Banned from Reddit after posting John Oliver

3 years ago by RonSijm to c/reddit

Context:

/r/ProgrammerHumor/ closed for a couple of days, then - "because mods have to listen to the community or otherwise they get replaced by more /u/Spez compliant mods" opened up again, and held a voting which new rules to enforce. The sub opened up with the new rule allTitlesMustBeCamelCase.

I made the first post about 15 minutes after the sub re-opened (because I'm in their discord, I was aware it opened up again, it wasn't announced yet, I think) - and of course I just make a shit-post about John Oliver since it's the /r/pics (and a bunch of other) subreddits way to protesting the API changes.

It wasn't even that good of a post to be honest, it got temporary taken down by the subs' mods since they mentioned "it's only anecdotally related [to programmer humor]" - but after messaging them explaining the context they put it back up. So it's basically approved by the moderators of the subreddit. And not against the content policy of the sub

It got like 3k upvotes in about an hour, so I got a message from some bot that I was on the frontpage of /all/ as well. At the end of the day it had 13.5k upvotes

About 48 hours later I got an automated message:

Your account has been permanently suspended for breaking the rules. This account is permanently suspended due to violations of Reddit's content policy

I posted an "appeal" basically just asking "Lol you banned me for posting John Oliver?"

And the only response I got was:

Thanks for submitting an appeal to the Reddit admin team. We have reviewed your request and unfortunately, your appeal will not be granted and your suspension will remain in place. For future reference, we recommend you to familiarize yourself with Reddit's Content Policy. -Reddit Admin Team This is an automated message; responses will not be received by Reddit admins.

I posted another "appeal" yesterday asking "Could you clarify which Content Policy rule I broke?" To which they haven't responded yet.

It's the only post I made in the last 2 weeks, so there wasn't any other reason to suddenly ban me besides this post...

My reddit account was 12 years old at this point. I was going to leave anyways because the Reddit client I use (sync) already announced it would be shutting down June 30 - so I don't care that much that they banned me - just though it was a pretty weird approach from the Reddit Admins to start banning people for getting John Oliver on the front-page

YellowtoOrange 128 points 3 years ago

Congratulations! There should be "Banned from Reddit" medals on Lemmy/Mastodon/kbin

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CaptainApathetic 28 points 3 years ago

Custom medals for an instance that admins/mods could give to accounts or posts would be cool, might be a way for admins to reward/push good content. Kind of like reddit mod awards except you don't have to give money to a jagoff to do it.

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tdawg 5 points 3 years ago

personally I'd be okay with the awards funding the server bill

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academician 72 points 3 years ago

That's fucking ridiculous. Maybe we should all start posting this meme and get ourselves banned.

Reach out to The Verge, they've been covering the Reddit debacle pretty well and I bet they'd love to hear from you.

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RonSijm 20 points 3 years ago

I'm hoping they're still going to respond to the appeal, as my first appeal wasn't really a real one, just basically a "lol wtf?" one... Considering maybe it was just one random "hardcore" rogue admin on a banning spree for things they didn't like. - And that if I just submitted an appeal another admin would see it and unban me. But that didn't go as expected

So I'm hoping they at least answer the second appeal asking to give me a reason. I'm curious if they're going to admit it's for the John Oliver post, or if they're going to pull something from the history and be like "2 years ago you said something mildly problematic we just discovered" - or most likely, just keep it vague and say I violated the content policy without explanation

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x4740N 9 points 3 years ago

If reddit doesn't reach out in a reasonable time do still reach out to news media outlets including the verge that are likely to cover the story

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veroxii 5 points 3 years ago

Or at least they'll combine it with other incidents into a bigger story.

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Vilian 7 points 3 years ago

send us the meme so we can post there too

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RonSijm 20 points 3 years ago

It's not that good of a meme though... https://www.reddit.com/...

https://i.imgur.com/wRZIEg1.png

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Sergeant_Voronin 11 points 3 years ago

Ha that's pretty funny

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Zerlyna 3 points 3 years ago

Love it!!

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Iteria 2 points 3 years ago

I saw this before I guess it got taken down. I thought it was funny.

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grue 4 points 3 years ago

I'm surprised that they replied to your appeal at all.

I got "permanently suspended" a couple of weeks ago for "report abuse" (I was reporting comments in /r/conservative as misinformation, because they were misinformation, and the mods apparently decided to retaliate against me) and Reddit can't even be bothered to respond to my appeal.

I also sent a data request a couple of weeks ago, and they haven't responded to that yet either.

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jcit878 4 points 3 years ago

its funny that i used to get heaps of those 'mental health' messages spammed at me yet reddit never did a thing about it even though i reported every one as abuse, but you can seemingly get 'permanently suspended' for anything these days. and they dont bother reading appeals, they just deny and flick the stock message back

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jballs 65 points 3 years ago

I like how they permanently banned your account, it's against their rules to make a new account to circumvent a ban, then said "for future reference please read our comment content policy".

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ted_pikul 7 points 3 years ago

This is a great point.

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TeoTwawki 5 points 3 years ago

part of their selective enforcement - they know the site is full of socks shills and bots, they just look the other way till its convenient for them to apply a rule to an account they want rid of.

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jcit878 1 point 3 years ago

my alt was banned after my prime account was, it took about a day then out of the blue was banned. did not post anything with it and only noticed when i logged in a week later

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TeoTwawki 3 points 3 years ago

those a-holes are "making examples" right now.

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jacktherippah 62 points 3 years ago

Reddit is really not backing down, huh? Welp slaps knee i guess I'm leaving for good.

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root 19 points 3 years ago

I had kind of already started detaching from Reddit (moving it from my bookmarks so I don't click by habbit, uninstalling on phone, etc).

Really liking Lemmy so far, especially with all the recent/ future improvements.

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NarrativeBear 16 points 3 years ago

I'm going to join you, just deleted my account of 9 years. Felt great tbh.

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sensibilidades 47 points 3 years ago

My reddit account was 12 years old at this point

I'm guessing that's a big reason why. You know what Reddit used to be like, and that's not where they want it now, so you're more of a liability than an asset. They'd rather grow their userbase with millions of new users who will adapt to whatever shitty platform they're continuing to morph into.

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x4740N 9 points 3 years ago

Your comment just game me an idea but what if we make posts discussing how reddit has become a shithole but word the posts in a search engine optimised way

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BD1sHappyFeet 5 points 3 years ago

I think mine is 13. Might have to try to get banned myself! Wonder if there's a pic of John Oliver holding a ban hammer.

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glibg10b 7 points 3 years ago

Try using a generative image model

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Zerlyna 1 point 3 years ago

Mines only 4 but I’m down for it.

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dodgypast 1 point 3 years ago

I'm actually quite puzzled.

Do they really think that they can compete with Tik Tok?

Reddit's biggest strength was how so many questions you'd Google would lead you to Reddit yet they're actively driving away the people who created that content.

I wasn't a prolific poster but I did get involved with answering people's questions when I could. Now I believe that Reddit isn't a capable steward for that content.

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kiriakos 45 points 3 years ago

By the way, sync for Lemmy is coming ;)

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Freesoftwareenjoyer 32 points 3 years ago

But why use a proprietary app when there are awesome people making Free and Open Source applications? For example Jerboa or wefwef.app. Anyone can audit their source code and make sure they don't spy on you or do anything malicious.

Edit: there is also Memmy.

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Jfqs6m 16 points 3 years ago

I'm using Jerboa now and it's pretty good. A few hiccups here and there, but all in all not bad.

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ikidd 3 points 3 years ago

Doesn't work with pre-18 servers like Lemmy.world

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impulse 12 points 3 years ago

Because the developer has years of experience in crafting a near perfect app for Reddit, much of which applies to Lemmy as well.

Over the years this dev definitely earned the community's trust and I see no reason to assume he will pull sneaky shit now.

FOSS is awesome, but I kind of dislike the militant push towards it here on Lemmy. As soon as someone does not release their source code people go "But have you thought about open source?", "Why not open source?", "No source, no install" and the likes.

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Freesoftwareenjoyer 0 points 3 years ago

Over the years this dev definitely earned the community’s trust and I see no reason to assume he will pull sneaky shit now.

The fact that he puts you in a position where you have to trust him makes him not trustworthy. There is no place for trust in computer security or privacy. If you have to trust something, it is bad for you. For example it would be ridiculous if encryption relied only on trust and nobody could verify that it's actually secure. I'm not saying the developer is malicious, but he should know better than this (all programmers should).

FOSS is awesome, but I kind of dislike the militant push towards it here on Lemmy. As soon as someone does not release their source code people go “But have you thought about open source?”, “Why not open source?”, “No source, no install” and the likes.

Why do you dislike that? Do you not want to have control over your own devices and software that runs on them? Free and Open Source software gives you the freedom to study the program, modify it and distribute the original and any modifications you make to it. This way not only we can verify what the program does, but we can also change it to fit our needs. But also this makes it impractical to implement any malicious functionality, because users can easily remove it and share the modified version with others. So instead of the developer having power over users, the users are the ones in control. They can have privacy and security, which is impossible with proprietary software. That's why proprietary software is unethical.

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impulse 3 points 3 years ago

That is an awful way to go about it. Have you verified your bank's computer systems? What about the servers your health data is stored on? I hope you use an Android AOSP ROM with a public source code. Do you even trust your microwave to not send death rays because of a malicious programmer?

I don't dislike it in general, I just think that FOSS is not a good fit for every project. A good and recent example: I work as a software engineer in a pretty niche market and my team and I have developed what we believe is a really neat algorithm for a pretty niche problem. There are already other players trying to replicate the solution, but thankfully they are falling short compared to our approach so far.

Suppose instead of keeping the library proprietary we would make it open-source (and free). Well, now every competitor in the market just needs to look at our GitHub, and months of R&D budget would be basically wasted while at the same time, our competitors would get our IP handed on a silver plate.

I'm pretty sure that Sync for Lemmy will have a pro version priced similarly to the Sync for Reddit pro version (~ $4.99 one-time). The dev would be stupid to release it as FOSS, if he intends to make money on premium features, when literally anyone with a computer and two brain cells could just compile the premium app from a public GitHub.

Now take good examples of FOSS: Blender, Gimp, Inkscape, and the likes. The main difference is that there is no obvious monetization happening besides donations and sponsorships and for such passion projects FOSS is absolutely the way to go as you can pool in the knowledge of the community if your project generates enough traction. Blender wouldn't be what it is today without all the volunteer devs contributing to it.

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moosh 5 points 3 years ago

What do you like about Sync vs the other apps out for testing right now? Still trying to figure out which I prefer.

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shortgiraffe 1 point 3 years ago

I like being able to cache content. I don't use that feature often, but it is nice when I know I'm going to lose my internet connection.

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RonSijm 2 points 3 years ago

I'm not so sure about that...

I've been nagging /u/ljdawson (the sync dev) to comment on whether he'd open-source sync or whether he'd make it compatible with Lemmy: https://www.reddit.com/...

The news so far is

No plans to open source right now but potentially lemmy

ReVanced has patched sync to be compatible with any reddit API key, in case /u/ljdawson nukes it. And people have been working on decompiling sync and making it compatible with lemmy, and then recompiling it, but that's not a long term solution. Making large changes on decompiled source is not ideal in the long run. Best case scenario would be for sync to become open source

Edit: Apparently I was wrong and the actual reddit sync dev is making a "sync for Lemmy". The context here for preferring an "open source reddit sync" was that - if there wouldn't be an official app - it would make it a lot easier for the community to port reddit sync to Lenny from open-source, instead of having to do it from a decompiled closed-source."

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csm10495 12 points 3 years ago

How is open source related to Sync for Lemmy being an option? It was announced already: it's coming.

Something being open source or not may be a reason for some to use or not use something but generally it isn't an issue for the mainstream. (Exhibit A: Windows and MacOS hold around 85% of regular home users).

He also wouldn't nuke Sync for Reddit.. the key he uses will stop on July 1st since he won't pay for it.

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RonSijm 3 points 3 years ago

Oh ok, my bad. I wasn't aware the actual sync dev was working on an "official sync for lemmy" - I suppose I missed the official announcement

As far as I was aware "reddit sync" would be abandoned and "sync for lemmy" was going to be an un-official port from the closed-source version by volunteers decompiling the closed-source version of reddit-sync and replacing the reddit API layer with a Lemmy one. - Which wouldn't be ideal for long term support.

That was the context for the initial "I’m not so sure about that…" comment

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kratoz29 10 points 3 years ago

What is the problem with it being closed software? I mean it is his decision after all.

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Freesoftwareenjoyer 2 points 3 years ago

The problem is not knowing what the program does on your device (if it spies on you or if it shows you what you want to see instead of what the developers want you to see). It's his app, but your device and you deserve to have control over it. The author doesn't think so apparently, but fortunately other Lemmy developers have better standards.

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gccalvin -2 points 3 years ago

True.. But are people reviewing open source software and code to make sure they aren't malicious? I'm not. I haven't looked at the Lemmy code once, just saw there was a repo.

I think the bigger issue is what motivates the dev. If it's freeware, then the project probably isn't backed by greed VS passion. In saying that, I paid $3 for an android music app (Symfonium) and it's closed source. I absolutely love it way more than plex Amp and the dev is active. I have no issues with closed source unless development halters.

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Hate 3 points 3 years ago

I'm not so sure about that...

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Squizzy 2 points 3 years ago

Screenshot, don't drive traffoc to spez

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Raxiel 1 point 3 years ago

Also https://lemmy.world/c/syncforlemmy

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Raxiel 1 point 3 years ago

Also https://lemmy.world/c/syncforlemmy

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Hate 1 point 3 years ago

gotcha

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Raxiel 1 point 3 years ago

https://lemmy.world/c/syncforlemmy

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StarkillerX42 43 points 3 years ago

I've been wondering why I haven't seen ANY anti-Reddit posts on the front page lately, despite anti-Reddit sentiment being really high and almost all sub action votes are heavily anti-reddit.

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SolDaMan 42 points 3 years ago

Yep, i was permabanned a week ago because i was all in on this boycott/ Fuck u/Spez. Not looking back, i hope Reddit crashes and burns. They are treating the users like garbage and not needed when we are what makes the site what it is.

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Localhorst86 41 points 3 years ago

We have reviewed your request [...] This is an automated message

Schrödingers appeal

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Rand_alFlagg 2 points 3 years ago

I mean, those aren't mutually exclusive. I have plenty of shit I've personally written that sends automated messages once something has been completed, even though the process that's completed is manual. It's extremely common in any ticketing software especially to automatically send an email with the contents of the ticket update or with notification of a status change. Given the quality of their "admin team" and programming staff I'd be surprised if they had even customized the install of whatever ticketing system they paid a contractor to set up.

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abirdperson 1 point 3 years ago

This. Reddit got invaded. They lost it. Half of it is Hamas propaganda now.

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MargotRobbie 39 points 3 years ago

Arbitrary enforcement of the rules is the main problem here.

Reddit can be thought of as a three tier hierarchy, in decreasing order of power:

Layer 1 is the admins
Layer 2 is the subreddit mods
Layer 3 is the users.

Now, the admins have the interest of having the mods and users work for them for free to generate contents. To do that, their best interest is to have Layer 2 and 3 constantly in conflict with each other so they won't turn their attention to what's going on in Layer 1, and they can just step in as needed as "the good guys" when things get out of hand.

(Don't say the name of the book please)

The way they did that, is of course, by making a "Layer 1.5", the so called powermods, and promises them arbitrary powers that they can abuse (delete and then repost other's content, blatant karma farming) to have the attention and the hate from Layer 2 and 3 on them instead of Layer 1, and so they can get away with whatever they want for flimsy excuses. (closing source code, shadowbans for real people, quarantine, awards, NFTs, new reddit, etc.)

Previous attempts at leaving reddit (Pao, controversies surrounding other various hate subs) failed because only Level 3 and a few lower member of Level 2 were responsive to the problems, most people are just indifferent and want to have reddit the way it is now, so Layer 1 can just pled ignorance and have people move on.

So, what's different this time? This time both Layer 2 and 3 are collectively moving against Layer 1 for the very first time, and to maintain the illusion of normalcy would require more direct interventions from Layer 1 since playing dumb is no longer an option. Of course, powermods (all around bad person awkwardtheturtle, for example) outlived their usefulness as distraction, so they can now be arbitrarily disposed of as well.

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MaxVerstappen 13 points 3 years ago

Now do the economy!

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MargotRobbie 10 points 3 years ago

I don't know what you are talking about, I'm just here to promote my new movie "Barbie".

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Maajmaaj 3 points 3 years ago

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MargotRobbie 4 points 3 years ago

And I've been on the Internet for too long to just assume this is the real Maajmaaj. =.=

...because the real Maajmaaj would be preordering tickets to "Barbie", opening only in theaters July 21st.

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Krackalot 7 points 3 years ago

Easy! Level 3 is everyone one problem away from being homeless and anyone worse off than them. 2 is the middle class all the way up to some movie stars and athletes. 1.5 is the ridiculously over paid stars/ athletes all the way up to the very richest individuals. 1 is all the families that have their wealth spread out enough so we don't talk about it, but have the real financial weight to get what they want done. I know, you think Elon musk and Jeff bozos should be in layer 1, but if they were, they wouldn't be showing their dumb faces in the news to us IMHO.

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NotYourSocialWorker 2 points 3 years ago

I thought that they just did? 🤔

Of course, with the economy and the shrinking middle class there soon won't be a layer 2 and 3 to be in conflict...

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GoofSchmoofer 10 points 3 years ago

I think you just described every political and economic system in the western world

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MargotRobbie 6 points 3 years ago

It is as Milton Friedman once said: "Life is plastic, it's fantastic."

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GoofSchmoofer 2 points 3 years ago

He was a smart man that Milton was...

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setsneedtofeed 7 points 3 years ago

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MargotRobbie 4 points 3 years ago

Oh bugger. You had to say it.

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Buffalox 38 points 3 years ago

If this is true it's insane.

That post is actually funny IMO, how thin skinned do you have to be to suspend people permanently for that? It obviously doesn't break any rules. If it was ambiguous whether it did, a warning would be more fitting.

Yes I can see it's not directly about programming, but close enough IMO.

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RonSijm 15 points 3 years ago

If this is true it’s insane.

It's true. Since my account is suspended, I'm unable to delete or edit any post or comment. So anyone is completely free to Doxx my account, find it on a waybackmachine or any another other reddit archive and see if I posted anything even mildly problematic, or prove that I'm lying or leaving out details for no apparent reason or whatever

If it was ambiguous whether it did, a warning would be more fitting.

When something is ambiguous whether it fits a specific subreddit or not - is up to the mods to decide, and they deemed it ok. Sub-offtopic stuff just gets your posts removed by the mods, and normally wouldn't get you side-wide ban

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Tetsuo666 10 points 3 years ago

Are you not allowed to get everything deleted through GDPR or something similar?

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softpboy 2 points 3 years ago

I read somewhere that even if you don’t live in Europe you should try to ask to delete everything through GDPR because it’s an automated process and some companies don’t check where you live. It’s worth a try

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Tetsuo666 3 points 3 years ago

I doubt they check.

Because any mistake would be fairly expensive.

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drphungky 5 points 3 years ago

I was permanently banned for reporting bots as spam on my 12 year account, but u was still able to edit my comments. I need to finish doing so on the rest of them...

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kazoo0o 37 points 3 years ago

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arefx 6 points 3 years ago

Preach it.

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setsneedtofeed 1 point 3 years ago

The super villain?

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jerome 36 points 3 years ago

They ban for anything but yet /askthedonald /politicalcompass and /conservative still exist

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grue 9 points 3 years ago

I got permanently suspended for reporting misinformation in r/conservative. To be clear, not banned from the subreddit; suspended site-wide. That's the admins supporting the mods' retaliation for reporting misinformation.

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Zaktor 2 points 3 years ago

While the admins probably should be figuring out whether your reports were legit before acting, the mods can't see who reports anything, so the only response to someone spamming reports is to pass it off to the admins.

One of the common ways to do that is to also report the comment for "report abuse", which is supposed to trigger a review of other reports, but hilariously sometimes ends up with the mod who reported the abuse being suspended. The Reddit software and the people behind it are quite dumb in many ways.

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grue 1 point 3 years ago

The point is that it's an absolute outrage that the admins are suspending entire accounts -- not just banMing them from the NAZI safe spaces, but suspending them from the entire site -- just because the NAZI safe space mods claim it's abusive to call out their NAZI users' blatant lies for what they are.

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x4740N 9 points 3 years ago

Ive seen both the lemmy versions of those when first browsing through communities on the community tab

Don't remeber if they where on lemmy.world or another instance

Honestly I'm disappointed someone would come to lemmy to create those bigoted places

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netburnr 7 points 3 years ago

Those post do get heavily down voted. I do my part to keep them put of the hot/Frontpage.

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Lifecoach5000 6 points 3 years ago

Well those type of places are gonna exist somewhere regardless. I personally liked keeping an eye on those type of subs on Reddit, just to see what discourse was going on and watch them react to the latest flavor of fear porn

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abirdperson 1 point 3 years ago

/r/Palestine is literally Yeey Hamas and kill the Jew every other post. And they let it pass.

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sota2077 35 points 3 years ago

I'm sure Reddit will remain for many years, but I seriously hope this is the beginning of a major shift in peoples approach to large sites like them. Many smaller communities can only be a good thing for the internet. Lemmy/Beehaw are exactly what I hope become more commonplace. Mega social media platforms all need to go.

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SpezCanLigmaBalls 32 points 3 years ago

I like how instead of banned they say permanently suspended

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veroxii 18 points 3 years ago

Yeah doesn't a suspension literally mean it's temporary. "It will resume again after the suspension."

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samus12345 7 points 3 years ago

Yes. "Permanently suspended" is an oxymoron.

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SpezCanLigmaBalls 6 points 3 years ago

It usually does. Reddit decided to redefine it I guess

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jcit878 31 points 3 years ago

reddit admins have been going on a purge like ive never seen. welcome to the club!

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CosmicCleric 7 points 3 years ago

Gotta protect that IPO.

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Lorgres 28 points 3 years ago

Time to request full gdpr info. Also they don't delete your posts if you request account deletion and tell you to do it yourself.

After the request tell them through an E-Mail to delete every single comment with remotely identifiying info for you since you dont have access.

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RonSijm 11 points 3 years ago

Yep, I submitted a GDRP request for all my data as well. After they've complied with my data request I intent to submit a delete request

I practically work as devops / sysops so know the GDRP rules since I had to deal with them myself...

After my account was suspended I can no longer do any "write" actions on reddit; upvote, downvote, delete posts/comments. "Luckily" my username is/was RonSijm - which is also my real-life name, therefore everything I've posted falls under GDRP. So they'll have to comply with my request to nuke everything. "do it yourself" is not an option

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Lorgres 7 points 3 years ago

Careful, when you delete an account they just mark the username as [deleted] and claim it sufficiently anonymizes the data. Explicitly tell them to delete all comments or at least send then a specific list of comments with anything identifiable.

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Chocrates 8 points 3 years ago

Just did this. Do we know if it materially costs them anything or just makes us feel better

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MsPenguinette 4 points 3 years ago

Forgive me for posting a LinkedIn link but it's an article. That said, here is a "nightmare" GDRP letter to send if you are from the EU

https://www.linkedin.com/...

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galactusaurus 24 points 3 years ago

They did you a favor

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NutWrench 20 points 3 years ago

Instead of deleting my Reddit account, I’m editing my posts/replies there to all say, “edit: //I’ve moved to lemmy //” By doing this you’re:

Denying Reddit your content
Telling everyone where you went and
Your post Karma stays the same, so a highly upvoted comment of yours stays in the same place in the comment thread.

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theblueredditrefugee 5 points 3 years ago

It's tempting to do this, but I have a lot of posts that people might find filled with valuable emotional support. Someone in the future googling what to do about (insert one of the hundreds of emotional traumas I've had) and finding "haha lmao I'm on lemmy now and this content is gone forever" is kinda rude. I can't do that to them.

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BloodyFable 6 points 3 years ago

Why not append that to those valuable comments and delete the rest?

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BigJim 4 points 3 years ago

Is there a script or something out there that can automate this? I'd love to do the same but I have something like 12000 comments.

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fluffyrex 6 points 3 years ago

Fair warning: if you use a script or bot to edit comments, most of your subreddits will ban you for doing so. They apparently either have tools to detect this, or else the users left behind are sensitive to it and are reporting it.

Source: I did this, and am now banned from my favorite communities on reddit.

Upside: I don't care, because I'm not going back, anyway, and now most of my comments have been overwritten.

Downside: The script I used missed editing TONS of comments, so I ended up editing and deleting hundreds of comments by hand anyway. (I commented a LOT, apparently! 🤣)

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r3df0x 2 points 3 years ago

There are a lot of subreddits where the moderators get incredibly upset about anyone deleting their posts. I'm pretty sure it's against Reddit's rules to interfere with people deleting their posts. I understand that in certain circumstances it can be frustrating, but it's pretty entitled to get upset about.

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CannaVet 2 points 3 years ago

That's where I am too lol, "Good that's less incentive to come back if I'm banned from r/x, r/y, and r/z!"

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KingZer0 2 points 3 years ago

Ive seen somebody else referencing this link https://codepen.io/Deestan/full/gOQagRO/ But I haven't tried it out myself yet.

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NutWrench 1 point 3 years ago

I don't know if there is. I'm limiting myself to posts that have more than 50 or so upvotes. That cuts down on typing a lot. :)

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GustavoM 20 points 3 years ago

Eh... damage control, "Hey, we've got enough of this shit and we saw you on the front page so get nuked nerd", etcetc. If anything, that'll be a nice thing to tell to you grandsons, "Back in the day I got lots of fake internet points and got nuked into oblivion because I made a pun out of a random person."

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samus12345 4 points 3 years ago

"ok zoomer"

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zeppo 16 points 3 years ago

That’s extra-absurd considering it is related to programming and is actually funny. They must be feeling very sensitive over there these days.

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Username 15 points 3 years ago

Holy shit! That's a great story, what a way to go out!

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Cruxifux 15 points 3 years ago

Yeah I’m permabanned from Reddit too for similar stupidity. Nothing of value was lost for me though.

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GoofSchmoofer 15 points 3 years ago

A similar thing happened to me about 3 weeks ago. Yet I have no clue as to why I was banned... just "boke content policy rule" with no explanation of what rule... So I moved on.

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egeres 12 points 3 years ago

Reddit is amassing such a clusterfuck of bad decisions lately... 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Chalky_Pockets 10 points 3 years ago

I posted an Oliver pic, maybe I'll get that account banned. Reddit bans are pretty stupid. One of my accounts, the oldest one, is permabanned for telling off a racist. I didn't even cross a line, I just told them that if they're gonna be racist, that's all they're going to be and anything else they have to say doesn't matter.

I've been saying this a lot over the last few weeks: Reddit is a tool. Just use it on your own terms. Reddit admins legally own the site, but fuck them, if you wanna use their tool, use it. Just let the behavior of the tool guide how you decide to use it. As it is, I still use it, but it will change next month and I won't be downloading the official app, so I won't use it as much, and I will no longer be a "feature" of the site, as in the subs where I was only there to contribute to the site, I have left. The subs that are still useful to me, I keep. If they ban me, I will just use one of the accounts they don't even know is me and I will pare my subscriptions down to only the subs that don't have a strong community elsewhere. I also will only interact with the site in ways that allow me to block all ads.

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cryptosporidium140 10 points 3 years ago

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LegalAction 9 points 3 years ago

At least they told you you were banned. I was shadowbanned and didn't figure it out for a week.

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BoopsieBoop 2 points 3 years ago

How do you know/realize you are shadow banned?

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LegalAction 2 points 3 years ago

No one commented or voted on my comments for a few days. So I logged out and ran a search for my username, and got told I didn't exist.

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Contramuffin 2 points 3 years ago

People not responding to your comments or posts, or not voting, even though it's a post that you may reasonably expect a lot of engagement with. Not an obvious way to tell, but if you've made a ton of comments or posts for a week and there's no engagement with anything, you may get reasonably suspicious.
Log out of reddit or use another account to check your original comment. If nothing comes up, it's been shadow deleted. You might figure it out this way if you have multiple accounts or if you share your posts with a friend. If every one of your posts has been shadow deleted, you're almost certainly shadowbanned

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Steak 9 points 3 years ago

Hahahahaha fuck Reddit man

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CodeMonkeyDance 8 points 3 years ago

There is always Lemmy, et al!

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TheGoldenGod 8 points 3 years ago

I was shadow banned by an admin, apparently the masterpiece of spez getting raided by a Garfield with a rack offended someone. 🤔

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ulu_mulu 8 points 3 years ago

Oh well, at least you went down with a truly epic post :D

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ZIRO 7 points 3 years ago

I saw this post on the front page. Condolences, maybe?

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timception 6 points 3 years ago

Their content is mainly old recycled posts. It’s like watching a train wreck in slo-mo.

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Candelestine 5 points 3 years ago

Ah, yes. Driving away your meme-makers. Certainly the most brilliant strategy for maintaining a healthy internet community. Works all the time.

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gamers_Mate 3 points 3 years ago

I am surprised they have not gone after my account yet since my last comment was just the link to ublock origin which got over 400 upvotes. I guess they are waiting for my data request to come through so I can get it sent to my inbox? Though they could just send an email.

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akira 3 points 3 years ago

your account was older than most Questies on VRC

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AtheistComic 3 points 3 years ago

Man they really are a bunch of nazis now.

edit: banning someone permanently from reddit for posting a john oliver post is total nazi move

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SevereLow 2 points 3 years ago

You blew up Reddit, lol 🤣

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Incompl 2 points 3 years ago

My guess: when you hit r/all someone looked through your comment history and found stuff that got you banned.

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RonSijm 8 points 3 years ago

Could be... that's why I asked them to clarify which content rules I broke, maybe they'd clarify what rule I broke, or linked to something

but literately my entire post history was either programmerhumor memes, or answering programming related questions.

It's hard to find any archived version, since it cuts off after the first page, but this is the gist of it. https://web.archive.org/...

I don't know if there are better "reddit archivers" out there that would show more history, but I don't think there's any "stuff that gets me banned" in there. If anyone knows a better reddit archive lemmy know

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TangledHyphae 1 point 3 years ago

It is truly incredible how little it takes to get permbanned on reddit. I posted something in r/politics once that the hivemind didn't agree with, despite being neutral in language, and immediate permban. That is why people keep making accounts over there, they can try and whack-a-mole but you can't stop an idea.

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TPMJB 1 point 3 years ago

My Reddit account was permabanned because I posted (about a guy who killed a teenager who came to his house) "You know, I've changed my mind. Give this guy the chair. Not as a punishment but as a mercy. If I had grandkids like that I'd want to be mercy killed too!" The grandkid I was referring to was a screenshot of his grandon's Twitter calling him a Nazi.

Banned for "inciting violence" or some horse shit. Appealed for 30 days straight, now every one of my appeals is instantly denied by some bot.

Just be glad you don't have to spend more time in that shithole.

Redditor for 13 years I think. Same username as the one I sport on here.

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CaptainAniki 1 point 3 years ago

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RonSijm 1 point 3 years ago

I can't even "scrub my post history" anymore... The account is in readonly mode basically - and I can't delete or edit anything from my history

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Alpha71 1 point 3 years ago

Hell, I got banned for agreeing with a post. And when I complained about it to the mods, they had reddit perma ban my account.

Reddit is slowly going to fall apart. For example, one subreddit i used to like (before THEY banned me) has made it so that only people who are considered "experienced" (whatever the hell that means) on the subreddit are now allowed to post topics.

And the subreddit that banned me would not openly list there moderators.

I don't really care as they have finally soured me on the site permanently. TBH they have done me a solid favour. Reddit is just slowly going to eat itself.

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abirdperson 0 points 3 years ago

They banned me forever for quoting historical facts. It was a 16 year old account. It really did turn to shit.

Anyway, I'm sure degenerates from /r/palestine will contribute much better content to their community.

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applejacks -8 points 3 years ago

the less I have to see that guy the better.

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kratoz29 2 points 3 years ago

Well, he is only showing up on Reddit, you are safe here.

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