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19 yrs on Reddit, permanently banned. (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 month ago by ShergalFarkey@lemmy.world to c/redditwasfun@lemmy.world

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No warning, not even a "Don't do it again email" - I had a work account, that was logged in on my works laptop, I made a comment critical of Netanyahu, and the Gaza genocide, which got that account banned from /pics. This was months ago, then I made a comment on pics, on my main account. That's it, gone, banned.

I even have another spare account, from 2008, logged in to that, that's banned too. FFS!

No luck on appeals, so I guess no more reddit, ever again. Anyone managed to get around this?

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[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gonna sound like I'm minimizing your reply - please forgive me, I'm not: There's a wild difference between subreddit bans and sitewide bans, though. Lots of shitty mods out there because all you have to do to become a mod is make a subreddit that takes off, so the fact that you do get some occasional great mods is the surprise. A sitewide ban for bullshit reasons is much stupider since the admins should be hiring people trained to admin the site properly.

That said… still sucks very much to get unjustified bans at any level. Especially with no true appeal system in place.

Every site will get things wrong....... but it feels like reddit keeps going out of their way to make things shittier and shitter.

[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that getting banned from a sub is the same as having an entire account removed. It was my clumsy attempt to show how easy it is to get fucked over by reddit and that when some basic bitch like me can get banned from subs I never interacted with, it shows that the values of the site has slipped and that there isn't far from small actions like that to suddenly removing long time users from the platform.

I should have been more specific. It just seems like reddit has rotted to the core and is run at all levels by losers who got a little bit of power and became tyrants with it.

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

And conversely, I really wasn't minimizing that, either. Because both - sitewide and subreddit bans for no good reason - are fucking dumb. lol. Sorry to have not explained myself well <3

I think for the admins, it's less about the power and more about shit like the reasons Musk is ruining Twitter - money, political gain. But I know they've abused power, too^[Like when a certain founder edited comments of others because they could], so it's probably a combo of all of that.

But yeah, either way, reddit is rotten, and it's a bummer, because it used to be one of the best places on the internet for good discussion, information, all sorts of crap.

Well, here's hoping Lemmy continues to grow. It truly does seem to remind me favorably of reddit's early days, although I wish there was a bit more in-depth conversation on some topics. But I think I'm also a product of previous decades in that regard anyway. heh