Yea this recently happened to me. A had an argument with a mod and he reported a non offensive comment I had on his subreddit as a ban evasion. I got suspended for ban evasion despite not having another account. After my suspension ended he reported the exact same comment again giving me a second suspension. After the 3rd time I got banned entirely. 10+ year account with no prior suspensions/bans just gone because of one mod. Between that and RIF being gone, I’m just done with reddit.
Also ran afoul with a mod. Merari01 specifically. I reported one of his comments, and he sent it up as abuse of the report button. Insta perma banned. My account was registered in 2010.
Reddit’s been awful for a while though so the loss wasn’t too bad.
The only good thing that came out of the API protest was watching AwkwardTheTurtle and iBleeedOrange get stabbed in the back and purged from the site by Spez.
I dunno, I have like 15 accounts. One gets banned I move to the next lol!
Doctor eggman is that you?
I’m IP banned. doesn’t matter if it’s a new email, or device. I’ve tried many times and my accounts always get banned within 48 hrs. I haven’t tried getting a new modem yet, cause I don’t care that much about reddit.
Star trek mod fucked me, I hate worf.
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All trek is good, some is just far better. Fuck Worf and prosper.
Clown company doing clown things.
To be fair, I’m not aware of any fediverse instances or other reddit alternatives that even have an appeals process. Reddit might be throwing away its best features, but it is a feature its competitors don’t even have yet.
Lemmy.dbzer0.com has an appeals matrix channel 😁
Hey db0, love your instance
Yeah, but that doesn’t matter when the rules of dbzer0 prohibit prosocial behaviour. It’s against the instance rules to insult someone for being a nazi.
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Hang on, you think dbzer0 is Ableist, I really don’t see how since he basically just explained that the rules aren’t black and white and that it’s a case by case basis. Nor how the users or dbzer0 itself is fascist by your opinion.
I like to give people a chance but you must understand this seems very baity and kind of like trolling.Yeah I’m 100% certain you are a troll who provides very little value to this platform.
Lol this is the person who was trying to argue the other day that narcissism was a disability that should provoke sympathy, rather than a negative trait that should be called out and worked on. So according to that logic, we should we feel sorry Donald Trump because of his narcissism now and not despise him, to use a topical example. I guess it’s subjective but I’d call that sort of argument a form of gaslighting. Like they’re saying, it’s not the narcissists who are the problem, it’s the people who don’t understand the narcissists who are the problem. Keep yelling into the wind buddy.
I made a meme about that thread and posted it to !autism. Many autistic people agreed that dbzer0’s behaviour is a common problem faced by autistic people.
On the Fediverse, you can go to a different instance.
I gave it up. ✌🏼
Honestly, I don’t think a message board has to have one. If a mod is powertripping, then why would you want to be a part of the community? If they’re not, then you’re probably not a good fit for the community and the mod doesn’t have to deal with trolls and angry back-and-forth’s.
That isn’t to say what Reddit did isn’t wrong. They established that system and they have a culture of appeals. Suddenly removing that isn’t really fair from a “social contract” or whatever perspective.
It doesn’t have to have a fair appeals policy, but an instance that has an appeals policy is one that you would probably want to join more. So an instance should have a fair appeals policy, because that’s what the users who use the instance want - assuming the instance wants users.
As for what reddit did, there’s a lot of pulling the rug out that you’re casually ignoring. Reddit is what it is because of the users that contributed to it. In spite of Huffman talking about “their dataset”, they don’t actually own the data - it belongs to the users, reddit merely has a license.
Now, reddit is trying to change the rules - as a user, you’re no longer in charge of the subreddit you created and became moderator of anymore, you’re expected to serve “will of the users” (as defined by reddit admin), the users you attracted to the house you built. Reddit was founded on the idea “if you don’t like it, make your own space, and users will flock towards the better one”.
Reddit changed the moderator code of conduct. And yet, if you strictly apply the moderator code of conduct as they sometimes do, it completely undermines many of the bans that reddit admin also enforce. They’re hypocrits, now all they want is to exploit everyone that put them where they are.
I got banned for telling someone it’s important to check for cancer, on a post about a sports person that died from rectal cancer, and I was banned permanently for “harassment”.
I appealed and lost.
Yeah, bad actors have weaponised the harassment rule to get people banned. I was banned because a tankie sub - that I had previously thought was cool - banned me from out of nowhere with an automated message and no explanation. Putting 2 & 2 together it was clearly for an anti-tankie post I made on a different sub. Literally a kind of harassment in itself. When I said “What the fuck?” In my reply, I was banned reddit-wide.
Like they’ve gotta just be fishing for anything they can call harasment to get their ideological enemies kicked.
The distinction between mod subreddit bans and site wide bans is basically gone
Oh I got banned from the site. Reddit admins banned me lmao.
Yeah, I got banned from the site too.
Anybody that ever said anything that could be classed as controversial has been if someone was salty enough to report them. Reddit went from corporate influenced to corporate interested above all else.
Yeah I got banned from greenandpleasent the same time Russia invaded Ukraine because it was taken over by a bunch of boot lickers and likely actual paid russian shills, probably some of the same crowd hosting hexbear et al. And got a site wide ban soon after…
Maybe they didn’t like you defending fascism?
What is a tankie?
In a weird way, it’s kind of “so left wing it curled round the back and ended up on the far right”.
If you think of “left wing” as in “we support Pol Pot, Stalin, Putin etc” rather than “let’s open a community-run vegan art cafe to promote understanding between diverse social groups”.
I agree with your characterisation, but obviously I think that version of left-wing isn’t really left. It’s state capitalism with a red flag.
That said, I’d add that the anarchist and other libertarian leftists (ancaps stole the word libertarian from the left btw) absolutely have revolutionary aims and activities, we aren’t just sitting around singing kumbaya. I didn’t sense you were trying to belittle us but I wanted to add that.
You’re right to give it a little more detail - my slightly silly summary skipped over a lot.
Definitely not trying to belittle anyone, though I am slightly poking fun at myself :)
Got it, that was the vibe you gave off but also since we’re trying to educate I thought I’d be a bit pedantic about it :)
Then what have anarchists done besides song kumbaya?
It’s a useless term that Trots and anarchists use to scream at people that disagree with them like babies (to be fair to the anarchists, they aren’t that far off by age)
There’s two definitions, the former means redfash who gravitate towards the fascist elements of former socialisms, particularly those of Marxist-Leninist orientation. (the fact they use tankie rather than redfash should tell you they’re not entirely comfortable using fascist as a pejorative, want to guess why?)
The latter is basically a dog whistle used by reactionaries to mean communist. Basically a synonym of “woke” for those not overtly racist and applies to anyone with left-of-hitler politics. Think your blue maga types.
Regardless, the word was invented by the CIA to sew division among the left and should not be used by anyone.
I really need context before I can get on the “mods bad” wagon for this one
Ban their domain name in yours “hosts” file
Stop giving them views and complain about it
I got banned from Reddit while I was on a work trip to the USA. Hadn’t posted in over a year at the time. I’m absolutely mystified as to why.
They refer you to the content policy but they won’t tell you which post might violate it. I asked a few times what it was that caused the ban, but they either just referred to the content policy or once they said “Repeated violations”. I actually requested my user data so I could stick up my complete post history publicly and see if anyone else could figure it out. My username was / is sirdeadbeef on reddit.
I haven’t put any work into displaying them nicely, this is the format you get them in if you request your data:
Hmm, what the acutal f_? Read all the comments, couldn’t figure it out in the slightest.
I got one for insiding violence, and it was something that everybody could fucking agree on, like punching Nazis or something. I don’t remember what it was so long ago. It’s fucking bullshit though.
I got a permaban for posting a link to Trevor Moore’s song time for guillotines in response to a guy asking for song recommendations for some random mandatory work bullshit where they are force to chose a song to play… apparently the word “guillotine” is the reddit equivalent to running over a baby with a lawn mower. I had no warnings or anything on that account, just poof permaban.
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TBf, they were probably worried about you getting every man, woman, and child in America to gangrape Janet Yellen and Jerome Powell until they died. There’s a line about it in the funny song, therefore it’s a real threat.
Nope, I hat would be a reasonable reason considering reddit has the sense of humor of a nun in Iowa. I was told angerly by lump in a basement mod that it was 100% because of the word Guillotine. This was on r/antiwork so it was probably the dog walking gargoyle .
I got one for saying we should destroy a bridge in Königsberg in the name of Euler.
This is a reference to a famous problem in graph theory. This problem has been ruined since they built an extra bridge. It was an obvious joke in context, to an audience that would understand the joke.
Unfortunately, Reddit’s so-called “Anti-Evil Operations” team doesn’t look at context and said I was inciting terrorism.
They permanently banned me for saying we should be more progressive and intellectual as a country. Someone complained that I was “inciting people to violence,” (?!?!!) for saying this. They never bothered to read anything I posted. So, to hell with Reddit and its scummy staff of moderators - they are the absolute worst people imaginable.
Hey if spez wants another shithole site full of Nazis, more power to him.
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Sorry, I don’t know where or how I broke the rules, can you show and explain it to me?
No
But then how will I avoid breaking rules in the future?
Yes
But then how will I avoid breaking rules in the future?
That won’t be an issue.
“appeal” just means you are gonna waste time typing a message to a smelly incel dog walker on a power trip that isn’t gonna read it. Fuck that place.
My guy, at this point you’re only abusing yourself. Time to look at the writing on the wall, that site died months ago (or years ago in my opinion), you will only suffer using it.
Another reminder to never trust a site run by a guy who has sex with busty cats.
I got permabanned for repeating a meme from the Fark days, yet there are posts of the exact same thing from 12+ years ago that are still up with no issue. Even noting that when I appealed the ban I got the canned “we totally reviewed it, fuck you lol” response.
The only other time I had an issue was when I got a three day suspension for upvoting a Ghislaine Maxwell related post.
Reddit has been aggressively banning people for many years. People used to cheer it on because it was mostly aimed at conservatives, but they’ve expanded and created what appears to be a first-strike policy with no appeal. Now it’s affecting everyone. I support consistent application of the rules, but their rules are petty, arbitrary, and broad. A famous example is how they ban people for racism, unless it’s racism towards white people. That was literally written into the site rules until recently.
I think Reddit is a lost cause. They peaked long ago and now they’re coasting on their moat. As other services like Lemmy gain traction, Reddit will continue to decline, and they will continue to aggressively monetise the remaining users. The only thing to lament is the information already stored on the site.
Did someone call you a mayo, you poor thing?
I got banned for racism against white people earlier this year, but I appealed it and they unbanned me. That’s because I explained I wasn’t attacking the people who are labelled as white, I was attacking the label of whiteness itself. Whiteness was invented by trans-atlantic slave traders in order to justify what they were doing and create solidarity between europeans in the new world as they oppressed nonwhite people and enjoyed the privileges of oppressing together. It’s perfectly reasonable to attack the idea of whiteness as a big load of baloney. Also, any person who feels attacked by attacks on whiteness obviously considers whiteness part of their identity, which is shitty because, again, whiteness is fake. Whiteness shouldn’t be part of anyone’s self-identity because it’s nonsense.
I’d be okay with your rationalisation if you followed similar logic for “blackness.” Do you? Is it okay for me to attack blackness, and call it dirty and bad?
I would follow a similar logic for blackness if blackness had been created by black slavers who were using it to define themselves as better than everyone else and to justify slavery of nonblack people. However, that isn’t what happened. Black people didn’t choose to be black. They were kidnapped onto boats and told they were black. They were isolated from their native cultures and shoved into plantations with strangers from halfway across Africa who had no language, culture, or religion in common. They sure as shit didn’t want to be black, they wanted to go back to the way things were before. But blackness is the only thing their children grew up knowing.
Is blackness fake? Yes. Is identifying as black a declaration of supremacy? No.
Since you’ve admitted you accept discrimination on the basis of race, that makes you, quite literally, a racist. I’m sure you think your racism is justified and righteous and good, but all racists think that. You’re not special. You’re just racist.
Your recount of history is wild. There were absolutely black slaves, but did you know that there have been millions of white slaves too? Slave markets flourished on the Barbary Coast of North Africa, in what is modern-day Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and western Libya, between the 15th and middle of the 19th century. The North African slave markets traded in European slaves which were acquired by Barbary pirates in slave raids on ships and by raids on coastal towns from Italy to Spain, Portugal, France, England, the Netherlands, and as far afield as the Turkish Abductions in Iceland. Men, women, and children were captured to such a devastating extent that vast numbers of sea coast towns were abandoned. According to Robert Davis, between 1 million and 1.25 million Europeans were captured by Barbary pirates and sold as slaves in North Africa and Ottoman Empire between the 15th and 19th centuries.
My own Irish ancestors were also the victims of genocide in the Potato Famine. No one has a hereditary claim on suffering. If you go far enough back in anyone’s past you’ll find cruelty and subjugation, no matter their skin colour. That you’d try to make it a competition to justify your racism is, I think, quite awful.
This is all utter nonsense though.
The reality is for some reason people they are considered “white” and some people are considered “black”.
It’s because of the colour of their skin if you skin didn’t notice.
Why are people like you just falling over yourselves to invent more facile nonsense?
The fact that people think whiteness and blackness are real, and sometimes treat people differently based on those labels, makes them real. That’s how concepts and words work.
Er, I get where you’re coming from, but white and black people are physiologically different.
Not in intelligence or any of the other bullshit racists spout, of course. But there are differences in the way people’s bodies handle things like medication and disease which usually correlates with skin color.
@KairuByte @smellythief In a sense though, from my understanding, it has more to do with ethnicity (where you were born and who your parents are) and its impact on genetics than just skin color by itself, ex: sickle cell anemia (though a case could theoretically made for any conditions/medications that specifically interact with things like melanin).
It’s almost like total control over content and no recourse is the goal! Garbage company, move on from it…
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