• @Sjoerd1993@lemmy.world
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    12 years ago

    No offense, but how do you manage to get banned from Reddit? A certain sub, sure, but the entire website?

    • @gun@lemmy.ml
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      12 years ago

      They ban people very selectively and its always ideologically motivated. There was a period of time where you would get a 3-day ban for just upvoting the wrong posts. So you could lurk and still get banned for some reason. That happened to me multiple times before I decided to delete my account.

    • Betty White In HD
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      12 years ago

      It’s easier than you think. I have a couple accounts that got permabanned because I pointed out that there was mod abuse by “power mods” across multiple subs a while ago. Coincidentally one of those power mods got banned themselves a couple days ago.

    • @RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world
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      12 years ago

      It’s pretty easy, i got banned from a couple of subs for being left-wing (apparently calling out brigading from far-right subs was against the rules).

      But i got a sitewide ban because I used an alt to ban evade (can’t remember the exact post, but somebody was asking for advise wrt to COVID in a legal sub (I was originally banned for for encouraging a user to get funny but illegal payback on their neighbors), and it felt urgent enough that I was fine getting banned.).

      Once you get a siteban, trolls will flag report all your posts even on subs your not banned from, or at least whenever I brought up that r/UKpolitics is modded by a literal fascist, I’d get a new site ban for “ban evasion”, to the point where pretty much any encounter with a far right troll or YIMBY would get me a ban.

      The admins also seem to work very closely with certain moderators, as was shown when they leaked a trans employees information to TERFisland subs.

      So while powermods can’t get you a sitewide ban, some have the ear of the admins who can keep an eye on you until you break a sitewide rule.

      And on a site which has alt-right subs, it’s hard to at the very least walk right up to the line on the rules wrt treating all commenters like humans.

    • R0cket_M00se
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      02 years ago

      I got banned once for telling an absolute cunt that she was one in “am I the asshole.”