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.
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.
Obviously, no one is going to offer me 88 million dollars
The best I can do is aboot three fiddy.
I was hoping the over used tree fiddy meme would die or at least not come over to lemmy.
Bring back dickbutt and let tree fiddy die please
Agreed
Once Loch Ness is finally subdued, the meme will die.
I don’t care. I love that. I play deep rock galactic, and there is a thing where the dwarves yell “Die Monster!”, and I think about that every time.
I read about a similar situation recently … a thread where people were joking around about NSFW stuff and someone commented “that guy must be hung” (as in “big member”) and got suspended for hate speech / inciting violence because the mod apparently thought they meant “go hang that guy” (as in execute).
So yes, context matters greatly, especially when dealing with snarky comments and reactions to shitposts, where people usually aren’t as serious.
When people don’t know the difference between hung and hanged, unnecessary bans happen.
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.
I don’t know. The original post was removed. The mods put a note on it saying the the child had actually been abused. So, I don’t know if I was supposed to know who he was or what.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HolUp/comments/15zlubn/i_mean/
Here is what’s left of the original post.
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.
Nah I think that the original post is gone.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HolUp/comments/15zlubn/i_mean/
Here is the original post.
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.
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.bruh lmao link me thy shitpost
Consider deleting your account fully
Ironically, you can only access that by using the reddit app…
I got it to work by opening in my mobile Firefox based browser and going into desktop mode, so clearly r€ddit isn’t doing good enough work to block people from accessing it.
Huh my dog just alerted like he heard something.
Good dog. Give pupper a steak for me!
I did not see that coming
Thing is, the rest of us who abandoned reddit years ago warned of exactly this kind of thing happening. We were called Nazis. You guys are catching up after years of name-calling those who saw what was happening and now want our sympathy.
Fuck Reddit.
I got banned once for saying that a drug cartel head honcho deserved the death penalty (or something like that, I don’t recall the details). This was after a story where a bunch of people in Mexico or some South American country were found murdered in some gruesome ways and the head honcho was caught but then escaped. You can’t escape if you’re dead.
So someone on Reddit was offended because I said that a drug cartel kingpin who had dozens (or maybe hundreds) of murders under his belt should be removed from the gene pool. And then to make things worse, some moron Reddit agreed eith them.
Fuck Reddit.
I once created a LPT post about how rotating different shampoos can help prevent your body from developing tolerance (this is still a great LPT by the way; if you have dandruff or some other bodily condition like dry skin and your shampoo or lotion loses efficacy over time, try buying a few different types and rotating your usage so you don’t develop tolerance). Aaaanyway, my post got deleted for being “medical advice.” Reddit kids are the worst.
Interesting! I’ll keep that knowledge somewhere. I have psoriasis. So, thanks!
That’s like an actual advice I got from an hairdresser when I was younger. Absolutely cleared my dandruff issue
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.
Got perma bannad for a joke… Then all other accounta got banned aswell… sneaky bastards…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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