I just gagged.
I was banned from a fishing sub. Someone posted some photos of all the trash people leave at their local lake. I commented that people that do that should have their license permanently suspended. I said that they do not respect nature. I also suggested that people should bring a garbage bag and to pick up any litter they see. Banned for “toxicity”
I messaged OP and they were also banned for toxicity and the post was removed.
Messaged the mods asking how my comment was toxic. They claimed I was shaming people. I said, yes, they should be ashamed. Leaving trash is disrespectful and shameful. They said, exactly, that type of rhetoric is not allowed. I then asked them if they leave trash at the lakes were they fish. Site wide permanent account ban for harassment. I filed an appeal and it was denied.
Reddit has become a shadow of it’s former self.
That’s how I found the fediverse.
I’m just glad Aaron Swartz didnt have to see one of his creations turn so far from it’s original mission.
You were talking about toxicity of the city. What do you own the world? How do you own disorder?
My tapeworm tells me what to do.
This one is slightly more deserved but equally infuriating.
I used to lurk in some right wing spaces on reddit. I had been there for years, just watching. Taking the temperature of the groups so to speak.
I spoke up one time, To correct something I found truly egregious.
Suddenly I was shadow banned in like a dozen left-wing spaces. Spaces that I thought were about discussion.
And then I was shadow banned in the right-wing spaces the next day.
It was definitely something.
I also got banned from the pro-choice debate sub once because I asked for clarification on a bad faith argument the pro-lifers always use.
I was told it wasnt the community’s job to educate me…um…yeah it kinda is because this is a DEBATE sub and I would like to know how to answer this bad faith argument when my aunt uses it at Thanksgiving.
I gotta say that this collection of stories plus all the others is starting to feel less like power mods with vendettas and more like a large scale astroturfing campaign intended to weed out people capable of using logic and/or bridging the gap in the various manufactured (or falsely amplified) conflicts dividing people for no good reason.
It’s especially weird how many feature “argued about it for 3 messages then admin banned for harassment”, especially since reddit’s mod problem isn’t exactly a secret and they’d be even more aware of it with the full visibility they have and you’d figure they’d want to address it if they were operating on good faith.
And then they train AI even harder on it.
If you ever feel bad about being shunned by predditors, just remember that child trafficker Jizzlane Maxwell was/is a r/worldnews powermod.
AND was defended by other mods. Even Admin iirc.
Yeah I’ve been muted in world news too. That one was for what you would expect. I criticized Isreal.
When you’ve been around since like 2007/2009, its almost expected that you have some bans under your belt.
As far as I know that was debunked. The account was active when Maxwell definitely couldn’t have been. See also: https://coagulopath.com/ghislaine-maxwell-does-not-have-a-secret-reddit-account/
What do you actually agree with in that article? Not philosophically. specifically about how they detect and evaluate the evidence they present.
I mean, the evidence is pretty solid. She gets arrested, the account remains active. She is at a party, the account is actively moderating. She is at home with no known appointments, the account is silent.
The broader premise, that the evidence that it is her is very circumstantial and coincidental is overvalued and that similar evidence that disproves it’s her is ignored is pretty compelling.
Well that just tells you that these subs are not for discussion but for echo chambers and lamenting, even if they claim otherwise.
20 screeching libtards with blue hair vs gigachad alpha male
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Similar experience here. I corrected some wrong statement made on a right wing subreddit, the next day I’m banned from a handful of left wing subreddits.
I think half my issue is that I was raised in a conservative community before moving to the city, so sometimes, I use the ‘wrong speak’ for both groups. Even without the automods.
I once got banned from several subs because of a comment I made in a totally unrelated sub, that some moderator saw, and was offended by.
I don’t remember what it was, but it wasn’t particularly offensive, and it wasn’t even directed at that person, and the mod didn’t even moderate that sub. They just saw it, disagreed, and then banned me from a bunch of subs they modded.
Yep same here. I dont even remember what it was at this point. It started happening so often that I just quit reddit.
I know for at least one I tried to take it to reddit admin as mod abuse but what a joke that was.
You have no right to police my behavior outside of your community and its bullshit reddit allows that kind of abuse of power.
One thing I’ve always wondered about Reddit:
Why is it so easy to get permanently banned, sometimes even taking multiple accounts with it?
My account was over 3 years old. I would occasionally comment on relevant posts and mention that I had built a web app that might help. I wasn’t blasting links everywhere, I wasn’t copy-pasting the same message, and I wasn’t even naming the app most of the time. These opportunities were rare enough that I might do it once a week, maybe twice at most.
Then one day: permanent ban.
Not just that account, but another account that was over 2 years old got caught in it as well.
Maybe Reddit’s systems detected it as self-promotion. Maybe there was another reason I don’t know about. But from a user’s perspective, it feels surprisingly harsh when years of account history can disappear so quickly.
What surprises me most is that they seem comfortable making these decisions knowing how frustrating it can be for legitimate users. Losing years of participation, conversations, and reputation in an instant is enough to make anyone pretty upset.
Has anyone else experienced something similar, or am I missing something about how Reddit approaches enforcement?
Yup! I got permabanned for suggesting (lightheartedly!) that the guy who had wrecked the local library be put in stocks so the community could pelt them with rotten fruit and veg. Permabanned for inciting violence! Account was, like, 10+ years old.
That’s really bad. They’re really bad 🥲
Let’s also not forget the very manipulative and toxic stuff people did to take over some of the more fringe political subs.
I cant remember the full story but I remember a few years ago reading a wall of text explaining how like 3 users took over a block of conspiracy subs by getting the original owner banned and claiming the subs were unmoderated.
“Reddit moderators should be treated like celebrities” - Ex r/LiveStreamFail mod
I asked a question once and got muted for life. When I asked why I was told that my participation in another sub proves that I’m a seller. I’ve never sold anything via reddit.
FWIW the same thing happened to me on the Lemmy subreddit
FYI, shadow banning is done by the admins, not mods and isn’t the same as being banned/muted from a sub
I play FFXIV. I once criticized the producer in an FFXIV subreddit for promising things he doesn’t deliver, I immediately got banned.
The subreddit has nothing to do with Square Enix. Modding in Reddit is just a way for Reddit mods to silence whoever they want without reproach.
Mods vary from objective to fanatical. Overzealous ones thinking they’re doing god’s work by slapping you down isn’t exclusive to reddit, but yeah it’s definitely there.
Not a joke, that person tried to take over a Colorado sub from my wife. We both saw exactly what he was doing and refused.
Loser behavior
Wow… Badmouthing this person I’ve never met for things they actually did? I’m starting 15 instances just so I can ban you from all of them. Would you mind giving me your wife’s account so I can ban her too? Or making one if she doesn’t already have one? Appreciate it, and fuck you ♥️
Use to be agasint the rules to ban cross subs for any and all reasons. Even if the subs where releated. Bans HAD to stay on the singular sub they where issued and the admins actually enforced it a lot of the time. Was a pita to report but you could get people reamed for doing it.
Somewhere around 2022-2023ish they removed the rule and things went to absolute shit.
lol, why would they remove that rule? The only reason I can think to block someone across subs is to be petty.
Probably bots. Blocking all is easier than one sub at a time.
That’s what a site wide ban is for.
I would argue that there are quite a few, however those would be better treated with a site wide ban.
Yeah, that’s my point. I figure if you commit a banable offense, you either broke sub rules and should be banned from the sub, or you broke site rules and should be banned from the site. Only reason for getting banned specifically from subs modded by one person is them going on a power trip.
I want to remind people that Lemmy is not immune to this
Lemmy is arguably worse than this. Just check out the mod logs and you’ll see this exact same thing on a massive scale.
Well, it’s on a pretty tiny scale, compared to Reddit, but that’s how it works. The smaller the level of control, the more some people revel in it. That’s why you get absolute tyrants in academia and HOA boards.
Yeah, was gonna say this does not feel very Reddit specific. Just a nobody power tripping.
