Had a 10 year old account get banned for something minor…which I appealed and got restored. But it left me to realize there are no actual rules on reddit…just a collection of echo chambers. I deleted all comments and the account itself shortly after. It’s been sad watching Reddit die.
I remember getting banned off a subreddit simply because I subscribed to another subreddit that they didn’t approve of lol. When I tried to appeal, even un-subscribing from the other sub, they perma-banned me from the subreddit with no response. Good riddance.
Nothing would piss me off more than getting banned from a sub I never had any intention of visitng much less engaging in because I commented on a post from one of their disliked subs.
It’s similar to facebook or twitter at this point. You can get suspended for the most silly things, appeal it and they’re “NO we reviewed it and you are VERY bad” and meanwhile, someone can threaten to murder you and you report it, and they’re “we reviewed it and this was perfectly super cool, sorry”.
The other thing is that they typically ban you for life, which is harsher even than our legal system. As a society we’ve agreed that it’s possible to pay your debt to society, but private companies have no obligation to see things that way. It’s like we’ve taken rules to deal with trolls in an old school Counter Strike server and tried to extend them to something that resembles a corporatocracy. It’s a lot different and more meaningful to get banned from service provided by a monopolistic company compared to getting banned from your local bar, for example, when you can just go across town to the other one.
So this was actually the second infraction on that account? And even if “ignorant slut” is a reference to something it seems like pretty strong language to me, especially if it’s an escalation from zero.
Are you sure that’s what you got banned for? Like, did you get a message saying that’s why? I’ve literally never heard of someone getting site banned for mild name calling.
Similar here. Banned from /r/news for some dumb mild argument about Elmo. Banned from /r/movies for mentioning piracy. Weeks later scrollimg through my feed on an alt and left a comment about how teachers should be paid better on a post about teachers getting pay cuts, which i didnt realize was in /r/news. First site-wide ban. Later left a comment on some post about a movie announcement without realizing where I was. Second site-wide ban. Same thing on another /r/news post a few months later. Permabanned on all my accounts, some 9 years old.
Honestly though about trying to start over, but this permaban coincided with the new API changes and general fuckery so I said fuck it and decided it wasn’t worth the trouble. It honestly got a bit too addicting so the slower pace here at Lemmy is a welcome change.
It honestly got a bit too addicting so the slower pace here at Lemmy is a welcome change.
THIS is an excellent observation. Reddit became an addiction. I wasted hours a day there. I like it here. Less drama and I spend far less time with it.
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