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I got a 1-2 week Reddit site wide ban earlier this year for stating to the mod of a sub that I was going to circumvent the sub ban by using an alt account. The mod banned me because I hold a different opinion and the person obviously didn't like it.

I used an alt account to circumvent the site wide ban using the exact same IP addresses and devices, and Reddit didn't do anything; not even a warning.

It's not in the interest of Reddit to permanently ban you from their website. They lose advert money and they lose actively monthly users numbers which affect their stock prices.

My head canon is, that they're analyzing posts and comments and used that to weed out bots in the past. "Oh, this looks like 90% of our content - it's a human" - "Oh, this doesn't look like 90% of our content, probably a bot". Now the baseline shifted and everyone who is not a bot triggers it and gets banned.

No, I don't think there's an ulterior motive. Reddit kicked out all the active mods and mods who knew what they were doing, and then brought in people with zero mod experience. Of course you're going to get more issues with mod abuse now. Not everyone has the temperament to be a responsible mod, and I think Reddit is simply reaping the consequences of its choices

I have a few subscribed subs there for self hosting and a few other subs related to Linux and the sort. (I know the fediverse has those too! :) ) only because the majority of new updates or announcements for selfhosted apps and tools are made there only.

I used to be a mod and stopped posting during their protest and haven't posted since. I also ran a userscript to delete all of my posts and it seemed to have scrubbed my history correctly there. I'm a lurker there and their new design really has gone to heck. I have uBlock origin and AdguardHome running on my network and their pages don't play well sometimes with errors displaying what I assume to be ads.

So if it degenerates to the point where every user is a bot, who are the advertisers going to sell their crap to? Are they going to shift to advertising antivirus software and machine oil?

The only thing I still use reddit for is to browse Fortnite sub sometimes (once every few days), on a desktop (Firefox with ublock) and if I post anything it's useless shit.

I got a reddit (not sub) warning for personal attacks.

In a message that said "Fuck you, EPIC".

If i remember correctly, warning even implied that it was an automated warning.

Works great. Can't wait to post even more nonsensical shit there.

Yeah, those ramped up in early 2023. I was guessing that it was related to an impending IPO, and guess what was announced shortly thereafter. The enshittifiation had already begun.

As @[email protected] and @[email protected] said Hanlon's Razor explains it: they simply don't know what they're doing.

This can be explained for example by paid site-wide moderation being forced to review more reports per hour than it's able to. Eventually accuracy goes down the drain.

Let them weed the humans out. Then the bots can talk to each other over there and all the humans can move here!

I think they just have no idea what they’re doing. There’s no master plan. It is devolving into botshit, but not on purpose; it’s just because all the people with anything remotely resembling qualifications to run one of the world’s biggest social media sites have left the building at this point.

They’ve gone down the shitter any way you cut it, unless you’re actively profiting from the stock somehow.

Our capitalist overlords are currently in a bind where they'd prefer all of social media is AI shrimp Jesus, and that is currently profitable this quarter. So I guess not actually a bind. Carry on.

Don't worry. It's going to get worse because they've went deeper with their partnership with Google. Google has access to reddit's API and user data while reddit gets access to a back-end AI. What you are suspecting is only the start of things to come.