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Okay, posting this here because it is literally called No Stupid Questions, but I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on this.

I got a message today on Reddit saying I was permabanned . . . I had really good karma there, never received any notification that I had done anything wrong, and never had a post deleted. The message said to check my inbox for more details . . . but there were no details in my inbox. I tried to appeal, and it was just denied in a couple of hours. No explanation.

Anyone else experience this or know what other avenues I can take? I'm going to be honest here, I had made a lot of friends there. I suppose I could make a throwaway account to let them know where else they can find me, but I'm pretty bummed out.

For context: I kind of prided myself as being a "Ted Lasso of Reddit." I mostly just got on to give people pep talks in the beginner fitness and /toastme subreddits. I'm going to miss that a lot, and I kind of needed a community right now, even if it was an online one. But, hey, maybe that's just my sign to check out this place instead. I'll try to look at the bright side.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

My first ever suspension from Reddit was for an anti religion comment. On Reddit. Then after my 3 days were up, the first thread I saw was on the subject of religion, full of people saying worse thing than I had, and in one of the major subs, not even atheism or anything.

I could definitely buy that they're using AI but personally I always had the impression that they outsource the job and don't make sure everyone is even on the same page or can read English properly.

Because even the stuff that gets [removed by Reddit] seems to be nonsense a lot of the time. A while ago I saw someone make a post saying something like "Hi guys, haven't been active much lately. But I'm back and gonna be posting more." Came back later and it was [removed by Reddit]. So not even that is trustworthy or gives the impression that they actually know wtf they're doing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Literally the reason I'm here now, banned because I share my computer with someone, which triggered some "ban evasion detection". Both of use appealed, both of us denied within hours, despite both accounts being multiple years old

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

What's a ted lasso? Is it different from a rope lasso?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

You probably crossed an admin and didn't even realize it. Reddit is really utterly shit behind the curtains, they just happen to put on a good face that has generally fooled politicians and influencers alike. Most people care about what's behind the curtains like they do with politics, not much at all, so they keep getting away with it specially due to the heavy control they have on the narrative. You know societies will begin to give a shit about social networks and what that is doing to our real societies when you actually have a recourse against their Black Mirror Nosedives.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Contact user support...oh right there is none

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Got banned over a star trek mod abusing his power

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

What you should do next is free yourself https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite Delete all your comments, give them nothing. Reddit doesn't deserve your post history. I was there since the beginning and same thing happened to me two years ago. No reason. Great comment history, never found out why. So I used this and deleted everything (it also backs it up for you to a file so you can still view your comments which can be useful).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I made my Reddit in 2013 and posted alllll sorts of stuff, never really caring what TOS or anything I could be violating.. never had problems except getting a horribly downvoted comment here and there. That being said, I am much happier after transitioning to Lemmy. I use voyager which has a bit of Reddit-like view.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah I've been in this experience. One of my accounts got Perma banned. I was moderating my subreddit and trying to clarify if a bigot was being bigoted so that I could ban him without remorse. Apparently my clarification sounded bigoted so Reddit banned me with no recourse.

I was never able to talk to a human being, all attempts at trying to restore my account were met with computer no's. Even my whole mod team messaging reddit on my behalf got struck down with automated responses.

I logged in to my second account, got that re-added to the mod team, and continued on. Apparently their bans are as pointless as they are confusing.

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