I’m on day one of my third temp 7-day sitewide reddit ban this past year. Before that, I was a daily participator on reddit for over 10 years with no site-wide actions.
I thought it might be fun to share the story of my bans. Feel free to share yours.
The first one was for summarizing Bill Maher’s views on fat women, old women, and transgendered people. This was understandably determined to be hate speech by the AI, but was upheld by human appeal.
The second one, I don’t even remember clearly. I think I may have been criticizing Zionism on somewhere, probably a popular news subreddit. One thing you have to keep in mind is they delete the offending comment and so you have to guess at what your offense might be; then you only have 250 characters to defend yourself. The ban was done by AI. About five days after my seven-day ban ended, I got the notification: Your ban has been overturned. Thanks!
The third one just happened, so it’s fresh in my memory. I wanted to talk about something I found crazy on one of my favorite TV shows: a black woman, mother of two black children and wife of a black man, who was in her 30s living the United States had her FIRST social justice epiphany–and it was about press freedoms in Guatamela. The post was shadowbanned. I commented on another thread, warning a user that the mods would come along soon to shadowban any comments on race. Both our comments were shadowbanned, and thereafter, I was perma-shadowbanned on that sub–any comment I made was immediately sent to the shadow realm.
I looked for discussion about the show’s treatment of race (which would be interesting since the show did not–as the subreddit does–ignore the issue entirely) and found nothing more recent than 14 years ago. The sub had been wiped clean of any discussion of race on the show.
I wrote the mods and asked them to either a) lift my shadow ban or b) ban me permanently.
To make things easier for them, I also called them racist cowards. An hour later, I received my temp ban for bullying and harrassment.
My appeal simply laid out the facts: they objectively demonstrated both cowardice (by shadowbanning) and racism (for shadowbanning discussion on race) therefore it is not bullying to call them racist cowards. Any conversation forum that shadowbans members for conversing is obviously lost, and then further sitewide bans them for complaining, is clearly lost.
One day in the not so distant future, every comment on reddit will be “bacon” or “this”.
Anything else will get you banned.
I bet you could still get banned by commenting “bacon” on any thread about the police.
Perma-Banned for suggesting an American woman get a gun to defend herself from a stalker harassing her.
Tell me about it…I was in the top 1% commenter on r/palestine - I picked up a couple of 3 day site wide bans, followed by a 5 and a couple of 7 day bans. All anti zionist/anti israel posts.
No sooner I got back in, a comment I made some weeks back drew reddit’s attention and suddenly I get a lifetime ban. That’s why I’m here too, lol!
My killer comment? I suggested that the word ‘settlers’ was a collective noun for a group of thugs, thieves, rapists and murderers. What’s wrong about that ffs…it’s the truth! 🇵🇸✊
the word ‘settlers’ was a collective noun for a group of thugs, thieves, rapists and murderers
Always has been.
Just ask Native Americans about European ‘settlers’.
Cut the cord.
I’m here, ain’t I?
Meh, I was permabanned years ago, after about 7 years on their platform.
I wasn’t banned for anything obscene, gory, threatening, etc. Oh no…
I was banned for mentioning Elon Musk, his Boring Company, and that “Not a Flamethrower” contraption they made that is totally a short distance flamethrower and looks like a fucking kid’s toy.
Obligatory FUCK SPEZ!
And fuck Elmo too, I was banned from Reddit a couple years before Elmo even bought Xhitter…
Damn, congrats bro! I kind of imagine that being anti-Zionist puts you on the fast-track to all of your comments getting reported… whether it changes how reddit addresses you is a different question.
Just checked out this HILARIOUS line from their harassment policy:
This policy is designed to protect people from targeted personal abuse, not to shield ideas, beliefs, organizations, or public figures from criticism, even if it’s harsh.
In my case, they shielded the public figure of Bill Maher, the beliefs of Zionists, and the subreddit mods–so 0/3 at actually honestly enforcing their policy.
I posted the Blursed Torso of Elon Musk and it got shadowbanned, then reversed, and I never found out what that was about… but there was plenty of Musk-hate to go around on reddit, but I think you may have been an early adopter. I was an active on a hilarious ironic sub making fun of Musk and Muskheads, but it quickly lost its sense of humor; because I’m a craftsman who takes his art seriously and respects his audience, I refused to /s my comments and almost all my comments fell victim to Poe’s Law. Very annoying.
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