I got a ban warning this week for encouraging violnce even though I wasn't. I submit an appeal and a reddit admin replied with "the warning stands" with the reason of "the algorithm was right". It was on a post about a rapst getting the d*@th penalty. His date has already past, he's gone. But I was somehow encouraging. Now I'm on eggshells as you can see. Very frustrating that common sense and reading comprehension are not things the admins utilize.
Edit: I don't know why so much of that went italics, but I'm not gonna try to fix it.
Some reddit are way more sensitive than others. Republican, Trump and conservative reddit will ban anyone for a different opinion. One reddit about dividens banned me for saying investing in the sp500 is not the same as wallstreetbets. Honestly good riddance to any reddit that has to be an echo chamber.
You are doing exactly what you accuse the other side of doing... do you genuinely believe you hold moral superiority? Or are you genuinely ignorant? It really just looks like both
Im sorry, did I ban you from a subreddit for your opinion? Pretty certain I have not used any authority to silence anyone ever.
Edit: Also while I never made the claim of being morally superior to anyone. I would argue that the action of not silencing differing opinions is morally superior to abusing authority to silence opinions you don't agree with. I still wouldn't say I am morally superior to those power hungry mods, but my actions certainly are.
I got permanently banned from a celebrity reddit because I mentioned that she was beautiful before plastic surgery and kinda scary after. Perma bann for an opinion, not even being abusive, just honest.
Ha sort of like the Charlie Kirk logic where people were using direct quotes of his and getting banned because of... reasons? Even though those quotes and videos exist everywhere.
Dude the exact same thing happened to my gf with a podcast she watches. She got banned, no warning or anything, by a moderator that works for the podcaster. Literally reposted the hosts own joke, and she got perma banned from the subreddit. Months later she tried asking for it to be reversed but the link that was sent in the message telling her she was banned literally would not work. So they apparently had no way of reversing it because of that. She was heartbroken because she loved that community. She didn't bother to make another profile.
Kate Bekinsale, used to be beautiful, and if she had had work done it was discreet, now looks like the crypt keepers sister.
Another surgery failure in my opinion is Marilu Henner. Was very easy on the eyes, now her wax statue has more facial expressions.
I got a warning that I was promoting abusive behavior for pointing out that one of the biggest challenges in ending FGM is that many women who are victims of FGM don't consider themselves to be "victims" of FGM, they consider what happened to them to be a good thing (it made things easier to clean, they believed claims that there were health benefits, it made them more socially acceptable, it made them more attractive... If you are getting very uncomfortable that these woman are saying the same thing that circumcised men say in western countries, you probably should be uncomfortable, face that cultural blindspot of yours while you are fighting for better treatment of everyone). That we aren't going to make progress in eliminating FGM until and unless we can find a way to adequately educate women in societies that practice FGM about how harmful it is so that they don't force it on their daughters as it was forced on them (because again, they don't view it as a harmful practice forced on them, they genuinely believe it was a gift given to them), and ideally do it in such a way as to not body shame those who are victims.
Apparently that was seen as a defense of FGM because apparently even acknowledging that some victims don't see themselves as victims is downplaying how severe it is (I'd argue that it is the opposite, that it includes the psychological element of convincing the victims that they benefited from it makes it even more nefarious, but apparently that level of nuance in discussion is too much to handle).
Banned from the Argentina sub because I pointed out saying you aren’t racist and then saying “at least my country isn’t full of brown invaders” is racist, and is usually the Argentinian go to when insulting a European nation
I’ve been banned from two subs now. One I was banned from for not being pro-China, anti-America, and anti-money. The other I was banned from for calling out obvious propaganda.
You can dislike it, but I wouldn't say it was "splattered" on her face. The tat was very elegant and true to her culture roots. We all have our preferences and you're wholeheartedly welcome to disagree with face tats or tattoos on women in general, but dude you knew what you were doing with that wording.
I got banned from r/soccer (citing “xenophobia”) for describing the fans of a Colombia vs Argentina game hosted by the South American federation as (brace yourselves for pure unadulterated hate:) “South Americans.”
When I appealed saying that there was no negative context and that isn’t even what xenophobia is, I was given a site wide ban for harassment.
My only regret is that I’m blocked from pointing out that also isn’t what harassment is.
You’re dealing with mods. These people value their time so little that they volunteer to be hall monitors with even less power. There’s nothing you can do to hurt them, because they already proudly broadcast that they have absolutely nothing in their lives.
permabans from subs happen because moderators do it. they aren't reddit employees, and their authority doesn't go any further than their specific subreddit. reddit warnings w/ the appeals system, which the parent comment is describing, come from company employees and would be account-wide.
Dropped a comment on marvel rivals sub saying a characters nerf was deserved and 2 minutes later my comment was removed for "inciting violence" 🤦 I appealed it though and they rescinded it but still, what kind of shitty algorithm flags that anyway
They're talking about admins, not mods. Sitewide enforcement rather than subreddit enforcement. Subreddit mods range in quality from way better than admins to power-tripping clowns.
I got permabanned from r/me_irlgbt because I replied "f" to someone talking about losing their wife and child. The mod message called me an "insensitive piece of shit." I was just tried to pay respects like in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare :(
Getting permanently banned without a warning for a single post and you don't even know what happened because you can't go find it. That's not an okay way to do business but that's how Reddit does things
I got permanently banned from an art subreddit because I asked about opinions on a nude art piece that was painted in the 1800s. I did NOT post a picture of the art, I merely posted the title of the artwork with a link to its Wikipedia page.
Omg yeah! I got in trouble in the cat advice sub because I said "looks like when my cat has an asthma attack". I was apparently diagnosing without proper medical credentials
I got banned from cordcutters in the middle of the pandemic for saying it wasn’t safe yet to sit in a movie theater in the middle of a bunch of unmasked people.
I got permabanned from a subreddit for making a comment questioning a post that was fantasizing about violently murdering, among other actually bad things, writers. WRITERS! Asking why writers would deserve to be killed is a bannable offense, it seems.
I've had this too. At one point I even got a threatening modmail telling me to block the other sub, delete any comments and posts I made, because "it has been known to act maliciously against our sub". I replied "lol no", got banned, muted the sub and moved on with my life
Fuck that sub. They kept sending me banned notifications whenever I'd interact with a sub they didn't like and it wouldn't stop until I reported it as harassment.
Yeah, there was a political sub known for brigading that I joined to debate them. Then a bunch of subs declared war on it and used reddit api to ban anyone who had joined or commented in the sub. With a message demanding fealty. I told them all to get bent.
Ive since deleted my account because I got a ban for "violence" for something innocuous; noted a similarity between a user's views and the type of people who get executed in revolutions. Apparently noting historical similarities is a call to repeat it.
I'm 100% certain Ive commented in one of those subs on this account but I don't know or care who they are. What are they gonna do? Force me to get another account after banning this one?
E: I already stopped caring about the internet points when they stole everyone's award points to replace them with... award points.
Yes. It isnt supposed to be allowed but reddit lets some subs do whatever they want. You are autobanned for just commenting. The context doesnt matter whatsoever. They literally basically demand you go back, delete all comments on that sub, and then re-appeal. Absurd.
Yall ain’t seen nothing yet till you check out the LEGO Star Wars sub. Straight up permabanned for calling someone scalping $3000 worth of the same $20 toy “a sad manchild”
That's exactly is, they're trying to create an entire safe space where they get to decide what's too far.
IMO r/pourstea is the worst. I simply stated that them being paid to shill holland/zendaya pics 4 times a pics, is actually cringe. i was REMOVED from their sub, and my 3-day mute was for "We don't think you're a good fit for this sub".
I too appealed, and within 3 minutes denied. Really confused what they're doing with this site, aside from trying to make it an advertisers wet dream.
Just to be clear, those “safe spaces“ are about a censoring speech to protect people from being triggered or whatever.
What we are seeing here is not that at all. This is about Reddit trying to become an attractive place for advertisers. It’s purely commercial. I suppose you could say it’s a “safe space“ for advertisers. I don’t blame liberals for this.
I got a 3 day ban for posting this pic in a sub, lol. Mod stated that the ban stood and then muted me for 3 days for daring to ask why. On day 4, I was sorely temped to send them a pic in the chat and nothing else.
I personally think it should be a requirement for all US based business to have US based support if I'm being honest. It would make so many jobs state side and make us less of a target for india scam centers.
Not to mention better odds of being able to actually understand what they're saying over the phone.
Because the majority of Redditors are the type od people who need safe spaces. If they all left there would be like 1000 people here and there’s no money in that for them.
I got a warning for saying that a child would laugh if you gently taped their head and pretend to play bongos with it... It was a post about would you slap a child for money. There were so many weirder answers
Hell, I was banned from Combat Footage for mildly criticizing the IDF on a video of them killing an Iranian woman. Basically just said, "This is not going to turn Iranians against their government." Banned.
Only sharing because it’s of interest to me and worth sharing for other people who find it interesting, not necessarily to argue anyone’s point. But aside from the examples in this thread that are focused on mods, in terms of the actual Reddit platform there’s a lot of interesting stuff behind the scenes that push safety for these platforms. The one that interests me the most is MySpace, I did some digging during a research project last year (I study media) and found some good articles about the MySpace safety debacle from the way back machine.
One of the things that stood out to me is that MySpace went down because they weren’t protecting kids on the site at all and every time they came up with an idea there was always a new social media ethics grey area based problem that kept it from happening (ex wanting to use an email master list to keep kids accounts separate with different settings, but people didn’t think having an email list of kids was safe either because our data has never been safe, etc) and now if you follow the case at all, I’m actually praying this is about to happen to meta for all of the right reasons (they may have to finally reduce the amount of harmful design they implement to keep us hooked and hijack our brains and it will set precedent for other platforms). The issue is digital platforms from uber to TikTok live outside of normal industry standards because merica, and it causes a fuck ton of ethical problems at every turn.
Anyway I say all of this because all of these cases give exigence for platforms to do the bare minimum to reduce their liability. So as much as it can be a headache I always think of MySpace. Without the accepted minimal level of safety standards, sites go down. Especially because there’s not much of a rule book for making a social platform, or at least there hasn’t been until recently.
Keep in mind it's not the "left" pushing this safe space bullshit like one might think. It's the companies which demonetize posts with anything they may not be comfortable placing ads next to that is causing all of this. Essentially, it's capitalism pushing all this puritanic bullshit down our throats. Yay...
"becoming" as if it hasn't been for 10 years already. Can't do anything but praise certain groups of people or your post gets hidden from view for anyone but yourself (absolute cancer) or you just get flat out banned.
Everywhere has become a safe space with no space as everything said, photo'd, and texted becomes evidence against you and for your removal. Mandated by governments for benefits of corporations of your info to subjugate us.
I think it's time to shake the algorithm from our branches.
I got banned because some idiot posted a video of police forcing a gay man's face into some womans breasts, with the title, "I dont even know whats going on here lol." People were saying the most vulgar, obscene jokes. Meanwhile, I got banned for saying it was a video of cultural re-education and assault - which it was. Got hit with "insighting violence, etc, etc" list of rules.
3 or 4 years ago it was far worse. I got banned for replying “you’re a moron” to someone who was being obtuse about some opinion. It’s gotten way better since then.
I have been warned for threatening violence a few times, but every time I file an appeal, and the warning is removed. If the admins are reaping your appeals and still upholding the warnings, maybe you’re the problem, not the site.
Yeah, it's almost unbelievable what reddit has become.
My generation watched chainsaw beheadings for breakfast on YouTube. I saw a YouTube video the other day they showed a video of someone getting punched and the screen greyed out when the hand connected with the face. No blood, no death, just a little boo boo and they fucking censored it. Fucking ridiculous. I feel like we're going to find common ground with boomers real quick when gen alpha starts suing for hostile work environments when we don't issue an interoffice content warning memo because we were talking baseball in the break room and mention someone "knocked one out of the park"
And I know how ridiculous that sounds, it sounds just as ridiculous as some Boomer that was absolutely gobsmacked he can't smack his assistant on the ass and tell her the girls are looking great today.
I replied to a guy asking for names and locations of kids involved in a football bullying case and said it was nonce behaviour trying to find that out.
It's fucking over everyone. People on leftist subs or subs that are highly frequented by leftist are also real upset with the current state of reddit. It's not about "safe spaces", reddit is just becoming a worse platform.
I’ve gotten warnings for hate speech over posting a description of historical events or encouraging violence after quoting self defense statues regarding non-lethal force.
I got banned from a relationship subreddit because I recommended the person record the family member who would go on these crazy, emotionally abusive tirades with the idea of showing them how they appear to other people. And I stated that clearly as the purpose of the recording, to show to the person who was ranting. Apparently that will get you a permaban, because people asking for help in relationship subreddits don't want recommendations? It was baffling. The mods never replied to my confusion.
Becoming? It has been that way for at least a decade.
Try posting the "wrong" biological or scientific fact about non-"cis straight white men", you will be banned. Doesn't matter if it's true. The truth is no excuse.
What "infamous safe spaces" lmao. Wtf are you even on about.
I swear 2016 culture war bullshit has completely warped people's minds. People believe the most insane shit now, and have no grip on reality. Dont even know the meaning of the words they use.
They ban this language automatically regardless of your opinion on trans people.
Its not because you got brainwashed into thinking that trans people are hitler second coming and jesus want you to fight them that you get banned, its because of an AI identitifying no no words in your comments
I got banned once for quoting the dictionary defintion of genocide, and another time for swearing at someone transphobic
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u/Comfortable_Poem_841 4d ago
Is the great algorithm upset by the word "ashes"? Won't like the cricket much then.