I think I finally reached my breaking point with reddit (about time). Earlier this month the humorless admins of /r/teslamotors banned me for posting a video of my custom charge port cover. A day or so later I mistakenly posted on the sub using my secondary account. That’s on me. The /r/teslamotors admins gave me a permaban and reddit gave me 7 day site ban. I can take my lumps so whatever.
However, apparently I commented today on /r/teslamotors using the account that received the permaban. Dumbass reddit gave me another 7 day site ban for ban evasion. WTF? Either a software bug allowed me to comment or /r/teslamotors lifted my ban for some reason.
Neither of those constitute ban evasion IMHO. I’m also tired of using old.reddit.com in phone browser since they killed apis.
I got permabanned for asking mods to do something about the shit posts that violate their rules.
Lemmy isn’t much better, it’s the same site.
Noncredibledefense banned me because I disagreed with an admin for glorifying a NATO/Russia war.
Unpaid admins do it for power and no other reason
I had a 3 day ban earlier this month for my first bad report lmao. To me, it read as hate/violence, and I had been curious as to what was actionable vs. not. Had 5 reports sent, first 3 successfully acted against (blatant racism/calls for genocide etc.). First one that was flagged as bad got me a 3 day ban. The second bad report didn’t seem to do anything but have a message sent my way.
Had a second ban recently and decided I was sick of fighting their garbage system. I had paused scrapping my 10 year old account due to a lot of the account tools breaking down, but I’ve found one that let’s me alter all old posts and scrub them, so I’ve resumed that.
And now they want to sell the content of my old banned account while refusing me access lmao.
They’re banning for reporting now‽
No joke. Blew my mind.
Just to be clear, I mean full on reddit account ban, not subreddit ban.
Yup. Not op but I sure did. It’s an “abuse of the report feature” and bannable if an administrator thinks you’re being too uppity.
I made a habit of mass reporting all the very obvious spambots clogging up my favorite subs and that got me banned suddenly, with no warning, for report abuse. You’re not allowed to interrupt their stream of fake bot traffic that drives up the valuation.
. Earlier this month the humorless admins of /r/teslamotors banned me for posting a video of my custom charge port cover.
This was one of reddit mod’s famous rando-bans. Something you could have never foreseen and a warning would have solved.
3rd time will be an admin permaban. This is part of the enshitification that mismanagement paid for.
Here is what I think happened:
- subreddit banned account A for 30 days
- when I commented from a secondary account, it was perma-banned from the subreddit.
- reddit then site banned Account A for 7 days.
- I think the 30 day ban for Account A expired yesterday which allowed Account A to comment.
- reddit then issued another site ban on Account A due to ban evasion. But Account A’s ban was for 30 days unlike the permaban which I think only applied to Account B.
I got not only a permaban, but an IP ban for saying ‘Punching nazis is a moral good’ in a thread about people discussing how best to drive cars into crowds of peaceful protesters (with diagrams).
No one else in the thread got banned.
Fuck reddit, fascist shithole. Used to be the best site on the internet till the alt-right took over.
I got a permaban for telling a Nazi to follow Hitler’s example and shoot himself. Oopsie. 10/10 would do it again.
(That’s actually what triggered me to look for Reddit alternatives, years ago. Or rather the fact that they left my mod account unbanned, even banning all the others.)
I never thought that I’d be deleting my reddit account before facebook.
You should delete your Facebook too
and xitter. I don’t post anything on there and only read shit that linked from elsewhere.
I got banned from 10+ subreddits for replying to a comment on r/conservative.
Apparently these mods have a system which scrapes other unrelated subreddits and then ban any participants.
When I used to use Reddit I browsed by r/all and didn’t take notice of the subreddit.
That actually sounds tolerant to me. Was banned from r/sinusitis for telling a mod that my ENT disagreed with what they said, then did the same thing- accidentally posted from an alt account answering a question-
Got perma-banned from Reddit entirely.
Well, I think federation is the way, it doesn’t seem perfect (I’ve had a couple of issues with lemmy) but this feels like a step in the right direction. Reddit has definitely tainted the link aggregator site, and concepts like shadow bans and vote fuzzing are just really terrible. I am new to Lemmy but I don’t feel like I am using something inhuman, it’s back to feeling soulful, whereas when using Reddit I can’t get it out of my mind that it’s this evil monolithic machine.
that’s what drove me away too!
well it was a comment on worldnews, while it was getting pro-israel spammed…
i was temporarily banned… like 3 days… then i forgot while on another account, and on christmas they permanently banned both accounts… one of which was 18 years old
my comment that “circumvented the ban” was a very innocent pun… one sentence of just some super cheesy wordplay
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appeals were denied without any explanation or human response.
and there’s just no way to have a conversation with any human involved.
fuck redditmeanwhile the place is crawling with sock puppets with 40 accounts, but they pay so they don’t get banned.
i’m pretty sure they’re just trying to purge way for the capitalists and their ipo
I got banned simply for logging into the site with a VPN supposedly for ban evasion. I had never been banned previously.
You’re not alone and it really is that pants-on-head dumb. They have so many users that it doesn’t matter. They don’t care if some legit users get banned.
I got banned from pcmasterrace for mentioning the old precursor to hydrohomies. Seeing as how it contained the “n word”, I took precaution to censor myself and use asterisks, “water******”. I was banned just for insinuating the name of the subreddit. Nevermind the subreddit was good-natured, open and friendly to all (except soda drinkers). And of course the mod that banned me was was telling me bullshit in my appeal like “quit trying to be cute”. What an asshole.
I got permabanned for making a topically-relevant meme reference lol
Apparently there’s very few actual mods, so they’ve all become jaded fuckasses who just automatically assume you’re the most low down scum imaginable if you break the rules and appealing the ban is just you trying to get a platform to sea lion at them.
sea lion 😂 what a great description!
Can someone explain this reference?
Look up “2014 sea lion comic”
See this comic strip for reference:
On the internet it has become common to refer to the sort of behaviour that the sea lion from the comic is showing as “sealioning”.
Yeah, I really hate “career mods” who run hundreds of subreddits. Theres people who do it because they love their community and want to see it thrive, and then theres career mods who do it because they lust over having power.
I don’t feel sorry for them at this point.
Yep. Bunch of silly ban-happy assholes in charge these days. I never even got so much as a warning on one account when it was suddenly permabanned. The comment that got me the ban? Agreeing with OP in a thread just like this that bans were getting out of hand…
And it’s happened to many, many others as well.
After the app protests, they basically put the shittiest, power tripping toadies in charge of a lot of subs, after the decent mods left or were kicked out. Well, fuck ‘em.
I remember being (temp) banned from the Signal subreddit for daring to discuss Telegram. Talk about group think. I never participated in that sub again.
if
droidsSpez could think, there’d be none of us here.
I got IP-banned for saying I’d lick the sweat out of a fat chick’s folds. I think we can guess why the mod was angry
Welcome to Lemmy! Fair warning, a vocal part of the user base here is anti-Tesla.
Most are wholesale anti-cars in general.
It’s not like there aren’t vocal anti-Elon/Tesla/EV people on reddit. I wanted an EV and didn’t consider any other vehicle because of the range and charging network. My car is almost 5 years old and we’ll see what’s out there in another 5-10 years.
Yeah, I saw that on Reddit too. It just seems like here there’s a lot of people who jump on anyone for even wanting an EV here. A lot of folks think that bikes and public transportation are viable solutions for everyone’s daily needs. It feels like a lot of people here think that since EVs aren’t a perfect solution, that we shouldn’t consider them at all.
I have an ebike too but that doesn’t get me everywhere. EV works great for me. Almost 5 years old, over 90k miles and no complaints to speak of. Thanks for the heads up.
Notice that I got downvoted? That’s exactly my point. Lol
Most are really anti-Musk.
