I've had it with reddit

I got banned simply for logging into the site with a VPN supposedly for ban evasion. I had never been banned previously.

You're not alone and it really is that pants-on-head dumb. They have so many users that it doesn't matter. They don't care if some legit users get banned.

Yep. Bunch of silly ban-happy assholes in charge these days. I never even got so much as a warning on one account when it was suddenly permabanned. The comment that got me the ban? Agreeing with OP in a thread just like this that bans were getting out of hand…

And it’s happened to many, many others as well.

After the app protests, they basically put the shittiest, power tripping toadies in charge of a lot of subs, after the decent mods left or were kicked out. Well, fuck ‘em.

Just browse it logged off on the old site on a desktop. Or better yet, stop visiting that website entirely.

I got not only a permaban, but an IP ban for saying 'Punching nazis is a moral good' in a thread about people discussing how best to drive cars into crowds of peaceful protesters (with diagrams).

No one else in the thread got banned.

Fuck reddit, fascist shithole. Used to be the best site on the internet till the alt-right took over.

. Earlier this month the humorless admins of /r/teslamotors banned me for posting a video of my custom charge port cover.

This was one of reddit mod's famous rando-bans. Something you could have never foreseen and a warning would have solved.

3rd time will be an admin permaban. This is part of the enshitification that mismanagement paid for.

I got permabanned for asking mods to do something about the shit posts that violate their rules.

that's what drove me away too!
well it was a comment on worldnews, while it was getting pro-israel spammed...
i was temporarily banned... like 3 days... then i forgot while on another account, and on christmas they permanently banned both accounts... one of which was 18 years old
my comment that "circumvented the ban" was a very innocent pun... one sentence of just some super cheesy wordplay
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appeals were denied without any explanation or human response.
and there's just no way to have a conversation with any human involved.
fuck reddit

meanwhile the place is crawling with sock puppets with 40 accounts, but they pay so they don't get banned.

i'm pretty sure they're just trying to purge way for the capitalists and their ipo

Well, I think federation is the way, it doesn't seem perfect (I've had a couple of issues with lemmy) but this feels like a step in the right direction. Reddit has definitely tainted the link aggregator site, and concepts like shadow bans and vote fuzzing are just really terrible. I am new to Lemmy but I don't feel like I am using something inhuman, it's back to feeling soulful, whereas when using Reddit I can't get it out of my mind that it's this evil monolithic machine.

I had a 3 day ban earlier this month for my first bad report lmao. To me, it read as hate/violence, and I had been curious as to what was actionable vs. not. Had 5 reports sent, first 3 successfully acted against (blatant racism/calls for genocide etc.). First one that was flagged as bad got me a 3 day ban. The second bad report didn't seem to do anything but have a message sent my way.

Had a second ban recently and decided I was sick of fighting their garbage system. I had paused scrapping my 10 year old account due to a lot of the account tools breaking down, but I've found one that let's me alter all old posts and scrub them, so I've resumed that.

And now they want to sell the content of my old banned account while refusing me access lmao.

Guy on Reddit: Fat people are disgusting!
Me: the coolest people I know dont give a shit, they have better things to do than get upset that someone has a weight problem
Reddit guy: Your a loser!
Me: Get a life! You must be projecting your dissatisfaction with your own body.

Permabanned for harrassment. Didnt bother fighting it. Couldnt be happier, not enguaging with 50 thousand teenagers has helped my sanity

Welcome to Lemmy! Fair warning, a vocal part of the user base here is anti-Tesla.

Yeah people have been getting banned for all sorts of stupid reasons for nearly a year now. My friend got a site wide ban for calling someone a moron...in a story. It's beyond Amy sort of rationalization at this point, just let it rot. You won't be the last.

I remember being (temp) banned from the Signal subreddit for daring to discuss Telegram. Talk about group think. I never participated in that sub again.

I once got permabanned from r/eyeblech for posting a joke on there. I wasn't even the first one to do so. But I was able to appeal it.

For those who don't know, r/eyeblech was a gore subreddit. I posted a video of putting milk in the bowl first, then cereal. I guess that was way too far xD.

Similar happened to me. I got banned from 2westerneurope4u and another mod unbanned me a few weeks later. So I commented again.

Permaban from Reddit for evading a ban.

Any time I created a new account it would be banned for ban evasion.

So I can't comment on Reddit unless I set up an account with a VPN.

Fuck all that.

I got IP-banned for saying I'd lick the sweat out of a fat chick's folds. I think we can guess why the mod was angry

leaving reddit due to bans is a bummer. leaving because reddit sucks is better.

How do they know you were using a secondary account?

It could be worse. You could've gotten banned by Horatio on Ars Technica's Battlefront forum for criticizing Microsoft. On a forum created specifically for criticizing operating systems.

Slowly deleting my Reddit post history…

Welcome!

They should just set whole reddit to read only mode and be done with it. They are banning people left and right for the dumbest things. Eventually people will just stop replying because fear on a ban. And that will be the end of it. It will have a digg death.

I got banned from 10+ subreddits for replying to a comment on r/conservative.

Apparently these mods have a system which scrapes other unrelated subreddits and then ban any participants.

When I used to use Reddit I browsed by r/all and didn't take notice of the subreddit.

That actually sounds tolerant to me. Was banned from r/sinusitis for telling a mod that my ENT disagreed with what they said, then did the same thing- accidentally posted from an alt account answering a question-

Got perma-banned from Reddit entirely.

I used to mod two pretty large subs (iirc something like a combined ~400k subscribers) and we had no way to detect ban evasion other than the user being stupid and obviously giving themselves away (eg. "fuck you mods, I'll just keep making new accounts"). This was fairly recently and I left the site and quit modding about a month after they pulled the API bullshit and booted Apollo and other apps.

So unless reddit added additional tools for mods, your story doesn't quite add up here.

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Lolol the mods here are way worse. Drama and defederation every few weeks lolol.