Banned from Reddit after posting John Oliver

Congratulations! There should be "Banned from Reddit" medals on Lemmy/Mastodon/kbin

I've been wondering why I haven't seen ANY anti-Reddit posts on the front page lately, despite anti-Reddit sentiment being really high and almost all sub action votes are heavily anti-reddit.

Reddit is really not backing down, huh? Welp slaps knee i guess I'm leaving for good.

That's fucking ridiculous. Maybe we should all start posting this meme and get ourselves banned.

Reach out to The Verge, they've been covering the Reddit debacle pretty well and I bet they'd love to hear from you.

Yep, i was permabanned a week ago because i was all in on this boycott/ Fuck u/Spez. Not looking back, i hope Reddit crashes and burns. They are treating the users like garbage and not needed when we are what makes the site what it is.

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Schrödingers appeal

I'm sure Reddit will remain for many years, but I seriously hope this is the beginning of a major shift in peoples approach to large sites like them. Many smaller communities can only be a good thing for the internet. Lemmy/Beehaw are exactly what I hope become more commonplace. Mega social media platforms all need to go.

reddit admins have been going on a purge like ive never seen. welcome to the club!

Arbitrary enforcement of the rules is the main problem here.

Reddit can be thought of as a three tier hierarchy, in decreasing order of power:

1. Layer 1 is the admins
2. Layer 2 is the subreddit mods
3. Layer 3 is the users.

Now, the admins have the interest of having the mods and users work for them for free to generate contents. To do that, their best interest is to have Layer 2 and 3 constantly in conflict with each other so they won't turn their attention to what's going on in Layer 1, and they can just step in as needed as "the good guys" when things get out of hand.

(Don't say the name of the book please)

The way they did that, is of course, by making a "Layer 1.5", the so called powermods, and promises them arbitrary powers that they can abuse (delete and then repost other's content, blatant karma farming) to have the attention and the hate from Layer 2 and 3 on them instead of Layer 1, and so they can get away with whatever they want for flimsy excuses. (closing source code, shadowbans for real people, quarantine, awards, NFTs, new reddit, etc.)

Previous attempts at leaving reddit (Pao, controversies surrounding other various hate subs) failed because only Level 3 and a few lower member of Level 2 were responsive to the problems, most people are just indifferent and want to have reddit the way it is now, so Layer 1 can just pled ignorance and have people move on.

So, what's different this time? This time both Layer 2 and 3 are collectively moving against Layer 1 for the very first time, and to maintain the illusion of normalcy would require more direct interventions from Layer 1 since playing dumb is no longer an option. Of course, powermods (all around bad person awkwardtheturtle, for example) outlived their usefulness as distraction, so they can now be arbitrarily disposed of as well.

They ban for anything but yet /askthedonald /politicalcompass and /conservative still exist

By the way, sync for Lemmy is coming ;)

I like how they permanently banned your account, it's against their rules to make a new account to circumvent a ban, then said "for future reference please read our comment content policy".

My reddit account was 12 years old at this point

I'm guessing that's a big reason why. You know what Reddit used to be like, and that's not where they want it now, so you're more of a liability than an asset. They'd rather grow their userbase with millions of new users who will adapt to whatever shitty platform they're continuing to morph into.

They did you a favor

Yeah I’m permabanned from Reddit too for similar stupidity. Nothing of value was lost for me though.

If this is true it's insane.

That post is actually funny IMO, how thin skinned do you have to be to suspend people permanently for that? It obviously doesn't break any rules. If it was ambiguous whether it did, a warning would be more fitting.

Yes I can see it's not directly about programming, but close enough IMO.

Reddit is amassing such a clusterfuck of bad decisions lately... 🤦🏻‍♂️

Instead of deleting my Reddit account, I’m editing my posts/replies there to all say, “edit: //I’ve moved to lemmy //” By doing this you’re:

1. Denying Reddit your content
2. Telling everyone where you went and
3. Your post Karma stays the same, so a highly upvoted comment of yours stays in the same place in the comment thread.

Hahahahaha fuck Reddit man

A similar thing happened to me about 3 weeks ago. Yet I have no clue as to why I was banned... just "boke content policy rule" with no explanation of what rule... So I moved on.

Time to request full gdpr info. Also they don't delete your posts if you request account deletion and tell you to do it yourself.

After the request tell them through an E-Mail to delete every single comment with remotely identifiying info for you since you dont have access.

I like how instead of banned they say permanently suspended

At least they told you you were banned. I was shadowbanned and didn't figure it out for a week.

That’s extra-absurd considering it is related to programming and is actually funny. They must be feeling very sensitive over there these days.

Eh... damage control, "Hey, we've got enough of this shit and we saw you on the front page so get nuked nerd", etcetc. If anything, that'll be a nice thing to tell to you grandsons, "Back in the day I got lots of fake internet points and got nuked into oblivion because I made a pun out of a random person."

They banned me forever for quoting historical facts. It was a 16 year old account. It really did turn to shit.

Anyway, I'm sure degenerates from /r/palestine will contribute much better content to their community.

Oh well, at least you went down with a truly epic post :D

I saw this post on the front page. Condolences, maybe?

I was shadow banned by an admin, apparently the masterpiece of spez getting raided by a Garfield with a rack offended someone. 🤔

I posted an Oliver pic, maybe I'll get that account banned. Reddit bans are pretty stupid. One of my accounts, the oldest one, is permabanned for telling off a racist. I didn't even cross a line, I just told them that if they're gonna be racist, that's all they're going to be and anything else they have to say doesn't matter.

I've been saying this a lot over the last few weeks: Reddit is a tool. Just use it on your own terms. Reddit admins legally own the site, but fuck them, if you wanna use their tool, use it. Just let the behavior of the tool guide how you decide to use it. As it is, I still use it, but it will change next month and I won't be downloading the official app, so I won't use it as much, and I will no longer be a "feature" of the site, as in the subs where I was only there to contribute to the site, I have left. The subs that are still useful to me, I keep. If they ban me, I will just use one of the accounts they don't even know is me and I will pare my subscriptions down to only the subs that don't have a strong community elsewhere. I also will only interact with the site in ways that allow me to block all ads.

Now you don't have to scrub your post history.

What's the problem?

There is always Lemmy, et al!

It is truly incredible how little it takes to get permbanned on reddit. I posted something in r/politics once that the hivemind didn't agree with, despite being neutral in language, and immediate permban. That is why people keep making accounts over there, they can try and whack-a-mole but you can't stop an idea.

Hell, I got banned for agreeing with a post. And when I complained about it to the mods, they had reddit perma ban my account.

Reddit is slowly going to fall apart. For example, one subreddit i used to like (before THEY banned me) has made it so that only people who are considered "experienced" (whatever the hell that means) on the subreddit are now allowed to post topics.

And the subreddit that banned me would not openly list there moderators.

I don't really care as they have finally soured me on the site permanently. TBH they have done me a solid favour. Reddit is just slowly going to eat itself.

Ah, yes. Driving away your meme-makers. Certainly the most brilliant strategy for maintaining a healthy internet community. Works all the time.