Okay, posting this here because it is literally called No Stupid Questions, but I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on this.
I got a message today on Reddit saying I was permabanned . . . I had really good karma there, never received any notification that I had done anything wrong, and never had a post deleted. The message said to check my inbox for more details . . . but there were no details in my inbox. I tried to appeal, and it was just denied in a couple of hours. No explanation.
Anyone else experience this or know what other avenues I can take? I’m going to be honest here, I had made a lot of friends there. I suppose I could make a throwaway account to let them know where else they can find me, but I’m pretty bummed out.
For context: I kind of prided myself as being a “Ted Lasso of Reddit.” I mostly just got on to give people pep talks in the beginner fitness and /toastme subreddits. I’m going to miss that a lot, and I kind of needed a community right now, even if it was an online one. But, hey, maybe that’s just my sign to check out this place instead. I’ll try to look at the bright side.
I’m here because reddit is now a useless NFT cash grab and 80% of reddit mods are authoritarian pieces of trash.
You’re not missing much. You could even find a mastodon community you like and start spreading your positive messages there.
Welcome to the future. Welcome to the resistance.
My first ever suspension from Reddit was for an anti religion comment. On Reddit. Then after my 3 days were up, the first thread I saw was on the subject of religion, full of people saying worse thing than I had, and in one of the major subs, not even atheism or anything.
I could definitely buy that they’re using AI but personally I always had the impression that they outsource the job and don’t make sure everyone is even on the same page or can read English properly.
Because even the stuff that gets [removed by Reddit] seems to be nonsense a lot of the time. A while ago I saw someone make a post saying something like “Hi guys, haven’t been active much lately. But I’m back and gonna be posting more.” Came back later and it was [removed by Reddit]. So not even that is trustworthy or gives the impression that they actually know wtf they’re doing.
The bans are AI driven, and the appeal responses are AI driven. You won’t find an explanation for why you were banned, because there was no human behind the ban
This is what will end Reddit.
AI moderation and AI bans.
We’re pretty much all here because of it. Reddit is actively driving their users to other platforms. Oh well.
AI ban evasion detection.
Even the human mods won’t tell you what rule you broke.
They’re probably tuning the type of engagement the
stockholdersadmins demand. Anyone who doesn’t fit the bill of circlejerking the hive mind gets the boot.
Seriously fuck Reddit, it’s gone to shit
Got banned over a star trek mod abusing his power
What’s a ted lasso? Is it different from a rope lasso?
Kind of. Imagine a rope lasso, only it’s a supportive father figure who makes you feel better about yourself and also maybe sets expectations that border on toxic positivity and oh my god when is my next therapy session?
I have never heard of this. I haven’t watched TV in years. I watched the clip. I can’t express to you how fundamentally repellent I find this man.
No worries. It isn’t everyone’s cup of chamomile 🙂
That was a fairly long clip though, so still thanks for watching it.
Reddit has been on this trend for a long while. It might be because you posted in a sub that’s gotten scoured. It might be because you said a word or set of words that tripped their algorithm. You might have been reported by someone for some reason.
Personally, I’m of the opinion that Reddit actively does not want real users anymore. They just want lurkers and bots. You might have genuinely been banned for no reason whatsoever.
. . . [Quietly hides the fact that he is, indeed, a bot]
In all seriousness, though, thank you for that answer.
I think they want real users because they want to sell their data for LLM training, but that might mean purging accounts that are “too political” to be of use.
What you should do next is free yourself https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite Delete all your comments, give them nothing. Reddit doesn’t deserve your post history. I was there since the beginning and same thing happened to me two years ago. No reason. Great comment history, never found out why. So I used this and deleted everything (it also backs it up for you to a file so you can still view your comments which can be useful).
We would love a Ted Lasso of Lemmy. Welcome aboard!
Thanks! I’ll still try reaching out to the online friends I had made over there, but I don’t think I’ll bother with it again aside from that. I’ll plan, instead, to find fun communities here for pep talks and stuff. I like cheering people on and have been told I’m good at it.
We’re still a little small so you may need to make community you wish to see.
Hey, invite your friends.
Luckily I have connected with most of them on Discord. One messaged me just now with the same problem, so she’ll probably be incoming. I only ever saw her post about gaming stuff, and nothing that seemed controversial. She’s saltier than I am, though. Oooh! Now I want to good cop/bad cop Reddit with her! I know it won’t work, but the real hostility are the friends we made along the way.
If you can’t find them, don’t hesitate to create them! Might be challenging to find users and get them up and running, but you gotta start somewhere, and you sound like the kind of person who is up for the task.
Welcome aboard!
I was randomly banned for no apparent reason. They gave zero fucks. Sorry that this happened to you too.
Well, I’ll just consider this being in good company, then!
Still Ted Lassoing. I love it.
I got a message on reddit that I had been auto-banned from a sub I had never even been to r/landlords, because I posted in a sub they didn’t like, I forget if it was r/antiwork or r/latestagecapitalism or something like that. It’s just a silly place now.
Consider it a nudge in the right direction.
I made my Reddit in 2013 and posted alllll sorts of stuff, never really caring what TOS or anything I could be violating… never had problems except getting a horribly downvoted comment here and there. That being said, I am much happier after transitioning to Lemmy. I use voyager which has a bit of Reddit-like view.
I got a 7 day ban for saying you haven’t served your life sentence until you are dead, they said that was promoting violence, I decided if they rejected my appeal it could only mean they don’t actually read appeals and I should just leave.
Oh . . . wow. I don’t think I did anything wrong, but I’m certain whatever I did was worse than that. I’m pretty sure I’ve said worse things to my favorite dog today (it’s okay to have favorites). Plus, that was really f*ing funny. Reminds me of when my friends and I have “stoner thoughts” competitions.
My last winning one was “Whenever you shorten ‘convenience store’ and call it a ‘c-store’, you are removing the convenience for the sake of convenience.”
I sure don’t mean to go off topic but it’s against TOS to have a favorite dog and not post a picture to back it up.
FYI you likely won’t succeed with your alt accounts as they have extensive ways of fingerprinting you outside of basic stuff like your email or IP address.
I was permabanned for “ban evasion” after initially getting banned from /r/movies for talking about piracy and then inadvertently commenting there later on an alt account. I attempted to make a new alt with a VPN active and was banned again almost immediately. This happened to coincide with the great exodus, so I wasn’t too sad to just let go of my 10 year old account and settle in here.
From my own personal experience:
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I can’t use my phone. I think they log the device ID (MAC address).
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But I’ve gone through maybe 25-30 accounts on my work computer at work. Same computer. I use Reddit in a Brave private window and I even use a browser script I found to automatically re-add all my subs. It works. I’m not shadowbanned. I post and get responses for X amount of time until some dipshit mod gets me banned from the entire site. Usually a few months.
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They also use device ID. You need a new device that has never interacted with reddit before (with a VPN and different email). They also look at the subs you subscribe to. The amount of info they collect is invasive, fuck 'em.
I had created an alt in the past where I had asked some legal questions. That was about it, but maybe that tripped things up. Eh, regardless, it seems this place is more inviting. Also, the combination of words in your name might be one of the most comfortable combination of words ever.
