I have had multiple accounts through 15 years on reddit but reddit has become hardcore ban happy and I’ve stopped even trying to get around it at this point and have stopped using the site completely.
So what was the dumbest reason you were banned?
Mine was going into a far right sub that was discussing lord of the rings, for some reason lotr is huge with the far right including the current vp. Anyway all I did was post lotr sucks and a video link to clerks 2 where Randall tells Elias and the customer that the movie is nothing but walking and that the true ending should be frodo bricking into Sam’s mouth.
I got reported and site wide permabanned from a far right sub for gay bashing when the intent was anything but that. That’s when I noticed the glory days of reddit were starting to fade.
No reason at all during the great purge following Trump’s inauguration
I was told that I had harassed a mod, but I hadn’t interacted with anyone
Seems to me that they just purged large numbers of users with anti-Trump content on their account
I was on reddit for nearly 10 years without issue, suddenly I was sitewide banned and every attempt at an appeal went completely unanswered
Hmmmmm. I got banned and I did wonder if my numerous anti trump stance had anything to do with it.
Ok I did say that if a person ( not trump, nothing to do with trump ) had purposely run over one of my boys in his car like on the video, that he might end up in hospital. I got banned for threatening violence. I didn’t threaten anyone in my mind. I appealed, no joy.
thats when they started purging, and i people on reddit noticed a huge drop in noise in the political subs, it was right around eleciton and after it. by the time feburary was around we were part of the 3rd ban wave. also thier shadowbanning have increased recently too.
Authoritarians love to silence the opposition
I got banned only once, it was for “inciting violence” for the comment I made “Dems should stand up and fight for once”
Gold times. Was a member for 8 years.
I upvoted something. They won’t tell me what. Reddit has gone to shit.
Permabanned for cussing at someone who was giving targeted rpe and mrder threats, while that POS is still unbanned and happy🙏
Apparently one cannot say anything about US citizens that the bots don’t like.
On reddit you get banned if enough people report you, not because you actually deserve it
THIS is a key point that most don’t understand. There are some auto mod filters that will automatically block your post or comment, but it doesn’t result in a ban. Site wide bans happen because of “reports” which draws the attention of Admins
not anymore, now shadowbans are issued automatically by an AI, on any account that resembles a bot, even if you are not a bot, or now they are looking for sudden IP and browser changes too.
isnt thats what brigading is, sometimes you can catch the douche for misinterpretering your comment and reporting you.
For using a vpn, apparently.
I created an account that was immediately shadowbanned. Before I posted or commented anything. I used a temporary mail address and I guess that was it. I used to create a new account every couple of months and that was fine for a long time, I think I still remember around 30 of them. But at some point it became a hassle.
For the life of me I can’t remember where this happened, but this was in one of the heavily moderated “safe space” subreddits.
I said something sarcastic, which some powermod interpreted as being against the rules. I didn’t think it was, even if it had been taken at face value.
Problem was, I was in middle of dealing with what I now think was a mental health episode of some description so I ended up arguing with the mod in PMs. Wasn’t fruitful, dude was also rude as hell because I asked them to chill.
When things looked up a few days later I was like “yeah, screw them”. Left that community. Left Reddit entirely for a month.
I now realise this is one of those moments that turned me away from socialising in general. There are dipshits out there who just don’t care.
(Not saying heavily moderated safe space communities are bad! Just maybe not have uncaring career dipshits moderating them. Maybe have clear rules and enforce them consistently.)
some people get freaked out if you DM/PM them. i noticed some other exclusive safe subs, like BPtwitter, only allowed certain people in, but something changed i was able to comment in that sub without getting removed.
I used to browse Reddit from /r/all and I posted a comment on what I later realised was /r/conservative. I was subsequently banned from 20+ subs. They have bots checking subs they don’t like and collectively ban contributors to those subs.
luckily i had the forewarning from that sub, so i dint bother visiting it, i also use the filter filter out that sub, so i dont accidentally go into it. certain right wing subs will trigger a autoban from other subs.
I trolled r/conservative a lot I don’t think you get a ban from other communities, at least I never did, unless your account gets flaired by them.
I came across a incel sub once and went in to troll them and did get banned by a bunch of pro women subs. Only one of which I was a reader of. I messaged the mod and explained, got that one taken off.
I was never banned. I stopped participating after the API debacle. I still read on sub daily via old.reddit.com but it is busily dying. It will probably be dead before they kill off old.reddit.com.
Apparently thumbing up comments can get you bans nowadays. Not even saying anything yet I got perma banned for inciting violence…
So annoying. Fifteen year account with an ungodly amount of karma.
I love lotr, but unfortunately a lot of the fans are far right and kinda unhinged.
Try saying you find it weird and unreasonable that elves supposedly never have sex with their spouses unless they want to consummate the marriage or procreate (so an elf couple with only one child will have only had sex twice in their lives, for example), and the other fans will react as though you personally insulted their mothers.
I don’t go that deep into it. The entire political aspect to me is just strange, like opposite world level. For my generation any nerd stuff/fantasy/DND/gaming was usually mocked or discouraged by right leaning adults. And I considered most people into stuff like that left leaning as most of us did it to rebel against over overzealous relligious parents.
So to see stuff like lotr embraced by the right or incel gamers during gamergate it iis just very odd to me.
I was temp banned for antizionist comments, after realizing I would soon be banned permanently I left on my own terms
Being openly critical of Elon Musk.
funny thing is musk is the reason why they started purging so aggressively, first in JAN when he complained to spez, and then recently like april too.
of course and the other issue, is reddit is also reducing user numbers so that it will be more attractive to advertisements. and of course allow AI to scrape the site for data too.
