Here’s what makes this whole thing absurd
The ban in question was a 3-day ban from r/youll_be_banned which is a subreddit where getting banned is literally part of its punchline. You make a post, you get banned if the mods are in a bad mood, and that’s just the joke
Why on earth would I try to circumvent such a short ban, from that subreddit of all subreddits?
Still, it doesn’t change that I’ve been accused by the automated system, even for something that I did not do
Right after I got that message about the sitewide ban, I panicked and sent a half-baked appeal explaining that I had zero intent. Of course that appeal got rejected because I didn’t explain the context above. You could tell from the wording itself that I was still experiencing the shock of it all
And, well there is a page allowing me to send my second appeal. I’m just scared of it getting rejected again somehow
I think in the meantime, I’m just gonna stop shouting into the void and reach out here to you guys, just to talk it over. It’s been 11 days since the ban, and I’ve been a little depressed about it
Does anyone want to share their experiences?
Edit: Submitted my second appeal which says:
My 3-day ban was from r/youll_be_banned, where bans are part of the joke. I didn’t intentionally evade it. Please review the specific activity behind my permanent suspension; my first appeal lacked context.
Wish me luck, even if my luck is low. If they still don’t hear it, oh well I guess
Get off Reddit dude, only bots and Nazis left anyway
Botzis
It’s a shit site full of bots. Who cares?
Find a better alternative and move on.
Besides Lemmy, what alternatives do people recommend?
Just browse Wikipedia when you’re bored. Find some trusted newssites and visit them/subscribe to their feeds.
You lived before Reddit you can do it again if Lemmy isn’t for you.
I’ve recently started re logging into my old permabanned account when I visit public wifi or people’s houses who share their wifi.
Really funny to hear people in the background mention how shitty Reddit is because it thinks they are banned.
Been perma banned three times for challenging right wing views- been using Lemmy for a year now and haven’t looked back. I do miss the vast archive of data that formed Reddit but now that AI models are stealing all its data, I don’t see a bright future for it other than a gathering of bot accounts spreading nefarious agendas
i avoided politics sub, because i was catching too many of my accounts getting “banned” before i went on lemmy.
They report spam anything that challenges their views. It’s a broken windows type of strategy. Content mods will see a bunch of reports accumulated against you and assume you must be a problematic account.
Have you actually seen organized campaigns aimed at pushing particular agendas, or are you just calling anyone who disagrees with you a “bot account”? just asking.
Reddit fuckin’ sucks man. I ate a permanent ban in a comment chain where some people were being weird about Pizza Cake (popular comic artist if you’re unaware, people on reddit are extremely weird about her) accusing her of misandry or something, and I said “omg she should be sentenced to death! Do you goobers even hear yourselves?”. Ban reason was inciting violence.
I appealed, twice, and the second was actually successful, but through some technical glitch, they never actually unbanned me and I couldn’t appeal it again because it was already “successful.”
The thing that really fucking sucked was that I was right in the middle of a fundraiser for charity, and a lot of that money was raised on reddit. I eventually got my account actually reinstated by asking on an alt account on a weekly askreddit thread run by an admin, but like six weeks later, absolutely sucked to lose all that momentum.
Honestly I don’t understand what’s going on with reddit! I got banned by mistake once, and reddit asked me to update my email and password. But even after I did, the ban still wasn’t lifted!
that change your password seems to be intentional by reddit to confirm thier ban against you.(they probably want to tie it to your email address)
It gets worse every year too. I feel like I’m constantly running into terrible content but people who are generally harmless get banned forever for sarcasm.
most of its AI driven bots anyways.
You should ponder the fact that a website ban has you depressed. You shouldn’t allow a corporate entity to hold that power over you. You’re just a revenue stream to them
Just stop going. It’s a broken mess.
I’ve been banned on reddit so many times I’ve gotten the ‘permanent’ ban message for the last 4 or so. That place changed. It’s very intolerant and has no sense of humor. My first account was 11 years old at the time of first banning. After that first ban, I probably got banned every year for many years running.
No sense of humor. No sense of proportion. No sense that this is an anonymous internet forum.
No one here is ever going tell you to appeal the ban or return to reddit. If you are looking for advice how to get unbanned or what else you can do this is not the place.
If you are mad and looking to vent, and go off on how much you hate reddit… Then welcome home.
I’m going to submit my second appeal once I’ve worked up the courage. Genuinely just here for emotional support
It’s so much kinder here. People help you learn, rather than ridicule you for being wrong. Stay, help build this little tree fort into something grand, friend.
This place really is growing on me
They use mostly AI to moderate, so unlikely they will ever see your appeal. only an ADMIN can lift a ban. afte ri was banned, i was appealing almost every day last year, until i stopped, recently i made a new account(after 1+years getting ban). you arnt losing anything, i was lurking for that 1+year, while i was on lemmy.
also satisfying my curiosity of how people are getting banned, including the of accounts, i went to another forum. Most people reddit is lurking instead, because of the fear of being banned.
reddit mostly is bots right now, reddit suddenly lost alot of engagement because AI stopped scraping it because its just AI posting AI generated reposts.
I’m just scared of it getting rejected again somehow
dude. there is life after reddit. it’s a shithole.
Migrate to topicle.com
Read this article someone else posted; very interesting stuff.
That’s shitty. I know everyone here hates reddit but it still sucks losing something you’ve spent a lot of time enjoying. A lot of people here deal with that by being angry at reddit. That’s OK too.
I don’t even feel angry. Just straight up sad
Like, I feel as if I’ve just lost everything that made the internet fun. My niche interests just feel so lonely now, my connection to a huge pool of advisors just… gone
Dude that sucks. I’m sorry. This place is growing but it’s definitely not there yet. Losing that access to knowledge really sucks.
