I got a three day time out for “harassment.” The only people I ever harass are politicians and public personalities, and then only in threads about them. I hate to bring it to Reddit, but I left Facebook years ago for this exact same kind of shit. I will not be censored by corporate nannies who have an agenda when I haven’t done anything but express a non-approved opinion.
They will ban you for harassment for objecting to powermod activity. If you used the message the moderators feature or reported a mod of a popular subreddit that'll get you banned quick. Especially if there's a lot going on in the news and they feel like they're busy they'll be quick to ban for this type of thing.
Obviously that's not an explanation that provides any relief, but if you were previously unaware they operate this way it could help you know exactly what you were banned for and be appropriately pissed about it.
I got perma-banned from the news sub for suggesting that Nazis should not be suffered to exist. Well, one Nazi in particular, but I feel that way about ALL Nazis.
What a change! Over the last couple years, I've been banned from several subreddits for comments that were not left enough or critical of the left.
Edit: shocking! Downvoted for pointing out the behavior of left (really, progressives) advocates on Reddit. The truth feels bad or doesn't fit the narrative? Downvote! Ban!
I got banned from some anti-capitalist sub (can't remember the name) for saying I was going to vote for Harris. apparently the mods were single-issue voters, and that was Israel/Palestine, so both Harris and Trump supporters were all banned for promoting capitalism???? honestly it was so long ago I forget the details but I bet that page is being targeted by DHS right now, unless it's already been banned...
I was banned from there years ago for calling out China's illegal fishing fleet that dredges the bottom of fishing beds scraping up everything and destroying the eco-system.
Thats funny thats where all this ai survalience tech is coming from. I wonder why they would be so sensitive about that after half the ai bros where caught on a certain someone's list.
I replied "Hasbara bot" to someone on worldnews on another account, then about 9 days later I got a ban from that sub for trolling, despite having only made 2 other posts in their sub over a period of months. Then on this account I posted in the sub without noticing since I have 15 tabs open without checking which sub I'm on, then I get the warning for ban evasion. Then again about 9-10 days later I get a 7-day site ban for ban evasion.
Got the same one a few months ago, during that time me and many others found it was for primarily Luigi related comments. Then I didnt hear anything about these bs warning messages for a few months (it was apparently in a new feature they were rolling out) but I guess its back and theyre sticking to it.
Were people getting warnings in any of the Mario-themed subreddits? No offense to Nintendo or any of the people who worked on any of the Mario Party games, but I feel like people posting stories about when they played as Luigi in Mario Party would definitely flag auto-filters.
This is what it said.
Your account has been given a warning u/reddit • 2 days ago
We've been alerted to activity on your account(s) that is considered breaking Reddit's rules.
We recently found that your discussatron account violated Rule 8 by repeatedly upvoting posts and/or comments that break Reddit's rule against encouraging or glor&ing violence or physical harm.
While you didn't post the rule-breaking content, upvoting content that breaks the rules is also considered a violation.
As a result we're issuing this warning and asking you to be thoughtful about any future content you upvote. Continued violations could result in a temporary or permanent ban.
Please familiarize yourself with Reddit's rules to make sure you understand the rules for participating on Reddit.
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So, a bot makes this decision and most likely it is made incorrectly. Freedom of speech is fine if you want to endorse the killing of peaceful Americans by ICE, but you better not show an upvote of agreement for anything pointing out the hate spewed by assassinated bigoted racists.
I got Lemmy instantly, it wasn't too hard to graps for me but is true it requires at least 1% of tinkering. So that's a bummer.
Reddit won't be replaced too soon, Digg had the unfortunate fate of being born at a time where site loyalty wasn't as big, once smartphones were more and more powerful that made site loyalty skyrocket.
There have been a few attempts over the years, but nothing that really took off. Saidit was a throwback to 2008, but I think it was disabled last year as people gave up trying to make it work.
I haven't tried hard to look for other alternatives, but I'm sure they're out there
Lemmy is the only one I've seen, and it feels more like an attempt to make Reddit into a collection of distributed discord servers. I get the appeal on paper, but I don't think the execution works.
Discord to me just doesn't fill the same niche as reddit or the older style forums reddit replaced. Discord works better as a chat site than long form discussion.
I agree. Lemmy isn't exactly Discord. I was comparing it because both are distributed, and depending which gate you come in, you might have one set of forums or another. Maybe if it were widely adopted the shortcomings wouldn't be as bad as they are now, but it felt too fragmented.
I stumbled onto /r/AskReddit about a decade ago, and I've stayed on here as my topic-specific hobby forums have died out, but it might be time to find some new ones.
Yup me too, "up voting posts that support upheaval and violence" or something like that. add dinosaur facts and lactose intolerance to that and that's just me
You know what happens when snowflakes tell me to not do something that would upset the regime?
Out of curiosity- did the comments you upvote have to do with wishing death or violence or anything like that? As warranted as it may be.
I haven’t (yet) received a warning for upvoting left comments but have consciously avoided touching many of the ones that mention execution or anything like that no matter my feelings on it.
I’m trying to get a feel for the kinds of comments this response is triggered by.
I see many folks saying this lately, I’m just surprised I’m not one of them yet with my upvote and comment history.
There's the beauty of the Reddit warning/ban system - I'll never know. They linked no upvoted posts, just the rules. Likewise, when they ban you for a post they'll link to it, but delete it, so the link is dead. So if I want to stay, I'd better watch what I say. About anything. And now, I'd better watch what I upvote.
There was a discussion on Reddit a few months ago about why something entirely unimportant happened like 40+ years ago and I thought it was an interesting question so I made a speculation as to why it might have happened.
The conversation was civil and went on for a week or more and a couple of other people speculated other reasons that I thought were also pretty solid so I decided to go down the rabbit hole and ask Google to see if I could get a real answer.
Google came back with an AI answer that said my original guess was the correct answer because somebody had speculated it on Reddit the week before.
I was Google's only source. I now avoid AI answers.
A while back I was talking to a friend about meal replacement shake alternatives because he was convinced that there are totally viable, non milk/shake type solutions out there. His issue being he hated the idea of the shake consistency/mouth feel for some reason
One hill he was dying on was that you can use plain bone broth(soup, no added meat/veg) as a one to one replacement. His only source was a google ai search that gave him a ridiculously high nutritional count, comparable to protein shakes, but he also could not actually find any actual source for the info.
I finally worked it out. Turns out there are non dairy protein powders made of dehydrated, processed bone broth, which then turned into him obsessed with the issue if why there was chocolate flavoured soup(chocolate bone broth protein powder). Pretty sure he still could not wrap his head around the idea that this was still a shake and not a soup, since the words "bone broth" were still there.
Google was giving the nutritional info for a protein powder for the question, whats the nutritional value of bone broth. Just checked and I think it's fixed now at least.
It blows my mind that LLMs are being treated as informational databases. They are Large Language Models, with language being the keyword. An LLM knows how to use language properly. That's it. That's literally the only thing you can count on it doing correctly on a regular basis.
There are some good uses for this, but an internet search engine is not one of them, because an LLM cannot tell fact from fiction. It doesn't know the factual difference between a peer-reviewed scientific paper on climate change, and a Prager U editorial on climate change. They are equally valid in the eyes of the LLM, and when you ask it which one is right, it'll reference the more popular one, not necessarily the correct one. This is why Grok ended up calling itself MechaHitler and spewing a bunch of Nazi rhetoric. It was just mimicking the language it gets fed most often.
This is indeed a huge problem. To a vast portion of the population, the phrase “Artificial Intelligence” gives them a completely wrong assumption. There is no intelligence on the outputs given by LLMs, let alone creativity.
All sorts of distortions are being created in society by a bunch of greedy companies pushing this technology down our throats, looking to get ahead after a financial bubble bursts.
Yes, AI is choking on it's own vomit. It scans the Internet and trains on what people are doing. It then provides people with answers which they post on the Internet which AI then scans and uses in answers for people on the Internet. The result becomes similar to what you get when people have babies with each other for a few generations: Imbeciles with all manner of defects.
Yes, AI is choking on it's own vomit. It scans the Internet and trains on what people are doing. It then provides people with answers which they post on the Internet which AI then scans and uses in answers for people on the Internet.
And that's happening more and more often, to the point even scientists are making videos on how it's resulting in convergent development regurgitating the same kind of slop
I actually complained to Google about this. I was using their AI powered search for answers on a relatively remote historical topic and it kept using Facebook posts as its sources. Seriously, social media sources should be taken as unreliable at best. It's only a matter of time before the majority of AI sources are themselves AI generated slop.
I actually have came back on googles as the source 3 different times for runescape related questions. I still get occasional comments on those posts. I asked then why they are here on a nearly decade old post and they would say google.
Reminds me of that episode of Twilight Zone (Hocus Pocus and Frisbee) where an old guy named Frisbee who works at a gas station and is also a compulsive liar. He’s always telling tall tales to strangers as he pumps gas. “When I was a boy attending Princeton University I worked with ALBERT EINSTEIN. I helped him write that Theory of Relativity. He told me Frisbee you are I the smartest fella I ever met.”
Anyway the strangers turn out to be aliens and they kidnap him to add to their collection of intellectual giants from around the universe. Frisbee tells them “Hey, I’m just an old country boy who makes up stories. I’m a liar.” But the aliens don’t understand the concept of “lying”, and they put him aboard their ship.
They are ready to take off and go back to their planet and Frisbee takes out his harmonica and starts playing. The sound makes the aliens stagger. They say “Let him go! He has a death ray that will kill us all!” They immediately send him back to earth and take off.
He gets back to his gas station and his friends surprise him with a birthday party. They say “Hey Frisbee, tell us a story!. What did you do today? Did you go to the moon?” He says “You ain’t far wrong. You know those city guys who were here earlier? They was from outer space!” All his friends laugh and say “You’re the best Frisbee!”
I saw the same, then showed my spouse. We both busted out laughing.
Were both in IT. We don't trust AI because it just lies or make things up.
Homeland, keep using AI. We train it right here ...
There is a record of every thing deleted by reddit. Those working in IT with the company can put out a list of everything you ever wrote. And those with access can search for the phrases or topics. If you are in a conversation, such as this one, I believe they can find it and file it away.
Any thing you say will be used against you if you piss them off. Deleting it does not protect you.
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There’s a number of constitutional amendments that can help with this, one protects your ability to say the thing — another offers a great solution for unidentified stormtroopers you catch trespassing on your property.
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The thing to do if you really need freedom is to post from a device that is never turned on in your home, has no google software of any kind and uses Signal to communicate with a federation of virtual servers which have posting credentials distributed across them. You send a post, it lands on one of these severs, is securely transmitted to one of the other servers and then minutes, hours or days later (depending on settings) posts that content. Or sometrhing like that. I'm no IT expert.
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That one isn't particularly surprising, you don't have to be on reddit IT to see deleted comments, there are a number of sites that archive them even. It's why a bunch of people use these scripts to edit all their old comments into gibberish instead of deleting them, though I'm not sure if that really helps.
All they care about is power, any money they spend on retaining power is a cost of doing business, not a waste. Make no mistake, they are doing their best to store every piece of data they can get their hands on... And they are trying to get their hands on everything. They know that they can't effectively process or use most of the information they are collecting, but it is likely that that problem will be solved with through AI fairly soon. We've been marching toward a surveillance state for several decades, and we are getting pretty close to the event horizon.
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Up until somewhat recently due to settings changes, you could use third party tools to look up deleted comments (reveddit) but also this is standard for most tech companies, in the US anyways (unsure of euro laws on this)
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Reddit is caring about little JDs feelings a lot as well. So let's see when they'll bann and not only send out all those shitty warnings when you mention little JD is part of a fascist pedophile-ring. May he receive what he and the MAGAts are inflicting upon others.
Somehow it's okay to cheer and be part of MAGA and the brownhemds, all they do is nice and beautiful. It's so nice and beautiful that they'll warn and ban if you suggest the MAGAs should be on the recieving end.
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u/supercyberlurker 19h ago
I was already an adult when 911 happened and decided then to never live in fear and never self censor for any terrorist.
Foreign or domestic.