Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content

I register on reddit 17 years ago. Before the great migration from digg. I remember /r/programming being the first sub to reach 100k subscribers.

I got banned for saying in the /r/europe sub that russia banning youtube in russia was a good thing because then we in the west would get less russian propaganda. Got banned for a couple days. Left and never looked back.

/r/programming is dead already since around a decade. All the good discussions moved to hackernews and lobsters.

EDIT: never forget that spez admitted to silently edit user comments that criticized him

This is my first comment from Lemmy. Thanks again to whomever suggested it.

Fuck Reddit

Feels like how reddit was when I first used it 12 years ago. Bye bye reddit.

Warms my heart to see all the ‘new account’ badges in this thread.

I first saw this news over on Reddit, immediately searched for an alternative. Got home from work and now here I am

"Shithole website continues circling toilet."

Finally made the permanent switch over to Lemmy. I left a link in the Reddit Safety post so anyone else could convert easily.

It’s an absurd overreach to say the least; good riddance to the corpo-bot platform.

Fuck Trump and Musk. US should get invaded Iraq 2003 style.

Haha aaaaand that’s how I got here

Conform, citizen.

I’ll have to stop looking at Reddit for real now.

At this point being banned might be a good thing to drive home the point that also my favorite of the old corporate internet platforms should be avoided. I'm doing quite okay on staying away from Meta and have long deleted my Twitter account. I can't get myself do drop Reddit somehow. Seems like they're only helping me get off my addiction

My link for this was deleted. Huh. I didn't see this earier.

Anyways I think this is a dangerous chilling effect and reddit has a terrible track record for not using this as intended, so I can only expect Reddit Admins to use this beyond warning, I expect bans and this used in warrants/NSLs quickly.

Stop using reddit, stop going to reddit. And bring everyone you can to Lemmy. I want to be able to cut out my city subreddits like /r/Denver like a clean shit.

Reminds me of back in 2013 when Reddit admins accidentally revealed that Eglin Air Force Base, a location often cited as the source of government social-media propaganda/astroturfing programs, was the most Reddit addicted city in the world.

So, stop upvoting those luigi memes. How sad

can someone explain to me the difference between corporate and government censorship, when corporations and the government are definitely fucking?

I'm gonna buy a Luigi board to ask the guidance of Aaron Schwartz because I'm sure he is dying to get revenge

r/fuckreddit

Yeah I got signaled on reddit for saying something about Trump, Elon and Vance regarding to Ukraine. Nothing that hasn't been said, but I said they can fuck off and stop propping Russian imperialism and kidnapping children while commiting warcrimes. Guess Reddit is against that as they removed my comment and gave me a warning.

Spez has gone so far beyond being a mere cuck. He's a goddamn cuckasauras.

Seriously though, who still uses Reddit? It's nothing but a left wing echo chamber, just like BlueSky.

Perma banned because I wished c-ncer on a pro-Israel troll. Is that an earned ban you guys think?

I'm glad that I don't use Reddit and have no intention on doing so. I remember there was a very talented artist who was wrongfully accused of using AI and banned on the art subreddit. That artist got banned even though receipts were shown to the mods proving the art was not AI, and I guess with this policy, I'd be at risk of being banned from Reddit altogether because I for sure would've upvoted the art if I did have a Reddit account, it was amazing.

!spezholedesign

Fuck it, I'm going to delete the account that I used to get over a previous permaban. I'll read, but not post. No point in just posting anyway.

I got shadowbanned after finally actively posting... On r/BuyFromEU... idk man

Does that mean spez is getting banned for being a mod on r/jailbait?

Does saying "The only good fascist are very dead fascist" counts? What if I add that USA is a fascist country now? Will saying Donald is a pedophile still counts (I got banned for it already lol)? What about saying my favorite sport is nazi punching? And if I add that there's no such thing as "roman salute"?

Is Reddit about to drop a new t-shirt line "Protect fascist's feeling" or something?

At this point, getting banned at reddit is a badge of honor.

Reddit is a piece of shit.

Lol, how is it even possible to upvote banned content? I mean, is it not deleted if banned?

reddit permabans you for vague interpretations of things they consider "threatening"

its already a thought crime zone.

I once got banned for "vote brigading" on Reddit because I upvoted a crosspost that was deleted later, so this comes as no surprise. They have been monitoring upvotes and downvotes since forever.

“reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote calls for a violent revolution against the billionaire class and the fascist neo feudalist militarized police state enforced wage slavery and rent till death economics they have created to benefit their endless growth driven profits while ignoring upvotes of content that praise violence against leftists, women and other marginalized leftist aligning groups and ideologies”

There, FTFY

Nobody elected the mods or the admins. And the management has shown itself to be, at least, MAGA-adjacent.

Its so obvious Reddit is just swarming with bot users. Not sure why most users haven't just come to Lemmy already.

Well, exactly the same can and is happening on specific Lemmy servers too.

One of the vegan instances bans you if you downvote anything that speaks in favour of veganism. Not that I just do this out of spite, but there was this time where a thread about vegan cat food gained traction and I downvoted some comments that were really borderline. Ban within an hour.

Same on that notorious star trek instance. Go ahead and put some downvotes on Discovery related posts, it will also earn you a temporary ban.

So let's not pretend that it's only big bad reddit doing this.

paywall it, have bot create content, ban all humans.

reddit is the internet of things.

Citizen, you have been found guilty of wrong think!

Everybody upvote Luigi content! Get banned! Leave reddit! Reddit crumbles! Fuck reddit! Go Luigi! Lemmy grows! Centralized social media dies! I eat a burrito. That last one wasn't really on topic, but it's happening anyways! I'm hungry.

Just keep in mind: your upvotes on Lemmy are visible to anybody who runs a Lemmy instance.

God help us if Elon Musk figures out how to run one.

ETA: I mention this because the current government wants to find anyone who does this.

The [unelected president] moaned on his platform that some Reddit users on the subreddit r/WhitePeopleTwitter had broken the law after they allegedly revealed the identities of his so-called DOGE goon squad.

Don't forget to leave bad review of reddit app and encourage others to move to lemmy in the review.

This is actually what got me to swap as it reminded me some content will be banned, and so the social media I've had for over a decade and thought was going to be the only classic site to retain freedom of speech and expression had proven itself that they will not be afraid to start taking baby steps towards controlling and censoring media. And in the contents section of this post was a person spreading the news of this alternative. So here I am.

I remember Reddit. I used to like it there.

John Spartan, you are fined one credit for violating the upvote morality statute.

Fuck reddit.

I hope lemmy servers are ready for another population boom.

Same shit happens here and you know if. Anyone with any user count is heavily moderating violence.

Thank God I'm not on reddit anymore.

Reddit being the go to place for federal workers to explain what is happening on the fednews sub given reddit shadow banning new accounts and anti VPN stance is rather ironic with federal workers hiding their names and using stuff like signal out of fear of what the administration might do to them.

Is this after it is banned or before it is banned? Either way, seems ridiculous

F*ck those Reddit guys. Why is anyone still at that corporate swamp ?

I suddenly have an urge to upvote banned content. Talk about being insecure. That post was soon followed up by another of the "we investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong" sort.

twitter bluesky (twitter 2.0) reddit (twitter 3.0)

Consider r/redditseppuku

Where is reddit announcing this???

Edit, apparently reddit security. Weird verge didn't put that in