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I think I finally reached my breaking point with reddit (about time). Earlier this month the humorless admins of /r/teslamotors banned me for posting a video of my custom charge port cover. A day or so later I mistakenly posted on the sub using my secondary account. That's on me. The /r/teslamotors admins gave me a permaban and reddit gave me 7 day site ban. I can take my lumps so whatever.

However, apparently I commented today on /r/teslamotors using the account that received the permaban. Dumbass reddit gave me another 7 day site ban for ban evasion. WTF? Either a software bug allowed me to comment or /r/teslamotors lifted my ban for some reason.

Neither of those constitute ban evasion IMHO. I'm also tired of using old.reddit.com in phone browser since they killed apis.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

I got banned from pcmasterrace for mentioning the old precursor to hydrohomies. Seeing as how it contained the "n word", I took precaution to censor myself and use asterisks, "water******". I was banned just for insinuating the name of the subreddit. Nevermind the subreddit was good-natured, open and friendly to all (except soda drinkers). And of course the mod that banned me was was telling me bullshit in my appeal like "quit trying to be cute". What an asshole.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Apparently there's very few actual mods, so they've all become jaded fuckasses who just automatically assume you're the most low down scum imaginable if you break the rules and appealing the ban is just you trying to get a platform to sea lion at them.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

Yeah, I really hate "career mods" who run hundreds of subreddits. Theres people who do it because they love their community and want to see it thrive, and then theres career mods who do it because they lust over having power.

[–] MataVatnik 10 points 8 months ago

I don't feel sorry for them at this point.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

I would be bitter too if I did free work for a guy making 190 mill a year. Reddit mods are the saddest of usefull idiots

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

sea lion 😂 what a great description!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

I got permabanned for making a topically-relevant meme reference lol

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[–] FinishingDutch 39 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] TropicalDingdong 35 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] AllonzeeLV 14 points 8 months ago (3 children)

if ~~droids~~ Spez could think, there'd be none of us here.

[–] AtariDump 15 points 8 months ago
[–] MataVatnik 4 points 8 months ago

It doesn't matter to him. Have you ever seen the home page of snapshot? That's what he's going for.

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[–] Resol 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] bitchkat 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

That's why I'm here! I scrubbed my comment and post history with Redact this morning. I'd like to think that will prevent them feeding my comments/posts into AI model but I wouldn't be surprised if they actually use the pre-scrubbed versions.

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[–] mods_are_assholes 26 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] bitchkat 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I never thought that I'd be deleting my reddit account before facebook.

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[–] NOT_RICK 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] mods_are_assholes 5 points 8 months ago

it was one of the 'dank' subs that I found browsing /new, not dankmemes but adjacent.

/dankwolfpack or something

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[–] btaf45 25 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

. 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.

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[–] Lulzagna 18 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

They're banning for reporting now‽

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yup. Not op but I sure did. It's an "abuse of the report feature" and bannable if an administrator thinks you're being too uppity.

I made a habit of mass reporting all the very obvious spambots clogging up my favorite subs and that got me banned suddenly, with no warning, for report abuse. You're not allowed to interrupt their stream of fake bot traffic that drives up the valuation.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

No joke. Blew my mind.

Just to be clear, I mean full on reddit account ban, not subreddit ban.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] bitchkat 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's not like there aren't vocal anti-Elon/Tesla/EV people on reddit. I wanted an EV and didn't consider any other vehicle because of the range and charging network. My car is almost 5 years old and we'll see what's out there in another 5-10 years.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I saw that on Reddit too. It just seems like here there's a lot of people who jump on anyone for even wanting an EV here. A lot of folks think that bikes and public transportation are viable solutions for everyone's daily needs. It feels like a lot of people here think that since EVs aren't a perfect solution, that we shouldn't consider them at all.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] FinishingDutch 10 points 8 months ago

Damn son, people have been tried in The Hague for less 🙀

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[–] MataVatnik 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

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

[–] Mr_Blott 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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

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[–] phoneymouse 5 points 8 months ago (21 children)

How do they know you were using a secondary account?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

When you logout and login again, the tracking cookies are still present. Also, if you use the mobile app to login with multiple accounts, Reddit will mark those accounts as belonging to the same person. IP address is a factor but probably not as important because a large number of people share the same IP addresses these days thanks to cgnat and VPN.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

They track all that

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