Yeah, forget it, it is a bots place anyway... my account is maybe 15 or 16 years old, I emptied everything with a tool, I still have the account and lurk from time to time for some sub, but never upvote/post/comment since the API fiasco
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It's a broken shithole of a website, didn't you get the memo?
Reddit's moderation bots have been extremely trigger happy for many years.
I got my main account, 10+ years club, suspended... appealed it, and got banned. Then every account I had ever logged into with the same IP, app, or browser as the banned one, at any moment in the past, got banned in cascade.
Once you get on Reddit's bad side, there's no going back. Suspensions add flags to Reddit's internal "shadow profile" of every account ever linked in any way. They all become more likely to get flagged and suspended, which gets them flagged even more in turn, until Reddit's ban-evasion system kicks in. Then, they're all toast.
To add insult to injury... once triggered, the bots go back checking your history, applying the most recent moderation guidelines retroactively. Over the following months, the account kept getting notifications about old comments being removed, followed by subreddit bans.
I could write a lot here, but "that just sucks" carries enough weight that I don't need to go 40".
It's a sign to layoff Reddit and be active on Lemmy.
I started !gnucash@lemmy.ml a couple of days ago mainly to give me a little motivation to log on here daily and post something. Feels like I'm posting into the void at this point, but I did get three subscribers and a handful of upvotes 🤣. I'm still spending 90% of my time over at Reddit, but if we want alternatives we definitely need to participate more.
3 subscribers in 3 days is fair. If you keep up posting regularly. You should continue to get more subs. Subscribed in case I find an interesting post
Thanks!
Love gnucash and I use it all the time .... liked, subscribed to the community and I'll do my best to check in
Thanks!
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I'm, uh, somewhat active on here, if you'd like to check out my profile.
My guess: bot mods. Reddit employed some LLM-based bot "moderation" across the site, and those bans are false positives.
I asked for a recommendation for raw denim repair in my city subreddit. Removed and suspended. 15 year old account. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
In my country, we call jeans "rifle" (pronounced /rɪ'flɛ/). No, really. People get suspended from Facebook Marketplace all the time.
Ah, the classic Chevy Nova problem with translation.
Whatwas the problem with translating Chevy Nova?
Apocryphal.
Supposedly, "No va" means "no go", or "It doesn't run" in Spanish.
It's largely a myth. The Nova actually sold very well in Latin American countries.
Oh, I've got one too, the way you pronounce SX7 as in the Suzuki model in Hungarian literally means "falls apart", "esik szét".
Also Tesco was selling cheap power tools for a while branded Kinzo, meaning "torturer" in Hungarian.
Ford Kuga. The word kuga means plague in my language, and—according to Wikipedia—as a result the model has had lower sales in the region.
Plus if this was accurate Portuguese speakers would get banned all the time. ("Nova" is "new", so a really common word.)
I do know what Powderhorn is talking about, but by a different name - the Scunthorpe problem.
Maybe "raw" is now a flagged word? Seriously, the fact that all manner of people are suddenly getting cut off is supremely suspicious.
Lmao, if ‘raw’ is a naughty ban worth word at Reddit…. Why even use that garbage.
There was recently a project I was looking into. The only way to contact them was Reddit and Discord. Made a post on Reddit with a several years old account. It was instantly removed by Reddit admin with no explanation. It was not spicy in any way. Literally just asking a question about the project. Fuck me, I guess. Moved on to another project.
No, no ... fuck u/spez.
Reddits been turning to shit for years. Surprised people here still use it.
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Reddit is corporate-controlled and moderators/administrators can run amok so easily. I was banned from /r/news years ago with no explanation...I appealed several times with no responses.
I founded /r/AskBibleScholars and have no issues there.
I believe that you already know the answers to your own questions.
I also had an account that made it to the frontpage once with a gif that I illustrated and animated myself. Shortly after, the account got shadow banned an I never learned why. Didn’t post anything illegal or even weird with it. Reddit moderation is such a shit show.
The speed at which these suspensions are being done suggests zero human input. And I know the difference between mod removal and a sitewide blanket suspension.
They ban you for all kinds of nonsense. I had a couple turned over on appeal. My latest ban was for 7 days for threatening violence because I said I hoped those guys who got caught fomenting unrest in Greenland were charged with something serious made an example. The comment was on topic, within the confines of the justice system and made no threat against anyone. Reddit has some really weird moderation. I just deleted the account. Fediverse is better for actual engagement anyway.
This isn't a ban; it's a suspension that I can't recover from because my email address associated with that account no longer works.
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