Someone made a post with a picture of a blonde haired blue eyed child. The title was “Would you slap this child for 88 million dollars?”

I said “Slap!?!?? I would eat that child’s still beating heart for 88 million dollars.”

Next day I log in to find out I had been temp banned for 7 days for sexualization/abuse of a minor.

I uninstalled Reddit. That was 11 days ago and I haven’t been back. Context is important. Obviously, no one is going to offer me 88 million dollars to eat a child’s heart. Not to mention, do you really want to make deals with people that can offer that to you? I mean, I wouldn’t.

All this has led me to realize. I don’t want to be part of a community with no sense of humor.

I would post a link but not only was my comment deleted. The thread was too I think.

  • @[email protected]
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    82 years ago

    I got perma-banned for pointing out that if we wanted to find out if ancient execution methods worked there were plenty of child molesters around.

    Literally the next day their was a huge thread at the top of the technology subreddit saying all kinds of shit like that about printer company executives. I appealed asking what the difference was and all I got back was a canned response. I checked a few days later and all the comments on that thread were still there.

    The only conclusion I can make from this is that Reddit wants to be a safe space for child molesters specifically which seems pretty sus to me.

  • @[email protected]
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    112 years ago

    I used to mod some big subs and saw one of the dumbest ways the admins banned someone.

    So one of the mods I knew posted a video of a picture containing a microwave with Alvin & The Chipmunks photoshopped in. The video had audio of a microwave turned on with high pitched screaming too.

    https://youtu.be/MsJCTNvPZVM?si=66xVCf1ho13mIzbN

    That 14 second video he posted on a sub he modded got the admins to permanently ban him across Reddit and then refuses to ever reply to him when he asked why. It was perfectly acceptable for that subreddit too.

    Hell I even started a conversation with some admins for some other issues and asked them about it. They ignored that question completely lol.

    I don’t regret leaving that site. I do regret modding big subs tho lmao.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      42 years ago

      This happened in holup. One of the most ridiculous subs. I mean since they got rid of spacedicks and watchpeopledie. You know, all the good stuff.

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        Most of spacedicks was just stupid stuff (and I think one or two actual space dicks) last time I looked. It was the kind of sub you’d browse once for the laughs and then never have any urge to go back unless someone linked to it. And the warnings were waaaaaayyyy overdone, to the point that when it got banned I remember being shocked that anyone would genuinely be offended by it.

        I’ll never understand it, lol. But now I don’t have to, so there’s that. Couldn’t pay me to go back now.

  • @[email protected]
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    82 years ago

    Lololol and you think this place is going to be better? This place is ONLY filled with power mods. They don’t even give you a reason or a message.

    • BruceTwarzen
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      I once got banned from pisting in a subreddit. It was some shitpost sub. I honestly didn’t care much, and just wrote him back if he’s serious.
      I made a new account, which i wanted to do for a while anywhere. That’s when i found out that he ip banned me. Fuck this place.

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    62 years ago

    Weird, I always got permabanned for similar jokes.

    They really started cracking down on dark humor right around the time they first told 3P developers just how hard they were fucking them over. My guess is that it’s part of the overall enshittification plan - sterilization of all posts in preparation for the IPO.

    Ironically, my appeal to my last permaban went through during the blackout in June. I got an email about it, but I never bothered to log back in.

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    2 years ago

    blonde haired blue eyed child

    88 million dollars

    I wonder if the post was actually a dog whistle for other people that sympathize with Nazis. Sus af

    Probably looking too much into it.

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    12 years ago

    And I bet the original post is still there.

    I find it sick how many videos of kids fighting or adults attacking them are on that site. And comments revelling in it.

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    Honestly that’s pretty bad compared to some of the times I got banned over the years. I got banned once for pointing out that a post about not wanting to talk to men about feminism was toxic and detrimental to spreading understanding of ideas. The mods of some of the subs will just ban you for saying something is illogical.

    • shastaxc
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      112 years ago

      Same. I once pointed out some toxic femininity on TwoXChromosomes and got permabanned. Talk about double standards…

      • @[email protected]
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        22 years ago

        I once asked a question in twox (something innocuous like “was that before or after you went to the restaurant”, I don’t remember exactly) and got perma banned for derailing

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    92 years ago

    I got perma banned on my original account for telling someone to “crawl back in their hole”

    Apparently that’s “telling someone to kill themselves”

    At least that’s what the power tripping mod told me.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      102 years ago

      This is my second temporary ban. I have a similar username on Reddit. A couple of people were saying that I was a trash human for having this username. So I told one of them “I love you. I unironically hope you have a long and happy life. I hope that all the good things happen to you.”

      That apparently is harassment.

      • @[email protected]
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        52 years ago

        It’s an awesome name. I wonder if people were pissed off about the muhammad part, the Jesus part, or the gay sex part?

        • @[email protected]OP
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          Well, it’s weird how each religion chose to interact with me. I have had that account for over 6 years. So, I’ve had quite a bit of experience.

          The Muslims were interesting. Mostly, I would get a private message, and someone would politely ask if I would change my name. This happened like 4 or 5 times. They would explain that they found my username offensive, and explain how it wasn’t ok, but in the end would just say it was my choice and go away.

          The slightly more serious Muslims would send me a private message to tell me that someone would be relieving me of my head. They would unleash a tirade calling me something horrible. That only happened like 2 times I think.

          Christians on the other hand are usually content to pay me no mind. But, when they do feel froggy it’s always very public and more like getting ganked. Several show up it’s a whole thing.

          But, I try to avoid those situations. I’m old by internet standards. I really try to spend most of my time. Sharing my old person knowledge and generally trying to be helpful.

          I originally made this username as a joke, because my partner took my other username and filled it with porn subs.

  • @[email protected]
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    332 years ago

    That’s not a Reddit thing, you’ll find Lemmy mods here who would ban you for less. And probably elsewhere too.

    I find the topic itself dumb honestly, so garbage in, garbage out. If anything, if I were a mod I’d remove the OP, unless the sub is for stupid topic, in which case they can’t complain about stupid answers. Again, not Reddit specific.

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    Obviously, no one is going to offer me 88 million dollars

    The best I can do is aboot three fiddy.

  • @[email protected]
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    62 years ago

    I got banned from multiple subreddit because i wrote a comment in a covid subreddit about the new WHO invistigation that point at Wuhan lab to be the source.

    I also got banned from r/blackTwitterPepole or something like that, because I couldn’t provide an image proof of my skin that I am black.

    What annoying is that the subreddit is featured in r/all and I cannot block it.

    • @[email protected]
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      Yeah, there is actually a way to block subreddits, you had to go to the old reddit and add some keys to filter it out from the r/all feed. I actually blocked BPT for that same reason. When going into a post I often did not look which subreddits I would be commenting on when I was coming from r/all so naturally unwittinglycommented on a lot of BPT posts. And I would often find messages, all from BPT, saying my comment was deleted and apparently I needed to send a picture of my skin(?!) Weird creepy and racist so I had to block them from my feed because I’m not interested in seeing posts from a community like that let alone interact with them.

      Yeah, the whole hysteria behind suppressing speech regarding COVID being a lab leak was ridiculous. And the more you read the worse it is, there were some bad actors in the west with serious conflicts of interests that published and push the narrative of the virus coming from a wetmarket and politically attacked anyone who published any information to the contrary. Then a year later evidence only keeps mounting towards a lab leak. I wish could write more, the whole thing is bonkers and people should be at the very least out of a job.

      • @[email protected]
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        There are three reasons that I can think of to why my comment is downvoted. One, these are account that Chinese agency runs to downvote anything relating to wuhan lab. Second, these are BPT useres who don’t see how racist the subreddit is. Three, and what I think is the most likely, they think I am a conspiracy theorist, white supremacist person with right wing agenda.

        The funny thing is I am from the Middle East, have dark skin color, triple vacinated and ware a mask all the time in poorly ventilated areas.

        I look at things from an outsider perspective and the more your read invistigation, and then you look at social media and politican you see how things are so fucked up. They gaslight normal people who actually read reports and validate information and label them as right wing, concipricy theorist and flat earther. While they push the others towards believing whatever they want to push as the absolute truth. Although, history is full with corporations, governments and media claims that turn to be deadly.

        Thanks for sharing your experience at least I know I am not alone…

  • @[email protected]
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    42 years ago

    Reddit mods are paid not in money, but in the smallest amount of power you can imagine. That dynamic most often attracts stupid people who are willing to work for free and want to abuse that power.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 years ago

      This filter makes for the worst combination at the magic the gathering subr. With the kind of people who get over competitive and complicated about low ELO magic, finding the ones who want to be internet police really leaves the dreggs in charge.

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    92 years ago

    The “would you” was lame. The joke was pedestrian.

    It’s all extremely underwhelming. 0/5 all around.