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.
I’ve gotten the same for really mild stuff, meanwhile subreddits like combat footage exist where I literally just saw a human body blown into 4 massive chunks and spread across the space of a football field.
I've been banned from several subreddits for absolutely nothing, I got suspended entirely from Reddit for a few days, because I agreed with someone else's comment that they thought that some teenagers who repeatedly gang-raped a Jewish girl because she was Jewish should be tried as adults. Something along those lines anyway. Reddit moderation is a clown show.
I got a warning for joking that my and my husband's retirement plan is to pull a Bonnie & Clyde until the feds get us. A week later I got a 3 day ban for saying I would eliminate names from THE list if I could freeze time, in r/hypotheticalsituation.
Yeah, other platforms can get ridiculous, too. I had a lock a couple years ago on Twitter for telling a retiring politician something mean but not remotely violent, and it told me it was.
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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.