So yesterday I received a 7-day ban for ‘encouraging violence’, for saying that Luigi Mangione did not deserve to go to jail. It was obviously bullshit, somebody got a little hair-trigger on the new directive from Der Fuhrer spez or something, so I appealed. That appeal was reviewed and the temp ban lifted and the ‘offending’ comment restored, but 11 hours prior to that I got another message that I had been perma-banned for violating Reddit’s rules with my ‘other account(s)’. Well that’s also bullshit because I’ve had exactly one (1) account in the 14 years I’ve been on reddit, so I appealed that too, and thus we get to the cherry on top: I am no longer banned, I can post and such again, but they sent me the above message saying that my appeal had been denied and that the perma-ban was staying in place. But rather than linger in reddit limbo, I think I’m gonna switch permanently to lemmy. 14 years worth of curating subs will suck to redo, but oh well, life is change.
Now that you’re unbanned, consider using a tool to edit all of your comments to gibberish to remove your value from reddit. I’ve seen it a lot, it’s easy to do, and it works.
Reddit has access to your edit history, it only works for as long as they don’t see a need to restore it. And it probably doesn’t work at all in regards to preventing ai training.
I personally have found search results that would have been useful or able to solve my problem if they hadn’t had this done to them. It has pushed me to search site:reddit.com far less, so I know it works. The fewer people visiting reddit the better.
I definitely don’t want to provide reddit with any more value, but many of my posts and comments were informative or had a good way to explain something or the like, and I still get random replies and mail years later on some of them. This (in general, not on reddit in specific) i feel is my contribution to society, so shitting on that just to very slightly inconvenience reddit feels counterproductive. I don’t receive any direct benefit from it (and upon leaving reddit I won’t even get the indirect benefit of people telling me how helpful I was), but I am content to know that maybe I’ve helped a few people.
I still get random replies on the stuff I turned to gibberish. Though looking at my old u/, a lot of the most upvoted ones were straight up nuked. Which wasn’t the case last time I checked.
Neat.
Doesn’t really work, Reddit has your posts and comments archived and if they’re selling access they’ll likely be including that. All it does is inconvenience everyday human users.