I got permanently banned on both my accounts from the entire site for “violating reddit TOS”.
When I submitted my appeal asking what I was banned for they immediately responded saying that my appeal was denied, but still never told me what rule I apparently broke.
10+ year old account with hundreds of thousands of post and comment karma. I was top commenter on several large subs. I had helped tons of people with things over the years in DMs. All gone in an instant because one admin decided to go on a little power trip. And there is of course zero recourse as the user. You’re just gone.
Certainly has the vibes of something like when they finally caught the pirate bay guy and then the FBI or whoever it was kept the site up just to track users who didn’t get the memo that it was compromised.
I mentioned it in this group before - was just like you. 10 years. 3Million in Karma. Perm Banned. After 2 years of being banned I appealed and was reinstated.
I initially appealed and was rejected. I just moved onto other social media and spending less time with it in general. But about a month ago there was a discussion in this group regarding the move to free speech initially on X and then on Facebook. There was speculation that reddit would stop being so heavy handed with their bans. So after 2 years I appealed again. Said the required I promise not to break the rules, and the next morning I was up and running again.
Most, but not all, groups on Lemmy actually allow free civilized discussion. And bans on Lemmy are hardly ever permanent. Reddit should learn from Lemmy.
I don’t know if I agree on the Lemmy portion lol. I will readily admit that I definitely deserved a few of those bans but the rest were completely made up by an angry mod or automated because they saw I was regularly being downvotes (again no differing opinions allowed in most places it seems).
I think moderation on a site like this is difficult no matter what. Reddit has the problem of something like 6 people having ultimate say over the entire site with absolutely zero way to contact them or anything. Then the individual sub moderators are some of the moth pathetic power tripping bottom feeders known to mankind. I got banned from subs for leaving comments criticizing other subs that they hated. Simply for leaving a comment on that sub they didn’t like (which I was also not a fan of) they automatically banned me from a handful of other subs immediately lol. So stupid.
Lemmy has the same issue with individual moderators being ban happy losers that will just make up a reason for a ban instead of allowing an opinion they disagree with to be seen. But at least there aren’t a small handful of people here who can ban you from the entirety of the platform (unless I am mistaken and they totally can).
I got permanently banned on both my accounts from the entire site for “violating reddit TOS”.
When I submitted my appeal asking what I was banned for they immediately responded saying that my appeal was denied, but still never told me what rule I apparently broke.
10+ year old account with hundreds of thousands of post and comment karma. I was top commenter on several large subs. I had helped tons of people with things over the years in DMs. All gone in an instant because one admin decided to go on a little power trip. And there is of course zero recourse as the user. You’re just gone.
Reddit has been a shit hole for a long time now.
Is that subreddit just kept around as a honeypot?
Certainly has the vibes of something like when they finally caught the pirate bay guy and then the FBI or whoever it was kept the site up just to track users who didn’t get the memo that it was compromised.
I can’t think of a better reason
Reminds me of Something Awful’s lolocaust
Gotta ban you before you delete your comments
I mentioned it in this group before - was just like you. 10 years. 3Million in Karma. Perm Banned. After 2 years of being banned I appealed and was reinstated.
You waiting for 2 years to appeal or it took them w years to reinstate your account? Lol
I initially appealed and was rejected. I just moved onto other social media and spending less time with it in general. But about a month ago there was a discussion in this group regarding the move to free speech initially on X and then on Facebook. There was speculation that reddit would stop being so heavy handed with their bans. So after 2 years I appealed again. Said the required I promise not to break the rules, and the next morning I was up and running again.
Most, but not all, groups on Lemmy actually allow free civilized discussion. And bans on Lemmy are hardly ever permanent. Reddit should learn from Lemmy.
I don’t know if I agree on the Lemmy portion lol. I will readily admit that I definitely deserved a few of those bans but the rest were completely made up by an angry mod or automated because they saw I was regularly being downvotes (again no differing opinions allowed in most places it seems).
I think moderation on a site like this is difficult no matter what. Reddit has the problem of something like 6 people having ultimate say over the entire site with absolutely zero way to contact them or anything. Then the individual sub moderators are some of the moth pathetic power tripping bottom feeders known to mankind. I got banned from subs for leaving comments criticizing other subs that they hated. Simply for leaving a comment on that sub they didn’t like (which I was also not a fan of) they automatically banned me from a handful of other subs immediately lol. So stupid.
Lemmy has the same issue with individual moderators being ban happy losers that will just make up a reason for a ban instead of allowing an opinion they disagree with to be seen. But at least there aren’t a small handful of people here who can ban you from the entirety of the platform (unless I am mistaken and they totally can).