In a post regarding climate change I called another user an “Ignorant Slut” like that line from the Office. Anyways got permanently banned site wide and I just can’t help but wonder if that was necessary.
It’s not like I say that all the time, it was a one off instance and they just remove me from their site. I don’t mind it so much since it’s just a Reddit Account but it is really annoying since I can’t help but feel the admins had it out for me as they banned my account unjustly before and then reinstated it. But this time the ignorant slut was all the reason they needed to remove me from their existence.
Anyways just wanted to rant to the void on how dumb Reddit can be sometimes.
eh, it’s reddit so who cares? dying platform is dying
Are you sure that’s what you got banned for? Like, did you get a message saying that’s why? I’ve literally never heard of someone getting site banned for mild name calling.
Same thing happened to my account for correcting misinformation about the war in Ukraine. If you piss off exactly the wrong person you’re gonna be gone.
Similar here. Banned from /r/news for some dumb mild argument about Elmo. Banned from /r/movies for mentioning piracy. Weeks later scrollimg through my feed on an alt and left a comment about how teachers should be paid better on a post about teachers getting pay cuts, which i didnt realize was in /r/news. First site-wide ban. Later left a comment on some post about a movie announcement without realizing where I was. Second site-wide ban. Same thing on another /r/news post a few months later. Permabanned on all my accounts, some 9 years old.
Honestly though about trying to start over, but this permaban coincided with the new API changes and general fuckery so I said fuck it and decided it wasn’t worth the trouble. It honestly got a bit too addicting so the slower pace here at Lemmy is a welcome change.
It honestly got a bit too addicting so the slower pace here at Lemmy is a welcome change.
THIS is an excellent observation. Reddit became an addiction. I wasted hours a day there. I like it here. Less drama and I spend far less time with it.
So this was actually the second infraction on that account? And even if “ignorant slut” is a reference to something it seems like pretty strong language to me, especially if it’s an escalation from zero.
It’s similar to facebook or twitter at this point. You can get suspended for the most silly things, appeal it and they’re “NO we reviewed it and you are VERY bad” and meanwhile, someone can threaten to murder you and you report it, and they’re “we reviewed it and this was perfectly super cool, sorry”.
The other thing is that they typically ban you for life, which is harsher even than our legal system. As a society we’ve agreed that it’s possible to pay your debt to society, but private companies have no obligation to see things that way. It’s like we’ve taken rules to deal with trolls in an old school Counter Strike server and tried to extend them to something that resembles a corporatocracy. It’s a lot different and more meaningful to get banned from service provided by a monopolistic company compared to getting banned from your local bar, for example, when you can just go across town to the other one.
it’s fairly horrific, like being banned from amazon. So Amazon is “hey we want a monopoly on all commerce!” … and then if you’re banned by them?
I remember getting banned off a subreddit simply because I subscribed to another subreddit that they didn’t approve of lol. When I tried to appeal, even un-subscribing from the other sub, they perma-banned me from the subreddit with no response. Good riddance.
Nothing would piss me off more than getting banned from a sub I never had any intention of visitng much less engaging in because I commented on a post from one of their disliked subs.
The curse of spending too much time in r/All.
Reddit, you ignorant slut
Reminds me of a customer who used to say ‘listen here you little shit’ if I stirred him up.
I am going in to post your comment. Wish me luck. Will report back.
Sounds like you hit the wrong mod the wrong way at the wrong time. It’s Reddit, baby!
Yeah, I strongly suspect large numbers of trolls are making very, very heavy use of the reporting features.
Had a 10 year old account get banned for something minor…which I appealed and got restored. But it left me to realize there are no actual rules on reddit…just a collection of echo chambers. I deleted all comments and the account itself shortly after. It’s been sad watching Reddit die.
You probably got banned because you referred to it as being from “The Office”, when it’s originally from “SNL”
OP, you ignorant slut. 🤦♂️
Wow. Didn’t know that. You learn something new every day, I guess.
Also, I guess that implies SNL exists in The Office universe.
There were a few SNL skits that Michael called out. The Mr Bill one comes to mind
Jim also swears he saw Lorne Michaels when he was in NYC with Karen for the Job Interview.
Considering Michael props up his humor on pop culture references, it’d be a must.
I was once suspended for making a dumb dick joke, something like “that guy must be hung” (it made sense in context, stupid sense, but sense nonetheless). This was reported as a threat of violence or whatever. I appealed, explaining that I wasn’t wishing anyone to be hanged, merely suggesting that they must have a large penis and got my account back.
Meanwhile racist dogwhistles and rampant transphobia abound with little consequence.
I swear they never look at context. I got permabanned for QUOTING something racist that someone else said. The person who said it was left alone.
The administration of that site is as context-illiterate as most of the userbase. They don’t get that an expression like “ignorant slut” changes meaning depending on context, and that in your case you were drawing a reference to pop culture.
That can be used both ways, by the way. When I still had Reddit accounts, you have no idea on how much I capitalised on that context illiteracy to insult other users. Things like:
- “An actual human being, unlike you, would quickly understand this.”
- “I understand that the concept of intellectual honesty might be a bit too complex for something like you to grasp, but you can always try it.”
- “Contrariwise to what you thought through your whole life, thinking doesn’t hurt.”
- Heavily implying that the user is a pig or barn animal.
- Heavy usage of “it” towards users behaving in a specially irrational (obtuse, assumptive, wishful thinking) way.
Can you guess how many bans I got out of that? Zero. The only time that I got a site-wide ban was for telling a Nazi something like “if you like your daddy Hitler so much then shoot yourself like it did”.
That’s why I like to embed things like that as GIFs so at least some context is present:
spoiler
Presenting the context this way is a good way to ensure that reasonable readers take it into account. Sadly the admins are not reasonable.
Almost the same reason I got banned as well.
I saw someone posting obvious bitcoin send one get two back scams, so I looked at their profile and saw they were doing this in multiple subs, so I reported them at /r/bitcoin and then one minute after I reported them to the next sub they were doing this in, I was permanently suspended sitewide! For trying to help!
The admins are probably ignorant sluts, I guess.
