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Anyone using Reddit for more than search results is doing it wrong. If you have your own content, figure out how to host it yourself and get on the Fediverse.
this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2023
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Reddit has been aggressively banning people for many years. People used to cheer it on because it was mostly aimed at conservatives, but they've expanded and created what appears to be a first-strike policy with no appeal. Now it's affecting everyone. I support consistent application of the rules, but their rules are petty, arbitrary, and broad. A famous example is how they ban people for racism, unless it's racism towards white people. That was literally written into the site rules until recently.
I think Reddit is a lost cause. They peaked long ago and now they're coasting on their moat. As other services like Lemmy gain traction, Reddit will continue to decline, and they will continue to aggressively monetise the remaining users. The only thing to lament is the information already stored on the site.
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I never talk about my exes. Yesterday's gone. It's a new day. Long live Lemmy!
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dumb thing is they’ll ban you even when you didn’t violate any rules. insane.
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I got the same exact thing. I think it's because I reported Spez and said "you smell"
Another reminder to never trust a site run by a guy who has sex with busty cats.
Have you read The Trial? Funny how history repeats itself, even if it's from "fiction".
reddit finds a way to make their ban system somehow even worse
I got permabanned for repeating a meme from the Fark days, yet there are posts of the exact same thing from 12+ years ago that are still up with no issue. Even noting that when I appealed the ban I got the canned "we totally reviewed it, fuck you lol" response.
The only other time I had an issue was when I got a three day suspension for upvoting a Ghislaine Maxwell related post.
Appeal rejected, but familiarize yourself with the content policy for future reference?
I imagine they're banning people all over the place now, I got banned from a sub for talking about apartheid in Israel a while ago.
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I have been banned pre-emptively from subreddits for making comments in other subreddits. The the sad part was my involvement in those toxic community's was to get them to see the other side in a reasonable way. If anyone had actually read the comment there would not have been a ban. I even appealed the ban and they told me I shouldn't even be there and it doesn't matter. Talk about being close minded and toxic!
(It was left wing subreddits banning me for arguing with right wingers in their own spaces, but I did in a soft way that didn't get me outright banned - it showed me that the left wing extreme groups are just as bad as the right - extremism needs to end full stop)
The fact that behavior was allowed on reddit should have been a red flag a long time ago.
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I got one the other day for "promoting hate" because somebody else started a fight and didn't like the fact that I called them out and insulted them back in the process.
The message I got contained a link which pointed to a comment that said: "Deleted by Reddit".
It was a pretty new comment so I knew what it was about, but had it been some old comment they reported instead I wouldn't have been able to successfully appeal it.
Possibly even worse is the fact that the comment remained deleted even after the ban was appealed.