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.
Comment on Could this possibly be one of the dumbest reddit bans ever?
zeropointone@lemmy.world 1 week agoReddit is not worse than any other platform when it comes to getting banned for (seemingly) random reasons.
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
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.
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.