I have mentioned in this group before that I had a 10 year old account with high karma totals that was permanently banned site wide 2 years ago. I had posted an article that conflicted with the reddit world view from a “source” that reddit allowed for linked posts. Anyway not to go into all that again here’s what happened.

I had read the discussions in this group regarding the changes at X and Meta. The shift is that all opinions are allowed except calling for violence or things obviously not true like the Sun rises in the West.

So I made another “appeal” to reddit with the perfunctory pledge not to violate their rules, which I won’t.

Next day I was reinstated. Are they shifting like X and Meta? Don’t know but if not it was a strange coincidence.

Though I prefer Lemmy I still enjoy the NON political reddit groups like for books, golf, etc. About a month ago I messaged the Lemmy Admins to appoint me a mod to the Lemmy “golf” group since it had been dormant for over a year. I was appointed a mod there. I started posting golf related things but with almost zero interaction from anyone on Lemmy. I realize that Lemmy has few active users. I read something a few weeks ago that actually estimated that there were only 1K of us.

I wish we could turn that around here and revive some of these groups.

  • @GerardShah
    2•3 days ago

    Interesting, because when i go to the link for appealing the ban, it says that i have already appealed and wont let me do it again. Maybe I will have to give it some time, or they have closed the possibility for more appeals?

    • @Mickey7OP
      1•3 days ago

      I actually had to google reddit appeal to finally find the correct link. I was not able to get the link via my banned account. Do a search for reddit permeant ban and you should eventually find the link. Then just type in your reddit user name into the form

      • @GerardShah
        1•3 days ago

        Will do thanks, but probably will wait several months before trying as my account was banned recently and the first appeal failed.

        https://www.reddit.com/appeals

        It’s this the link you used?

        • @Mickey7OP
          1•3 days ago

          Yes that is definitely the link. And yes I would wait several months and then start out by saying, “My account was banned X many months ago…”