I had two Reddit accounts for 10+ years, never received a ban on either account, even a temp ban. One was only for NSFW, weed and music discussion, the other was used much more broadly.
In the last few months I got banned on my primary account 3 times, twice for 3 days and once for 7 days.
All of the comments I was banned for were 100% factual, not specifically directed at any user, short and to the point but anti-Nazi/ICE/Fascism/Trump/Pedo in their content.
Reddit claimed I incited violence and harassed individuals, ultimately claimed because I had two accounts I was participating in ban evasion.
After this happened I created another account using a different internet connection, device, email, browser type, and VPN, it was banned in <5 hours for… ban evasion!
So fuck Reddit, they are complicit in all the nonsense going on and banning people for commenting about it.
When did this happen?
I’ve participated loudly in Reddit subs focused on antifascism, anti-ICE, left activism, and recently anti-Iran-bombing discussion. I just got permabanned about a week ago with a very weird nonsensical justification, “rule violations by your other account(s)”. I have no other accounts, I’ve only ever had one Reddit account for the last 8 years. I had 660K karma at the time of the ban and about 70 followers. I earned the karma the hard way, it was comment karma over many thousands of comments. Not a karma farmer.
Is there something going on? Is Spez under orders to get rid of antifascist voices? Or am I reading too much paranoia into what might just be really sloppy automod software with no human oversight to rectify errors?