They banned me cus I told someone who was mocking the Uvalad School shooting to "Choke on butter" I was banned for several days, and i was fine with that- Until MOTHER FUCKING OPERA GX- SIGNED ME IN AUTOMATICALLY TO MY ALT. Now im fucking perma banned, and reddit WONT ANSWER ME NO MATTER WHAT I DO- Im so desperate at this point. I really really really want my account back and I miss being in all of the active forum communities there. Lemmy just isnt the same
I really really hope theres some kinda way to get my account back. I appealed 20 times, not a single answer
I wouldn't hold my breath. Reddit appeal system is known to be very bad.
scuse me while I cry about it just one more time this week 🥲
You're going to be okay 🙂
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They don't really care unfortunately
I was banned from Reddit for allegedly promoting "hate".
Story: There was post about convicted criminals being send bacl to Afghanistan and that they were released there and are, in fact, not in prison. After a little discussion if that is good or bad i wrote that imho the cutural background CAN be a factor for not fitting well into western society. Backed by the fact that there are people considered criminals here in Germany but not in Afghanistan. I also wrote in a follow up comment that i don't see any culture as better or worse baseline...only that there are some that CAN crash with western worldview.
That got me banned and my appeal, stating that i didn't sold my opinion as a fact is being ignored.
The really sad thing is that i made the mistake of engaging a political topic online and it seems that mistake is iredeemable in the eyes of some faceless Reddit mod. I srsly liked it there for my interests in the other communities.
So now i found Lemmy.World and hope to can engage in the same stuff as there....except for the hot topics of politics....
I was banned a few times for saying something like that if some politician of some country consciously does a thing which costs Armenian lives, or, say, "recognizes territorial integrity of Azerbaijan", they are fair game for Armenians. That technically they make a choice they have right to make, or that their country has some interests, etc are reasons, but not excuses.
I mean, people are responsible for the actions they take. It's not extremism.
I got banned from worldnews on lemmy.world for quoting Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. The mods said I was being racist. I came back with citations and explained that I was replying to another HHGTTG quote with a line that followed it up in the book.
They wouldn't even consider it. No matter what, my comment "seemed racist."
Lesson: don't try to be clever.
I'm convinced the primary moderation goal is expunging any comment that could remotely contribute to LLM 'racial bias' - and given the mods are humans, they want to expend the least effort possible in the performance of their roles, so practically any statement along the lines of '$nouns are $adjective' gets hammered without a thought.
At this point, I believe it.
Man, that's sad if true.
Right we shit on Reddit and deal with the same weird moderation in the fediverse.
It's just called moderation. Since we cannot show that it could be done better, owing to a mix of human nature, the nature of the Internet and discussions on it, and how moderation generally works.
It's not discussion moderation though, it's LLM input QC. It's fundamentally dishonest.
Public modlogs help.
They can also be entertaining. Like there was one post removed within the past week where the mod said "don't threaten mod action", so I was curious and looked it up on the log. The guy had taken offense to something that wasn't offensive (heard what they wanted to hear instead of what was said) then gave an ultimatum that they either apologize and retract within an hour or they'll report them and an investigation on their comment history would happen. It was hilarious.
It's people and society. Centralized control doesn't work. A better moderation system would let the individual manage his own filtering, instead of being involuntarily "helped".
And by weird, you mean shit, right?
That's just how moderation works. People suck, the platform doesn't really matter in that sense.
I got a comment removed for calling an obvious troll a troll. I was told to report the trolls. So I did. I was banned and the troll is still trolling. I've also been called a troll by a troll and reported that I was called a troll and their comment is still there. Some bad actor mods out there for sure, bringing down the good ones.
EDIT: their not they're
Feel free to report this on !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Instantly subscribed to that comm.
Thank you for sharing this. Mod abuse is both important to call out and entertaining to see when drama unfolds.
Worldnews is now IDF fan club full of bots and morons.
One of the worst human qualities is people who are proven wrong with facts, but their pride is wounded so they lash out and double down. I absolutely can't stand it...
I got banned from r/firstimpression due to super generic “nsfw activity.” A woman had posted a picture of herself in green and brown clothing and sitting amongst some flowers and her post was titled “What do you think my job is?”
My ban-worthy cheeky comment was “wood nymph”
Oh no!! Anyway,..
I got permabanned from Reddit on a post about a Chinese food where they eat centipedes.
I replied: "Yeah the Chinese are pretty weird when it comes to food, look up 'virgin boy eggs'"
When I appealed it I even gave them the wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_boy_egg
Reddit is an absolute joke.
Got banned for saying Russia was committing war crimes in Ukraine.
As a comment to a AP story showing evidence of Russians committing war crimes in Ukraine.
Apparently that was 'bigotry'.
This was 2 weeks after getting banned for threatening violence. For posting a NBC news article reporting on the Trump shooting. They reversed that on appeal, but I'm not appealing the second one, they're just broken now.
Basically anyone can report anything and they don't have anyone to review it so it's easy censorship. Yet somehow the subs that actually threaten violence have no problems.
stuff like that happened to me also. they did not have a clue about foreign culture, and suddenly i was racist, I proved that wrong like you did, and Mods could not backtrack because of their ego.
I got banned years ago from r/funny because I was browsing on "new" (like I do here), responded to a post with a lame joke within minutes after it posted, then the powers that be decided the poster was a spammer, and banned me too. I asked them why they banned me, but got absolutely nothing in response. It turns out, though, that being banned from there made absolutely no difference to my Reddit experience.
Now that Reddit is a public company, and courting income from paid official subreddits, it's only a matter of time before there is a huge class-action lawsuit over their uneven moderation policies. Especially if companies start steering a good portion of their customer interaction there. It is super unfair to be cut off from legitimate customer service because of a power-tripping mod in a totally different part of Reddit.
Besides, I hit on the best way to ensure I never get banned from Reddit: I don't go there anymore.
I hope so, I deadass just want my old account back. I got too much history on there to lose it all.
With all these stories of malicious or incompetent mods, it makes me wonder if Russian trolls managed to get a bunch of mod positions on Reddit and mod to frustrate and hurt or kill communities to further division. Because it sounds a bit beyond a power trip or normal incompetence.
Though it could be due to volume and lack of effective tools and mods just dealing with their queues with batch actions and ignoring a lot of messages.
I suppose there could also be some mods trying to kill it from the inside after deciding they didn't want to die on the "set sub private" hill once the admins started taking subs back. Guerrilla modding.
Either way it's a shitshow.
Yep I lost my 7 year old account now am never using that shitshow again hopefully lemmy attracts a bigger audience I love discussing some video games tips and tricks and lemmy's mobile interface is way way better than reddit's
my acccunt was like 10 years old, with karma to match. i still got it, bu i havent logged in, because i am just furious about the whole banning thing for rules i didnt break. as soon as i get banned unjustly from feddit, i am out as well.
I got banned multiple times because the person reporting me accused me of writing things i didn't even write.
mods didn't check, didn't care.
I got banned from r/mildlyinteresting like 10 years ago because I posted a picture of an oil spill in a parking lot that looked like a reindeer. Didn't break the rules, no idea why I got banned, every time I've tried to appeal they sent me through like eight moderators and nothing ever got done, and same as you, they don't even reply anymore.
I got banned because someone asked what the fairly infamous bible passage about being hung like a donkey / emissions of horses was all about. So I put it in modern language. Unfortunately the passage is Ezekiel calling out the people of Judea for acting "like whores". Perma banned. Failed appeal. Patently obvious to anyone who can read what the context of the conversation was.
Reddit mods and frankly Lemmy mods don't appear to have much of reading comprehension beyond 10th grade, ie they read what saw and that's the end of it. They don't under literary concepts at all.
They also love the vibe checks... All I just didn't like how you said it type thing...
Are these supposed to be adult people or do have children modding lol
Got site banned for calling out and even providing evidence that the mods on /r/steamdeck were abusing their power and treating users like shit. It was "harassment."
I just made a new account, and they haven't even realized it yet. I want to do something crazy that highlights how fucked reddit is, just don't know what or how to do so at the moment.
Anyone who cares to see it already has, so I wouldn't waste too much energy on it. Even a smoking gun would likely be disappointing when the world keeps turning without much change.
Though if you could show they've fucked the shareholders somehow, that might be different. But even there, most of the shitshow is out in the open and if they didn't cross the line by driving away so much of their userbase, I'm not sure what would be considered crossing the line.
I would do that in a heartbeat.
Thier admins and mods are incompetent
Democracy is clearly the only proper way to manage a society, yet we continue to use totalitarian dictators. Weird.
Several mods or bots can't even comprehend grammar.
I can't even call steam deck on windows dumb without getting SITE banned, SITE
It's horrible. I contributed content and comments for so many years for them. I also bought award coins from them and then they closed the program and literally stole my money. Ultimately, I got banned just recently for saying something that absolutely was not against their policy, it was misinterpretted, and now they won't reply to my appeal.
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