Okay, posting this here because it is literally called No Stupid Questions, but I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on this.
I got a message today on Reddit saying I was permabanned . . . I had really good karma there, never received any notification that I had done anything wrong, and never had a post deleted. The message said to check my inbox for more details . . . but there were no details in my inbox. I tried to appeal, and it was just denied in a couple of hours. No explanation.
Anyone else experience this or know what other avenues I can take? I’m going to be honest here, I had made a lot of friends there. I suppose I could make a throwaway account to let them know where else they can find me, but I’m pretty bummed out.
For context: I kind of prided myself as being a “Ted Lasso of Reddit.” I mostly just got on to give people pep talks in the beginner fitness and /toastme subreddits. I’m going to miss that a lot, and I kind of needed a community right now, even if it was an online one. But, hey, maybe that’s just my sign to check out this place instead. I’ll try to look at the bright side.
I got banned for reporting a post with the statement “links to nazi platform” (it was a link to X).
I got a message in my inbox about my account being given “a warning” for abusing the report system. I was then permanently banned an hour later.
I had like 5 accounts, one of them dating back to 2008. They are now all permanently suspended. Because I offended some loser moderator.
Or maybe they all got banned because I still used a third party Reddit client? Oh well. Fuck Reddit. I’ll continue using my cracked third party Reddit client and browse Reddit in read-only mode. Lemmy can be where I actually contribute !
Welcome to reddit dawg. I had an account over 10 years old and another SFW account I was using that was about 5-6 years old. I was on my SFW browsing one day, tried to make a post, and saw that I was blocked, but there was no inbox message yet, so I went on my other account and saw that it had gotten a message about being banned for a comment made months ago, so I tried to appeal it, which was denied. Best I can tell they just banned all of my accounts once the first one got banned, even though I wasn’t even aware of the ban in the first place.
I don’t use Reddit, nor do I tend to do so, so take what I say with a pinch of salt!
Reddit is one of those sites that utilizes AI moderation, so if you’ve been banned without any warning or notice, chances are your ban wasn’t even authorized by another human, but instead by a bot. Your IP address can either be static or dynamic, and if you have a dynamic IP address that changes to an IP that is associated with a user who got banned at some point in time, chances are the bot will see you as that other person and assume a ban evasion.
You could try appealing. If that doesn’t work, perhaps it’s best to shrug it off and try a different social media. Lemmy isn’t the biggest website in the world, but it’s one of the best social medias I’ve used and people here are generally helpful and friendly!
Which LLM are you?
Imagine you are a smoker and the addiction makes it impossible for you to quit. Then one day nobody will sell you a cigarette or let you bum one off them.
Count your blessings and move on.
Reddit Karma ain’t worth shit. Imaginary Internet points.
I got permabanned twice. One account was for using a slur. I was quoting from a movie in a post about that movie (Glengarry Glenross). It was clearly a quote but they didn’t even respond.
The second time I made comment that happened to be in a post about an Indian man on a train, something about the simple fact that every video I see with an Indian man and a train, the man will do something stupid and die. It was in no way racist but some twat complained that I was using a stereotype and I was permabanned again. Again, no reply when I chased them
Fuck Reddit to hell and back. It’s full of argumentative self-righteous tools anyway.
I got permabanned for suggesting too many times that we should eat rich people (was joking, obviously.) They also permabanned my wife and her cousin who lived in our basement, I assume because we were on the same wifi? We all appealed and never got any response about it. I don’t really care about my ban, and my wife never posted and neither did her cousin so they didn’t care much, but it’s like bro, that’s not fair that they got banned as well.
I think it’s time to let your wife and cousin out of the basement now.
But hey, sorry to hear about those bans. Yes it affected your basement dwellers due to the same IP. You can get a decent VPN for about $50 per year which hides your IP address.Yeah but now their devices are coded into the ban too. We’ve since moved to a different city, but I haven’t tried making an account on a different device because I just don’t care. I like Lemmy better.
we should eat rich people (was joking, obviously.
Was u tho?
Hmmm
Oh, no, I definitely deserved that ban if we’re looking at it strictly from a terms and services violation standpoint. Also they 3 day banned me several times and warned me. My fault for sure.
Expressing common political sentiment that happens to hurt the parasites feels is a ToS violation?
Hmmm I wonder why
Eitherway, you did nothing wrong and fuck reddit and their bootlicker mods. Pathetic
When I say we should eat the rich I’m not joking, I’m just not being literal.
I just met you and I already love you OP. I’m sorry you got banned from Reddit but I’m glad you’re here.
You can only repay them in the same currency: Never give a damn.
Never give a damn about redit karma or anything they do, or promise. Never give a damn about how mods want you to be.
Make a new account in such a way that they cannot detect it, then go on with your life as if nothing happened.
Details: Use a new nickname, new IP address, no real name/age/location, a different app (or browser), a new mailaddress, subscribe a different set of subs (at the beginning). For the future: create your next account(s) before the current one gets banned.
My first ever suspension from Reddit was for an anti religion comment. On Reddit. Then after my 3 days were up, the first thread I saw was on the subject of religion, full of people saying worse thing than I had, and in one of the major subs, not even atheism or anything.
I could definitely buy that they’re using AI but personally I always had the impression that they outsource the job and don’t make sure everyone is even on the same page or can read English properly.
Because even the stuff that gets [removed by Reddit] seems to be nonsense a lot of the time. A while ago I saw someone make a post saying something like “Hi guys, haven’t been active much lately. But I’m back and gonna be posting more.” Came back later and it was [removed by Reddit]. So not even that is trustworthy or gives the impression that they actually know wtf they’re doing.
I had an account from 2013 with hundreds of thousands of comment and post karma. They banned my account without even telling me why. I filed an appeal and that was a month ago now. Still haven’t heard anything back.
I made a new account under a new email with a new Internet connection and a new device. It got banned after 30 minutes. I literally left one positive comment and upvoted a few things.
Reddit and their power tripping admins/mods can suck it.
Reddit has been actively hostile for a while.
Here?
On one hand, it’s a smaller place, so there’s less content to browse…
On the other hand, it’s a smaller place so you can reply to an older thread and still have interaction with people.On reddit, if I replied to a thread that was 1h old, it was like sending a message in a bottle, floating in an endless sea where none would find it or shouting in the void.
Anyway, welcome home / make it your home.
PeaceOther things I like:
- The decentralized nature means you will never truly be banned from everywhere unless your behaviour is universally considered unacceptable, in which case good riddance
- There are fewer of us, so some people care about keeping individual users around. I’ve still received bans from communities for reasons I find questionable, but that’s in the nature of having people manage communities themselves.
What’s a ted lasso? Is it different from a rope lasso?
Kind of. Imagine a rope lasso, only it’s a supportive father figure who makes you feel better about yourself and also maybe sets expectations that border on toxic positivity and oh my god when is my next therapy session?
I have never heard of this. I haven’t watched TV in years. I watched the clip. I can’t express to you how fundamentally repellent I find this man.
No worries. It isn’t everyone’s cup of chamomile 🙂
That was a fairly long clip though, so still thanks for watching it.
My old account was 15 years old, approaching 2 million karma, never a single warning, no posts or comments ever removed for violating Reddit TOS and a some Zionist fascist pig admin didnt like a pro Palestinian comment and permabanned me
Reported! /joke
But that sucks. 15 years? I don’t think I posted anything “political” aside from some LGBTQ stuff. I did poke some fun at some gamers who were butthurt about their game finally including girls. I don’t think anything I said was all that controversial, but maybe they reported me for that. Warhammer 40k fans aren’t above organized mass reporting from what I’ve seen on places like YouTube.
I was very political, but everything said and posted was within TOS limits. 3 of my huge subs were abandoned and are now being run by shit mods. They claimed I was inciting violence by saying Palestinians have the right to defend themselves.
Quick let’s mainline this person some linux
Is . . . is that why a mysterious penguin suddenly appeared in my living room. Whew. That’s a relief. I was worried it was because of the shrooms.
Just switch from Mario Kart to Tux racer and you’ll be OK.
get some programmer socks so it knows your not a threat
Stares down at crocs in horror. I’m doomed by my own hubris!
Yeah, that’s your sign.
Furries get a slightly different vision:
