After a year away from Reddit, curiosity got the better of me : reddit

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After a year away from Reddit, curiosity got the better of me (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world to c/reddit@lemmy.world

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I was just interested to see how much had changed since December when I was randomly banned with no reason given and the appeal went unheard.

I was just planning to browse and not log in but it immediately gave me a pop-up notification to create an account.

Curious if it would allow me, I submitted the application and it went through without problem.

I didn't want to draw too much attention to myself, so I didn't comment or post for the first month.

Then, I made another mistake. I got invested, again and it didn't take long before it inevitably became political.

I posted a reply to someone who had clearly been chugging the orange kool-aid. Nothing terrible, just what I thought was objective reality, easily verifiable through past reporting through many credible media outlets.

But, reddit is going to reddit. Somehow objective reality has been classified as hate speech on reddit.

I'm not surprissd. Just a little disappointed.

I appealed, I do not expect a reply.

Previously, I had been on reddit for 10 years without much incident.

This time I lasted only 2 months

Edit:

They manually reviewed it and kept the ban!

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[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (11 children)

Which subreddit?

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[–] rozodru@piefed.social 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I got permabanned from Reddit for asking the question as to how long will it be until an ICE agent gets shot.

That, According to the Reddit AI admins, was inciting violence, racism, and hate.

For just asking a question.

[–] ngdev@lemmy.zip 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

not saying i agree with the ban, but "just asking a question" doesn't mean shit. there are plenty of questions you could pose that could incite violence, racism, and hate

reminds me of the south park episode dances with smurfs

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[–] AllForOne@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago

I got perma banned without a single word. Hadn't done anything other than maybe miss a few rules on a sub, but nothing which warrented a ban. Maybe a headsup that I forgot a rule. The level of dictatorship they run over there is pretty wild. Fairly certain it's just A.I/bots running wild, flagging for all the wrong reasons. The worst part is that they don't even read or answer the appeals. I literally sent 10 over the course of a year, because I had so much information stored for my health journey. Did they care? Nope.

[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They made a system that’s supposed to have ai flag stuff and people review it, then the humans used it as an excuse to be lazy and click through all of them.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

i feel like its AI all the way top down. AI flag stuff, ai review it by looking for keywords, and AI issuing the ban, and the rejection of appeals in most cases. ive only seen it rarely when the admins UNBAN someone, on the shadowban sub. its very rare to get unbanned these days. usually shadowban were reserved the worst offendors, like repeat trolls,,,etc.

[–] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

How were you top 1% commenter in only 2 months?

[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 days ago

Something isn’t adding up

[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Surprised me too

Apparently everyone is a top commenter now

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

This is a ban by reddit, not a mod, right?

[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Correct

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 4 days ago

its reddit banning you. A SERIAL ban evaders, can get shadowban eventually, which mean they silence all your posts, so nobody can see it but you, so you wouldnt know yout ban. this form of ban is harder to get around.

[–] RonniePickering@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Same here. Ive been banned twice for no reason and no answer from reddit

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Not following. Sounds like you were both in agreement? Or was the post above that relevant?

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

First post floats like indecisison, a common tactic to take down known facts.

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

First comment absolutely was saying Trump was responsible even though he didn't go inside himself. Yet OP and others downvotes it and and upvoted the same sentiment in OP's comment.

Why OP was banned, I have no idea. There was no hate in the comment in the screenshot. I'm assuming it is the same comment in the link.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

The idea is to spread doubt where there should be none.

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[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago

The story at the time was that Dump ordered his driver to take him to the Capitol, and the order was refused.

[–] crt0o@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 5 days ago

Damn, I guess this is what 21st century censorship looks like

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago

Fuck Reddit I hope that shithole is destroyed soon.

[–] BismuthYellow@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Sometimes i'd like to report the reddit admins for "hate". One of the most abused rule they have.

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