My three notable bans:

1. Banned from politics for quoting the Constitution on treason punishment
2. Banned from gym for arguing with a "pro" claiming there are no stupid exercises and bad form doesn't exist.
3. Banned from child free for saying not every one that is child free hates children with the passion of a burning sun and wants them all to die.

Edit: I forgot to mention when time number 2 happened. I asked the mod "Why was I banned?" Then my entire account got a 3 month suspension for "Mod abuse" by the admins.

So, in conclusion, Reddit banned McCartney for posting images from his own concert in his own subreddit? Wild...

I got banned from a bunch of Reddit subs for once telling someone they were wrong about the Yorkshire accent in the UK. They called me a liar about being British and then I got banned from like 30 places at once.

I just want to say that I know people who have known Paul for many years, and every single one of them have nothing but good things to say about him. He knows people want to catch him doing jerk behavior, so he bends over backwards to be polite and respectful to EVERYBODY. He's a Righteous Dude.

You are only allowed to post Goat Head Smoothie on Reddit

https://old.reddit.com/r/StupidFood/s/SGqbcQjdUB

Looks like the account is reinstated. Good to know that's how to reach human support there: be Literally Paul McCartney.

The posts are gone, though. I hope this was the decision of McCartney or his team. Reddit doesn't deserve him.

It's always interesting to see people commenting who don't understand how reddit works. Which is fair - you can have an opinion. But knowing how it works makes a difference in how seriously I can take your opinion.

Mods on reddit cannot do a sitewide ban. They can ban you from one or more subreddits they moderate.

Admins do sitewide bans, which is what's happened here, since you can see the profile has been banned.

And these days, with reddit's shitty AI moderation, it probably means a ban done by AI.

Because this is not a normal person, someone will probably take a look at it and overturn it.

If you're a regular joe, however, them taking a look at it even if you appeal is pretty damned rare. And as some have mentioned - things that trigger AI as a "threat of violence" that a normal human would easily see are not - doesn't matter, AI bans. You get a warning, 24-hour, 3-day, 10-day, 30-day, then permanent. Unless there's something that accellerates that.

As much as many people manage to survive without saying things AI picks up on, it's damn easy to get unjustly banned, and it's only gotten worse and worse over time.

Anyone in this thread talking about bans from mods is technically offtopic, except that reddit itself is also the topic, so that's fine, but you should understand that a mod banning you is not similar to what happened here. :P

Reddit will ban you for even the mildest of takes. Their AI admin is draconian in metering out bans. The platform seems to really want to get rid of all of the pesky humans still there and just be a safe space for bots.

Kind of tangential to the topic but reddit has been appropriating user names for celebrities and companies. The first known instance (as far as I know) was u/borat. I was surprised thiskind of thing wasn't a bigger deal.

I wouldn't be surprised if u/paulmccartney is such a case. A basic name that's only a 5 year old account. No way nobody grabbed that before.

Got banned from some subs once because the editing software I was using to sanitize and delete my account hadn't yet removed an edited comment.

Mod quoted it. Sent it to me and said this makes no sense. Banned.

The comment being edited was 4 years old.

Lmfao

Idiot mods gonna idiot.

reddit is ruled by bots now, makes little sense to stay there.

Paul's account is dead. Miss him. Miss him.

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

Man. Reddit has really just become a joke.

It's so bad it almost seems intentional.

hopefully he moves to the threadiverse, though it is unlikely.