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About a year ago I created my one and only reddit account. Never had one before. I work at a place that is semi virtual. We are required to come into the office 2 days a week. No one has their own dedicated PC. You just pick whatever is available and sign in. Obviously everyone is using the same internet access.

When at the office and I need a break I would visit a few groups of interest on Reddit. Groups that have ZERO to do with politics or anything controversial. I have never made a post or comment about anything political or controversial. I'm in groups like NFL and Dogs.

A week ago I get a message that my account is suspended for 7 days because of a violation of a "linked" account. I have NO linked account. I only use reddit while at work and no where else. I didn't appeal when I saw the message, I just said whatever. But yesterday I log in and now I am permanently banned.

Anyone have an explanation of what is going on and how to actually get unbanned.

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[–] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I got banned for saying that I wish Marjorie Taylor green would trip and swallow her own head. I was inciting violence apparently. I had a 13 year old account :/ I appealed and they said there was no error, I was basically a terrorist.

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I have a suspicion that Reddit's anti evil operations team is basically a bunch of low wage workers with very rudimentary English skills who don't understand or even look at any sort of context.

I had accounts banned for the absolute dumbest and most mundane things. Hell, even pop culture references can get you perma-banned and the appeal rejected. Meanwhile, you report literal calls for genocide or violence and you get a message that the reported content didn't violate their terms of service.

It's a complete clown show at this point.

[–] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah I gave up. Felt not worth it at this point. I miss it, but it’s such a bot farm propaganda machine in so many ways that it’s probably best left in the bin with Facebook.

[–] kikutwo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

They cannot understand the English language or how punctuation can change meaning at all.

[–] Mickey7@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have been told by long time reddit users like you that in the past you could make an appeal that would actually be considered. But now it seems that "appeals" are just automatically deleted with no Admin ever even looking at them. In your case you were making a joke and not actually calling for violence. You should have been able to say "I apologize, I was joking" and then maybe be banned for a week or a month. Ironically as traditional media is shrinking and social media platforms are growing but reddit has no problem banning many of their long term users.

[–] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

The response to my appeal was that it was a human looking at it, but that’s what I would say if I was writing a script to ignore appeals.

[–] 1ns1p1d@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Haha. Im not alone! A very similar thing happened to me, except I said that Trump needs a metal-bikini-clad dancing girl to strangle him with her chain. Perma ban. Same appeal. Same result. Maybe they're not Star Wars fans.

Anyway, now I have lemmy and I think I prefer it.

[–] Tregetour@lemdro.id 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Listen peon, we've got SLAs to meet with the language data purchaser, and your organic conversation stunt will not taint the product if we have any say in it. Return to your oar! Fix your loincloth too...