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19 yrs on Reddit, permanently banned.
(lemmy.world)
No warning, not even a "Don't do it again email" - I had a work account, that was logged in on my works laptop, I made a comment critical of Netanyahu, and the Gaza genocide, which got that account banned from /pics. This was months ago, then I made a comment on pics, on my main account. That's it, gone, banned.
I even have another spare account, from 2008, logged in to that, that's banned too. FFS!
No luck on appeals, so I guess no more reddit, ever again. Anyone managed to get around this?
9 out of 10 "I got banned for no reason" posts, you find the offending content and think "oh shit, OP sucks."
Not saying that this OP sucks, just that the lack of context is suspect. And of course reddit suck, and mods suck.
That used to be the case, but the AI moderation is really going stupid. I posted elsewhere about what got me permabanned. It's bullshit.
That said, you are still decently correct. A lot of people get legitimate bans. But reddit's AI moderation has also gone off the deep end.
If it helps, I'm the "father" of /r/nottheonion, was a default mod, hung out with admins in IRC back in the day...... not that it makes me super awesome, but I'm also not totally a 'random' guy. heh
i think AI moderation is working as intended for reddit, to keep criticism low against israel, trump,,,etc. but not enough to complete silence dissent to look unfair. as you know spez loves musks, so he wants reddit to have conservative undertones, hence the astroturfing.
I'm afraid I must agree with you, much as I hate to. I suppose just like twitter was destroyed, reddit is all but destroyed as well. :|
OP gave context - criticizing Israel. If that means 9 of 10 bannees are to be considered assholes, then I'll proudly wear that moniker.
OP provided their version of context. At face value, I agree with you. But did OP use a racial slur? Anti-Semitic talking points? Did OP call for violence or threaten someone? When I say OP didn't provide context, I mean they didn't provide anything backing up their context. They just said they were banned for being critical of Netanyahu and Israel being engaged in genocide. It's been years since I made a reddit comment, but I know I made many similar comments back then and never received a ban, so either the mods were being feckless and arbitrary (certainly a possibility) or OP did more than they claimed. Either way, we're lacking the context to know either way.
I used to mod a few subs, and I can't tell you how many shitbags would come into the sub throwing slurs and threats around, only to blame us for overreacting when they were banned. That's like the default response to earning a ban. I also saw mods act like power-tripping toddlers who would ban anyone that didn't kiss their toes. My experience was more the former than the latter, but that's just my experience.
Context still matters.
Again, context was given.
Context chosen by op.
I'll see if I can dig it out from a crawler of accounts.
I have no idea what op did but you are dead on with some people. I was going to post a hypothetical as a joke but couldn't think of any that were in good taste.