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[-] pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip 61 points 1 week ago

I got my 15 year old account permanently banned for filing one report against a user who was stalking my profile to call me slurs. (This was “abusing the report button”, apparently.) Everyone in my household got their accounts banned alongside mine. It’s very strange how the site is being run now.

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago

Yeah. When my 12 year old account got banned I stopped caring about that site and started creating new accounts every week and just posting whatever the hell I wanted without feeling like I needed to censor myself anymore. So their ban happy culture tends to have the opposite effect of what they want.

There's a browser script out there that auto-adds all your subs back from your old account, so it really wasn't even inconvenient for me other than the 2 minutes it takes to create a throwaway email account and create a new throwaway Reddit account.

And yeah, their methods for preventing you from coming back end up preventing others using the same computer or in the same household from coming back, so they just lose users. Their methods aren't very sophisticated though, so it's pretty easy to avoid them.

Shit site.

[-] TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

The problem with that is that it's so locked down now you need an account of X age with Y karma, so the majority of the site isn't something you can participate in. And I get it, lots of spam accounts and whatnot, but still shitty that they're a hair trigger away from destroying years worth of built up karma over nothing.

[-] BanMe@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Yeah my 10+ yr account was like #340 in comment karma or some shit, I was clearly a contributor, but they banned me for nothing. Wish I would have sold it now.

[-] creisel@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

you can sell an reddit account?

[-] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah they can be worth quite a lot too

[-] creisel@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

How much would be quite a lot? Like 100 or more like 10000000?

[-] dil@piefed.zip 1 points 1 week ago

couple forums and older ones have decent value, you can even sell suble ad like posts, didn't see that til after my permaban, people will pay you money to post on your account with karma/age about their stuff lol, makes me really dislike that system more, like most new ppl cant even get help because they can't comment/post in most subs.

[-] dil@piefed.zip 1 points 1 week ago

blackhatworld is one, i think

[-] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

How much karma was that? I lost 3 accounts and one had over 100k comment karma, so they lost another good user here as well.

I loved to post solutions to problems that never got solved on several subreddits, oh well.

[-] AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

So how does a person sell their account !?

[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I'm also interested. Why not? Better to sell it now that has value than just getting banned.

[-] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Woah... what's this? I had no idea reddit accounts hold value!

[-] OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Reddit has a whole metagame on trolling users in these ways. I don't think corporate cares at all. If anything spez probably welomes it.

[-] PonderousParrot@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Obligatory fuck Spez.

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