So, I posted a simple Roku fix on Reddit — just explaining how to get actual antenna channels back instead of their ad-stuffed “Live TV” hub.
The post took off fast-within 90 minutes: • 8,000+ views • 12 upvotes • Dozens of people thanking me for the fix
Then… moderators nuked it as a repost.
Sequence of Events: 1. I politely asked what rule I’d broken. 2. Mod replied: “I don’t know, nor is it relevant to your ban.” 3. I joked: “Ok thank you, Paul Blart. 🙄” 4. Instantly → permanent ban + mute.
Screenshots confirmed: no rule violation, just a mod having a day.
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Follow-up Attempts: • Tried posting the story in r/help and r/ideasfortheadmins. • AutoMod deleted both — apparently the word “ban” is illegal now. • Tried to share it elsewhere, but at this point Reddit moderation feels like TSA confiscating nail clippers while waving through flamethrowers.
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Takeaway: It’s wild when platforms value control over community. I literally helped people watch TV again — and got banned for it.
Give someone a little power, and it goes straight to their head.
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The irony? My Roku fix worked. Thousands saw it before it vanished. So somewhere out there, people are happily watching TV — thanks to a guy Reddit decided to erase.
Stay tuned for Volume 2: “AutoMod vs The Word ‘Ban’.”
I used to love Reddit and it was my only social media site for a decade. But it became so Kafka-esque that it was causing me a tremendous amount of stress. Constantly fighting mod bans was akin to tilting at windmills, as it was completely pointless. So I quit cold turkey last year, deleting my account, and found Lemmy a few days later. I still find the content on Reddit incredibly helpful when I’m searching for information and posts come up on Google but I cannot interact with the site/app any longer. The constant deletions and bans are contrary to the original spirit of the site and have reached SNL sketch level.
just being banned from /r/politics (for an innocuous comment) has lowered my blood pressure. I can’t comment so I just let it go.
ah i miss the old days of reddit.
I was perma-banned from r/gaming because of piracy. I posted a link to an unofficial port of a decompiled, abandonware game.
i was perma-banned from reddit for saying israel commited a nakba in the past and every time i try to make a new account it get’s shadowbanned or just banned
Won’t someone please think of the random ass holding company that owns the rights to that old ass game nobody except for like three people want to play? You’re infringing on their rights by sharing that! 😭
I really hope it was Lego Island.
It was indeed Lego Island.
8k views 12 upvotes
Those metrics are definetly not real.
Why? A lot of people are looking for fixes. Not many actually engage by upvoting or commenting. Seen that plenty of times on tech/help related subs
Okay let’s compare this to other platforms like YT for a second, where videos usually have a 10-100 views : 1 upvote ratio.
Reddit should have similar numbers, but this post has a 700 views/upvote ratio. This way too high and smells extremly fishy.
You’re comparing platforms’s average to something pretty specific. What do you think is the ratio for videos like “How to install Windows 10”?
Just looked at the first 3 videos I got and the ratio is pretty much 50-100views/upvote lol
Now, for the next task, tell me the ratio for engageable content creators like Veritasium.
Do tell me when you realize the difference between actual content and help videos when it comes to engagement is up to 10x. Music videos might be even higher, but not entirely sure since one user can generate 10 views.
Let’s also not forget the fact that unlike on YT, reddit likes aren’t a real number, there’s some funky formula and obfuscation.
like Veritasium
50-25:1 lol
reddit likes aren’t a real number
Oh weird, what exactly was my comment about? Oh yeah, that these numbers are not real dingus
Oh weird, what exactly was my comment about? Oh yeah, that these numbers are not real dingus
I honestly thought you meant it in a way that the views themselves are fake, not the upvotes. In any case, the few veritasium videos I checked had a ratio closer to 20 while the tutorial ones hadna ratio closer to 100, marking a pretty significant difference between engagement, so my point wasn’t false
Upvotes higher than views? Considering how many lurkers there are? Considering even people who engage with a post don’t necessarily upvoter? They said 8k views, 12k upvotes. Even if those numbers are reverse, that’s an insane engagement ratio.
Where do you see 12k? The comment above does not say 12k, it says 12
Source: I made it up
It’s well known that reddit obfuscates votes on purpose. Views I have no idea.
stop using ubercorp social media
I was perma banned by admins for hurting a mods feelings. Reddit is so scared of having to pay mods they let them do whatever they want. There is no point in trying to rationalize it. As long as mods go unpaid, they will be allowed to have absolute power in the communities they control.
I told babylonian weeb, the guy who’s taken over animetitties, that spain nuking israel over the freedom flotilla was not a likely, or good outcome. That got me a ban for "glorifying violence:
I gave it one more shot after being away for a year. Posting my latest 3D Printer mod (after on Lemmy and the manufacturers forum). Immediately got a snarky garbage commenter. That’s what I get.
8k views means 7k ai scrapers downloading the same resource over and over
Which is even funnier because now the knowledge is disseminated further
Roku shills are probably moderators. Just like with the Xfinity sub
Welcome to federated social media my dude. You’re better off without that shithole.
Fuck reddit I mean that’s all. I stopped looking at it so long ago. Found a way online to delete all my posts and my user account while downloading all my posts to an xml so I could keep MY content.
Well, share the knowledge
GitHub - j0be/PowerDeleteSuite: Power Delete Suite for Reddit https://share.google/4iGAfdxacEIBTn0zP
Reddit is red pilling hard these days
Just post it in the fediverse.
I might be way to sleepy but I think I’m missing something here. The way I read it, the sequence is:
- you first posted something that got taken down,
- you posted it again and that got you a ban because you reposted
- you asked the mod who banned you why the first post was taken down, which of course doesn’t matter. You can’t keep reposting it until a mod allows it.
- you were rude to the mod and got banned
I see nothing wrong here except that you MAY not have been given an explanation of why the fist post was taken down
Some clarity — this was actually my first Reddit post ever. I didn’t know about the “no repost” rule until after I got the removal notice.
The first message I received didn’t mention reposting at all — it just said the post was removed and suggested I try a different forum. Here’s the screenshot of that message:
After a quick search I saw a few suggestions saying “remove brand names, it might look like a bot promo,” so I edited and reposted. It stayed up for almost two hours and people were saying thank you, so I figured it was fine.
When the mod later said it was a reposting violation, I asked what the original issue was so I could avoid it next time. The reply I got was basically, “I don’t care, I just don’t have the power to fix this even though your post is clearly fine.”
As for tone — sure, I called him Paul Blart, but his comments had a definite “read the TOS, dummy” vibe, so I matched the energy. 😅
Yes. You didn’t know you had to read the rules before posting. Happens to all of us. But the second time, you again reposted without reading the rules. The “try posting somewhere else” message AFIK wasn’t even sent by the mods but a generic reddit message. Yet eve though the suggestion was to literally POST SOMEWHERE ELSE, you decided to post on the same community.
If you wanted to know why you post was removed, you should have asked the original and try to work with them. The second mod is following the rules.
Automod isn’t gonna negotiate with you. Stop simping for reddit mods lol
I’m not simping for them. But bad people can also be right. In THIS case, from what I can tell, the actions were justified. I do believe that is 99% likely that the original takedown was BS, but after that, op was in the wrong
If you wanted to know why you post was removed, you should have asked the original and try to work with them.
You clearly do not understand how reddit moderation works. Unless mods actively choose to be known, your message goes to a general queue one of any number of mods can read, respond to, and hide from the other mods. Worse still, you have no idea which mod took action, and in this case it was an auto or AI mod first.
Agreed, the rules were pretty clear, why did he only contact the mods the second time?
Reddit is trash these days
Sir this is not Reddit! We can’t do nothing about how bad Reddit is, and I recommend you posting the way to fix it in a related community here.
Edit: not to mention you are a brand new user here, and the first thing to do, is to post about Reddit! I’m might start a bingo card.
Yes indubitably we must pounce upon such things here on lemmeshitpost lest others who just got here brighten my day with a solid Paul Blart jab
With comments like yours, I’m sure they’ll soon be disillusioned with Lemmy too.
Turns out while other problems certainly exist, the biggest problem with social media is the social part.
Trauma dumping.
#dayafterchipotle
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you have to realize a majority of lemmy users are ex-reddit users or a dual users as well?
