Yea this recently happened to me. A had an argument with a mod and he reported a non offensive comment I had on his subreddit as a ban evasion. I got suspended for ban evasion despite not having another account. After my suspension ended he reported the exact same comment again giving me a second suspension. After the 3rd time I got banned entirely. 10+ year account with no prior suspensions/bans just gone because of one mod. Between that and RIF being gone, I'm just done with reddit.
It's almost like total control over content and no recourse is the goal! Garbage company, move on from it...
Stop! You've broken the law!
Chances are you engaged in one of the following:
Arguing an objectively correct viewpoint with a moron.
Engaged in political sarcasm.
Made use of hyperbole, facetiousness, or facetious hyperbole.
Made a mod look stupid on their alt. account.
Hurt a fascists feelings.
Engaged in dark humour. (It's like food, not everybody gets it.)
Engaged in anti-reddit activism.
Or just cause.
If you're feeling vindictive you can still request your data under GDPR every 30 days even on banned accounts and they have to comply by law.
My guy, at this point you're only abusing yourself. Time to look at the writing on the wall, that site died months ago (or years ago in my opinion), you will only suffer using it.
Ban their domain name in yours "hosts" file
Stop giving them views and complain about it
Our automated bot will take a second look.
I got banned from Reddit while I was on a work trip to the USA. Hadn't posted in over a year at the time. I'm absolutely mystified as to why.
They refer you to the content policy but they won't tell you which post might violate it. I asked a few times what it was that caused the ban, but they either just referred to the content policy or once they said "Repeated violations". I actually requested my user data so I could stick up my complete post history publicly and see if anyone else could figure it out. My username was / is sirdeadbeef on reddit.
I haven't put any work into displaying them nicely, this is the format you get them in if you request your data:
So stop using Reddit
Reddit has become like the Nigerian prince letters with this, as in if you are nuanced enough to ever experience this, you are not their target audience. They want only their very slim narratives to thrive, and they will willingly obliterate the post history and presence of decade old users to achieve this. This isn't just keeping away conspiracy theories and misinformation to keep the noise down, it's about keeping away any nuance and discussion away when the admins don't like it when it personally offends them or argues against them. It is basically eroding the sort of participation that made reddit great and them just hoping that there's enough participation left over to make it up.
Reddit is basically what X and Meta would be if Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg where as deceitful enough as Steve Huffman, as opposed to loud idiots who because of it everyone knows what they are. It's a social network that is rotten to its core but has played people well enough to be able to get attention in places where it shouldn't have been able to. Thank spez he was finally able to have his whole out-himself moment with the whole API fiasco, but of course he's going to care less and less about appearances now that the cat is out of the bag.
Reddit is trash
"appeal" just means you are gonna waste time typing a message to a smelly incel dog walker on a power trip that isn't gonna read it. Fuck that place.
If I get banned for silly comments I'll find a new instance.
I've never been banned
Anyone using Reddit for more than search results is doing it wrong. If you have your own content, figure out how to host it yourself and get on the Fediverse.
Reddit has been aggressively banning people for many years. People used to cheer it on because it was mostly aimed at conservatives, but they've expanded and created what appears to be a first-strike policy with no appeal. Now it's affecting everyone. I support consistent application of the rules, but their rules are petty, arbitrary, and broad. A famous example is how they ban people for racism, unless it's racism towards white people. That was literally written into the site rules until recently.
I think Reddit is a lost cause. They peaked long ago and now they're coasting on their moat. As other services like Lemmy gain traction, Reddit will continue to decline, and they will continue to aggressively monetise the remaining users. The only thing to lament is the information already stored on the site.
I got the same exact thing. I think it's because I reported Spez and said "you smell"
Another reminder to never trust a site run by a guy who has sex with busty cats.
Have you read The Trial? Funny how history repeats itself, even if it's from "fiction".
I got permabanned for repeating a meme from the Fark days, yet there are posts of the exact same thing from 12+ years ago that are still up with no issue. Even noting that when I appealed the ban I got the canned "we totally reviewed it, fuck you lol" response.
The only other time I had an issue was when I got a three day suspension for upvoting a Ghislaine Maxwell related post.
reddit finds a way to make their ban system somehow even worse
I got one the other day for "promoting hate" because somebody else started a fight and didn't like the fact that I called them out and insulted them back in the process.
The message I got contained a link which pointed to a comment that said: "Deleted by Reddit".
It was a pretty new comment so I knew what it was about, but had it been some old comment they reported instead I wouldn't have been able to successfully appeal it.
Possibly even worse is the fact that the comment remained deleted even after the ban was appealed.
!redditalternatives
I have been banned pre-emptively from subreddits for making comments in other subreddits. The the sad part was my involvement in those toxic community's was to get them to see the other side in a reasonable way. If anyone had actually read the comment there would not have been a ban. I even appealed the ban and they told me I shouldn't even be there and it doesn't matter. Talk about being close minded and toxic!
(It was left wing subreddits banning me for arguing with right wingers in their own spaces, but I did in a soft way that didn't get me outright banned - it showed me that the left wing extreme groups are just as bad as the right - extremism needs to end full stop)
The fact that behavior was allowed on reddit should have been a red flag a long time ago.
Reminds me of when someone on an anime subreddit got permabanned for posting a tweet from Abroad in Japan.
I'm not using it anymore but good to know
Stop using Reddit, they're a total fraud of an online forum. They banned me for daring to stick up for gay people and for being on the left side of politics, though i never said anything harmful or violent of any kind at any time. They are currently being sued for disingenous hate crime practices of banning people with differing viewpoints.
And if an idiot reviews your appeal you are done for
u/JosefK has been permanently banned
That's real fuckin bullshit.
Reddit is now becomming like North Korea
It is just
redditsocial site, make a new account 😂Lemmy is even easier tho. Get a ban? Spawn another relentlessly as it is even more anon than Reddit.
Yeah, I got a temp ban for asking if someone’s ex, which they described as a “politician who was a habitual liar” described themselves as Jew-“ish” in reference to George santos.
Appealed, no response. Submitted a support ticket, no response.
I get that it could look bad, but cmon this is a widely known individual.
Edit: Moved a double quote
