Comment on Could this possibly be one of the dumbest reddit bans ever?
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
I’ll just get this out of the way up front: Reddit sucks.
While I understand your frustration, I think you’ve made some errors here. First, Reddit is not trying to be a free speech platform anymore. They are a totally subjective space that ruled by the personal will of moderators and admins. They don’t have to explain anything to you, it is their house, and each sub is an arrangement where you pretty much just have to take it as it is, or leave it.
“Fucking assholes like you” and “is it normal to act like that” are antagonistic statements. From their perspective, you are a stranger antagonizing them on their turf—the easiest and quickest solution for them is to just get rid of you.
When they removed your comment, it seems like it could have been left at that. They didn’t want your comment. So it goes. By fighting it, you contributed to a situation that resulted in you being perceived as a troublemaker.
If you feel like you can’t speak your mind on a platform like Reddit, the answer is to find a different platform—not fight the Reddit dragon with complaints and insults.
No, I got banned for the window comment by the actual Reddit admins, not community moderators. That’s what gets on my nerves, and how that appeal form is fucking useless.
They basically repeated the rule I broke back to me, even when I rightly pointed out no rule was broken.
@Scorchx @WeirdGoesPro Their stupid admins permabanned me too. Same day, same reason as the erroneous automated ban. Apparently I was using a duplicate account to evade an earlier temporary ban.
Can't appeal the appeal, so that's that. #Reddit is a vile place anyway so no great loss.
No, they didn’t delete my comment. They outright kicked me off the sub and got rude when challenged. I was rude in retaliation and blocked them. Then I got the weeks ban. That was about 4 weeks ago.
You just said it yourself—you retaliated. That’s the mistake. They have all the power by design, and nothing is going to change that. If you don’t like it, you are welcome to find somewhere else to make your point.
Being a Redditor is like being at boot camp—your only options are “thank you, sir, yes, sir, I understand, sir.” Any response that deviates from that will just make your situation worse—and that is exactly how it is intended to be.
zeropointone@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Reddit is not worse than any other platform when it comes to getting banned for (seemingly) random reasons.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It is when you keep getting shadowbanned for no discernable reason, like me.
And not like ‘I’m a jerk and don’t recognize it.’ I literally only posted in a fandom TV sub and a niche technical sub, never even close to combative…
zeropointone@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’m not familiar with shadowbanning because it didn’t happen to me or anyone else I wrote with. We all got permabanned officially. But even the permabans were weird. In some case I was still able to edit old comments, in another I wasn’t. In a third case I was able to backup my saved links. So technically, a lot was broken. I don’t think that anyone at Reddit really knows what’s going on or has control over anything.
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I was permabanned after getting banned from /r/movies for talking about piracy. I then made a couple completely normal comments there on an alt account months later without even realizing it and got permabanned.
zeropointone@lemmy.world 1 week ago
One of my accounts got banned because I wrote that racism is bad. Another for writing that sexism is bad. A third one because I condemned a terrorist group in a private chat (Of course a group which is officially considered to be a terrorist group by many countries). I used simple language in all those cases, like literally writing “Racism is bad”. Is there a pattern? Is it random? Who knows. I wouldn’t be surprised if there is no reasonable explanation.
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Well just like in the real world, there’s a segment of people who get a little bit of power and let it go to their heads.