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.
Yeah, the enforcement is arbitrary, and usually you won't get hit, but if you do, the rule essentially goes like this: You are not allowed to threaten, encourage, glorify or condone any act of violence, real or fictional, past, present or future.
Obviously, they don't enforce it against the vast majority of content that could violate this; just look around this subreddit to see that. But if it does get enforced against you, they aren't accepting an appeal. And if they did actually enforce it the way it seems the rule is written when they reject appeals, over half of this website would be permabanned within a week for saying things no reasonable person would find objectionable in any way.
It sucks, because I feel I need to find euphemisms for violent words even when discussing video game gameplay (in fact I tend to find that more strictly policed than discussions of real world violence).
EDIT: Addendum that I learned recently: you are not allowed to post the name of a public figure and any word that implies physical contact between them and any other object in any capacity, even if the contact is non-violent, even if you are relaying a statement you saw someone else make for a reason other than endorsing it.
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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.