I Got permanently banned from a subreddit I liked ,and was a long time member of because I accidentally reposted something that was already posted on there before. I tried to ask the mods about the perma ban but got no response
Reddit figured out that individual bans don’t matter. Who the fuck are you? Nobody. You count for nothing against the monstrous user base. Even if half of them are bots, they still count as users on an Excel sheet somewhere.
I got banned from the pure A Song of Fire and Ice subreddit because I reported a blatantly sexist post, which is against the rules of the sub, without realizing the person I was reporting was the mod. So the jackass Banned Me immediately. Yeah I’m still bitter.
Course I have a couple stories about being banned on Lemmy that are even worse.
Repost policing is so ridiculous. Like yeah, of course we’d rather not have the same thing multiple times a day, but it’s totally ridiculous to expect people to look through the entire sub’s history to make sure you’re good. If you saw it before, just move on. No need to shit on people for trying to contribute.
Only time I say anything about it is when I do a quick search and I find a duplicate immediately, like first 10 posts that show up. If they tried at all, then they would have seen it. Same thing for often repeated questions.
The thing is that on these types of platforms old posts get pushed down. And actually on Reddit until very recently old posts became locked, and unable to be interacted with.
And if something hasn’t been posted for years, it’s almost guaranteed that new people will see the repost and it probably won’t even be seen as a repost.
Uhm I’m pretty sure somebody said the exact same thing the last time this was posted? Do we really need to keep doing this? Everyone turn off your phones and computers. The internet is done.
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The AI just turned my computer back on!
In particular, it’s just lazy to escalate to a permaban right away. Even if they have a rule against reposts, removing a post along with a warning not to do it again is sufficient to educate the vast majority of people there who may not have seen the rule and only did it for the first time.
But that would take a few extra minutes, I suppose, to check someone’s post history and see if they are a serial rule breaker. Much easier to just wield the ban-hammer then ignore.
Yeah, same here. Well said, I agree with you. It’s more fair to issue a temporary ban to and warn the users that their reposting too early
I don’t use a temp ban unless they’ve already been warned a couple times and it’s obvious they’re just reposting shit that they know they’re reposting, like reposting their own stuff. I’ll only permaban if I know they’re spamming, or they’re overtly hostile to people on a regular basis and get a steady stream of reports against them.
It can get really annoying but we need to remember that the upteenth repost of something probably leads to at least one person seeing it the first time.
I also like some (especially meme) reposts because I enjoyed the post once already and I just enjoy to experience it again
And yet there’s serial reposters who get away with it anyway.
Yeah, tell me about it. Unintentionally Reposting something should not get the user permanently banned, temporarily ban is more fair.
I got permanently banned for accidentally and unintentionally reposting something that was posted there before. I was a longtime member of that subreddit too! I got unfairly banned for a simple mistake. I tried to talk to the mods but they didn’t respond
No, a heads up is fair. Banning someone for any length of time for something they weren’t even aware they were doing is fucked up, especially for something as harmless as reposting some funny meme.
Reddit mods are basically in the belief that they’re Mao Zedong. When I created and ran a subreddit /r/treecomics way back in the day, I got accused of being too light on reposts. Like if it was within a couple days I would just remove it. Unless someone was constantly doing it, there’s no harm. Lighten the fuck up people.
So glad I’m permabanned for saying that neonazis in my city should learn how to bite a curb.
I think if moderation is so intense that it has a chilling effect on the community, that’s a big red flag. Sounds like you did it just right.
Yeah, same here. Some mods have let that power go to their heads. They permanently ban people who accidentally repost too early, people that have a different opinion about something and many others who didn’t do anything wrong.
I got banned from (later re-added to) r/neopets… a person was seeking help about getting back their old account, and I said they’d know which email was used because the MASSIVE neopets hack is on most people’s identity theft reports and online security data. They don’t want scammers to know about the hack, even enough over 40,000 accounts have been already stolen and a group in Brazil is making over $20K USD a month selling the rare/limited digital items, for real money, to those who don’t want to grind.
I pleaded and they let me back in. They take it very seriously.
Welcome!
This aint reddit level for niche subs but otherwise it is a good place!
Yeah, thanks. I’ll try to post more here, interact with you guys more,
Reddit has a lot of niche subs, and more people posting and commenting there.
I’ll try to contribute more here too.
Its just that there isn’t enough people here
yep. we got decent community here, deff a lot more “small village”
smaller subs will take sometime to built up but the core loop is decent for general social media doom scrolling.
Yeah, I wish there was more people here
The solution to paying moderators and admins is to simply issue lifetime bans to every account that commits the vaguest faux pas. That’s the nature of the beast at a website that no longer actually wants humans interacting with it.
Which i understand why it happened. There’s just too many user there for each mod to handle so autoban is the quickest for even a minute offence. The dam that hold the water is cracking.
There’s just too many user there for each mod to handle
Because admins purged a bunch of the mods for failing to adhere to their increasingly dictatorial policies. It’s a self-inflicted crisis.
Honestly makes complete sense why it seems to be bot central there now. The shit you sometimes get perma banned for is just ludicrous. And then you get auto admin messages back that the Nazi who called for literal murder didn’t actually violate their terms of service…
I feel your pain.
