Except the obvious fuck spez / steve huffman stuff, what are the things that get you banned on reddit, but is okay on most major instances Lemmy?
Specifically, I want to know where is the line drawn, regarding the recent NYC Shooting incident involving the corporate shithead.
Reddit doesn’t need a reason to ban you. It can be anything because they function on arbitrary laws known only to themselves.
Criticism of Israel got me banned.
Lol. What was the exact comment?
I love Lemmy for this.
I said “Fuck Israel, Fuck Hamas” on here and haven’t gotten banned.
There was no exact comment. I was banned from every top-level news sub for calling out the disproportionate reaction from Israel becoming a genocide. That was back in December last year. Their official reason for site banning me was “abuse of the report tool” because I was reporting everyone calling all Palestinians terrorists and/or advocating for their collective deaths. Advocating violence is against Reddit’s ToS, except if it’s Pro-Israel violence.
Meanwhile I see comments of people being removed for misspelling Palestine. I think it highly depends on the community/mod
same.
I think the CEO got what he deserved.
Carefully now, you’re on lemmy.world so that doesn’t really apply.
Ehh…
I think “I don’t feel bad for the CEO” is okay, but “Deny, Defend, Depose” can get a comment removal on .world
But then, its lemmy. Theres a lot more instances that are more leinient.
Posting tons of links to Lemmy posts, for one.
Linking other communities (vs. subreddit equivalents). For some reason on my last year of reddit some subs started adding rules against mentioning any r/ s. It’s almost universally encouraged here to spread knowledge and grow small communities.
I don’t know what subreddits you were on, but on the ones I’m a member of, it doesn’t looks like r/ is seen as a bad thing.
It was whitepeopletwitter, 1.5 years ago. My comment was removed for something not in the sidebar rules, then or now.
The mod situation has always been strange. Mods can NEVER be changed once a community is made (unless a super mod gets involved). Makes it easy for individuals to control entire communities without any say within the communities themselves (within reddit).
Lemmy is a bit better as you can just up and leave an instance community that is being strange. But its a similar issue. Voting per year (or just periodically) a mod could have good results…if done right. Im actually not sure what the best way to do it is, but having overlord mods is not the correct way thats for sure.
Unfair + bizarre
Oh yea reddit gets so strict sometimes. Like I get mods not wanting to get people to start spamming community names, but sometimes a relavent conversation comes up and it’s really too strict to not even allow a mention in a relevent conversation.
I’m still fucking pissed off, a Reddit mod banned me sitewide for a week for mocking someone using windows on a steam deck, fuck it, I deserved it, BUT SITEWIDE AND FOR A FUCKING WEEEEK
That dude absolutely deserved to get mocked. What he did is the definition of heresy.
There was also a fad to spam links to communities, some of them made up. Entire chains of comments would just be nonsense. A crackdown on that would make sense.
Here it’s not really an issue. There I’d usually consider a link to a community without additional text to be spam.
These days? Posting positive comments about GrapheneOS would probably get you chucked off the site.
tech-related, my account got shadow-banned because I posted an article about signalapp that included some bio of founder Moxie and some info about hacker culture
I got perma-banned for condemning Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Several mods accused me of being an alt-right neo Nazi MAGA cultist. 🙄
Bro, genocide is bad no matter who is doing it.
Saying that literal Nazis deserve to be killed.
Asking who deserves to die (because I was suicidal, and not much better)
Or even just punched in the face. Or making fun of self identifying Nazis has been enough to get me temporarily banned.
I say this quite often.
Lol fuck reddit. Section 230 make them immune form legal issues anyways so thats just reddit being such a dick
No you get banned for that here too.
Posting with a new account apparently. Last time I made a reddit account I made a few comments in various subs. A few hours I went back and found that every single thing I posted was deleted without a word from the mods. I hadn’t even posted anything controversial but new account = bad I guess
To be fair, this is usually a spam mitigation thing. Most places that do it have an automod that just deletes anything posted by an account less than x days / weeks old, rather than a human going through and doing it manually. It’s usually in the rules of the sub
A variant is requiring a certain amount of karma for the same reason
Yeah, some instances are the equal and opposite of voat. Just as extreme, in the opposite direction
I remember commenting in a sub and getting bounced by automod because I didn’t meet a karma limit. Which is fine, lots of subs have karma limits. But it felt really high- I had a couple thousand karma at the time- and the mods explicitly wouldn’t tell you what the actual limit was.
So I guess you’re just supposed to let automod bounce you occasionally til you manage to hit their magic number.
Yea, sometime I just want a throwaway to vent on how shitty my life is, then after typing like 5 paragraphs, I click post. I get an automod saying my karma is too low.
Ugh, that shit just makes me wanna end myself even more (figuratively, of course).
Yeah it’s kind of like the crisis hotline hanging up on you because your 2 minutes is up. Insultingly impersonal!
I can comment on something conservative, calling the people morons for being duped, and not get banned from every single left wing area by some power tripping shithead mod that thinks those comments are going to drive positive traction to those conservative spaces.
Some reddit mods are utterly fucking useless, and definitely need to go touch some fucking grass.
Got a recent one for you. I was permabanned from reddit a month ago for saying I didn’t care that Trump said Liz Cheney should be shot, because Liz Cheney is a warhawk who has called for bombing millions of people.
Banned for “glorifying violence,” not because I agreed with it or endorsed it. Just for saying I didn’t care.
They even banned an alt I used for business stuff.
I don’t agree but I see the reasoning. They are gonna lose advertisers if they allow anything like that on their site. Especially if its a US politician. “I don’t care if putin gets shot” might not have gotten you a ban, but a US politician definitely is gonna get a ban, since reddit is a US company.
No. Maybe there’s some indirect concern about advertisers, but it’s mostly narrative control and propaganda.
Look at this recent ceo shooting. The rich know they have to convince us that their lives matter more, and that we have to consider them untouchable. It’s how they maintain their position and protect themselves from accountability from their own evil & violence.
Look at this recent ceo shooting.
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Reddit is a corporation with a CEO
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The CEO doesn’t like seeing members of his own social class being shot
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Reddit users cheer death of a CEO
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Reddit CEO gets scared like a bitch and start ban hammering
Hahaha. No. No one is calling for the execution of social media executives. It’s to protect his fellow rich people from having their monopoly on violence challenged.
No one? 😏
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Being a tankie
Hmm maybe.
I think r/sino is still around?
My favorite is when I say that as a minority and communist I bought guns to defend myself from neoliberals. Experiential truth is the bull in their china shop of an ideology. It’s a perma almost anywhere on Reddit.
I’ve never been banned from Reddit but I was threatened with a ban by a Reddit admin when I reported a right wing troll group who was obviously using sockpuppets to harass people and spread racist bullshit in some local sub. The admin message said I was abusing the moderation system by reporting them and if I didn’t stop I would be banned from Reddit. I was never banned but a few weeks later all of the sockpuppet accounts I reported were banned by the antievil operations team along with one of the mods in that sub.
Saying Nazis should get punched’ll get you banned on reddit in my experience
I got permabanned for saying I would like to see how Eisenhower would treat some Nazi marchers in Wisconsin. Apparently, that is not a commentary on how far the Republicans have shifted, but is actually advocating violence. I haven’t been supplying Reddit with free content since. Their loss, I had a pretty decent amount of karma, so I probably was contributing to the popularity of their site.
