Reddit is a disaster and it's ban/appeal system is a joke

Nziom@lemmy.world · 3 months ago

Reddit is a disaster and it's ban/appeal system is a joke

dhork@lemmy.world · edit-2 3 months ago

I got banned years ago from r/funny because I was browsing on “new” (like I do here), responded to a post with a lame joke within minutes after it posted, then the powers that be decided the poster was a spammer, and banned me too. I asked them why they banned me, but got absolutely nothing in response. It turns out, though, that being banned from there made absolutely no difference to my Reddit experience.

Now that Reddit is a public company, and courting income from paid official subreddits, it’s only a matter of time before there is a huge class-action lawsuit over their uneven moderation policies. Especially if companies start steering a good portion of their customer interaction there. It is super unfair to be cut off from legitimate customer service because of a power-tripping mod in a totally different part of Reddit.

Besides, I hit on the best way to ensure I never get banned from Reddit: I don’t go there anymore.

Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 3 months ago

With all these stories of malicious or incompetent mods, it makes me wonder if Russian trolls managed to get a bunch of mod positions on Reddit and mod to frustrate and hurt or kill communities to further division. Because it sounds a bit beyond a power trip or normal incompetence.

Though it could be due to volume and lack of effective tools and mods just dealing with their queues with batch actions and ignoring a lot of messages.

I suppose there could also be some mods trying to kill it from the inside after deciding they didn’t want to die on the “set sub private” hill once the admins started taking subs back. Guerrilla modding.

Either way it’s a shitshow.

Cock_Inspecting_Asexual@lemmy.world · 3 months ago

I hope so, I deadass just want my old account back. I got too much history on there to lose it all.

Nziom@lemmy.world · 3 months ago

Yep I lost my 7 year old account now am never using that shitshow again hopefully lemmy attracts a bigger audience I love discussing some video games tips and tricks and lemmy’s mobile interface is way way better than reddit’s

addictedtochaos@lemm.ee · 3 months ago

my acccunt was like 10 years old, with karma to match. i still got it, bu i havent logged in, because i am just furious about the whole banning thing for rules i didnt break. as soon as i get banned unjustly from feddit, i am out as well.

Nziom@lemmy.world · 3 months ago

Oh you got it back? How?

addictedtochaos@lemm.ee · edit-2 3 months ago

i was not perma banned, just time out. but of all the instances i was reprimanded, i was in the wrong maybe 2 to 3 times. last time, there was this girl who would make post about me harassing her, and she would go back and alter what she wrote, delete her posts and what not. so in the end, i had like droves of people harassing me.

she was angry because i asked if she was fat; but i only asked her that because she had huge trouble with her adhd meds, and i wanted to find out if she was diabetic without knowing. she was a binge eater and conscious about your weight.

so, in the end, i was ableistig, misogyn, racist and what not. she claimed i was stalking her posts. but i simply commented in the post that she made about ME. i commented she was lying… i was defending myself.

well. *'*ck that.

the whole thing, along with other incicidents, made me so goddamn angry that it was unhealthy. unhealthy in a psyscho way. so i decided to drop out.

i began to fear looking at my messages, began to fear logging in. not because i am a coward, but because the stuff stresses you out to no end.

i tried to delete my account and my comments, but i was not successfull in finding a good tool.

i posted a lot of content that helps people out (i hope…) by informing them about meds, adhd, autism and stuff. well, informing them is far fetched, i wrote about my expiriences, so people don’t have to make them.

makes me mad that some one doens not care about the mods, the site, the users, and now seeks to profit from the stuff i wrote out of compassion.

oh, and people said i was condoning child porn, rapists, and what not, because I said that burning child molesters and rapists alive is not okay, that just makes you a monster as well.

(a rape victim burned her tormenter alive, which is tragic in countless ways. so people started saying that we should do that legally, i mean, as sentence by a court of law and stuff. I think the victim has the right to cruel revenge, but that shouldn’t be modus operandi of our justice system )