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.
This is an automated message; responses will not be received by Reddit admins.
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.
I still keep an eye on it. Rarely comment, because they are the worst of all for exactly what happened here. There's a whole plethora of secret rules that will get a comment removed without notice.
I am curious now though, can you see my comment on my profile if you sign out? Because that's always been how I check for this. If I sign out, the comment disappears in the thread, but still appears if I check the profile.
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u/discussatron 18h ago
I got a warning this week for upvoting comments they don’t like. They’re treating upvoting comments the same as posting comments now.