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Someone else at your work acted the ass and got banned. You're on the same IP so reddit assumes you're the aforementioned ass.
To avoid this: stop signing into personal accounts on equipment you don't own
Companies collect a bunch of telemetry about everyone they can, that's the basis of their ad revenue. The data is used to identify you, your devices, and your preferences, and is called a digital fingerprint.
They also use this fingerprint to detect people doing things like making an account to avoid a ban.
Your fingerprint, when you made a reddit account at work, will have virtually identical devices attached as anyone else using reddit at work. Lots of people have alt accounts for normal reasons, so Reddit decided yours and someone else's belonged to the same fingerprint, probably since you made the account.
But now they got banned. Maybe even got caught actually using a second account to circumvent it, and reddit is cracking down on the whole digital fingerprint because that's "you".
I think you have the wrong perspective. Reddit is garbage and it took itself out of your life, which is about all you could ask garbage to do.
I got banned for saying that I wish Marjorie Taylor green would trip and swallow her own head. I was inciting violence apparently. I had a 13 year old account :/ I appealed and they said there was no error, I was basically a terrorist.
I have a suspicion that Reddit's anti evil operations team is basically a bunch of low wage workers with very rudimentary English skills who don't understand or even look at any sort of context.
I had accounts banned for the absolute dumbest and most mundane things. Hell, even pop culture references can get you perma-banned and the appeal rejected. Meanwhile, you report literal calls for genocide or violence and you get a message that the reported content didn't violate their terms of service.
It's a complete clown show at this point.
Yeah I gave up. Felt not worth it at this point. I miss it, but it’s such a bot farm propaganda machine in so many ways that it’s probably best left in the bin with Facebook.
They cannot understand the English language or how punctuation can change meaning at all.
I have been told by long time reddit users like you that in the past you could make an appeal that would actually be considered. But now it seems that "appeals" are just automatically deleted with no Admin ever even looking at them. In your case you were making a joke and not actually calling for violence. You should have been able to say "I apologize, I was joking" and then maybe be banned for a week or a month. Ironically as traditional media is shrinking and social media platforms are growing but reddit has no problem banning many of their long term users.
The response to my appeal was that it was a human looking at it, but that’s what I would say if I was writing a script to ignore appeals.
Haha. Im not alone! A very similar thing happened to me, except I said that Trump needs a metal-bikini-clad dancing girl to strangle him with her chain. Perma ban. Same appeal. Same result. Maybe they're not Star Wars fans.
Anyway, now I have lemmy and I think I prefer it.
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