How do you know the reason your account being ban ?
this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2024
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Just got banned for a week for for telling someone they were trolling for calling Biden the Caligula of the US. Still not quite sure why, but my second account got banned too for trying to avoid my ban.. LOL.
Fuck reddit.
I made r/Artisanvideos and they still banned me over a tongue in cheek comment for "inciting violence" right around the time the capitol riots were happening. I think the truth of the matter is someone there getting rid of ideological opposition and using whatever technicality they can. It's kinda like how the scotus is positioning themselves to decide whether a crime is official or personal.
Yeah, they always loved protecting their rich baby kid spez while letting Neonazis fantasise about genocides.
I got permabanned for anti-Semitism for stating that if Jesus Christ came back today, Republicans would have him crucified, like the Pharisees did.
No resources to protect the rich? What do you think police are for? They sure as shit ain't there to protect the poor.
There barely are any. Crime is barely illegal anymore here
Barely are any what? Rich, poor, police?
Police
I don't know where you live, but where I live, they're everywhere.
They sure do like to hand out traffic fines in my part. I always see about 1-2 police cars a day.
I speed every day in victoria for the last 8 years and never been fined
Just because cops are lazy doesn't makes you less of danger on the road.
It's not consistent either. I made a joke about using child molesters to see if ancient torture methods actually worked or not and got permabanned. At the same time the front page had a post about some shitty thing HP did with their printers and 100s of the top comments were saying the same kind of shit about their executives. None of those were even removed. I linked it when I appealed but just got the canned "fuck you" message.
Reddit has gone to shit since Huffman came back.
Reddit being reddit: Their report system is easily gamed and regularly abused.
Yup. Seems every time I get the best of some troll (in my mind at least) they report the comment and I get banned. I could be wrong, but my last banning was for literally calling someone a troll. LOL.
Same thing happened to me. My comment was “kid deserved it” on a video where, at school a kid called a teacher the n-word and then squared up to fight him. The teacher punched the kid in the face.
That was my comment and there were others saying pretty much the same thing both above and below my comment. 10,000 karma gone.
I’ve been banned from subs before but never from the whole site. Interestingly that was not my only account banned. My main account (which I never post on) was also banned and when I made a new account, that was banned as well.
My theory is that someone flagged me for something and then went to all my posts and also flagged them and a limit was reached that just autobans site wide. That’s the theory anyway.
The funny thing is that all my comments are pretty benign and I actively fight against racism and bigotry on Reddit. I was one of the good guys!
They know your IP address. Any account that logs in with the same IP gets banned.
So you could try a VPN.
If you don't want to pay for a VPN, TOR also works.
How does that work at a university for example? Multiple reddit accounts same household?
Correct answer
Same for me. 95% being helpful. 5% dumb jokes. Perma banned for nonsense.
Whoever enforces rules in Reddit has the same basic reading comprehension of a potato that has been hit multiple times with a hoe, and then left to rot under the Summer heat. In fact I bet "being functionally illiterate" is a requirement to work for Reddit, just like "lacking dignity" is to be a moderator there nowadays.
I legit got banned for 3 days site wide from Reddit because my comment included “10.0.1.35” which is a private network address that only exists in your network, not on the internet.
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their brains dont have any wrinkles
I wonder if they did a deep dive through my comments and saw more they didn't like. It just doesn't make sense given the flagged comment alone
What I'm going to say is just a hypothesis from my part. It might be bollocks. But.
For a long time I've suspected that Reddit runs some sort of algorithm to predict the profitability of each user, based on factors like
- platform used (desktop vs. mobile)
- running / not running an ad blocker
- if not running an ad blocker, clicking on ads or not
- likelihood of that user to buy Reddit junk (e.g. the "coins" of the past)
- likelihood of that user to attract newer users
- etc.
and then the output of that algorithm is taken into account when handling rule violation. As in: you can go rogue and they'll give you a short ban if you're deemed profitable, or a small offence will give you a permaban if unprofitable.
With that said I don't think that they manually review your earlier posts/comments before enforcing the rules.
Haha, that makes as much sense as any other reason I’ve seen folks banned.
I used reddit on desktop, didnt have an ad blocker, ocassionally clicked on ads (usually by mistake), and bought a shitload of coins. I also contributed a lot of content that people found helpful. Didnt stop me getting perma banned for reasons that I still dont understand.
I really dont think there is any algorithm or any logic or rationale behind the ban process at all, its almost completely aritrary
Fair point - your ban hints that my hypothesis is wrong.
Yeah I exclusively used reddit through firefox on android with script blocker and adblocker. Never spent a dime on reddit. This explains a lot if true
Eh, sounds like a conspiracy theory. It's the kind of thing that would look really bad if it got out, but doesn't have much upside.
If it signifit affected profits, maybe, but this doesn't register there.
Eh, sounds like a conspiracy theory.
Not really, even if false. It's just a hypothesis.
It’s the kind of thing that would look really bad if it got out, but doesn’t have much upside.
We [current and former Reddit users] babble a lot about shit the admins do. If this got out, it wouldn't cause much damage to the already barely existent reputation of that shithole; and as HelixDab2 said, the ones still in that shithole would outrage for 15min then go back as if nothing happened.
If it significantly affected profits, maybe, but this doesn’t register there.
I think that a system like this would actually increase the margin of profit, in the medium term. Because it would allow them to cut some slack to the cash cows, while you're still removing some users who are pissing the others off.
How would it "look bad"? The people that are paying for Reddit wouldn't give a shit, and the people that aren't making the site profitable would be outraged for 15 minutes, and then get over it.
the amount of relief that I felt when I was finally permanently banned from Reddit
I still admit to finding it incredibly useful in certain ways
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