So why the hell does reddit ban people so easily? I got banned from one games sub for something i did not do and could not contact the mods since they also banned me from doing that.
So only option left is to make a new account so i get access to the sub so i can ask for help there since i had problems with the game. Well it worked and i got my problem with the game solved but after that i got permanently banned for ban evasion :/
There was no ill intent with any of my posts and was wrongfully banned the first time. Sure ban evasion is forbidden but it should not be so strictly moderated, concidering that a person can be banned by a mod just because they misunderstand one of ur comments or just generally want to cause harm to some users. There needs to be a way to avoid mods abusing their power and only way to do so is making a new account.
Now there is no way for me to get help with the game if i ever have more problems, or anyway i can help someone else who has problem i know how to solve. That’s unreasonable.
Reddit deserves to die! Leave it! It’s become a tool for the government to control us.
“Ban Evasion” is such a bullshit concept anyway. Do something we don’t like, and try and come back early? You can no longer come here, for life! And since I bet they IP ban, it bans your entire household! I wonder if there are some public places that are Reddit black holes, silently banning any Redditor who goes there because one person once called King Steven a greedy pigboy.
I left Reddit at the time of the great APIcalypse, and there were some businesses whose customer service was so abysmal that the only practical avenue for customer service was on Reddit. Getting a permanent ban for bullshit reasons can have an actual effect if you need support from one of these companies.
It surprises me that they haven’t banned the wrong lawyer at the wrong time to prompt a class action lawsuit over how arbitrary it all is.
A perm ban isnt an ip ban I dont think, at least for accoutns that exist on different devices never logged into the same devices
Banning IP? What is this, 2000? Almost every household has dynamic IP
My IP never changes until I have a power outage. Even then the lease usually gets renewed with the same IP address
My router disconnects from network if no device uses it. I usually have a new IP each time I power on my PC
Thats the big problem i currently have. The game sub i was part of is the place where i always got help solving my problems quickly and it’s the only place to have any meanigful conversation about the game.
Now i can’t do that anymore and since im perma banned on reddit i can’t take part in health and mental health subs i was part of that were the only place to get support or have conversations regarding all my health problems :/
How I feel about comics and blender, but blender at least ive had better help on discord and yt comments since most creators are small they tend to reply quick, reddit was mostly nice for finding other small creators, wish theyd come over here lol, I tried mentioning lemmy in some discords and how the blender community has potential for getting eyes on your work but no luck
Unless you pay for a static IP. There’s a decent chance it will change if you reboot it or leave it powered off for a while.
Not sure but I don’t think they IP ban. I think they are using AI on both posting and cookie data. Maybe someone could confirm.
My local library, every hotel and Starbucks are such black holes they do exist. They are also becoming more common.
I live in a popular tourist area, iv seen signs that warn people to not log into their social media accounts while attending due to possible ban issues.
Tho it covers twitter, Facebook and tiktok along with reddit.
The really really big cons don’t really deal with it since most of the big social media sites ignore the ips for those locations. Tho that’s not entirely a full proof solution
A buddy of mine got banned on reddit and Twitter both for ban evasion/no reason given respectively after logging in at a national level convention here. He worked for reasonably sized media company at the time too.
Automated IP baning like always has been a mess and barely functional. It’s basically never worked reliable and always has collateral damage.
Hardware id and mac address banning do the same thing tho more in frequently.
My brother can still go to Reddit, but they always know it’s me.
I’ve heard that certain well-connected people have been banned, like wall street people and politicians, but they know who to call at reddit HQ and get themselves unbanned. That’s not the case for the rest of us, and I don’t know about the rest of you but I can’t afford a lawyer.
Because they’re just a corporate profit machine now. The days of reddit being a good platform for discussion are over.
Let’s hope it doesn’t happen here
it can here but you can make multiple accounts on different instances or host your own, you can have that sccount banned but not future ones entirely like reddit, I really don’t like how they track your identity and get past a vpn.
It does. Shitty admins do shitty things, regardless of platform.
It’s harder to cause that to happen in the Fediverse. All the sites that host copies of content would have to end up under the same controlling entity, or go offline at the same time.
The limiting factor here is storage space. The whole thing is run by volunteers, so when they bow out, instances can and inevitably do go offline, and the content they hosted shared only lasts as long as the other instances are able to store and pass it around. They’ll generally only do that as long as there’s regular interest in it. Basically, old posts from dead instances will be the first things to go.
I imagine instances may also purge their own old posts if there’s a storage crisis, but the whole thing is new enough that I don’t think it’s quite got to that point yet.
If you can afford to donate to your Fediverse instances (Lemmys, Mastodons, etc.), you can help keep them live and help keep old content available for posterity.
(Even better, if you have time, money and the skill, you could run your own instance.)
I was thinking about this today. They even have a thread over at reddit about it. The admins tried to tell people they only permaban after issueing several temp bans.
No they don’t. I’ve only ever gotten permabans. I also don’t think anything I did (some angry shitposts. No threats, harassment, or anything like that) deserved a permaban. Like they could have given me a temp ban or a subreddit ban, and I would have been fine with that. They for some reason went nuclear on me and went straight to site-wide permaban. I don’t know why, I filed appeals, I sent messages. I tried to reason with them. Nothing. They go nuclear as standard practice and are completely inflexible about it.
Yep, it seems unreasonably harsh to ban someone over really minor stuff or sometimes even because mod misunderstands ur comment. Sure i get it if it’s some really vile or violent stuff, harrasment or something, but i did not do any of those things.
Like you said, it seems like it’s the nuclear option right away for even the minor stuff.
Hey, fellow banned for nothing.
I challenged a mod for my making a comment in a heated chain. I guess just since I was there I was evil.
I told the mod they were wrong and soft.
lol he cried to Reddit and they permabanned me.
I’ve said some controversial shit on Reddit in the last 12 years and never had a problem.
Reddit is gone.
Oh well, it looks nice here.
The mods in reddit have way too much power, especially after ban evasion became a thing. Hopefully this place keeps growing.
I already like it more than the stupid Reddit app. This is closer to Reddit a decade ago. Reddit has a knack for this. Still remember when Imgur was just an image hosting site FOR Reddit and then it turned in to tumblr. All those tumblr people that went to Imgur, liked Imgur because Reddit was too confusing. Now those people are on Reddit. I just want to keep staying away from those people. I’m basically talking about the hive mind, professional victim types.
hive mind, professional victim types.
I try to stay away from Statesian conservatives too
They only care about short term profit and they don’t understand what actually made their platform valuable. Reddit is a lost cause.
Seems like it
I’ve been warned for posting a gif of Luigi (the Nintendo one) because they’re cracking down hard on anything remotely related to the other Luigi.
Also got banned for 3 days for commenting about a certain billionaires drug problem lol
Thats crazy! Reddit really is going downhill.
The want people stuck in the Doom scroll wheel, not people thinking and arguing.
Easier to control.
Or a non conspiracy theory: it’s cheaper to use “AI” to ban even if it is quite bad at it.
permanently banned for ban evasion
Time to make another account then?
I think they will just keep banning the new accounts because now im banned from reddit, so whenever i make a new account it is technically concidered ban evasion and will lead to a ban :/
how would they know it’s you? Don’t use your personal email (on any social network), use VPN(on any social network), don’t use their app- just use the browser (on any social network).
Reddit is so over zealous that this is basically impossible. Every account basically for ever will just get auto smacked.
You would need to move cities, change how and where you post, change what subs you sub to, change every device you own.
Reddit is one of the most invasive companies in the world when it comes to how deep and wide they dig to ban, ban evasion. Shits wild. Lol
They still accept those single use temporary emails and you can use VPN to connect. Don’t use their app, just use the browser and you’re good
Because one can not tell any truth in the face of US citizens. They like to believe they are always right. And that we care.
