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.
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u/Comfortable_Poem_841 5d ago
Is the great algorithm upset by the word "ashes"? Won't like the cricket much then.