Asklemmy

I’m not banned, just don’t want to be there due to Spez’s bullshit

I said Palestinians should be able to defend themselves in world news and they kicked me right out, then afterwards every time I went into trash talk threads on the Hockey subreddit admins would give me 3day bans for bullying, or one time I got banned for 'encouraging violence' for talking about a fight that happened in a hockey game. I asked the admin if that was encouraging violence how come you allow MMA subreddits. No response.

I was banded from /r/democrats because I said that Bernie would have beaten Trump

Called out on a guy that was faking being Ukrainian for getting a free card making xenofóbic comments and denying the Armenian genocide (he was indeed from Turkey). I presented prove and evidences that he changed his flair from Turkish to Ukrainian and stated saying in every post that he was Ukrainian just after the Russian invasion, and that he was doing it to get more attention from people while he went full on denying any crime done in the present or the past by Turkey/Ottomans.

Somehow I ended up banned and he did not. r/Europe in a nutshell. I never step a foot in that subreddit after that.

I reported a Fox News post that claimed climate change has no effect on the rise in wildfires. First time ever reporting anything there, and maybe reported a handful of racist comments before that.

Not even an hour later I got the message that I had been permanently banned! Appealed it, they said they’d reviewed the ban and it stands. Fucking laughable!!

I got banned once because I used to make a new account every few months and accidently commented in a subreddit I've been blocked before. This means reddit tracks your different accounts by email or ip address. I bet the place is evil internally.

I got banned from r/food because i commented badly on someones meal.

I got banned from a bunch of right wing subreddits (r/conservative, r/askthedonald etc.) because I either posted articles disproving whatever garbage the post was spewing, or called people idiots because: they would make up a bunch of claims, they didn’t post any sources, and a quick google search proved them wrong.

I got banned from a bunch of left wing subreddit (r/againsthatesubreddits etc) for posting in and calling right wing subreddit people stupid and stating that pitbulls are far more dangerous than the average dog type, with links.

I made a comment that news stories about Ukraine winning the war might not be realistic.

This got me banned from WorldNews

I went to several pro-DWAC (Truth Social) investment subreddits and explained how margin accounts are "the dirty trick wall street doesn't want you to learn!" and gave them instructions on how to request it.

It's probably worth noting that getting banned from Reddit means that the majority of Lemmy instances would likely ban you as well.

And to actually answer the question, I've never been banned.

I never got banned.

I made a semi-meme about moving to Lemmy on formuladank. Banned 3 minutes later, no reason given, they didn't even remove the post and the mod was a twat about it (of course).

Never got banned, if fact I modded a handful of small subreddits, have basically made three posts in the past 5 years. The rest is just lurking on alternate front-ends on smaller news-like feeds.

(Some of us are here because we like Lemmy, not because of reddit ;-) )

Got banned from /r/geopolitics after one of the mods saw that I frequented the chapotraphouse sub back when it was in its heyday. Vaguely remember him saying something about how "unserious" perspectives like a communist pov wasn't allowed.

I never used it... 😇

I didn’t get banned from Reddit. But my favourite communities did.

I didn't get banned. Once I understood the user culture was changing, I found other places.

Still going strong on my 15 years old account. I don't really seek confrontation, so my comments are at most average.

My account never got banned, I just got tired of looking at political shit— especially at liberal/reactionary nonsense— every single day, so I deleted it and came over here, where we don’t put up with as much bullshit as we did over there.

I did get banned from a bunch of subs, though.

One of my favorite bans was when r/196 banned me for linking the whole Tank Man video under a “muh Tiny Moon Square” meme, which clearly shows the “Tank Man” leaving without so much as a scratch, a level of restraint that American police don’t show to anyone except to fascist wankers.

I got banned from r/LateStageImperialism for saying "Holodomor". I guess I can't be anti-imperialism and anti-stalin but whatever.

I should also note that I'm an anarchist and a socialist, not a Marxist-Leninist.

Back in the day the CTH anti slavery thing managed to nab two accounts. Got some accounts nuked for piracy (got like 2 discord accounts hit for that RIP), had a family member that apparently was a reddit user too (didn't learn this until many months later) and trolled a little too hard somewhere and we both ended up with an IP and ban-evasion ban.

Got banned for being a GDZ poster from some sub that somehow ended up being yet another site-wide ban, started using vpns, browser cookie games, etc around that time.

I made a joke about punching Nazis, on a post about punching Nazis. It was later reversed. That was like, a month before this whole migration thing so it's kind of funny to me.

I can't remember exactly what the topic was, but it had something to do with people using racial slurs. Someone made a comment about South Park, so I commented with the famous South Park episode where Stan goes on Wheel of Fortune and mistakenly thought that the word was a racial slur, rather than naggers. I was given a 7 day suspension, then ~4 days later, they told me I was permabanned from Reddit on all of my accounts. I tried to appeal it by saying that I was referencing the South Park episode that was completely relevant to the topic and that the topic is so valid, that South Park even did an episode on it. The appeal was denied. I highly doubt they banned me for the post. Rather, I had upset someone that was out to get me since I had been banned from another subreddit for not violating the rules at all, but I didn't fight it. Maybe there was a mod that was in charge of both subs.

Apparently, Reddit uses some sort of browser tracking method, because even if I used a VPN, they would know it was me. I learned that I could possibly use a VPN and Brave browser to get passed the permaban, but it meant that I couldn't use RIF anymore, and I was getting sick of Reddit anyway. Reddit had started getting too antagonistic for my taste. It seemed like users were just taking things personal rather than have rational discussions (made up example below) Luckily, the API thing happened, and people started migrating to Lemmy shortly after.

user 1:

This is a pretty ELI5 response, so there's stuff missing, but the general gist is that water expands when it gets near freezing temperatures and below.

user 2:

Water is actually at its densest at 4° C. Below that, it starts expanding because of the shape of the H~2~0 molecules.

user 1:

Yeah, I know that. I'm actually a chemical engineer. The reason I didn't explain that part was because I was trying to keep it ELI5. This sub is for simple explanations, and I didn't want to confused it. And actually, you are wrong. It isn't the shape of the molecule alone. We need to take into account the polarity of the water molecule. Perhaps, you should consider that you don't know everything.

I got banned, but I don't know why?

I didn't use my account for a long time, because reddit is just bad and is only usable if you have questions to a specific topic, because a lot of people are there.

So after a while I had a specific question again and wanted to log in and a message like "Your account is temporarily blocked. If you don't know what this means, type something in this edit field". So I typed "I don't know why I am banned?" into this field and after some weeks I got unbanned without even getting an email about it.

No idea why I was banned or why I was unbanned!?

Reddit and other big players are just banning people automatically. I read about some stories on Twitter and Instagram were the people didn't know what they did wrong and got banned and they somehow lost their whole (online) existence, because for all other people you don't exist anymore and move on. But after they survived the "shock" they say their lives are much better now.

Never banned. Purged previous accounts to start anew a couple of times. Plus I'm still there.

I’ve never been banned by Reddit but I have been banned from r/stepparenting. Can as a response to a response I had about age differences. I had lots of life experience, I wasn’t shaming anyone, and I thought I was being pretty vulnerable about myself as a human being.

I’m not even a step parent any more: I don’t even remember if they were talking about kids at all. It was just the fact I was pasting AT ALL in an entirely separate sub.

But I got banned and felt especially hurt to get a completely unrelated ban. The fact that it came along the same time as the API changes (last month), just couldn’t bother.

Messaged a /r/conservative mod and told him he was stupid. Permaban with a shadow ban on new accounts. Spez really shined that shithole.

I reposted a NSFW video from 1 year ago and got permabanned

Never banned. Left because I disliked the moderation, the community at large, and the content that rose to the top of their algos.

Mods ban or remove anything that doesnt agree with their worldview

I never had an account that was properly banned, but I got banned from a sub for police. After Amir Locke was murdered by police, I was in the sub looking through some posts. On a meme calling the outrage over his murder overblown, I told a verified LEO that he was not the judge. Permaban within 5 minutes

I wrote "My name is Junie B. Jones. The B stands for Bitch" and the sub banned me.