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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?

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[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

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.

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