discuss Telegram. Talk about group think. I never participated in that sub again.
Yeah people have been getting banned for all sorts of stupid reasons for nearly a year now. My friend got a site wide ban for calling someone a moron...in a story. It's beyond Amy sort of rationalization at this point, just let it rot. You won't be the last.
Its been going on for longer than that. I haven't been able to post on /r/sports for years. They were supposed to reinstate everyone from the /r/AFL feud but mine is still banned.
I once got permabanned from r/eyeblech for posting a joke on there. I wasn't even the first one to do so. But I was able to appeal it.
For those who don't know, r/eyeblech was a gore subreddit. I posted a video of putting milk in the bowl first, then cereal. I guess that was way too far xD.
Damn son, people have been tried in The Hague for less 🙀
Welcome to Lemmy! Fair warning, a vocal part of the user base here is anti-Tesla.
It's not like there aren't vocal anti-Elon/Tesla/EV people on reddit. I wanted an EV and didn't consider any other vehicle because of the range and charging network. My car is almost 5 years old and we'll see what's out there in another 5-10 years.
Yeah, I saw that on Reddit too. It just seems like here there's a lot of people who jump on anyone for even wanting an EV here. A lot of folks think that bikes and public transportation are viable solutions for everyone's daily needs. It feels like a lot of people here think that since EVs aren't a perfect solution, that we shouldn't consider them at all.
Similar happened to me. I got banned from 2westerneurope4u and another mod unbanned me a few weeks later. So I commented again.
Permaban from Reddit for evading a ban.
Any time I created a new account it would be banned for ban evasion.
So I can't comment on Reddit unless I set up an account with a VPN.
Fuck all that.
I got IP-banned for saying I'd lick the sweat out of a fat chick's folds. I think we can guess why the mod was angry
leaving reddit due to bans is a bummer. leaving because reddit sucks is better.
How do they know you were using a secondary account?
When you logout and login again, the tracking cookies are still present. Also, if you use the mobile app to login with multiple accounts, Reddit will mark those accounts as belonging to the same person. IP address is a factor but probably not as important because a large number of people share the same IP addresses these days thanks to cgnat and VPN.
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