I never received a ban on reddit until this year.
First i got a warning because i had the audacity to report an extremist mod, apparently reporting mods is a violation of rule 8 which says nothing about such a thing.
A few days later i randomly received a 3 days ban for the same „offense“ without having interacted with the matter any further.
Both were non automated actions.
Both times an appeal was declined with a generic copy paste response.
Now i‘ve got a 7 day ban for violating Rule1 about harassment.
This time per automation.
Apparently a single comment can be harassment, which is new to me.
I really would like to see which comment of mine was the gruesome crime but since they removed the comment „for the safety of others“, i cannot open it anymore…
I can only imagine that it was due to me answering another users question by providing a link and some context to a certain dark part of history, which reddits automation considered a no no…
When they issue such a ban they babble quite a lot about how people should feel safe on reddit…
You can’t safely post.
You can’t safely report.
Soon you can’t even safely upvote without expecting a random ban.
Weird way to make people „feel safe“.